List of Acting Schools
A list of all the major acting schools around the world. The highlighted schools in the Australian Acting Schools section are considered to be the top schools in Australia. This device is used for the other countries also. Please leave a comment below if you have had an experience at any of the Acting schools listed. If you are looking at auditioning for any of these acting schools, thoroughly research their courses. It is useful to look at how recent graduates are going. Speak to people in the industry to get a feel for how each school is seen by the industry. You will typically need to prepare monologues to audition for these schools so check out our list and find pieces that you feel comfortable and confident in performing.
Australian Acting Schools
National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA)
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)
ACA: Actors Centre Australia (ACA)
ACARTS: Adelaide College of the Art
The National Theatre Drama School
Deakin University (Drama)
Swinburne University of Technology
University of Wollongong
Screenwise Film and TV school for Actors
Flinders Drama Centre
University of Tasmania (Academy of the Arts)
University of Ballarat
Curtin University
British Acting Schools
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
Central School of Speech and Drama
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
The Manchester School of Acting
Arden School of Theatre
Birmingham School of Acting
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Drama Centre London
Drama Studio London
East 15 Acting School
Guildford School of Acting
Arts Educational Schools, London
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
London School of Musical Theatre
Manchester Metropolitan University
Oxford School of Drama
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
American Acting Schools
The Juilliard School, Drama Division
The Actors Studio (Pace University)
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Atlantic Acting School
The Stellar Adler Studio of Acting
Capilano University
Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts
The Academy for Classical Acting
Beverly Hills Playhouse Acting School
Boston Conservatory: Music, Dance, Theatre
Boston University, School of Theatre
EMAS: Los Angeles Acting School
Illinois Theatre Center Drama School
Meisner Center Acting Training
California Institute of the Arts, School of Theatre
The Meisner Technique School of Acting
The New School for Drama
New York Film Academy
New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
Stella Adler Conservatory
The True Acting Institute
University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of Cincinnati
University of Southern California: School of Dramatic Arts
Yale School of Drama
Tisch School of the Arts
International Acting Schools
Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
National Theatre School of Canada
Canadian College of Performing Arts
National School of Drama (India)
Conservatoire National Superieur d Art Dramatique
Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre
Wits University, BADA
University of Cape Town
Rhodes University
Tshwane University
State Academy of Film, TV and Theatre in Lodz
No VCA?
I think the University of Ballarat should be considered to be highlighted as one of the top Acting Schools in Australia. Their course is now beginning to arouse interest as it rivals the Victorian College of the Arts. Their practices and techniques reflect theirs, plus their teachers are of equal calibre to the VCA: Julianne Eveleigh, one of a select few Alexander Technique teachers in Australia, is their voice teacher.