Audition Requirements
Applications with audition videos are due February 28.
Create an unlisted YouTube video including all of the following requirements:
1. Introduce yourself: include your name, grade, school, and county.
2. Answer these interview questions:
- What skills and personality traits do you have that will make you an ideal candidate for PAVAN?
- What behaviors would you bring to PAVAN to make sure you are contributing to a positive learning environment?
- If you have previously participated in PAVAN's Theatre Division, please self-reflect and briefly describe how your artistry has grown since your last PAVAN audition. In what ways do you hope to benefit from being accepted again?
3. Memorize and perform one 60-90 second monologue from a published play. Introduce your monologue by stating the character's name and the play title.
Recording tips for actors:
- Monologues must be memorized.
- Get as much of your body in the frame as possible while maintaining good audio.
- Dress appropriately for an audition.
About the Theatre Division
Additional Information
The Theatre Division at PAVAN is unlike any program offered in the area. Our focus is on product, rather the process of theatre and its’ rich, deep historical contexts that lay the pathway for our modern approach. Students are challenged to reach their fullest potential as actors and actresses through individual and ensemble work, language, movement, and improvisation.
Students are also provided with a strong foundation for character development, script analysis and performance techniques. PAVAN's comprehensive curriculum introduces techniques like: Stanislavski, Meisner, Kabuki, Noh, Drumming, Polish Poor Theatre, Puppetry, as well as Ensemble building.
Development of short, new works piece are student-devised. Participants work together using higher level thinking to create a new piece. Creative challenges and decisions like plot line, staging and character development are resolved with faculty guidance.
How can I prepare for PAVAN? Become a student of the craft. Investigate, discover and explore any terms in this letter that you aren’t familiar with before coming to the program. Attend productions this summer. Go see theatre. Investigate. Discover. Explore.
Faculty
Bleu Do'zia
Sarah Millard
Sarah Millard
Bleu Do'zia is the founder and artistic director of Selah Theatre Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit teaching and reaching over 750 young actors in many venues throughout the Shenandoah Valley. Bleu is known as the "Teen Whisperer" as she inspires young aspiring artists to engage through the art of theatre. to seek beyond the text and develop an understanding of humanity through emotional, physical and character development. The importance of every aspiring artist should be to connect with audiences through genuine human likeness in order to create a safe space of positive conversations surrounding social justice, society and positive community impact. Bleu is not a stranger to the stage. She is an accomplished performer with credits in both Regional and Community Theatre, including the Other Voices Theatre, Theatre of Shenandoah, Sandler Performing Arts Center, the Apollo Civic Theater, Winchester Little Theater, Ohrstrom-Bryant Theater and The Kennedy Center . She has been seen in productions such as Avenue Q (Gary Coleman), The Miracle Worker (Viney), Chicago (Mama Matron Morton), Hairspray (Motormouth), Necessary Targets (J.S. Bach) and From Prison to Stage. Her directorial credits include Laramie Project, Vagina Monologues, The Colored Museum, Fences, Love Letters, The Diviners, Grace and Glory, A Seussariffic Christmas Carol, Steel Magnolias and many more. Bleu graduated from the elite Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, VA before moving to Winchester, VA to further her education at Shenandoah University. She has completed coursework in voice, theatre, and communications at Shenandoah University.
Sarah Millard
Sarah Millard
Sarah Millard
Sarah is an actor and teaching artist originally from Front Royal, VA. In 2022, received her BFA in Theatre Performance with a concentration in Acting for the Stage and Screen from George Mason University. You might have caught glimpses of her in on-screen projects like “We Own This City” (HBO Max) and campaigns for brands including Kaiser Permanente and Visit Alexandria. Currently, she lives and works near Washington D.C. where her recent stage credits include NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with Rorschach Theatre and WOMEN PLAYING HAMLET at Workhouse Arts Center. Sarah takes a special focus towards theater that can facilitate meaningful conversation, devising “it sounds exhausting” with Sarah Byrons as part of The Kennedy Center’s Local Theater Residency at the Reach, and most recently co-directing The Laramie Project at Selah Theatre Project. An alumni of PAVAN’s Theater division herself, Sarah is honored and thrilled to be teaching for her third year in a program that has meant so much to her artistic path!