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Every acting school in LA
101 verified acting schools, classes, and conservatories. Filters work instantly; every school also has a permanent profile page with sources and verification dates.
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.
Downtown Culver CityThe Actors' Gang
Tim Robbins' ensemble theatre in Culver City, offering adult workshops in its Commedia-rooted house Style, kids' Saturday classes and teen camps at the Ivy Substation, and free after-school programs across LA County.
Studio CityAlan Feinstein Acting Studio
Studio City scene study and trademarked True Cold Reading classes taught by Broadway and TV veteran Alan Feinstein, whose Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire was chosen by Tennessee Williams himself.
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.
HollywoodAndrew Wood Acting Studio
Hollywood scene-study studio teaching a Yale School of Drama-derived, need-based technique, founded by Andrew Wood (Yale MFA, Stanford PhD), with a 10-week Essentials workshop at a published price.
Beverly GroveAnnie Grindlay Studio
Audition-technique specialist on Beverly Boulevard founded in 2009 by Annie Grindlay, twenty years an audition teacher at the Margie Haber Studio, with 4-week on-camera intensives, published prices, and free intro workshops.
Downtown GlendaleAntaeus Academy
The classical training arm of Glendale's Antaeus Theatre Company: Shakespeare, heightened-language scene study, voice, and movement taught by company members, with dated 2026 classes and published tuition.
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 Aquila Studio
Adler-lineage scene-study studio on Melrose founded in 2019 by casting director Deborah Aquila (La La Land, The Shawshank Redemption), with 6-week Saturday cycles, hybrid Zoom options, and published tuition.
Beverly HillsArt Cohan
Private Beverly Hills acting coach and longtime Beverly Hills Playhouse teacher, focused on auditioning, script analysis, and scene study, with an ongoing audition and self-tape intensive for working actors.
HollywoodArt of Acting Studio
The Hollywood studio of New York's Stella Adler Studio of Acting: a NAST-accredited nonprofit conservatory with a 2.5-year professional program at published tuition, plus part-time workshops and teen programs. Distinct from the Stella Adler Academy on Hollywood Blvd.
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.
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.
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.
ResedaBraden Lynch Studio
Reseda boutique studio where actor-author Braden Lynch teaches an Adler-based technique in classes capped at 12, with fully published rates, a $25 credited evaluation as the entry step, and accent coaching.
BurbankBrian Cutler Actors Studio
Burbank studio est. 1993 teaching Meisner via the Charles Conrad line with heavy commercial technique, every class filmed in 4K, published cycle pricing, and a free first-class audit.
ValenciaCalArts School of Theater
The Disney-founded arts institute's theater school in Valencia: BFA and MFA Acting with mandatory live auditions for most US applicants, experimental ensemble culture, and published institute tuition.
CSULB campus, Los Altos-adjacent East Long BeachCalifornia State University, Long Beach, Department of Theatre Arts
Cal State Long Beach's Theatre Arts BA with an audition-gated Performance: Acting option and the California Repertory Company as its producing arm, at CSU-resident tuition.
University HillsCalifornia State University, Los Angeles, Department of Theatre and Dance
Cal State LA's Theatre and Dance department: a no-audition Theatre BA with performance and design tracks, six to eight productions a year at the State Playhouse, and CSU-resident tuition on the Eastside.
NorthridgeCalifornia State University, Northridge Department of Theatre
Cal State Northridge's 250-major theatre department: a no-audition Theatre BA with an acting and directing option, eight productions a year, a teen summer drama workshop, and CSU-resident tuition.
Norwalk, southeast Los Angeles CountyCerritos College Theatre, Film and Television Department
Cerritos College's theatre and film department in Norwalk: an acting-emphasis AA gated by a jury, graduated performance credit up to lead roles, four productions a season, at $46 per unit.
Studio CityCreative Combustion Acting Studio
Joshua Finkel's Studio City coaching practice and master classes: Broadway-credentialed training in musical theatre auditioning, Shakespeare, cold reading, and college prep, for all ages at published hourly rates.
Magnolia Park, BurbankCSz Los Angeles, Home of ComedySportz Los Angeles
LA's longest-running improv show and its school, founded 1988 by James Thomas Bailey: a 101-401 short-form curriculum with published prices, a $65 one-day intensive, and the largest US high school improv league.
Studio CityCynthia Bain's Young Actor Studio
Studio City youth specialist where former young actor Cynthia Bain teaches scene study for performers who play ages 6 to 26, with camps, on-set coaching, and a waitlist-driven enrollment.
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.
Online-onlyDoug Warhit Acting Classes
Veteran on-camera coach Doug Warhit's cold reading and scene study classes, now online-only: every session taped, a monthly industry guest, a free audit, and a private on-camera intro session to start.
East Los AngelesEast Los Angeles College Theater Arts Department
ELAC's award-collecting theater department in Monterey Park: a stackable certificate in acting for stage and screen, internships with major LA theatres, Shakespeare on the fall bill, at $46 per unit.
Little Tokyo, Downtown LAEast West Players
The nation's longest-running Asian American theatre (1965) in Little Tokyo, whose Actors Conservatory track offers open-enrollment Acting I through III with a public showcase, plus a playwriting institute and youth outreach.
South BayEl Camino College Theatre Department
El Camino College's South Bay theatre program: AA and transfer degrees, five to six productions a year including a musical with live orchestra, and master classes with visiting artists, at $46 per unit.
NoHo Arts DistrictElizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio
NoHo Meisner studio founded in 2001 by Elizabeth Mestnik, an MFA student of William Esper, running a traditional cohort-based two-year Meisner program plus beginner courses and voice work.
Miracle MileEric Morris Actors Workshop
The Miracle Mile workshop where 94-year-old Eric Morris still personally teaches his instrument-liberation system three times a week, with a free audit and published monthly tuition. A living piece of acting history.
Verdugo foothills, northeast GlendaleGlendale Community College Theatre Arts Department
GCC's theatre program in the Verdugo foothills: acting-emphasis AA with voice, movement, and camera coursework, a produced season with Shakespeare in fall 2026, at $46 per unit.
Miracle MileGraham Shiels Studios
Miracle Mile on-camera studio founded 2013 by Yale MFA Graham Shiels, staffed entirely by working series-credit actors, with classes six days a week, a 3-week Lab intensive as the entry point, and published class-pack pricing.
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.
NoHo Arts DistrictThe Heller Approach Acting Studio
North Hollywood studio teaching Brad Heller's non-Method technique inherited from Group Theatre member Don Richardson, with published monthly pricing, a free intro class, and students accepted from age 13.
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.
Mid-CityThe Imagined Life
Diana Castle's Mid-City studio, founded 1995, teaching her 'empathetic imagination' approach in ongoing mixed-medium scene classes at a 70-seat theater complex, with Zoom sections attended worldwide.
Los FelizImpro Theatre
The school of Impro Theatre in Los Feliz, LA's home of narrative long-form improv: full-length unscripted plays in literary genres, a C.O.R.E. curriculum, published pricing, and a $40 drop-in playground.
North HollywoodInnovative Actor's Studio
NoHo Arts District studio where 40-year working actor Bob Caso teaches eclectic technique with on-camera work in month-to-month classes, administered by his actor son Vince, with a free first class.
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.
BurbankJohn D'Aquino's Actors Workshops
Burbank on-camera workshops from veteran TV actor John D'Aquino, with weekly age-banded classes from 8 to adult, summer film camps, and Zoom coaching; formerly branded the Young Actors Workshop.
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.
BurbankKalmenson & Kalmenson
The voice-over school attached to LA's Kalmenson and Kalmenson casting house: a full curriculum from Foundations to mastery taught on Zoom in classes capped at ten, with dated 2026 sessions and published entry tuition.
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.
Santa MonicaKids On Stage, Inc.
Santa Monica youth musical-theatre institution since 1987, running no-audition production classes, camps, improv, and parent-and-me programs for ages roughly 3 to 18, with sessions ending in full shows.
Currently online-onlyKillian's Workshop
The commercial-audition workshop of former casting director Killian McHugh, now fully on Zoom: dated 2026 cohorts at $285, plus a $40-a-month Actor's Gym for weekly mock-audition reps.
Sherman OaksKimberly Jentzen Studio
Sherman Oaks studio of multi-award-winning coach Kimberly Jentzen, teaching her Power Tools technique in a Monday night scene study at the Whitefire Theatre and an interview-gated online class with published tuition.
Magnolia Park, BurbankL.A. Connection Comedy Theatre
Burbank improv institution founded 1977 by Kent Skov, training kids from age 5 through adults in an audition-into-repertory model, with $10 Saturday shows across all ages and a famous movie-dubbing legacy.
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.
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.
Studio City, Tujunga VillageLifebook Acting Academy
Studio City academy at the Two Roads Theatre, founded 2005 by Allen Levin, teaching a use-your-life approach in tiered classes with fully published tuition from drop-ins to annual plans.
Lakewood Village area, Liberal Arts CampusLong Beach City College Theatre Arts (Performing Arts Department)
LBCC's theatre program with a dedicated Acting Academy AA track, media certificates in commercials, film acting, and voice-over, and a brand-new $75 million performing arts center, at $46 per unit.
Toluca LakeLos Angeles Acting Studio
Irene Muzzy's small Burbank-area studio teaching her Hybrid Meisner approach, shaped by four years with Sanford Meisner at Playhouse West, with two weekly adult classes and free participating audits.
East HollywoodLos Angeles City College Theatre Academy
The 1929-founded conservatory inside LA City College in East Hollywood: audition-gated, full-time daytime actor training whose alumni include Morgan Freeman and Mark Hamill, at $46 a unit for residents.
HollywoodLos Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory
NAST-accredited Hollywood conservatory founded 1996 by Natalia Lazarus, offering Meisner-based degree and certificate programs on a quarter system with F-1 visa sponsorship for international students.
Valley GlenLos Angeles Valley College Department of Theatre & Dance
Valley Glen community college theatre program with AA degrees in acting, directing, and technical theatre, an acting certificate, and a new performing arts center, at California's $46-per-unit community college rate.
WestchesterLoyola Marymount University Department of Theatre Arts
Loyola Marymount's NAST-accredited Theatre Arts BA in Westchester: an impacted program with video auditions for performance applicants, Pulitzer- and Emmy-credited faculty, and published private tuition.
West Los AngelesLynette McNeill Studio
West LA one-teacher studio where Adler- and Hagen-trained Lynette McNeill teaches ongoing scene study with integrated improv, six-week on-camera cycles, and private coaching; tuition by inquiry.
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.
NoHo Arts DistrictThe Markland Studio
NoHo studio of coach John Markland, who trains Jeremy Allen White, Rami Malek, and Anna Sawai, blending Method acting with Jungian dreamwork and somatics; open auditing, evening classes Monday through Wednesday.
Studio CityMarnie Cooper School of Acting
Studio City youth acting school led by Marnie Cooper, coaching since 1989, with age-banded scene study on Zoom and in person, a Disney/Nickelodeon comedy class, and published per-class pricing.
Sherman OaksMatthew Barry Teaches
Sherman Oaks class taught by casting director Matthew Barry (The Notebook, Rush Hour): one weekly everyone-works session rotating on-camera, audition, comedy, and scene work at a published $89 per class.
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.
Los AngelesNancy Banks Studio
Selective LA studio in the Larry Moss lineage: Nancy Banks teaches invitation-only professional scene study while her staff teaches tiered classes, entered by referral or audition; coaching client list includes A-list names.
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.
Los FelizPack Theater
Los Feliz improv and sketch theater grown from the Miles Stroth Workshop, with $330 eight-week classes taught by SNL and streaming-credit writers, shows six nights a week, and no-prerequisite house team auditions.
East Pasadena, on Colorado Blvd east of the Playhouse DistrictPasadena City College Theater Arts
PCC's pre-professional theatre program: an AA-T in theatre arts and technical theatre credentials, five student-cast productions a year including a musical, in a professional campus venue at $46 per unit.
MalibuPepperdine University Theatre Program (Seaver College Fine Arts Division)
Pepperdine's Malibu theatre program: a BA with acting and musical theatre emphases plus a theatre-and-screen-arts hybrid, small classes, optional live auditions with automatic scholarship consideration, and published tuition.
Century CityThe Playground: A Young Actors' Conservatory
Century City young actors conservatory founded 2005 by Gary Spatz, the on-set coach of the All New Mickey Mouse Club generation, with age-banded on-camera training from 7 up, an on-camera tryout, and a free intro class.
NoHo Arts DistrictPlayhouse West School and Repertory Theater
North Hollywood Meisner school and repertory theater founded in 1981, where Sanford Meisner himself taught his final LA classes; flat $255 monthly tuition, free audits, and co-founding director Jeff Goldblum.
Temple CityPopRock Academy
Temple City triple-threat academy founded 2011 by Paul Kwo, teaching acting, voice, dance, and musical theatre from age 3 to adult in the San Gabriel Valley, with a free first class.
Valley VillageRichard Lawson Studios
Valley Village school and 'empowerment academy' founded 2005 by actor Richard Lawson, a 30-year Beverly Hills Playhouse teacher, pairing Katselas-lineage scene study with career administration, fully hybrid for remote students.
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.
Downtown BurbankThe Sanford Meisner Center
The only school Sanford Meisner founded under his own name, alive and well in Downtown Burbank: a 9-month certificate program taught in the direct line by Martin Barter, with published $325 monthly tuition and free intro sessions. Reports of its closure were wrong.
Sunset ParkSanta Monica College Theatre Arts Department
SMC's seventy-year theatre department: AA and transfer degrees, a technical theatre AS, real productions in two campus theaters, and a transfer record reaching Juilliard and NYU, at $46 per unit for residents.
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.
Melrose AveThe Screen Acting Studio
Aaron Speiser's current teaching home on Melrose, co-founded with Kay Aston: screen-acting classes and twice-weekly Speiser masterclasses, entered through a paid private orientation session.
Valley VillageSeydways Acting Studios
Valley Village outpost of Richard Seyd's two-city studio: his Trigger Approach and Stretch Work taught in classes capped around ten, with a professionals-only master class under Seyd and a published per-class rate for the open room.
Studio CityShari Shaw Studios
Studio City studio branding itself LA's comedy audition specialist: Shari Shaw's on-camera comedy and audition classes, youth camps, and a paid consultation-then-placement intake, with a live calendar and shop pricing.
Los AngelesSharon Chatten Studio
Method scene study over Zoom and in LA with Sharon Chatten, Actors Studio lifetime member and former Strasberg Institute teacher whose coaching resume spans decades; contact by email, tuition unpublished.
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.
BurbankSteve Eastin Studio
Veteran character actor Steve Eastin (Field of Dreams, Catch Me If You Can) teaches weekly on-camera film and TV classes in Burbank, sold through his site at published rates; his famous former studio building closed but the teaching continues, currently sold out.
BurbankTaylor Acting Studio
Burbank Meisner studio opened 2008 with the Meisner Estate as The Sanford Meisner Studio, led by Alex Taylor, the youngest teacher Meisner personally trained; sequential two-year program, online intensives, and estate-authorized certificates.
East PasadenaTheatre 360
Pasadena's education-first youth theatre school since 2000: technique classes in acting, voice, and dance for ages 3 to 19, semester structure with free showcases, a $30 credited trial class, and a pre-professional teen academy.
Cahuenga PassTheatre West
LA's oldest continuously running theatre company (1962), whose weekly acting, writing, musical comedy, and Shakespeare workshops are open to members only; admission by audition, dues published.
East Santa MonicaTony Barr's Film Actors Workshop
The on-camera workshop founded in 1960 by CBS executive Tony Barr, author of Acting for the Camera, now taught in Santa Monica by Eric Stephan Kline with a 4K two-camera studio and a $85 two-week cycle.
WestwoodUCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
UCLA's Westwood theater school: an audition-supplemented Theater BA, MFAs including Acting (currently closed to new applicants), summer institutes open to non-degree students, and California-resident public tuition.
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.
University ParkUSC School of Dramatic Arts
USC's drama school, founded 1945: BA and BFA programs including Acting for Stage and Screen, a three-year MFA, filmed pre-screen auditions, a high school summer conservatory, and published university tuition.
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.
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.
North HollywoodYoung Actors Space
The original LA young actors school, founded 1979, now in North Hollywood under director Patrick Day: age-banded classes from Tykes (5-7) through adults, half improv and half scene study, with Fall 2026 enrollment open.
Beverly GroveYouth Academy of Dramatic Arts
Beverly Grove kids' musical-theatre academy since 1997: production-based leveled classes from Tots to an audition-only Master level, improv and sketch programs, camps, and tuition aid every session.
Mid-WilshireZak Barnett Studios
Mid-Wilshire on-camera studio for professional actors ages 7 to adult, built on Zak Barnett's whole-self approach, with a class ladder from open-enrollment CORE to invitation-only MASTER, 16-week immersives, and published membership pricing.