I had a similar experience 4 years ago with the director of Syracuse - Ralph Zito. Fell in LOVE with his info session - still a family joke about how much I loved it/him
@actingdreams my D and I agree, 100%, re Scott Zigler and UNCSA. Sheâs an MT gal. But seriously-who would not LOVE to study in that environment?!? UNCSA isnât really hidden-but it is certainly a gem.
@owensfolks absolutely! Had It not been for CC, I wouldnât have known how amazing it is. Interesting tidbit, the Director and Founder of my sons performing arts school actually is an alimni of UNCSA and according to the lengthy convo with the admissions rep, they may have graduated in the same class. He has never spoken of his training but we know that he was a ballerina (is this the term for male dancers ?)
None of his teachers mention their colleges. My sons favorite directing teacher went to syracuse and his combat teacher went to Harvard and Yale. I guess they donât want to influence their student decisions. One may tell a student to check out xyz program. Mr Poole had to tell me that my S Director is an alumni
@actingdreams so glad you enjoyed it. The new dean is great from what i hear. I do not know him. I do really respect Quin (most likely the other faculty member there today). And he is a direct eye contact person. Lol. So they compliment one another
Again thinking of all in Chicago and hoping everyone feels good about their auditions.
@toowonderful i love the Rutgers story. There was one school my D auditioned for that i really loved, but she wasnât nearly as impressed as i was. Parents get attached too! ;).
(Think it worked out ok for both our girls though! Lol)
@bfahopeful - Syracuse, not Rutgers⊠but in all other ways correct. And yes, I think our girls are fine 
@toowonderful lol. Not sure where i got Rutgers from. My D didnât audition there so not even on my radar. (Sign i may be losing it!)
Lots to catch up on here. But first. @actorparent1 - what a day! Congrats to your daughter on the Pace callback. Was that for the Acting BFA, or the BA in Intâl Performance Ensemble? We didnât really even know about the BA IPE, so just curious. And then, wow, what a subway story. I am so sorry she had to go through that, but so glad she was resourceful enough to figure something out.
As for us. My D auditioned for both BFAs - Film & TV, and Acting. FTV went well, she was asked to make a nice adjustment and her partner scene went very well, they even said, okay break it up, because they had good chemistry. On to BFA Acting, she was one of the last both times, which was hard. She thought it went well, but was not called back. She was quite disappointed. Many friends who go there said she would be called back. That just made it harder.
I am sharing because the rejections are inevitable, but this was her first big one and it was hard. She had to bounce and do USC today and she felt confident and good. It led to good discussion. Hang in there everyone and I am with you!
Iâm so sorry for the disappointment, @FourStars. But glad she bounced back and did great at USC! My D auditioned for the two Pace BFA programs too. (My son auditioned for the same ones last week, but he didnât get a callback.)
My D had a similar experience at Juilliard to your Dâs Pace one: at Juilliard, she felt so good about her audition, she said the energy in the room was great and she was really âin the moment,â and the auditors were writing tons of notes on her resume, and they asked her to singâŠshe really thought she was getting a callback, but nope. Definitely hard when they feel they did great but it doesnât pan out! I told her, if she did her best work in the audition room, she did her job. After that, itâs out of her control - so many factors go into the decision that have nothing to do with talent (type, gender, etc).
@bfahopeful - I lost it years ago⊠welcome to the club 8-}
^^^haha (crying!)
@sopranomtmom Yes, I read your post. Did you read mine?? Juries can result in someone being redirected or removed from the program. While my knowledge on the subject and the university does not come from reading the board, it does come from attending and matriculating from the university. Having friends in the program. Living on the arts floor with people in the program and having worked in the department. There are not a lot redirected or removed from the program since the program itself is very small. If there were such a large number redirected, they wouldnât have anyone left in the program.
@toowonderful and@bfahopeful. You two are making me laugh and thatâs a good thing! Oh please may I be here helping others after a happy landing!
Hi everyone.
We just finished our NYU on the 33rd floor of the W. Hotel. It was swanky! The $200 audition fee had me saying to myself âoh this is why it costs so
There were 3 groups. My son was #3 to go. He said they worked with his contemporary monologue again (same as juilliard⊠interesting)
Asked several questions regarding his resume and his Berridge Summer camp in France experience. Cracked a few jokes and this time all auditors gave everyone their headshots back because their photos were taken today and it were uploaded previously. The audition lasted about 20 minutes. As said in the info session (by the way, the director is HILARIOUS) the auditor would be typing a lot of the time and he did just that. Decisions are April 1st which seems like next year right now
A Lot of theatre tech (go Girls!!!) lots of girls
A Lot of MTâs
Not a lot of boys for Drama today
Has anyone else done the Minnesota Guthrie audition? Does everyone get asked to sing?
Honestly not trying to be argumentative but we considered Millikin carefully last year and I did a lot of research. The hurdles process is basically a reaudition at the end of freshman year. It says so right on the information on the website (actual wording posted below). It just seems to me that any student going into this program should go in fully aware of the implications. That is all.
Direct from the Millikin web site:
Performance Hurdles
Voice and Dance Hurdles: Friday, May 11, 2018 - 3:30 - Albert Taylor Theatre
Acting Hurdles: Monday and Tuesday May 14 & 15, 2018 - 6:30pm - SPEC
Complete guide for 2018 Hurdles coming soon.
Purpose and process
All students in the performance B.F.A. programs are subject to end-of-the-year evaluations. Since the end of a studentâs first year is of particular importance, students must re-audition to continue on in their program at this time. Transfer students who have not yet passed the Advanced Scene Study course will also be evaluated to make sure satisfactory progress is being made. These auditions will be held near the end of the term in May.
Hurdles are looking for growth. Your âre-auditionâ is compared to your initial audition for the program. Has there been improvement in your acting skills etc? If no growth is seen in one area of the hurdles, then you may be placed on probation for that area. That in itself should serve as a wake up call that you need to spend more time practicing in that area. The âre-auditionâ also gives those who were not excepted into the BFA program but the BA program, a chance to be excepted into the BFA program.
By having hurtles that each student in that major must meet to stay in that major, any school is protecting itâs reputation for the quality of student it graduates. Casting directors know that if a student graduates from XX school that they have achieved a level of acting, singing and dancing. Imagine graduates going to a casting call for a musical only for the casting director to see that the graduate really canât dance/sing/act. The casting director starts to see a trend that graduates of XX school are really lacking in one area, so that hurts the schools reputation for graduating quality performers with an level of skill in all areas.
Let me expand on the âre-auditioningâ. Band and choir, re-audition every year. They all start on the same level field being out until they audition in. In theater, it is different, they are in, do their hurdles and either stay in, get put on probation or get redirected. They donât go into hurdles as out, trying to get in as it is in band and choir.
@sopranomtmom -Totally agree with your assessment. Re-auditioning and juries are not the same thing. D applied to Millikin and was academically accepted, but after talking to the Department and students there- we decided absolutely to take it off the list as it was too similar to a cut school for our liking. To each their own though!