HOW DO I BEGIN?
1. Apply for admissions to New York University
You must submit the Common Application BEFORE you can schedule an artistic review session.
2. Access the Drama Artistic Review portal
All candidates will access the Drama Artistic Review portal to schedule their artistic reviews and provide artistic review materials, which include:
- photo and résumé
- information about your monologues, songs or portfolios
- answers to some basic questions
- artistic review fee
- If you are a digital applicant, you will upload a media portfolio (e.g., required videos or portfolio material) to the Drama Artistic Review portal
An artistic review fee must be submitted along with material outlined above. If you received a Common App fee waiver or are a current NYU student, you will not be required to pay the artistic review fee.
Digital submission candidates must submit their media portfolio according to the corresponding deadlines listed below under "When Do I Submit". If your media portfolio is not received by the deadline listed, your artistic review will be considered incomplete, you will not be able to participate in an artistic review sessions, and you will forfeit your application to NYU.
3. Schedule an artistic review Zoom session
After you have completed the Personal Information form and chosen a discipline, you will be led to the artistic review scheduler.
When scheduling a digital artistic review session, you will choose a date and a 3-hour session time during which you will perform your monologue(s) (if required), discuss your portfolio (if required) and have a brief conversation with your evaluator via Zoom, just as you would in an in-person evaluation. Zoom is a free video conferencing platform.
The day before your artistic review, you will receive an email from the department with a link inviting you to your artistic review Zoom session. When you click that link at your check-in time, you will join a “meeting” with other applicants who are also participating in the same digital session. Your host will give you a short presentation about the department, and will then tell you what to expect during the session. After that they will invite you to your own “breakout room.” Once in your “breakout room” you will wait for your evaluator to join you for your artistic review. Your evaluator will ask you to perform your monologue(s) and songs (if required) and have a brief conversation with you. Acting evaluations (for Acting and Musical Theatre candidates) take about 15 minutes. Directing and Production & Design evaluations take about 20-30 minutes.