Audition Academy

Audition Academy replaces audition guesswork with a practical preparation, performance, redirect, and reflection process. Students will learn how to select and organize age-appropriate material, create effective song cuts, prepare monologues and sides, communicate clearly in the room, work with readers and accompanists, recover from mistakes, and make fast but specific acting choices.

Supportive mock calls will give students repeated opportunities to practice slates, cold reads, callbacks, group and harmony calls, and responding to direction without abandoning their preparation. The program will also include a mock movie-musical self-tape unit in which students prepare a short scene-and-song package, receive camera and musical-theatre coaching, apply a redirect, and create a revised submission.

Students will leave with prepared audition material, a starter repertoire system, a resume draft, a reusable preparation checklist, and individualized next steps. The program will culminate in a supportive mock general audition and callback rather than a competitive casting process.

Audition Academy

WHEN: Mondays @ 7:30pm-9:00pm
DATES: Starting Jan 18th – March 15th
COST: $30/class, paid monthly

PARTICIPANT MAXIMUM: 16
WHERE: 2435A Granville Street, Vancouver
INSTRUCTOR: Paula
AGES: All Ages

Please note: there are no make-ups or refunds for missing group classes

Instructed By

Paula Higgins

Instruments: Voice, Musical Theatre

Specializing in musical theatre, Paula has performed with companies such as Theatre Under The Stars, CTORA, Align Entertainment, and Metro Theatre. In 2025, she joined Pleasant Mountain Music as co-director of the Musical Theatre Ensemble’s Shrek Jr. production, and is now thrilled to also be teaching private lessons alongside her work in the musical theatre program.

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