Acting and Musical Theatre auditions

If you’re applying for our BA Acting or BA Musical Theatre, you’ll need to provide an audition.

See our short video below for more advice.

How does the undergraduate audition work?

Digital auditions

Please upload your audition to the online portal. You’ll have been sent an email from the portal with instructions on how to do this. Check your junk mail and if you still can’t find emails from us please contact: [email protected] (home applications) or [email protected] (international applications).

Please host any videos on a video sharing site such as YouTube or Vimeo - you can set them as 'unlisted' and just send us the links. If you're unable to share your video via a video sharing site, please use a file sharing service such as Google Drive, OneDrive or Drop Box (make sure your file is less than 1GB).

Important: please ensure that any links you send us can be accessed by anyone, not just the email recipient, so they can be sent on to Admissions Tutors. Please do not use WeTransfer to send your audition as the link will expire.

BA (Hons) Acting

You’ll be asked to make and share a video self-tape of your performance of a short piece from a contemporary published play or screenplay. You should:

• Record about 1.5-2 minutes maximum
• Choose a piece you can identify with, reasonably close to your own experience / age, or something that you’ve been cast in or would like to play
• Film it in a well-lit space, without any light sources behind you so we can see you properly - ideally your whole body, not just your head and shoulders
• Avoid very big spaces with echoing acoustics – we want to hear your voice clearly

BA (Hons) Musical Theatre

You'll be asked to prepare two contrasting songs of your choice and a monologue:

• Contemporary or classic are both fine
• Please film in landscape, waist up, with good lighting
• Ideally edit your files into one single submission.