Acting Scholarship
Acting Scholarship for Fine Arts, Theater Students
The School of Fine and Performing Arts is happy to announce upcoming auditions for one of the most unusual scholarship programs in the county. This scholarship awards up to full tuition for four years in exchange for involvement in three major productions each year.
Our 2009-20010 productions are:
- Rent
- Bug
- Anatomy of Gray
Acting Scholarship auditions will take place on January 30, 2010 at Rider University.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Students must:
- Apply for admission to Rider University
- Apply, separately, for the scholarship audition no later than January 15, 2010.
For information about applying for admission to the University, please visit the Office of Admission.
To apply for the Acting Scholarship:
- Register online by January 15, 2010.
- Send a resume. Include your legal name, home address, phone number, email address, high school name, and high school phone number.
- Submit two letters of recommendation.
- Mail your materials to: Westminster College of the Arts, Acting Scholarships, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540.
You may also submit your materials via fax to the Westminster College of the Arts at (609) 921-2538.
Applicants will be notified of an audition time.
TERMS OF THE SCHOLARSHIP
- A student attending Rider University under this scholarship must major in Fine Arts with a concentration in Theater.
- The recipient must audition for three major theater productions each production year and accept any acting role or technical position offered by the director.
- The recipient must maintain full-time enrollment status and maintain a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA.
- Annual renewal is subject to review by the faculty.
AUDITION INFORMATION
- Auditions will be held on Saturday, January 30, 2010.
- You must prepare a 3 minute audition.
- A serious monologue (1 ½ minutes) and a humorous monologue (1 ½ minutes) OR
- A monologue (1 ½ minutes) and a song (1 ½ minutes) - A CD player and a piano will be available for your use. Applicants must bring their own recorded accompaniment or pianist.
- Monologues should be chosen from published, dramatic works. Stand-up comedy and original works are less useful to us in evaluating your skills.
- Accents and eccentric characterizations are acceptable but at least one piece should be spoken in your native accent and involve a character similar to yourself.
- Callbacks, if necessary, will take place on Saturday, February 13, 2010.
If you choose a monologue from a book of monologues, get a copy of the entire script and study it as part of your preparation. You may be asked to comment on it.
Please avoid the following songs:
- “Corner of the Sky”
- “Memory”
- “She Loves Me”
- “Day by Day”
- Any songs from Guys and Dolls
- Any songs from The Fantasticks
- Any songs from Jekyll & Hyde
Please avoid monologues from:
- Biloxi Blues
- Brighton Beach Memoirs
- The Fantasticks
- Key Exchange
- Father’s Day
- Star Spangled Girl
- Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
- Loss of Roses
- Boys Life
- Bee Bee Fenstermaker
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
POST AUDITION INFORMATION
- Applicants will be notified of a decision by February 13, 2010.
- Recipients must notify Rider University, in writing, or their decision to accept or decline the scholarship no later than March 1, 2010.
For questions or information about the Acting Scholarship, please contact:
Rider University
School of Fine and Performing Arts
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Phone: (609) 896-7737
Fax: (609) 921-2538
Email: theater@rider.edu
