L.A. County High School for the Arts

For the aspiring young actor, the Theatre Department offers an intense, conservatory-styled, professional training program. While the major concentration is on acting, students are given the opportunity to study technical theatre and theatre management.

 

Theatre Department training prepares students to enter into a professional acting career, college, university or conservatory, providing students with many career choices. Indeed, graduates are found continuing their post-secondary education at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, Columbia University, Cincinnati School of Music, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, the University of California  at Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Irvine, and San Diego; Syracuse University, State University of New York Purchase, CalArts, Howard University, Stanford University, University of Southern California, the London Academy of Dramatic Arts, Minnesota School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of the Arts, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Juilliard, to name a few.

 

The Theatre Department has a sequential curriculum that offers beginning to advanced techniques in acting, voice, movement/dance, stagecraft, history, and literature/criticism. The curriculum requires a high level of commitment from students who train three hours each day, with after school rehearsals for the Season Productions. The program emphasizes individual growth and personal discovery while building ensemble. The faculty consists of working professional artists who share their expertise, experiences and passion for the art of theatre.

 

The four-year courses of study provide a multi-dimensional experience that captures the breath and depth of theatre as an art form and exposes students to historical, contemporary, social, multicultural, and cutting-edge concepts in theatre. Students are actively involved as creators and evaluators of theatre arts. LACHSA theatre students graduate not only as trained actors with artistic integrity and shared standards of excellence, but critical thinkers, arts leaders and advocates for the theatre arts.

 

 

Act One: The First Year

(This is a 5-day curriculum, with no Friday Elective)

 

Advanced Stagecraft: Costume/Makeup/Set/ Lighting
Directing Workshop
Comedy Improvisation
Theatre Works
Stage Combat
Stage Management

Advanced Physical Theatre