July 10 - 21, 2023

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:

• Why is theatre important?
• What are your greatest strengths as an actor? What are your areas for growth as an actor?
• Why do you deserve to be accepted to PAVAN?

3. Present two contrasting monologues, one contemporary and one classical. Each must be memorized and each monologue must be 1 minute in length. Introduce the first monologue with: “The first monologue is (character’s name) from (play name). After performing the first monologue, introduce and perform the second.

Contemporary monologue information:

• 1-minute monologue.
• The monologue must be from a play written between 1970 - present.
• Should be a character within your age range.
• Should not be a story monologue or a memory monologue. It should be something happening in the moment, not a recollection.
• Try to find a character who is talking to someone else and is trying to solve a problem.
• Possible plays are Little Women, Diary of Anne Frank, Brighton Beach Memoirs, but there are many out there.
• Use a monologue from a published play - not an original monologue from the internet.

Classical Monologue information:

• 1-minute monologue.
• From a play written before 1899. It does not have to be Shakespeare.
• The character should be age appropriate.
• Possible Shakespearean characters: Miranda (The Tempest), Hal (Henry IV, Part 1), Helena, Hermia, Puck, Demetrius, Lysander, Bottom (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Rosalind, Orlando (As You Like It), Cressida, Troilus (Troilus & Cressida), Romeo, Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
• Oscar Wilde: Cecily, Gwendolyn, Algernon (The Importance of Being Earnest)
• Eugene O'Neill: Edward (Long Days Journey into Night)

Recording tips for actors:

• Monologues must be memorized
• Use landscape view
• Get as much of your body in the frame as possible while maintaining good audio
• Dress appropriately for an audition

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.