How to prepare for your audition
You’ll want to be prepared for your audition so you can do your best, so explore this area fully and read all the Actor Downloads on the side.
How to apply?
Alpha has a very streamlined audition application process. First, go and apply online, filling out your experience, attaching your cv and headshot, and answering some important questions. There is a field on this form to say which city and date you are going to audition in, however, once you have done this, you need to then go to the audition events page, find the date and city you want, register your details (and become an Alpha member!) and reserve a space. Only once you have reserved a spot do we consider you confirmed.
We will not contact you other than the automated replies from the event management system. If you do not turn up to your audition after reserving a space, it is unlikely you would be offered another time. However, we are very flexible, so if anything changes just email us to keep us up to speed with your movements and to reschedule to another time or date. Please note, we are not Disney so please do not say that you want to work with us because you ‘love Disney’. We are NOT producing Disney shows.
What to prepare?
gYou’ll need to prepare 1 monologue to read from the list of sides available on the Which Part am I suitable for? page. Choose the character that you feel you are most suited to. We will still consider you for parts that you don’t read for. They are so short that you may even want to prepare a couple of them (although we may not see all of them, at the director’s discretion). Please do not learn the sides off by heart, unless you really want to. Script in hand is preferred, so print them out and bring them with you to your audition. We’d rather you focus on performance rather than the stress of learning lines. Actors usually do better if they do this – so please, DO NOT learn the sides to the part off by heart unless you are really good at it.
You’ll also need to prepare 1 pop song or modern musical theatre song and bring your own backing track on cd. All of our shows are performed with backing tracks so it is important that we hear you sing with one (not your guitar, not A cappella, not with bongos) . We have a large selection of tracks available on the day if you can’t get your own – click here for the backing track list – but obviously you can’t practice with ours. A great site to get cheap backing tracks is www.karaoke-version.com.
Note that you must be over 18, not at school and be ready for full time touring work away from home to work for Alpha. Check the pay rates first BEFORE applying. Note you will need to be injury free as you’ll be doing technical work and lifting, and be prepared for lots of travelling in our luxury touring truck.
