Detailed information about Pittsburgh’s Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Middle and High School magnet application and audition process is online. Please read this information carefully and note the deadline dates.
We will provide additional coaching and artistic letters of recommendation for our students. Please fill out this form so that we can schedule your coaching sessions and give you email contact information for the teaching artists you would like to request artistic letters of recommendation from.
The application period for CAPA for the 2020-2021 school year is open from October 12 through 5pm December 4, 2020.
The application process for CAPA includes an Essay, a Guidance Counselor Authorization and an Artistic Letter of Recommendation.
Auditions will be held February 6 and February 13, 2021.
All auditions for 2020 will be virtual. Please see the Virtual Audition Requirements document listed under each art form below for details.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS TO DOWNLOAD
- Details about CAPA’s Audition Process (including essay topic and audition dates) HERE
- Audition Requirements by Art Form HERE
AUDITION MATERIALS
THEATER – Middle School
- Virtual audition requirements here
- Middle school monologues here
- Middle school monologue worksheet here
We will order copies of the plays the monologues are from for students to read. It is in your best interest to work on a monologue from a play (not a movie). We will provide additional coaching for our students who select monologues from a play and commit to reading the scripts they are from.
THEATER – High School
DANCE
- Virtual audition requirements here
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
- Virtual audition requirements here
VOCAL – Middle School
- Virtual audition requirements here
The vocal selections are listed in the audition requirements sheet above, but they are:
- Edelweiss and My Favorite Things from “The Sound of Music,” Maybe from “Annie,” and Where is Love from “Oliver”
We have sheet music and will provide coaching and practice with an accompanist before the audition.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
- Virtual audition requirements here
QUESTIONS
If you have questions about CAPA’s application and/or audition process, please contact them directly:
- Logging In? Contact the Parent Hotline at 412-529-HELP (4357)
- Magnet Programs? Contact the Magnet Office, magnetoffice@pghschools.org or 412-529-3991
- CAPA Application? Contact Ms. Campbell, ecampbellhernandez1@pghschools.org or 412-529-6116