Two Year Acting Course


This two-year training is for students whose university education or previous experience in professional theatre enables them to receive and retain training at a quicker pace.


The course is intense and concentrates on process and development. First Year


The first half of the autumn term is devoted entirely to basic classwork, which provides technical support for the coming rehearsal processes and ensures the proper honing of skills. Classes may be given in:


Voice, including the speaking of verse Movement, both pure and abstract Singing, including choral and solo Textual Interpretation and Analysis Alexander Technique Physical Theatre, including neutral mask and clown Dance, including jazz, flamenco and historical Stage Combat


These classes represent 60% of the course content.


During the remainder of the first year, in addition to the classwork, students may also expect to be tutored in the playing of: Russian Naturalism; Shakespeare; Jacobean; Restoration; Introduction to Acting for Camera and Microphone; and New Writing, in collaboration with a playwright.


There will be workshop performances throughout the first year, which are closed to the public.


Unique to LAMDA’s Two Year Acting Course is a play-making process, which is conducted over the length of the training. Early in the second term, students are introduced to a writer and director with whom they work (periodically at weekends) to create a piece of theatre to be performed publicly at the end of the course.


Television and Film begin at the end of the first year with training in skills and practices of screen acting. During the course, students learn how to make their own films and work with visiting professional directors, camera and sound operators, actors and casting directors.


Second Year


During the first term, the emphasis shifts to include disciplines and techniques specific to the contemporary performance industry, including:


Acting for Camera and Microphone Century Dance Styles and 21st


Century Playwrights A New Play Production Production of Student Director’s Film


Public performances take place in the final two terms of the course. Some of these productions tour after performing in London.


Professional Preparation


During the second year of the course, two showcases of audition duologues are given in a West End Theatre for an invited audience of agents and casting directors. Those students eligible to work in the USA and Canada are also able to join others in their final year in LAMDA’s Industry Showcases in New York and Los Angeles. All students attend lectures, seminars, open auditions and classes on sight-reading by visiting members of the industry to ensure that they are fully prepared to enter the profession.


Admission is by audition and interview.


Funding: Students on this course from the UK and EU are eligible for higher education funding.


Qualification: Foundation Degree (validated by the University of Kent). Students who successfully complete the FdA at the required level, and who choose to do so, may apply to progress to the one-year top-up BA (Hons) Theatre Arts degree course.


Accreditation: National Council for Drama Training.


Career Skills and Professional Preparation for the Industry 20th


Physical Theatre, including melodrama 20th


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