Acting and Musical Theatre auditions

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

Information for September 2025 Clearing applicants

What do we look for in a Clearing audition?

BA (Hons) Acting and BA (Hons) Acting with foundation year

Please send us a video of your performance of a short piece from a published play or screenplay of no more than 1.5-2 mins long.

BA (Hons) Musical Theatre and BA (Hons) Musical Theatre with foundation year

Please send us a video of you singing one song that showcases your range and style.

See our short video below for more advice.

How does the audition process work?

Please email your work or a link to your personal portfolio website to [email protected]

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 or DropBox (make sure your file is less than 1GB).




Information for September 2026 applicants

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 of 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 published play or screenplay. You should:

BA (Hons) Musical Theatre

If you're applying for our BA (Hons) Musical Theatre or BA (Hons) Musical Theatre with Foundation Year course you'll be asked to prepare two contrasting songs from the list below, as well as a short, contemporary monologue of your own choice.

If you are not able to send two songs from the list below please send us two of your choice and we’ll contact you if we need more.

You can use either a live accompanist or a backing track.

Soprano song choices
Alto song choices
Tenor song choices
Baritone song choices