Acting and Musical Theatre auditions

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

BA 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:


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. Please email [email protected] (home applications) or [email protected] (international applications) with links to your videos or recordings of you performing your songs and monologue. Include your name, the course you are applying for and student ID number.

Please host the video on a video sharing site such as YouTube or Vimeo - you can set it as 'unlisted' and send us just the link. If you are unable to share your video via a video sharing site please use a file sharing service such as Google Drive or Drop Box. To do this, you need to ensure your file is less than 1GB. If you use WeTransfer please send us the link from your email address as our servers sometimes block WeTransfer emails.

Check out our short video with Adam and Shaun for information you need to consider for your audition:


Soprano song choices

Alto song choices

Tenor song choices

Baritone song choices