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.
HollywoodAMDA College of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles
WASC-accredited performing arts college at Hollywood's Yucca and Vine, offering BFA and AOS acting degrees with audition-based admission, published tuition of $49,500 per year, and scholarships reaching 95 percent of students.
Hollywood areaAnthony Meindl's Actor Workshop
The Los Angeles flagship of Anthony Meindl's multi-city workshop network, teaching his instinct-first, explicitly non-Method approach through a six-week Foundations course, ongoing classes, and free audits.
Atwater VillageBerg Studios
Atwater Village studio founded in 1998 by Yale School of Drama graduate Gregory Berger-Sobeck, teaching a Yale and Stanislavski-derived system through a gateway technique intensive and three levels of scene study, with free audits.
Beverly HillsBeverly Hills Playhouse
The scene-study institution at 254 S Robertson Blvd, run on Milton Katselas' teaching since 1978 and led today by Allen Barton, with interview-based admission and published monthly tuition.
BurbankDavid Gray Studios
Burbank on-camera acting school run by David Gray, successor to the closed Gray Studios NoHo, with age-banded classes from 5 years old to adult, hybrid Zoom options, and a 10-day summer film camp.
MelroseThe Groundlings School
LA's defining improv and sketch school, run by the nonprofit Groundlings theatre company on Melrose since 1979, with an audition-gated core track that feeds the Main Company, published pricing, and teen programs.
HollywoodHoward Fine Acting Studio
Hollywood 'actors gym' operating since the late 1980s, built on Uta Hagen-lineage technique, with a six-week entry course taught by Howard Fine and David Coury, invitation-based scene study, a global online arm, and youth intensives.
MelroseIvana Chubbuck Studio
The home studio of the 12-step Chubbuck Technique on Melrose Avenue, with a ladder of intro, advanced, and master classes taught in person and over Zoom, master classes taught by Ivana Chubbuck herself.
West HollywoodJohn Rosenfeld Studios
West Hollywood studio with a structured fundamentals path, a career-coaching Actor Salon running since 2007, youth and young-adult classes, published $295 monthly pricing, and a consultation-first, no-audit admissions model.
North HollywoodKeep It Real Acting Studios
Commercial and on-camera specialist founded by actress Judy Kain in 2012, with a four-level commercial track, youth classes, self-taping services, and unusually transparent published pricing; currently running classes virtually.
West HollywoodThe Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
The West Coast campus of the institute Lee and Anna Strasberg founded in 1969, teaching the Method in structured programs from two-week intensives to a two-year AOS degree, with free class audits and published tuition.
La Brea Ave corridorMargie Haber Studio
The audition-technique institution on La Brea, founded in 1986, teaching Margie Haber's script-in-hand phrasing approach to on-camera auditioning, with intensives, youth programs, and a free intro session.
Culver CityMichelle Danner Acting Studio
Multi-technique studio led by acting coach and film director Michelle Danner, now at the Creative Center for the Arts in Culver City, with adult classes, a conservatory track, youth programs, and international student visa sponsorship.
Burbank Media DistrictNew York Film Academy, Los Angeles
The Burbank campus of the film school founded in 1992, offering Acting for Film degrees from a one-year conservatory program to an MFA, WSCUC-accredited, with backlot production work at Universal Studios.
Santa Monica AirportThe Ruskin School of Acting
Meisner school at the Santa Monica Airport founded in 1986 by John Ruskin, a Neighborhood Playhouse apprentice of Sanford Meisner, with a cohort-based two-year program, youth classes from age 8, and published tuition.
Larchmont VillageScott Sedita Acting Studios
Larchmont Village studio teaching comedy and sitcom technique since 1998, built on Scott Sedita's Eight Characters of Comedy, with structured drama and comedy tracks, published prices, and a strict no-audit policy.
HollywoodStella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre - Los Angeles
The nonprofit Hollywood academy founded by Stella Adler in 1985, teaching her imagination-first technique through eight-week terms, a two-year conservatory of roughly 1,956 hours, and need-based scholarships up to 50 percent.
North HollywoodThe Young Actor's Studio
North Hollywood youth acting school founded in 1996 by Jeff Alan-Lee, teaching kids, teens, and young adults with a Stanislavski-based, individualized approach; weekend classes and summer programs.