A portfolio review is required for theatre design & technology majors.
Requirements
- Submit the appropriate application: First-time students | Transfer students
- Reviews are required before applicant notification, as Nazareth accepts students directly to our programs.
- Schedule your review
- Timing: Reviews are held from fall to spring. All review dates will close two weeks prior, so please register early.
- Format: In-person, with a virtual option if you cannot make it to one of our in-person dates. For a virtual option, email Olivia Vescovi, ovescov1@naz.edu
- Upload any relevant materials to your Admissions Dashboard
Schedule Your Review
Select a review date
After registering, you will need to provide additional materials. These should be uploaded through your Admissions Dashboard. Submit your materials at least one week before your scheduled review day.
- theatrical resume
- portfolio
Virtual review
Nazareth will coordinate with you a Zoom review. Upload a portfolio to your Admissions Dashboard at least one week prior to the interview.
Please email Olivia Vescovi, ovescov1@naz.edu, if you’d like to pursue this virtual option.
Review Process
Theatrical resume
- Should include relevant theatre production experience
- Should highlight leadership/supervisory positions
- Should show us what you feel is your best work
- References (examples): directors, theatre advisor, immediate supervisor, any professional or community theatre personnel, art teachers
- Addresses and phone numbers of individuals chosen as references
Portfolio guidelines
Costumes
You have a lot of flexibility in what you put in your portfolio!
Theatrical Work Experience
- Costume renderings/illustrations
- Photographs of production costumes
- Photographs of costumes constructed
- Full-scale examples of work (if available)
- Cosplay, makeup, hair
Relevant Artistic Work Experience
- Artwork from other mediums that provides examples of artistic eye and development (photographs, studio art, sketches, woodworking, and other creative endeavors).
See more "Portfolio tips" below.
Lighting
You have a lot of flexibility in what you put in your portfolio!
- Photographs of production lighting design
- Drafted light plot
- Paperwork (instrument schedule, patch sheet, cue sheets, cheat sheets)
- List of lighting technology used, what kind of lights and soundboard.
- Artwork from other mediums that provides examples of your artistic eye (i.e. photographs, studio art, sketches, wood working, etc.)
See more "Portfolio Tips" below.
Scenic
You have a lot of flexibility in what you put in your portfolio!
Theatrical Work Experience
- Scenic renderings/illustrations or sketches
- Full-stage photos of productions you have worked on
- Process photos of projects you have built for productions (set construction, painting, props)
- Scale models, paint elevations, drafting, mood boards, or any other production-related materials
Relevant Artistic Experience
Artwork from other mediums that provide examples of artistic eye and development of skills (photography, studio art, sketches, woodworking, crafting, sculpture or 3D modeling, digital art/graphic design, and other creative endeavors)
See more "Portfolio tips" below.
Sound
You have a lot of flexibility in what you put in your portfolio!
- Samples of designs on CD or cassette
- Cue sheets
- Cue level/setting chart
See more "Portfolio tips" below.
Stage management
You have a lot of flexibility in what you put in your portfolio!
- Sample prompt book with lighting and sound cue notes and blocking notes
- Sample Rehearsal Schedule
- Sample Crew Plot
- Sample property/furniture plot
- Sample rehearsal and production notes
See more "Portfolio tips" below.
Portfolio tips
Show yourself as an artist. That may be through drafting, renderings, and resume — but it might also be through photography, painting, drawing, sketching, doodling, and simple communication of your passion for the art form.
It's common to have various experiences and twists in the path to your future career(s), and that's OK. Show your willingness to try new things.
Format: Portfolio websites, slide or PDF presentations, and in-person physical portfolios are all acceptable submissions.
Bonus: An exceptional audition or portfolio submission may qualify you for a talent scholarship. If you are selected, the scholarship appears on your financial aid award letter.
Portfolio examples
Interview
On your scheduled review date, you will complete an interview with Naz theatre & dance department faculty and talk about your portfolio:
- Verbal explanations of portfolio pieces
- Responsibilities for productions presented
- Design concepts
- Personal design process
- Discoveries which occurred during pre-production process (building)
- Analysis and self evaluation of your work
- Responses to questions which reveal your knowledge and understanding of theatre
- Personal philosophy and goals as an artist of the theatre
There will be an opportunity at the end of the session to ask questions.
Questions?
For technology issues, questions about the admissions process, or questions regarding your application:
For questions related to the theatre & dance department or review material:
Scholarships
An exceptional review or portfolio submission may qualify you for a visual and performing arts scholarship. If you are selected, the scholarship appears on your financial aid award letter.