What should I read for a voice audition?

Question

I need to submit audio samples for a small part that will hopefully lead to larger, paying roles. I'm just not sure what to read. Should it be something relevent to the role or several different things?

Answer 1

A few different things, each showing your range and ability to show and change emotions. You might do searches on the likes of "dramatic monologues," "famous roles, actress," "soliloquy, actress," and such, and find well-known speeches by genuine literary authors/playwrights, giving them your own individualistic interpretation, all delivered with the truest felling you can muster. Good luck! Acting is a great life, challenging, frustrating, but always rewarding when you know you have done your very best and have done what YOU consider a great job.

Answer 2

Read this from Romeo and Juliet

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
It is my lady; O, it is my love!
O that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

Answer 3

Stick with the read that you are to submit.