<p>I am a senior and am planning to audition for Tisch NYU in November, Early Decision. Any input on students past experiences in a Tisch audition would be great. I would love to hear how it went, the protocol, etc.</p>
<p>Also, any contemporary monologue DON'TS would be great, I am nervous of approaching material that can be seen as "overused."</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!</p>
<p>Tisch was one of my daughter’s favorite audition. They spend a generous amount of time with their applicants and had her do her monologues a variety of different ways. There is also a short interview process which she really enjoyed. I think you will find this audition one of the least stressful. Good luck!</p>
<p>If you’re looking for “Don’ts” for contemporary monologues I would check out the audition pages for BFA Acting programs like Carnegie Mellon and others. Some schools have lists of monologues they strongly discourage using. I just right now can’t recall exactly which ones do.</p>
<p>But off the top of my head I wouldn’t use anything from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.” I know that has been marked as a major Don’t.</p>
<p>Hopefully my relatively vague information will at least help you a little bit, haha.</p>
<p>I know that my daughter did extensive research on all the nyu studios and was able to talk about each studio and what acting techniques they used. She felt that this really impressed the person that was interviewing her.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the feedback so far! Keep it coming.</p>
<p>I’m relieved NYU seems to spend more time and take an interest in the student.</p>
<p>My D was asked how and why she chose her monologues/characters so a good thing to be prepared to answer! There has been some variance as to whether or not the studios were discussed in the interview. In my D’s case, they were not discussed at all but still, it’s better to be prepared and have some knowledge of them. Finally, she was asked to describe her greatest acting challenge to date.</p>
<p>this is all such good information! 
jeez… you can tell im obsessed with this place, im writing down everything you guys say. </p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>Don’t be overly nervous about the Tisch acting audition. My D (a rising sophomore at Tisch in CAP21) auditioned at a lot of schools and found the adjudicator/auditioner at NYU Tisch to be extremely friendly and seemed eager to see what my D could do. In other words, she felt the auditor was on her side and wanted her to do well. He spent about 20 minutes with her, in fact, which surprised us both. I was in the waiting room at the studio where they auditioned and kept watching the clock and the minutes were just ticking by! We were both impressed that they were willing to spend that kind of time with a young actor.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice.
Any more experiences would be great help.</p>
<p>can anyone give me an estimate of how long the tisch auditions last? maybe it’s new this year, but apparently there is a group movement session only after which applicants will audition monologues and complete individual interviews. unless this is new, is tisch an all day audition? and would i wear movement clothing in the morning and then change after that session? </p>
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<p>The movement requirement is new this year. I would assume that that part of the process wouldn’t take too long and that you would go ahead and do your audition in your movement clothes…and that the whole thing could not possibly take more than 3 hours.</p>
<p>I’d imagine they have a morning session and an afternoon session.</p>
<p>However, you should call Tisch and ask about the length just to make sure.</p>
<p>When my son auditioned for Tisch acting last year, it was a pretty large group and some of the people waited a lot longer than others.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to schedule your audition the very moment they open up the scheduling process. I think last year it was early October? There are many, many dates but the most desirable dates fill up like lightning.</p>
<p>I am auditioning for acting at NYU, and I don’t know why… but I am having such a hard time finding a contemporary, humorous, 1 minute monologue for a girl that i like. My dramatic one is Nora from Neil Simon’s The Brighton Beach Memoirs…
I was thinking of doing Val’s monologue from A Chorus Line, but is it a bad idea to do one from a musical?? HELP my audition is jan 9th and i really need a good humorous monologue</p>
<p>I’m also thinking about auditioning for Tisch and possibly Julliard, but I don’t have much acting experience. I know my chances will probably be lower because of this, but it’s not impossible to get accept with practically no experience, is it?</p>
<p>TarahDiva, try to avoid doing a monologue from a musical. </p>
<p>dnfrom, the important thing is not what you have done in the past, but what you DO in your audition.</p>
<p>We just came back from looking at Tisch and Julliard, both stressed they are looking for what you can do, not necessarily what you have done…</p>
<p>don’t evaluate how you think you did in any audition based on how much time the auditors spend with you and whether they have you work your monologues beyond what you’ve prepared. This is no indicator of the admissions decision for any of the schools!! you might get in somewhere they do not ask for further work, and rejected from somewhere they do (at least from my D’s experience!!).</p>
<p>And it is very true for Tisch that they look at your potential, and not what you’ve done in high school, although I imagine something that shows a sense of perserverance, passion and dedication will be a plus.</p>
<p>BEWARE OF STAGE PARENTS-AND THEIR CHILDREN! They can be very distracting and try to throw you off by bragging about their kids getting leads in this or that- and how they went to Yale Conservatory over the summer. I honestly spent two hours in the bathroom reciting my lines. And it paid off since I was one of two to get accepted from my audition date.
Also, in regards to the time, my audition was, wait for it, 5 HOURS LONG.</p>
<p>Congrats AJ – I hope your experience at Tisch is fantastic! </p>
<p>(Trust me, the stage parents and their kids drive many moms and dads crazy, too…We’re stuck listening to them during college visits, waiting for auditions, etc. YEECH.)</p>
<p>Wow, so sad you’ve had these experiences. I passed the time in my son’s and daughter’s auditions etc. talking to other parents who were just delightful (never heard, or volunteered, anything that I construed as bragging). We talked about travels, the challenges of one Mom with multiple children applying in the same year, compared notes about restaurants, commiserated with the father of a student from FL who only had flipflops on a record-breaking cold day in Boston. So don’t let your fear of the bad apples deter you from getting to know some really nice, bored, and nervous fellow parents.</p>
<p>ajrover: How did you find out you were only one of two to be accepted from your audition day? I would be interested to know what the numbers were for my day! Hah.</p>
<p>At my audition, I met a lot of really cool, down-to-earth kids. I didn’t really interact with any of the parents, but my mom talked to a few and she said they were very nice. I’m sure there are a decent number of stage parents, but I think the majority are not, so no one should worry about that. Just focus on yourself and what you want to do at your audition, and let nothing else bother you.</p>