LAMDA Audition

Hello World! So a couple of days ago I did my audition for LAMDA in Los Angeles and it was a really encouraging experience.

Unfortunately the entire experience started out with me getting hopelessly lost and being in the completely wrong building.  Luckily, I got there early enough that I still made it to the correct room with five minutes to spare.  Overall, the experience was really positive and made me feel very confident in my audition.

The Head of Drama School was there which was somewhat intimidating, along with two prior students.  When I first came in I sat down with them and talked for a short moment about what I would be performing. LAMDA was asking for one classical speech, one contemporary, and one song.  They told me to perform them in the order that I felt comfortable with and to take as much time as I needed in between the pieces. I performed my Margaret speech from Henry VI part 3, and they told me to place my next pieces farther back in the room.  I then did a Kayleen monologue from Gruesome Playground Injuries and finally performed the Belle Reprise from Beauty and the Beast.  Once I finished those, the Head of Drama School asked me if I had any other Shakespeare monologues. Being an auditioner it is very hard not to read into something like that so that has certainly caused a little extra nerves for me, but I think I did well with my second Shakespeare which was a Viola monologue from Twelfth Night.

Once I finished performing all of my pieces they brought up a chair and had a little chat with me. The main questions that I was asked were: why do you want to leave your current university? Why do you want to live in London? Our program is very expensive, how do you intend on paying for it? and finally Do you have any questions for us?

I had a fun chat with the three of them about the opportunities to take a show on tour through LAMDA and the places that they have been. They then double checked my contact info and told me not to check my email again for another month.  They wished me luck on my other auditions and told me to have a great day.

I felt a really great energy from LAMDA and really hope that I will hear some good news from them in the coming months.  Now I am off to San Francisco do to my Central and Juilliard auditions so keep a look out for them!