The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York

Talented students from across the country and around the world choose AMDA because of its challenging, performance-based curriculum. They come to train with, and learn from, a premier faculty comprising of accomplished actors, directors, choreographers, dancers, designers and educators who inspire and work with students on an individual basis.

AMDA's programs are rigorous, the environment is supportive, and the outcomes are notable. AMDA has a distinguished record of preparing students for careers in the performing arts.

To build and sustain a career in the performing arts requires commitment, inspiration, and talent. Talent is properly directed and focused by training. AMDA's training is eclectic, based on the principle that students should learn and master the varied approaches and techniques that are actually used in the profession.

Developing craft, technique, style, confidence, and professionalism is key to future growth and achievement as a performer. AMDA is proud of its many graduates who are performing on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television, film, national tours, and regional theater. Careers begin at AMDA.
AMDA provides students the opportunity to study their craft in the two leading entertainment centers of the world - Los Angeles and New York City.

AMDA is located at 211 West 61st Street (between Amsterdam and West End Ave.) and at 2109 Broadway in an historic landmark beaux-arts building, The Ansonia. The 61st Street location has four floors of newly renovated studios and private voice rooms, a 125-seat theatre, student lounge, newly remodeled library and the AMDA store. The AMDA store features a daily selection of sandwiches and wraps as well as healthy snack foods. Additional studios, a student lounge with a large screen television and Internet access are located in student housing at 70th Street and 85th Street. In essence, the AMDA campus is the Upper West Side, one of New York City’s favored areas.

There is no better place in the world for you to train as an actor than in New York City. It is a center for the arts, and thousands of performers practice their craft in the city. The glamour of Broadway is legendary, but films, opera, ballet, symphonies, television, dance, oratorio, and hundreds of diverse plays are being created and performed in New York every day. Living legends walk by you on the street. Great museums, libraries, and research centers open their doors to you. The experience of living and studying in New York City is unequaled anywhere in the world.

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