Monologue Bootcamp is a collaborative project co-delivered by Leeds Conservatoire and Guildhall School specifically for applicants from disadvantaged or underrepresented backgrounds.
It helps prepare future Performing Arts applicants for the audition process, equipping them with the skills to help choose, interpret and deliver a monologue. Participants will take part in three days of workshops led by facilitators from both conservatoires.
The course is free of charge, and is funded as part of both organisations' Access & Participation activity.
The Workshops
- Where to look, how contrasting is contrasting and other monologue mysteries
- Bringing voice and movement to your monologues
- Modern plays and contemporary monologues
- Demystifying classical monologues
- Solo preparation of solo text
- Self-tape skills
- Auditioning and student life at Leeds Conservatoire and Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Monologue Bootcamp will run twice in 2024. Both Bootcamps will be in person.
Tuesday 6 August - Thursday 8 August 2024 - Leeds Conservatoire, for those in travel distance from Leeds.
Tuesday 27 August - Thursday 29 August 2024 - Guildhall School of Music & Drama, for those in travel distance from London.
Applicants must:
- Be seriously considering applying to Drama School for September 2024 entry.
- Be aged 17+ at the time of the course (please note that if you are currently in year 12 and will turn 17 in August 2023 you may still apply, even if this means you are 16 when the course takes place)
- Be UK-domiciled.
- Have no previous experience of Higher Education.
- Be available for all sessions.
- Be state-educated, or have been state-educated if they are no longer in secondary education.
Applicants should also meet one of the following criteria:
- Live in a household which receives Universal Credit OR which has an income of below £35k*
- In receipt of Free School Meals OR in receipt of a 16-19 bursary via their school or college.*
- Have a home postcode classed as Quintile 1 or 2 in the POLAR4 dataset
- Have a home postcode classed as decile 1-4 in the IMD dataset (column ‘F’ in downloadable file, or email wp@gsmd.ac.uk to check)
- Identify as Black, Asian or ethnically diverse.
- Live in care, be a recent care leaver or care experienced within the last 5 years OR estranged from their family.*
- Have a disability.*
If you have previously participated in Monologue Bootcamp or Guildhall School's Supported Application Scheme you are not eligible to apply again.
*evidence for these criteria will be required with your application.
Applications are now open.
Please complete this form to submit your application.
Please note that information provided in the application form will be shared with the Access and Participation teams at Guildhall School and Leeds Conservatoire.
For further information, get in touch using either access@lcm.ac.uk or wp@guildhall.ac.uk
