How to Apply

Please address your letter to: Coordinator, BFA Production Program.

Your letter should be about a page and indicate why you want to enter the BFA Production Program. Include information about your previous theatre experience and/or a key experience as a member of the production team (can include courses, projects or plays).

Please include your preferred name, contact information, and completed education.

List your theatre experience (include: name of production/play, director, role in the production, and where it was presented), followed by any courses or training you have taken (at school or in the community). Then you may also list any "special skills" that relate to performance of any kind.

Please submit your digital portfolio in support of your application via your launchpad account. After reviewing the information below, you are welcome to contact Professor Guido Tondino (gtondino@ualberta.ca) with questions about your portfolio. 

Please include any form of visual art you have done either in high school or on your own. This can include sculpture, costumes or clothes you have built, photography, drawings, et cetera. Perhaps the most important element is a few simple examples of freehand drawings. If you don't have any, do approximately 5 examples using a soft pencil on paper of simple objects eg. Keys, door knobs, a towel, bottle, pot etc.

For all work, you must include all relevant information such as titles, dates, dimensions or duration, media and any other information needed to help us understand and assess your work.

For any collaborations, digital painting, procreate files, renderings, etc., you must provide any context necessary for us to understand exactly what role you played in creating the work. For instance, please differentiate between things like:

• "image created entirely by me using (example program)"
• "original image or photo by me, manipulated using (example program)"
• "photo from (specify other source), manipulated using (example program)"

For some larger projects it may also make sense to tell us the narrative of a project, for example from sketches to concepts to final product. Some projects may also require numerous images to help convey it, for example larger, 3D pieces. 

If you are uploading a single pdf that contains your whole portfolio, it is important that you not crowd your pdf pages with many small images as the media viewer we use does not allow us to zoom in. Letter-size layout is preferable to legal or tabloid for optimal viewing. 

If you are uploading separate images or videos, after you upload your files, you must click "Edit details" on each image/file to provide the title, date, media and dimension information for your work, and the info requested above.