Columbia Chicago, I think. I dunno. I guy I know wants to go there. I asked him if he would earn his BFA, and he said yes. Then I asked him how his audition went and he said he didn't need to audition...
Honestly? I wouldn't trust a school that doesn't require auditions.
I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.
To my knowledge, there aren't many non-audition theatre programs of renown (there are SOME, that's for sure), but I KNOW that I haven't heard of any BFA non-audition schools.
We technically do have a MT major that is by audition but I think there's like..2 people in it right now and anyone else that was in it has switched to the theatre performance. We are by no means a musical theatre school.
"I'll show you a laughgasm. I'll gasm all over this stage!"
"Interesting choice"
Columbia is a non-audition BA. Students who want to enter the BFA in MT have to audition for it after sophomore year. I hope that since they are now offering a BFA in MT, that they have adjusted their curriculum accordingly.
Not sure if something like this has been posted, but (and maybe ALL BFA programs are like this) but my school would only let you audition for a BFA AFTER you had completed a certain number of courses. SO you were a student there and had gotten used to the school and everything by the time you audition. Most students usually started out as a B.A. major (if they had even declared a major......although MOST theatre classes only take theatre majors) and then changed to a BFA once they got in. I'm sure there are many others like that too.
Yeah, Cal State fullerton is DEF an audition school. You not only audition the end of your sophomore year for the bfa, they make a cut the middle of sophomore year for the musical theatre class. And then, once you make it into the program, you have to audition basically until you graduate to keep your place in the program (i've seen actors get kicked out after one semester).
I have read that CSUF is ranked number 8 in the country for its BFA program, and number 1 on the west coast. How do they determine statistics such as those?