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.
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.
HollywoodLesly Kahn & Company
Comedy-first Hollywood training company at the Kahnstitute on La Brea, led by Yale MFA Lesly Kahn, with a famous two-week Comedy Intensive, beginner Essentials course, and gated ongoing classes.
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.
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.
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.
Cahuenga PassWarner Loughlin Studios
Home of the Warner Loughlin Technique, a brain-based approach built for film and TV that avoids reliving personal trauma; acceptance by self-tape or reel, ongoing classes at a published $375 per month.