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Do acting schools have an age limit?

All the students in those schools look so young. Do you need to be under a certain age to be accepted? I'm 21 but I'm doing my undergrad right now and want to go to acting school after I'm done. Still 3 years to go.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Are you looking at youth-oriented schools?

    Even after completing a BFA, you're still not done with training. Training is a non-stop part of acting. You'll see young people to people in their 80s in an acting class.

    Actually, in the acting classes that I've gone to, most of the classmates are no younger than 18.

    If you plan on continuing your training in either LA or NY, here are some of the best schools:

    In LA:

    Cold Reading/Auditioning

    -Margie Haber

    -Brian Reise

    -Amy Lyndon

    Commercials

    -Hey, I Saw Your Commercial!

    -Chris Game

    -Stuart K. Robinson

    -Stuart Stone

    -Killian McHugh

    -Francine Selkirk-Akerman

    -Carolyne Barry

    Improv (All four are great)

    -Groundlings

    -Second City

    -Upright Citizens Brigade

    -Improv Olympic

    Scene Study/Acting (It varies. Some schools are not for everyone. Chubbuck, Eric Morris, and Howard Fine are not for people who aren't fans of Strasberg or Uta Hagen (ie. affective memory and substitution.) Playhouse West, Joanne Baron/DW Brown, and Acting Corps are more Meisner oriented. Try to audit these places and make sure if they're for you or not.

    -Doug Warhit

    -Kimberly Jentzen

    -Beverly Hills Playhouse

    -Howard Fine

    -Stella Adler

    -Ivanna Chubbuck

    -Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown

    -Tom Todoroff

    -Playhouse West

    -Aaron Speiser

    -Acting Corps

    -Eric Morris

    Comedy:

    -Scott Sedita

    -Lesly Kahn

    Some of the Best in NY:

    -William Esper

    -HB Studios

    -Stella Adler

    -T. Schreiber

    -Weist Baron

    -Upright Citizens Brigade

    -Margie Haber

    -Redwall Productions (Rosalyn Coleman)

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