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.
Downtown Santa MonicaBaron Brown Studio
Meisner technique studio in downtown Santa Monica, established 1975 by Joanne Baron, teaching a traditional two-year sequence plus intensives, on-camera audition work, and master classes.
North HollywoodThe BGB Studio
North Hollywood on-camera and audition studio founded in 2012 by casting director Risa Bramon Garcia and coach Steve Braun, with application-based entry, a free intro session, and flat $295 monthly ongoing classes.
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.
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.
West Los AngelesSpeiser/Sturges Acting Studio
The West LA studio formerly known as Aaron Speiser Acting Studio, led since 2015 by Shannon Sturges, with technique courses, ongoing scene study, published pricing, and paid audits.
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.
Franklin Village, HollywoodUpright Citizens Brigade Training Center - Los Angeles
The Upright Citizens Brigade's LA improv and sketch program, teaching game-of-the-scene long form across its Franklin Village theatre and Silver Lake training center, fully relaunched under new ownership and running dozens of 2026 sections.
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.