Theatre Scholarships
Theatre Scholarships
#1Theatre Scholarships
Posted: 7/7/10 at 3:35pm
Hi,
I know this technically belongs on the student board, but I want answers and no one reads the student board. I'm a HS senior, my parents are lower middle class, I have a large family, my GPA is a middling 3.6 and though my SAT's are impressive, I'm terrified of loans and or community college. So I'm frantically searching for scholarships among ineffectual sites and none of the crap listed is relevant to the average human being, let alone person in my position. I thought a site full of theatre people might yield better results.
I am looking for theatre or writing scholarships that people have had success with. I've written two plays and a bunch of assorted essays and short stories, I'm well versed in theatre history, I've had great success with competitive acting (I just won both categories I entered in a state festival; actually, anything competitive. I'm overly competitive.) and I'm most likely going to UMD or UMBC. Carnegie Mellon is my reach and Towson is my safety. Thank you so much :)
....(goes to read every goddamned Ayn Rand book)
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#2Theatre Scholarships
Posted: 7/7/10 at 3:46pmIt would help if you would let us know what your major will be. If Theatre, what concentration?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#2Theatre Scholarships
Posted: 7/7/10 at 3:50pmIf I go to Carnegie, dramaturgy. Anywhere else... I'm deciding between acting and directing, so probably gen. theatre going into 1st year.
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#3Theatre Scholarships
Posted: 7/7/10 at 4:05pmI would first check to see what scholarships the college would offer. Then what scholarships the theatre program would offer. At a private college in my local town, one incoming freshman theatre major receives a complete scholarship for tuition, room, board, and books.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#4Theatre Scholarships
Posted: 7/7/10 at 4:21pmI hope to God they have programs like that; I'm probably going to check up on it when I visit the schools. Thanks so much :)
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#5Theatre Scholarships
Posted: 7/8/10 at 10:13amI'm assuming you have checked websites such as College Board and Princeton Review? I haven't checked those out since I applied to colleges, so I don't know how good they are now.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#6Theatre Scholarships
Posted: 7/8/10 at 2:04pm
Yeah, all of the websites (including those)I have seen are very school specific or... it's just very school specific, or you need to get your school to join some league and bring a thousand dollars or something.
I am looking for a contest; theatre contest, essay contest, etc.. Something non school specific that I can win with relative ease based on talent, hard work, passion and spunk. I really wish my school were a member of the whole "Jimmies" thing, because that kind of contest is where I find gold.
At any rate, I sat down with my school counselor (who I love!) and we vowed to get me where I need to be!
Thanks everyone!
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
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