Everyone knows about NYU, UCLA, and USC, but those aren't the only programs that adequately prepare you for the industry. Below is a list of the programs that have been personally recommended to me by alumni working in the industry.
This list is a work in progress; if you would like to recommend a school or professional program to be featured on this site, please email HollywoodUniversityBlog@gmail.com. Your suggestions (and questions) are always welcome.
Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice/Intern Company
Professional Interns work directly with department managers and staff, receiving hands-on training in either administration or technical theatre. Internships are available as full-season or part-season contracts, at the discretion of the department. Internships are vital staff positions at this nationally recognized professional theatre acclaimed for its innovative programming and strong business acumen.Interns take leadership positions on Apprentice/Intern Company projects throughout the season, and are directly involved in regular season productions.
Interns are selected by application and interview with department managers. It is possible to arrange course credit with the intern’s academic institution.
AFI Conservatory
At the world-renowned AFI Conservatory, a dedicated group of working professionals from the film and television communities serve as mentors in a hands-on, production-based environment nurturing the talents of tomorrow's storytellers. With an emphasis on narrative visual storytelling and personal expression, each class breaks into teams that mirror a real production environment. Those teams collaborate and produce more films than at any other graduate-level film program.
Newhouse School at Syracuse University
The Television-Radio-Film program prepares future leaders in the television-radio-film and interactive media industries. The major consists of eleven courses: seven core requirements and four electives. Core courses introduce students to issues, practices, and concepts fundamental to an understanding of television-radio-film environments. An extensive array of elective courses provides students with the opportunity to customize their programs of study in line with their unique learning objectives.
Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
For more than 40 years, Tisch School of the Arts has drawn on the vast resources of New York City and New York University to create an extraordinary training ground for the individual artist and scholar of the arts. Our undergraduates learn their craft in a spirited, risk-taking environment that combines the professional training of a conservatory with the liberal arts education of a major research university.
UCLA School of Film, Theater, and Television
At UCLA the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.
Located in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) draws upon industry leaders for its faculty, advisors and mentors. Storytelling is the heart of our curriculum, and our talented alumni and faculty members have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys — nearly every meaningful artistic accolade in the performing and visual arts.
University of Kansas Film and Media Studies
The Department of Film and Media Studies unites the inquiry of the academic with the proactice and technique of the artist. Scholars and filmmakers work and study together in an environment of mutual encouragement and collegiality.
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Deciding which college or university to attend is one of the most significant decisions you can make in your life. At the School of Cinematic Arts we believe students find a combination of factors that make the USC Cinematic Arts experience truly unique. More...
Vanderbilt University Film Studies Program
The Film Studies Program is committed to nurturing a film and media culture in Nashville, and particularly on the Vanderbilt campus. "Film culture" means a fabric of events and shared knowledge, appreciation, and analytical interest in film as an art form, as an element of global mass culture, and as a mode of expressing attitudes, ideas, and opinions about histories both global and local. More...
Webster University's School of Communications - BA in Scriptwriting
The major in scriptwriting provides students with a structured approach to understanding the craft of writing scripts for film, television, and other electronic media. By analyzing scripts and producing their own creative work, students learn character development, plot, structure, suspense, and tension, as well as the conventions of various genres.
Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts
The Conservatory at Webster is a professional training program for acting, musical theatre, directing, design, technical theatre and stage management. Located in St. Louis, the Conservatory has been training theatre students for the professional world for over half a century.
We select our students through auditions and theatre festivals nationwide. We also host auditions here on campus. All of our candidates for admission must complete the audition/portfolio review process to be considered.
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