Thank you for your interest in the Young Actor Showreel Course 2017. Entry to this advanced studio is by audition and is suitable if you have completed our Young Actors Studio, Young Actors Residency, or if you have significant training or experience. We are looking for people with talent, commitment and a curiosity about the creative process. Prepare for performance ONE role from a short scene. You must perform a role from the TV or Film scenes we have provided. Please use your natural voice/accent. On the day You will: Perform your prepared pieces Demonstrate collaborative skills Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your audition and wait for your session to be called. Auditions are conducted in a group everyone is in the room throughout the whole process. You are required to stay for the whole audition time. Things to remember Stage your material beforehand, simply Wear suitable clothing (casual clothing that does not limit your movements). You may be asked to work in bare feet. Wear little or no make-up. You may bring bottled water into NIDA s rehearsal rooms; however, no other food or drink is permitted. Once you have auditioned we will contact you within 2 weeks to let you know the outcome. If we are able to offer you a place in the course and you wish to accept it, you will need to arrange payment for the course prior to course commencement. If you have further questions regarding the audition process, please email us at open@nida.edu.au or call (02) 9697 7626.
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Tom Schulman EXT. THLE WELTON DORMS - NIGHT Neil rides up on his bike and parks it. As he starts into the dorm, he spots a figure sitting motionless on a wall. Todd? Neil walks over to get a better look. It is Todd, sitting in the dark without a coat. (CONT'D) What's going on? Todd doesn't answer. (CONT'D) Todd, what's the matter? It's my birthday. It is? Happy Birthday. You get anything? Todd is motionless. Then he points to a box. Neil looks. In the box seems to be the monogrammed desk set that we've seen on Todd's desk. (CONT'D) This is your desk set. (pause) I don't get it. They gave me the exact same thing as last year! Oh Oh. (mocking) Long pause. Well, maybe they thought you'd need another one. Maybe they thought... Maybe they don't think at all unless it's about my brother! His birthday's always a big to-do. (pause: looks at the desk set) The stupid thing is, I didn't even like the first one. He puts the desk set down.
Look, Todd, you're obviously under-estimating the value of this desk set. What? I mean, this is one special gift! Who would want a football or a baseball bat or a car when they could get a desk set as wonderful as this one! Yeah! And just look at this ruler! They laugh. A silence falls. (CONT'D) (thoughtful) You know what Dad called me when I was growing up? "Five nintyeight." That's what all the chemicals in the human body would be worth if you bottled them raw and sold them. He told me that was all I'd ever be worth unless I worked every day to improve myself. "Five ninety-eight." Neil shakes his head. (CONT'D) When I was little, I thought all parents automatically loved their kids. That's what my teachers told me. That's what I read in the books they gave me. That's what I believed. Well, my parents might have loved my brother but they did not love me. He takes a deep, anguished breath. Neil is groping for something to say. END SCENE
EASY A by Bert V. Royal (2 Female) A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing. INT. S BEDROOM Rhi, I can t. I told you I have plans. You re lying. I hate you so much right now. (Lying) I m not lying. I promise I m not. I really would love to go camping with your family this weekend. I had fun with your family last year. Rhiannon is getting increasingly angrier at her friend. Why don t you just say it? You don t like my parents. You think they re hopelessly pathetic and devoid of souls and wish that you could live with normal people who didn t meet at a Star Trek convention!! She quickly catches her faux pas and stops talking. (Sympathetic to her friend) Rhi, I like your parents. They re sweet. But I can t go camping this weekend. Quick. Hurry and make up a lie. I have a date. Liar. (Lying) No. I do. With who? You don t know him. And neither do you, you selfish bitch! I m serious. He goes to the community college with my brother in Denton.
What s his name then? (Waxing cute) Who? My brother? Stop stalling. You re totally trying to come up with a name. Just say it. END SCENE
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green (1 Male & 1 Female) Gus and Hazel both have cancer. They met at a cancer support group and started hanging out. But Hazel realises they can t be together. EXT. S HOUSE - BACKYARD - MOMENTS LATER 90 And now they re on the swings. I see your point. (beat) This is one sad swing set. Hazel doesn t say anything. They swing for a beat as Gus looks at Hazel. Knows what she s going to say. (CONT D) You do realize... trying to keep your distance from me will in no way lessen my affection for you. Hazel says nothing. (CONT D) All efforts to keep me from you will fail. Hazel looks at him. He s sure not making this easy. Look, Augustus, I -- I like you. I like hanging out with you. But I can t let it go any further. Why not? Because. Because why? Because I... Tell me - tell me what the problem is -- I don t want to hurt you -- I wouldn t mind -- You don t understand -- No you don t understand, Hazel Grace -- Augustus --
It would be an honor to have my heart -- (loudly) I m a GRENADE! That silences him. (CONT D) I m a grenade. And at some point I m gonna blow up, and everything in my wake will be obliterated and really... I just... I need to minimize the casualties. Do you understand? (beat) A grenade. Hazel nods, sadly. That s why I don t have a hamster. END SCENE