Acting Pre-Screen Submission Guidelines

Beginning September 1st, applicants may begin to submit pre-screen materials to getaccepted.com/pointpark. 

Pre-Screen Requirements

• Performance / training résumé
• Headshot
• Optional slate: 
  • Record one introduction "slate" video stating your name. If you would like to include your pronouns, state them as well. Please speak loudly (project your voice) and clearly (articulate) directly at the camera. This is an opportunity for the auditors to get a sense of your personality and to learn the pronunciation of your name. 
  • There is no need to slate your individual performance videos and pieces. Instead, clearly label each video with your name and the title of the piece you are performing (see more details below). 
  • This slate video should be no longer than 10 seconds. 
• Monologues:
  • Only one contemporary monologue (typically written after 1950) from a published play or written by a professional writer (a professional writer is someone whose plays have been produced, but may not have been professionally published).
  • One classical monologue (typically written before 1950) from a published play or written by a professional writer. Classical monologues should have heightened language (heightened language often has poetic elements as found in Shakespeare. However, it may also include Moliére, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Kyd, Aristophanes, August Wilson, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, Mike Bartlett, George the Poet, Andrea Gibson or contemporary adaptations of classical plays that still utilize heightened language). We welcome classical monologues from non-Western theatrical traditions into English.
  • Monologues should run between 60-90 seconds each.
  • Make sure to read the full play and not only the excerpted monologue. 
  • Use a dialect or character voice only if absolutely necessary.
  • If possible, try to find characters close to your age range.  

Each piece should be filmed/uploaded as a separate piece of media. No continuous videos. 

Labeling Guidelines for All Videos

• Label each video file with the piece you are performing, the show or playwright and your first and last name.
  
  • Title of Play - Playwright - your first and last name
  • Examples:
    • Slate - Idina Menzel
    • Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare - Ramin Karimloo