The American Musical and Dramatic Academy — one of America’s premier performing arts institutions — offers a variety of performing arts programs designed to ignite your future career in entertainment.
Whether you pursue an acting, vocal, content creation or theatre degree or certificate, you will learn from experienced industry professionals in one — or both — of the largest entertainment production centers in the United States: New York City and Hollywood. Enjoy the energy and action of studying where artists create as you pursue your own passion for storytelling.
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Our wide variety of certificates and majors in performing arts and filmmaking deliver unparalleled flexibility, allowing you to tailor your academic experience to succeed on the stage of your choice.
Based on our Los Angeles campus, our BFA degrees are designed to transform talented individuals into well-rounded artists through a comprehensive education combined with rigorous conservatory-level artistic training. Pathways studying at our New York City campus are available.
Earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Performance Studies on our Los Angeles campus. This eight-semester degree program includes access to foundational performing arts courses in acting, music and movement, supplemented by varied studies in media and entertainment such as directing, theatre design, critique, and entertainment history.
Launch your career with a two-year degree in the performing arts discipline of your choice on our Los Angeles campus. The AOS includes acting, acting for camera, dance and musical theatre degrees.
Our New York City campus offers Advanced Certificate programs that focus on well-rounded instruction in the performing arts. Graduates from this program can seamlessly continue to AMDA Los Angeles or AMDA Online to complete their BFA degree or stay in NYC and continue to the Fordham Pathway and complete their B.A. Degree in as little as 2-3 semesters.
Our New York City campus offers Professional Conservatory Certificate programs that focus on intensive, practical instruction in the performing arts. Clock hours earned through AMDA Certificate Program studies are not applicable toward degree completion at the New York campus, however, these hours are fully transferable as credits towards degree programs offered at AMDA Los Angeles or AMDA Online.
No matter your certificate or degree in the performing, you will learn from the best in the business on campuses centered in the two entertainment capitals of the United States: Los Angeles and New York City. Whether you want to star on Netflix, slay on Broadway, dance on a national tour or write screenplays for major studios, you will be surrounded by opportunities to engage in and showcase for the performing arts industry.