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Explore your talent and creativity this spring and summer with our range of Short Courses in acting.

With all courses delivered by tutors from RADA's acting faculty and with topics that cover a wide variety of interests and techniques, there really is something for everyone, wherever you are in the world.

Recent feedback from our acting participants:

  • ''I feel like I have found a missing part of me that I had no idea was there!''
  • "I can confidently say that I have positively changed, inside and out, since starting this course and will continue to refer back to it in the future."

Short Courses in acting to choose from this spring and summer

From Fundamentals of Acting: Online, an intensive four-week training programme, to our unique Singing Academy for Actors: Online, which includes a masterclass led by RADA graduate Imelda Staunton, we offer budding actors of all ages and abilities the opportunity to experience a taste our world-class training.

Take a look at all of our Short Courses, listed below.

Courses on evenings and weekends

Elements of RADA: Online

Dates: various dates between 3 May - 7 July 2021
Time: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday evenings, 7-9pm
Cost: £40 per session
Ages: 20+

Scene Study for Actors: Online

Dates: From 6 May (10 weeks)
Time: Thurs or Fri evenings or Sat mornings or afternoons
Cost: £550
Ages: 20+

Advanced Scene Study for Actors: Online

Dates: From 6 May (10 weeks)
Time: Thurs or Fri evenings or Sat mornings or afternoons
Cost: £550
Ages: 20+

Advances in Scriptwriting: Online

Dates: 4 June - 23 July (8 weeks)
Time: Friday evenings, 6.30-9.30pm
Cost: £400
Ages: 18+

Shapeshifting: Online

Dates: 28 June - 2 July (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

Creativity in Motion: Online

Dates: 28 June - 2 July or 5 - 9 July (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

Easy Stages: Online

Dates: 28 June - 2 July ( 5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

Shakespeare's Soothing Sonnets: Online

Dates: 28 June - 2 July ( 5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

Talking Books: Online

Dates: 28 June - 2 July ( 5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

Love, Passion and Intimacy: Online

Dates: 5 - 9 July (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

The Power of Poetry: Online

Dates: 5 - 9 July (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

A World in Translation: Online

Dates: 5 - 9 July (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

The Active Voice: Online

Dates: 5 - 9 July (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 7-8.30pm
Cost: £250
Ages: 16+

Courses on the Fundamentals of Acting

Fundamentals of Acting: Online

Dates: 17 May - 11 Jun (4 weeks)
Time: Monday to Friday, 10am-5pm
Cost: £2,500
Ages: 18+

International Fundamentals of Acting: Online

Dates: 21 Jun - 16 Jul 2021 (4 weeks)
Time: Monday to Friday, 10am-5pm
Cost: £2,500
Ages: 18+

Courses during weekdays

Dynamic Acting for Young Actors: Online

Dates: 19 - 23 Jul or 2 - 6 Aug (5 days)
Time: Mon to Fri, 2-7pm
Cost: £650 per course
Ages: 16-18

Singing Academy for Actors: Online

Dates: 31 May - 4 Jun (5 days)
Time: Tues to Sat or Mon to Fri, 2-7pm
Cost: £690
Ages: 16+
Featuring a masterclass with RADA graduate Imelda Staunton.

Spoken English for Actors: Online

Dates: 14 - 18 June (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 1-6.30pm
Cost: £450
Ages: 18+

Clown: Online

Dates: 21 - 24 June (4 days)
Time: Monday to Thursday, 10am - 5pm
Cost: £375
Ages: 16+

Rehearsing with RADA: Online

Dates: 12 - 24 July (12 days)
Time: Monday to Saturday, 2-7pm
Cost: £1,500
Ages: 16+

Shakespeare in Action: Online

Dates: 26 Jul - 7 Aug or 16 - 28 Aug or 30 Aug - 11 Sep (12 days)
Time: Monday to Saturday, 2-7pm
Cost: £1,500
Ages: 16+

Contemporary Drama Summer School: Online

Dates: 16 - 20 August (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 2-7pm
Cost: £650
Ages: 18+

Second Act: Online

Dates: 30 August - 3 September (5 days)
Time: Monday to Friday, 2-7pm
Cost: £650
Ages: 16+

It was a wonderful experience. Hated to have it end. Would do it again!
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