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Preparing for an acting audition? Get tips for analyzing monologue text in this free video series from a professional theater director.

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

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  2. Looking for audition monologues? Get tips for finding and analyzing your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  3. First time acting audition? Get tips for reading and understanding characters in a play with this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  4. Monologues are important to any acting career. Get tips for understanding your monologue character in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  5. Dramatic monologues are a sure way to show off acting skills. Get tips for understanding the style of your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  6. Looking for audition monologues? Get tips for outlining the beginning, middle, and end of your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  7. Dramatic monologues are a sure way to show off acting skills. Get tips for analyzing your monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  8. Monologues are important to any acting career. Get tips for moving around during a monologue in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  9. First time acting? Get tips for memorizing your lines in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  10. Looking for audition monologues? Get tips for using props in your acting audition in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  11. Dramatic monologues are a sure way to show off acting skills. Get tips for pacing your speech in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  12. Dramatic monologues are a sure way to show off acting skills. Get tips for building your character in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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  13. Acting auditions can be stressful! Get tips for understanding your character in this free video clip from a professional theater director.

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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 the important step in auditioning- analyzing your monologue. How can you give a great monologue if you don't know what you are saying? Acting is all about conveying emotion, and you need to know what your character is trying to say in their monologue. So, if you want tips for your acting audition, learn how to analyze the text of monologue today!

 
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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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