LA Acting Schools
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103 verified acting schools, classes, and coaches in Los Angeles. Sourced, dated, and never paid for.
Los Angeles 路 verified directory 路 updated 2026-10-19
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acting training in LA
103 verified acting schools, classes, and conservatories. Real addresses, published pricing with sources, audit policies, and a last-verified date on every fact. No rankings, no pay-to-play.
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What do you want to study?
Meisner, Method, Chubbuck, Adler, improv, and more. Each page lists which verified schools actually teach the lineage; the deep theory reading we leave to your dramaturgy shelf.
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La Crescenta-Montrose3-2-1- Acting Studios
On-camera school for ages 2 to adult in La Crescenta, founded 2007 by Mae Ross and now under new ownership, with tiered TV commercial and scene study classes, published package pricing, and a free trial class.
Hollywood9th Level Acting Studios
Small Hollywood on-camera studio run by working actor Alex Boling, built deliberately for new and nervous actors, with Thursday classes, a free audit, and published $200 monthly tuition.
Sherman OaksThe Acting Center
Sherman Oaks school founded 2006 teaching its own proprietary technique in a strictly no-criticism classroom, with published 2026 session dates and pricing for scene study, intensives, and improv.
Culver CityThe Actors Circle
Culver City workshop founded 2003 by Marcie Smolin teaching film and TV craft with improv as half the curriculum, in a positive-feedback-only room serving ages 5 through adults at published per-class rates.
Online-only since ~2020s; former studio at 7461 Beverly BlvdActors Comedy Studio
Online sitcom and comedy acting school founded 2011 by Warner Bros. comedy-writing alum Gunnar Todd Rohrbacher, with a three-level ladder, teen programs, and published pricing, all on Zoom.
NoHo Arts DistrictActors Workout Studio
NoHo Arts District institution of 30-plus years run by Emmy-winning coach Fran Montano, teaching Meisner-based ongoing classes with two in-house theaters and a genuinely free participating audit.
Featured acting coach
Art Cohan
An award-winning actor, director, and coach with more than forty years in New York and Los Angeles theatre, film, and television. For over two decades a teacher at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, Art trained under Stella Adler and Milton Katselas and works with actors on auditioning, script analysis, and scene study, a no-holds-barred approach that pushes past imitation into the actor's own imagination.
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Every profile is researched from the school's own official pages, never copied, always cited. Published prices carry source links and dates. Unknowns stay blank instead of being invented. Schools cannot pay to be listed, ranked, or verified.
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