To secure your audition, please make sure you enroll in the class and submit your payment or deposit. Once received, we’ll send you a link to sign up for your audition time.
Prepare:
On Audition Day:
After Your Audition:
What to Wear
Wear comfortable clothing and proper dance shoes.
If you're unable to attend in person, we will accept video submissions, which must be received by 5 PM on August 22, 2025. Please email gianna@spindriftschool.org in advance to notify us.
Make sure you review the requirements of your audition before creating your videos.
These workshops are optional and designed to help students feel confident heading into auditions. Students will learn the audition dance and get support with their song selection.
Beetlejuice Jr.: August 16 at 10 AM
Grease: August 17 at 10 AM
These workshops are intended as a learning opportunity only. Participation does not influence casting and is offered solely to support students with the audition process.
You can find monologues online, in monologue books, or from books, plays or movies. Look for one that has similar character traits or emotions to the characters you are interested in playing. Link to just one list of many!
Note: At SSPA we ask that you bring sheet music in your key with proper cuts for time. We prefer that you don’t plan to sing acapella (without backing music) if possible.
Audition. A formally arranged session for an actor to display his or her talents when seeking a role in an upcoming production of a play, film or television project, usually to a casting director, director or producers.
Blocking. In rehearsals, actors practice the required movements, in a pattern or along a path, for a given scene that allows them to avoid any awkward positions, such as one actor walking in front of another actor or standing with his or her back to the audience.
Callback. A second audition where an actor is either presented to the producer and director or, in the case of commercials, is filmed on tape again for final consideration.
Call Time. The time you are supposed to report to the set.
Cold Reading. Delivering a speech or acting a scene at an audition without having read it beforehand.
Diaphragm. The lower part of the lungs, filling the abdominal space, that supports the voice when actors and singers breathe correctly on stage.
Downstage. The area of the stage closest to the audience.
Greenroom. Where actors wait to go onstage. Not necessarily green.
Hot Sheet. A notice that comes out once a week with up to date information for actors.
Monologue. A speech used by an actor to demonstrate his or her ability at an audition.
Notes. Instructions, usually regarding changes in an actor’s blocking or performance, given after a rehearsal by the director, musical director, choreographer or stage manager.
Off-book. When an actor knows his or her lines and no longer needs to carry the script.
Props. Any moveable object, from a letter to a sword, used by an actor during a performance.
Read-through. When the director and the actors sit around a table and read through the entire script to get familiar with the story, their roles, and their fellow actors.
Stage Left. The side of the stage that is to the actor’s left as he or she faces the audience.
Stage Right. The side of the stage that is to the actor’s right as he or she faces the audience.
Strike. To remove something from a set, or tear it down.
Understudy. An actor, often playing a small role, who learns another role, so as to be able to perform it if the regular actor is ill.
Upstage. The rear area of the stage farthest from the audience; also used to describe an actor’s attempt to distract audience attention from what another actor is doing.
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