Welcome to London Dramatic Academy

A LDA student from Spring 2007 says: I know I am a better actor, because of your direction, support and advice and because of the amazing program you have set up.

Fall Semester 2009

Richard Digby Day

In late January 2009 London Dramatic Academy took possession of their splendid new premises in the Fordham University London Centre. It is situated in Kensington Square and is part of Heythrop College. This square is a fascinating and historic space, home at various times to the great philosopher John Stuart Mill, to the Victorian painter Edward Burne Jones and the great actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, creator of Bernard Shaw’s Eliza Doolittle. In LDA’s programme we work on the principle of using the lessons of the past and present to make theatre for the future. This couldn’t be a better place to do it. 

Accommodation for students has now returned to Clifton Gardens in Maida Vale, only a few stops away on the underground. As an integral  part of the programme, as usual, students are seeing a wide variety of performances, including work by the National Theatre Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera and the Royal Ballet. They are also having frequent opportunities to meet and talk with theatre professionals.

On a regular basis, students visit museums, galleries, historic buildings and churches in London. This semester we will also see major exhibits at Tate Britain and the British Museum. Later on, apart from the usual visit to Stratford-upon-Avon and the Cotswolds, there will be an excursion to Peterborugh Cathedral and to Burghley House, one of the greatest of Elizabethan mansions. In other words, LDA is its usual hive of activity!

Applications for the Spring 2010 Semester are due by mid-March.

Here you will find information about and images of one of the most exciting theatre study programmes in the United Kingdom. This is a programme designed above all to be practical. You breathe, eat and live theatre.

The London Dramatic Academy addresses theatre as a craft and enables to improve your skills during the intensive fourteen week semester. Within all this there is also time to experience London itself – one of the world’s most vibrant cities.

There are not only the classes themselves, which are described on the following pages, but there are regular Masterclasses, cultural visits and a weekly theatre outing.

We very much hope that if you are interested you will take up the challenges offered by the LDA.