Acting Competitors

Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors, composers, choreographers, and playwrights from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens. Led by President Damian Woetzel since 2018, Juilliard is guided in all its work by the core values of excellence; creativity; and equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB). Juilliard is committed to enrolling the most talented students regardless of their financial background. Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). Currently more than 800 artists from 43 states and 44 countries and regions are enrolled in Juilliard’s College Division, where they appear in more than 700 annual performances in the school’s five theaters; at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and David Geffen halls and at Carnegie Hall; as well as at other venues around New York City, the country, and the world. The continuum of learning at Juilliard also includes nearly 400 students from elementary through high school enrolled in the Preparatory Division, including its Music Advancement Program (MAP), which serves students from diverse backgrounds often underrepresented in the classical music field. More than 800 students are enrolled in Juilliard Extension, the flagship continuing education program taught both in person and remotely by a dedicated faculty of performers, creators, and scholars. Beyond its New York campus, Juilliard is defining new directions in performing arts education for a range of learners and enthusiasts through a global K-12 educational curricula and graduate studies at The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.

LAMDA - Training Exceptional Artists LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK. Founded in 1861 as the London Academy of Music, the Academy was the first such institution to offer acting, defining LAMDA’s role as a pioneer and leader in its field. Today, combining our rich history of classical training with contemporary practice, we offer vocational training in the dramatic arts to actors, stage managers, technicians, directors, musical directors and designers.In addition to four validated and funded degree programmes, LAMDA offers a Foundation Course and a number of Diploma, semester and short courses. Our internationally renowned examinations offer a drama and communications based syllabus, leading to accredited and non-accredited awards in the UK and worldwide; more than 105,000 candidates took our examinations in over 35 countries in 2017/18. LAMDA Limited is a limited company and a registered charity, governed by a Board of Trustees.

"Growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous." The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the perpetuation of this insight, so elemental to the spirit of Stella Adler. The mission of the Studio is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community. The Studio's professional training programs are recognized amongst the best in the world. Free programs that serve the community include the Stella Adler Outreach Division, providing free training to inner-city youth, and the Harold Clurman Art Series, presenting world-class cultural events with accessible ticket prices.