Juilliard’s Master of Fine Arts in Acting program will become tuition free for students starting in fall 2024.
The four-year program will then be free in perpetuity thanks to $15 million in existing scholarship funding, as well as a matching challenge grant from theater producer and Juilliard trustee Stephanie P. McClelland and her husband, Carter McClelland, a major gift from theater producer John Gore and gifts from the Jacques and Margot W. Kohn Foundation and several estates. This follows other acting programs that have stopped charging tuition, including the Yale School of Drama, which became tuition free for all students in the school starting in 2021 after a $150 million gift from David Geffen.
Juilliard’s four-year Mfa program was founded by Jim Houghton in 2012, with the goal of broadening employment opportunities for students, and has always had its fourth year of the acting program tuition free, alongside a living stipend. That stipend will remain in place.
The four-year program will then be free in perpetuity thanks to $15 million in existing scholarship funding, as well as a matching challenge grant from theater producer and Juilliard trustee Stephanie P. McClelland and her husband, Carter McClelland, a major gift from theater producer John Gore and gifts from the Jacques and Margot W. Kohn Foundation and several estates. This follows other acting programs that have stopped charging tuition, including the Yale School of Drama, which became tuition free for all students in the school starting in 2021 after a $150 million gift from David Geffen.
Juilliard’s four-year Mfa program was founded by Jim Houghton in 2012, with the goal of broadening employment opportunities for students, and has always had its fourth year of the acting program tuition free, alongside a living stipend. That stipend will remain in place.
- 9/27/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Drama schools worldwide were able to achieve a degree of stability in the past academic year as productions and classes largely went on as scheduled (though, in some cases, programs still felt lingering effects from Covid-19). Coming out of the pandemic, schools are pushing forward with a greater emphasis on diversity within the classes, faculty and coursework. Students are learning how to create the best self-taped auditions and coming out of school with jobs booked. The Hollywood Reporter consulted with educators and industry execs to determine its annual ranking of the best schools for an acting degree. Tuition, when applicable, is listed on an annualized basis and pertains to the upcoming academic year, unless otherwise indicated. Most schools offer some form of financial assistance.
1. The Juilliard School
New York City
At Juilliard, undergrad and graduate students study together in a conservatory-style program that trains them to work within the industry...
1. The Juilliard School
New York City
At Juilliard, undergrad and graduate students study together in a conservatory-style program that trains them to work within the industry...
- 6/16/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Leaders of Hollywood’s unions and guilds are calling on Congress to pass the Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (Patpa) before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in January. The legislation would restore tax breaks for work-related expenses by updating the Qualified Performing Artist (Qpa) deduction and modernizing a provision that has been on the books since it was signed into law in the 1980s by President Ronald Reagan. The provision would allow middle-class entertainment workers to again deduct common business expenses.
Currently, the adjusted gross income threshold for the Qpa deduction is 16,000, which has been unchanged since Qpa’s inception in 1986. Patpa would raise the threshold of the Qpa deduction to 100,000 for single taxpayers and 200,000 for joint filers to help ensure middle-class entertainment workers qualify for the deduction.
In a letter sent today to the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Committee on Finance,...
Currently, the adjusted gross income threshold for the Qpa deduction is 16,000, which has been unchanged since Qpa’s inception in 1986. Patpa would raise the threshold of the Qpa deduction to 100,000 for single taxpayers and 200,000 for joint filers to help ensure middle-class entertainment workers qualify for the deduction.
In a letter sent today to the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Committee on Finance,...
- 12/6/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten years ago, only two black stage directors – and no black choreographers – were hired on Broadway under the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society’s contract. During the last Broadway season, the union says, only one black director was hired under its Broadway contract, and no black choreographers.
The union, which represents some 4,300 professional stage directors and choreographers throughout the United States, said today that the time has come “to own our responsibility and use our influence to end racist policies and practices in our field.”
The Sdc is the third entertainment union this week to own up to its role in the underemployment of members of color. On Monday, in the wake of nationwide protests over racism and police brutality, leaders of the WGA West urged its members – television showrunners – “to take their share of responsibility” for the lack of diversity in writers rooms. And on that same day, the...
The union, which represents some 4,300 professional stage directors and choreographers throughout the United States, said today that the time has come “to own our responsibility and use our influence to end racist policies and practices in our field.”
The Sdc is the third entertainment union this week to own up to its role in the underemployment of members of color. On Monday, in the wake of nationwide protests over racism and police brutality, leaders of the WGA West urged its members – television showrunners – “to take their share of responsibility” for the lack of diversity in writers rooms. And on that same day, the...
- 6/18/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Yale Repertory Theatre presents Owners, the savagely funny play by groundbreaking English playwright Caryl Churchill, author of Cloud Nine and Top Girls. Directed by Obie Award winning resident director Evan Yionoulis, Owners will be performed at Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel Street, now through November 16. Opening Night is tomorrow, Thursday, October 31. The cast of Owners includes Anthony Cochrane, Joby Earle, Sarah Manton, Brenda Meaney, Tommy Schrider, and Alex Trow. Get a sneak peek at the show in the video below...
- 10/30/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yale Repertory Theatre presents Owners, the savagely funny play by groundbreaking English playwright Caryl Churchill, author of Cloud Nine and Top Girls. Directed by Obie Award winning resident director Evan Yionoulis, Owners will be performed at Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel Street, now through November 16. Opening Night is tomorrow, Thursday, October 31. The cast of Owners includes Anthony Cochrane, Joby Earle, Sarah Manton, Brenda Meaney, Tommy Schrider, and Alex Trow. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 10/30/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yale Repertory Theatre James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director, dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classics that make immediate connections to contemporary audiences, announces its 2013-14 season, which will begin with A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mark Rucker. Obie Award winning resident director Evan Yionoulis will mark her thirteenth production at Yale Rep with Owners, the dark comedy by Caryl Churchill. Director Christopher Bayes and actor Steven Epp return for Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.
- 3/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Tuesday, October 9, Primary Stages Executive Producer Casey Childs, Artistic Director Andrew Leynse, Managing Director Elliot Fox continued their celebration of the Foote Family legacy at the opening night of Him by Daisy Foote. This world-premiere production, the second of Primary Stages 28th season, features Tony Award nominee Hallie Foote Harrison, TX, Dividing the Estate Tim Hopper Present Laughter, The Dying Gaul, Steppenwolf, Adam LeFevre The Doctors Dilemma, and Adina Verson The Winters Tale at Yale Rep. Helmed by Obie Award-winning director Evan Yionoulis Three Days of Rain, Violet Hour, Him runs September 25 October 28 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters.
- 10/10/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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