Post-Baccalaureate
Theatre Teaching Credential
Coming soon.
Graduate Information: Acting, Directing, and Design & Technical Production
MFA Intent to Apply application
MFA Frequently Asked Questions
The MFA in Directing is also an alternate year program. Only one candidate is selected in this program. The next MFA directing candidate will begin study in Fall 2026, with selection beginning in Spring 2025. The MFA in Design and Production accepts a limited number of candidates each year. Selection for these programs is based on production books, portfolios and interviews. Design and Production faculty also attend the URTA National Unified Auditions and Interviews.
If you have not received email contact from the Department of Theatre or have any questions, please contact the Audition Coordinator (theatreadmissions@fullerton.edu).
Please see the appropriate "Areas of Study" concentration-specific pages for requirements, program structure/timing, and important information for transfer students.
Prescreen Requirements
CSUF Slate
- Record one introduction "slate" video stating your name. If you would like to include your pronouns, state them as well. Please speak loudly (project your voice) and clearly (articulate) directly at the camera. This is an opportunity for the auditors to get a sense of your personality and to learn the pronunciation of your name.
- There is no need to slate your individual performance videos & pieces. Instead, clearly label each video with your name and the title of the piece you are performing (see more details below).
- This slate video should be no longer than 10 seconds.
BFA in Acting
- One contemporary monologue (written after 1950) from a published play, 60-90 seconds in length.
- One shorter monologue using heightened language (such as a sonnet or classical monologue), roughly 60 seconds in length.
BFA in Devised Performance & Physical Theatre
- One contemporary monologue (written after 1950) from a published play, 60-90 seconds in length.
- Choose material that is happening in the present tense rather than “storytelling” material that is relaying something that happened in the past.
- One "Wild Card" video no longer than 60 seconds demonstrating anything you want us to see – a special skill, an interesting story about yourself, a passion speech, an instrument you play, etc. What do you want us to know about you?
BFA in Musical Theatre
- One contemporary monologue (written after 1950) from a published play, 60-90 seconds in length.
- Two contrasting songs in any genre that best demonstrates your voice (pop, contemporary musical, golden age musical, etc.).
- One musical theater song from any time period.
- One song of your choice from any time period and in any style that best suits you (musical theater, pop, hip-hop, folk, rock, rap, soul, country, punk, etc.). This song should contrast the style of the first selection.
- Length: Each song file should be 60-90 seconds.
- Accompaniment: Students must sing to musical accompaniment, which could include live or pre-recorded accompaniment. No “a cappella” singing (meaning singing without music).
- Show us your best version of dancing or moving. Please include at least one turn, one jump and one kick (or other suitable rotation, elevation, and extension that works for your body).
Preferred: no barre work.
- CSUF prefers using a pirouette turn, if possible.
- Make sure you can execute all the choreography well. It is to your advantage to choose steps and movement that highlight your strengths instead of your areas of improvement.
- You may use recent videos of you from a show or concert, but it must just be you in the frame.
- Dance sample should be in whatever dance discipline you feel most confident. This may include, but is not limited to jazz, ballet, tap, modern, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, or dance styles beyond American and Euro-western styles.
- Dance media can be “self-choreographed”, but it must be a solo video of you. This can include a show, competition, or other performance so long as you are clearly featured on your own.
- Please use steps, movement, and physical vocabulary that you are familiar with and can execute well. Fully move your body to the best of your ability.
- To assist applicants with the dance prescreen, several institutions provided the following resource videos for applicants who do not have access to a choreographed combo for the prescreen process. You may submit this choreography (or a combination of it) to any of the schools you are applying to that ask for a dance prescreen. This list will be updated as more institutions share resources, so be sure to check back.
- One “Wild Card” video (OPTIONAL).Think about the wild card section as an opportunity to show your personality or share something about you. This media can be ANYTHING you want - a special skill, an interesting story about yourself, a passion speech, an instrument you play, etc. “What do you want us to know about you?” Below is a list of ideas that have been successful in the past:
- Singing a pop song
- Singing or playing an original composition/song/poem or choreographed dance.
- Performing your own Saturday Night Live-styled skit where you create a comedic character
- Sharing a hobby or activity that means something to you
- Performing in a language other than English in which you are fluent
- Playing an instrument
- Making a “how-to” video on something you are good at, baking, calligraphy, gymnastics.
- If you are a dancer and want to show us a different style you excel in: Tap, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Ballet, etc.
- Submissions should be no more than 60 seconds.
Labeling Guidelines
Title of Song – Musical/Show – Your First & Last Name
Title of Play – Playwright – Your First & Last Name
