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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.