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Flying Swan was established as a high school summer program for teens and young adults interested in comprehensive acting training. Our 4-week acting school near New York offers a wide range of workshops from stage movement to voice technique, developed from leading performing art programs in Britain and the United States. We are grateful to our associates for endorsing the Flying Swan acting program, contributing both faculty and financial support.
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is currently celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its relationship with the USA. Since the Fulbright Commission started us off in 1956, a stream of students have passed through the Academy’s courses − some going on to be stars: Dana Ivey Stacy Keach; Swoosie Kurtz; John Lithgow and Michael Moriarty to name but a few. Currently almost 20% of LAMDA students are North American, either on the main courses or on study abroad programs from such universities as Boston, Dartmouth, Harvard, Vassar and Yale.
The institutions that combined to form LAMDA date from 1861, making the Academy the oldest drama school in Great Britain. As an educational charity and affiliate of the prestigious UK Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, LAMDA is synonymous with professionally trained actors and theatre technicians. Few cast lists are empty of LAMDA graduates and scarcely a year goes by without our alumni being honored at one of the major film, television or theatre award ceremonies.
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The Department of Theater at Dartmouth College is dedicated exclusively to undergraduates, and first-year students may get cast in main-stage productions. The college offers summer internships with the New York Theater Workshop, which is in residence at Dartmouth. Students can spend a term abroad with Dartmouth’s Foreign Study Partner, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Outstanding faculty brings both professional and academic experience to the classroom and productions.
Many production opportunities are possible each year in three major productions, directed by faculty or professional guest artists. There are also nine student-directed, designed and acted productions and three original student-written plays. Productions are open to all Dartmouth students; one does not have to be a Theater major, or enrolled in Theater courses, to participate onstage or backstage. The Theater program at Dartmouth College combines courses in the history, theory, and criticism of theater as a performing art, with many courses in theater practice.
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Washington University in St. Louis’ Performing Arts Department offers an Acting major featuring small class size (no more than 16 in any production course) and close supervision by full-time faculty. Extensive on-stage opportunities are also offered. Students are encouraged to perform in the Edison Theatre or A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre productions as soon as they arrive on campus. The course of study progresses from the fundamentals of acting through advanced study in various acting styles and directing. Courses are also offered in Movement and Voice. One of the program’s greatest strengths is its full-time faculty, which prides itself on its accessibility. All performance classes are taught by full-time faculty. Distinguished, award winning guest artists visit campus and teach master classes. Extracurricular opportunities abroad, such as the summer program affiliated with Shakespeare’s Globe, enrich the performing arts experience.
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The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is a recognized center for higher education in production and performance as well as theory and criticism. The school consists of the Department of Theater; the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media; the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Geffen Playhouse. Offering an intensive, discipline-based curriculum, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television recognizes the inherent differences in the various media, affirms their similarities and encourages their interaction.
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