Audition Preparation with Meryl

Professional Training for Audition Applications to Drama Schools

Meryl has a wealth of experience in this field.

100% success with all students gaining offers from top Drama Schools, often multiple offers, over the last three decades.

Zoom students have had exceptional success, with multiple offers from the most prestigious Drama Schools.

Meryl’s teaching style will guide, support, encourage and critique you so that you can use the skills you learn not only in your Drama School auditions, but in further training and professional auditions.

The Audition Course Content

It is vital to be properly prepared in order for you to feel confident and happy in your performances, your knowledge and your ability to respond spontaneously to audition requirements and questions. 

You will prepare for all aspects of the Audition Process.  You will be fully engaged with the rehearsal process, challenged to experiment and to make choices, asked to respond to direction and encouraged to explore the text in detail.  

Content can be tailored to individual Drama School requirements, but typically would contain professional guidance with:

• Choosing the right Drama Schools for your applications
• Choosing suitable Scenes for performance
• Shakespeare tuition: language, Iambic pentameter and more
• Understanding the monologues in depth – text and context
• Using and building on Stanislavski’s techniques
• Finding the questions of the plays and developing the characters and their roles within the play
• Performance – the Rehearsal Process– learning to interpret and make creative choices in rehearsal
• Experimenting and taking risks
• Voice work and breathing techniques
• Acting Techniques
• Rehearsing for filming
• Rehearsing for stage
• Timing and cutting scenes effectively and precisely
• Considering and preparing for the Audition stages: the video application and the in-person auditions
• Considering and Preparing for Audition Questions and Activities