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First time acting audition? Get tips for practicing your monologue with friends, outfits, speeches, and more in this free video clip from a professional theater director.
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Need practice tips for your monologue? Learn how to tap into your real emotions on stage in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

First time audition? Get tips for rehearsing your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Reading lines in an acting audition is a sure sign of failure. Get tips on how to avoid reading in monologues in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Want a unique monologue? Get tips for adding creativity to your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Practicing monologues is important for first time auditions. Get tips for practicing with a friend in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Pacing in monologues can make or break your audition. Get tips for speaking, pausing, and emphasizing your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Monologues are important to any acting audition. Get tips for rehearsing your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

First time audition? Get tips for rehearsing your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Everyone needs tips for acting auditions. Learn how to practice your consonants and vowels in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Acting takes a lot of skill. Learn how to act out unspoken thoughts in your audition with this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Rehearsing is important for first time auditions. Get tips for rehearsing with a partner in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Everyone needs tips for acting auditions. Get tips for developing your character in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Want a unique monologue? Learn how profanity can enhance your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Blocking is an important part of acting. Get tips for blocking your own acting audition in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

Need practice tips for your monologue? Learn the different ways of practicing for monologues in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

An acting audition is a sample of a piece of work that an aspiring actor/actress performs in order to get hired for a role in a movie, play, or show. Casting directors hold auditions in order to view the range of an actor’s talent in the form of a memorized monologue or reading an act of work that the actor has never seen before. Often times, casting directors want to see emotion, body language and assumption of a particular part in the actor’s performance.
Are you auditioning for the first time and don’t know what to expect? Do you need a refresher course in auditioning for a part? Well, look no further! Our drama expert, Dr. Charles Grimes, teaches you a important part of auditioning- rehearsing monologues. Most theater auditions will require you to do a monologue, and no one is perfect at it the first time. You really need to work at it. Thankfully, Dr. Grimes shows you tips for land that acting job. So, what are you waiting for? Learn how to rehearse for a monologue today!
Charles Grimes Dr. Charles Grimes has a PhD in Modern Drama from New York University and has been directing plays for 25 years. He is the author of "Harold Pinter's Politics: A Silence Beyond Echo" published in 2006. He currently teaches drama at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.dkdk
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