No PrescreenScholarship AuditionNo InterviewUniversity App Required
Audition format
In-Person or Virtual
Training
•Bullet: Performance students add Acting Styles, Audition Portfolio, music ensemble or lesson work, and an upper-level theatre elective to the shared Theatre Arts core
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Students can perform, devise, direct, stage-manage, and lead work across approximately five to nine departmental, senior-project, and student-company productions each year
•Bullet: Performance students add Acting Styles, Audition Portfolio, music ensemble or lesson work, and an upper-level theatre elective to the shared Theatre Arts core
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Students can perform, devise, direct, stage-manage, and lead work across approximately five to nine departmental, senior-project, and student-company productions each year
Program Highlights
Training
•Bullet: Performance students add Acting Styles, Audition Portfolio, music ensemble or lesson work, and an upper-level theatre elective to the shared Theatre Arts core
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Students can perform, devise, direct, stage-manage, and lead work across approximately five to nine departmental, senior-project, and student-company productions each year
The school's own essays for Fall 2027 entry aren't confirmed yet. Check its application before you write.
Common App personal essay
250–650 words · Choose 1 of 7 prompts · Written once for all your Common App schools
Background, identity, interest, or talent: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
Facing adversity: The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Challenging an idea: Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
Gratitude: Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?
Personal growth: Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
Intellectual curiosity: Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
Topic of your choice: Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you've already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.
The Common App enforces the length inside the application.
•Bullet: Apply to Earlham through the Common Application by an Early Decision or Early Action deadline to remain eligible for the Theatre Arts Scholarship
•Bullet: Complete the separate Theatre Arts Scholarship application in Earlham's admissions portal by February 1
What's The Process
Audition Process
•Bullet: No audition or interview is required for admission to the Performance Track
•Bullet: Theatre Arts Scholarship selection considers an audition submission and completed scholarship application
•Bullet: Earlham offers virtual scholarship auditions when needed; the public scholarship page does not publish repertoire details
Scholarship Info
Theatre Arts Scholarship
•Bullet: Awards range from $1,000 to $2,500 per year and are renewable for up to four years
•Bullet: Scholarship selection considers an audition submission and completed application; no audition is required for admission to the major
•Bullet: Performance students add Acting Styles, Audition Portfolio, music ensemble or lesson work, and an upper-level theatre elective to the shared Theatre Arts core
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Students can perform, devise, direct, stage-manage, and lead work across approximately five to nine departmental, senior-project, and student-company productions each year
