Monologues & Audition Strategies
Information for Fall 2022 classes is coming soon!
Perfect for college or professional auditions! Select and hone two monologues that showcase your strengths as a performer. Learn the advanced acting techniques that allow you to present your best work to directors. If you aren’t headed off to college next fall, tackle new character types and expand your range. Exceptionally dedicated students can prepare up to four monologues. Build your portfolio, get accepted, get the scholarship, or get that part!
For current 10th – 12th graders
- Dates: Saturdays, September 11 – November 20; 4 – 6 pm
- September 11: FIRST CLASS (welcome!)
- October 9: NO CLASS (Indigenous Peoples’ Day weekend!)
- November 20: LAST CLASS (but not the last day…)
- December 11: FALL CLASSES SHOWCASE (show what you know!)
Spend this autumn selecting, rehearsing and performing monologues that showcase your strengths as a performer!
In this intensive class, we will delve into acting techniques, explore textual analysis, physically train the actor’s body and voice, and discuss/practice audition strategies. Class concludes with a showcase of monologues. The class is devised to hone two monologues, but dedicated students have prepared up to four.
This class is ideal for high school seniors who are preparing audition monologues for college, or anyone who wants to prepare themselves for college, professional, or Shakespeare Troupe auditions. Alternatively, this class can be taken to expand your range as a performer by tackling monologues of new character types.
Traveling Players classes and summer camps/conservatories offer expert training in acting, character creation, physical comedy, stage combat, improvisation, and text analysis. We also value the spirit of the ensemble. Our ensemble- and team-building activities create a strong, supportive cast — and friendships that can last a lifetime!
This class utilizes advanced acting techniques for contemporary and classical performance, generally not taught until college.
Your final class is your Showcase Performance, held alongside all the other Fall classes!
- When: Saturday, December 11, 3:30-6:00 pm (note: this final performance is at a different time than class)
- Where: The Traveling Players Studio!
- Who: Invite your friends and family!
Showcase Schedule:
- 2:00-2:45 pm — Warm-ups; final dress rehearsal
- 2:30-3:15 pm — Meet your Showcase buddies – students from the other classes!
- 3:15-3:30 pm — Family, friends & fans join us at the Studio!
- 3:30-6:00 pm — Showcase Time! Perform your monologues, watch performances by the other classes
- 6:00 pm — Celebration & Volunteer Toast! We honor our performers & 2021 volunteers with sparkling apple cider for all!
- Classes are in-person.
- All students and staff wear masks at all times.
- Temperature is checked upon arrival.
- All staff are fully vaccinated.
- All students 12 and older are required to be vaccinated. Students turning 12 during class will have two weeks from their birthday to acquire their first dose of the vaccine.
- High-touch surfaces are disinfected between classes.
- Our Studio is fully compliant with CDC recommended safety standards, guidelines, and practices, in addition to Tysons Corner Center, Fairfax County and Virginia Department of Health (VDH).
- We are continuing to monitor local community transmission levels. If appropriate, we are prepared to move the class and the showcase online to Zoom (as we successfully did last year).
In 2021, Traveling Players welcomed 90+ students and 25+ staff for 6 weeks of in-person residential camp without a single case of COVID-19. Our community’s vaccination rate greatly exceeds the local average (between 85% and 95%).
In 2020, Traveling Players’ programs were held online. We produced five highly successful play festivals over Zoom, ranging from ridiculous farces to stark tragedies.
Needless to say, we’re prepared for whatever the future holds!
Tuition: $450 ($480 after the Early Bird flies away on Sept. 6 at midnight)
Location: Traveling Players Studio
Tysons Corner Center (Tysons-1 Mall), 1961 Chain Bridge Road, Tysons, VA 22102
Teacher: Jeanne Harrison, MA, MFA
Class Size: 8 actors
300 people auditioned. 22 people were cast. My son, who was a Traveling Players student for many years, will make his Muhlenberg Mainstage debut this November in the Greek tragedy ‘Agamemnon.’ He is one of only a very few freshmen to be cast in any of the school’s Mainstage productions.
– Parent