Additional rehearsal hours required.
The world-renowned Conservatory program is a two year full-time course empowering aspiring acting professionals with technical, creative, personal rigor, and a lifelong community that fuels success beyond our doors. The curriculum includes instruction in a disciplined approach to script analysis, working truthfully moment-to-moment, and bringing these competencies together in performance of the material.
Limited Availability, Apply ASAP!
2025-26 First Year Tuition: $22,500
(Includes $1000 Enrollment Deposit, $10,750 Fall Tuition Payment, $10,750 Spring Tuition Payment)
Prices, curriculum, curriculum hours, and faculty are subject to change.
You can find information about scholarship opportunities and the application process by clicking HERE.
Atlantic Acting School participates in the Federal Student Aid program through the Department of Education. Students are eligible for Federal financial aid through FAFSA for the Certificate Program – 2 years: Acting.
Atlantic Acting School’s institution code is 042903.
Please contact the Financial Aid Office if you have any questions: financialaid@atlantictheater.org
We offer an F-1 Visa to accepted and enrolled international students in our Certificate Program – 2 Years: Acting only.
For Visa specific questions, please email kmcruer@atlantictheater.org
As the only acting conservatory offering in-depth training in Practical Aesthetics—the Atlantic Technique, as outlined in A Practical Handbook for the Actor—we equip actors with unmatched creative, technical, and professional skills.
Start by building a solid foundation in the Atlantic Technique through our acting conservatory program, balancing the development of analytical, physical, and collaborative skills. Working as an ensemble, actors engage with the fundamentals of the Atlantic Technique: script analysis, playing an action truthfully, and working moment to moment. Students synthesize their physical skills with in-class performances of scene work and look ahead to entering the profession with classes that orient them to the landscape of the theater community and introduce business skills.
Core courses: Script Analysis, Moment Lab, Performance Technique, Voice, Speech, Movement, Improv, Professional Development, Introduction to Theater in New York, Theater History, and Staging Intimacy and Violence.
Additionally, first year students participate as a part of the crew for second year performances.
Year two broadens the application of the Atlantic Technique to an expansive repertoire of genre, style and media-specific work, applying these skills to performance and transitioning into the professional community. Second-year students are guaranteed casting in a final production that takes place on one of Atlantic’s Off-Broadway stages as an exercise to synthesize their training. Students prepare for graduation through business classes geared towards both theater and Film/TV.
Core courses: Advanced Acting, Advanced Performance Technique, Advanced Script Analysis, Film Technique, Shakespeare, Advanced Voice, Advanced Speech, Suzuki/View Points, Stage Combat, Business, and Auditioning.
First Year (CON1) I Fall Term 09/08/25 – 01/15/26 I Spring Term 01/20/26 – 05/07/26
First Year (CON2) I Fall Term 09/08/25 – 01/15/26 I Spring Term 01/20/26 – 05/07/26
Student Orientation
Monday & Tuesday, September 8 & 9
Fall Classes Begin
Wednesday, September 10
National Holiday (Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day)
Monday, October 13
CON2 Rehearsal Project Showing
TBA
National Holiday (Thanksgiving Recess)
Wednesday & Thursday, November 26 & 27
Last Day of Classes before Winter Break
Thursday, December 18
Winter Break
Friday, December 19 – Sunday, January 11
Classes Resume after Winter Break
Monday, January 12
Last Day of Fall Term Classes
Thursday, January 15
National Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr Day)
Monday, January 19
Spring Term Classes Begin
Tuesday, January 20
National Holiday (Presidents Day)
Monday, February 16
Spring Break
Monday, March 16 – Friday, March 20
Last Day of Classes
Thursday, May 7
Atlantic is the home of Practical Aesthetics, a technique outlined in the world-renowned A Practical Handbook for the Actor—our foundational source for...
The goal of the first year is to provide students with a set of physical habits that complement those learned in Script...
The Suzuki Method is a rigorous physical and vocal discipline for actors created by Tadashi Suzuki and his company. Drawing on a...
Professional Casting Directors examine how on-camera acting differs from acting for the stage. Students are videotaped as they work on prepared material....
In Moment Lab, actors explore their potential to “act before they think.” They are readied to dive into the given circumstances of...
The first semester of the acting conservatory program focuses on creating a strong, flexible instrument to support active choices by employing Chuck...
Business class defines and demystifies how actors actually go about getting a job. This class looks at what function agents, managers, and...
Students learn to deepen their understanding of specificity with on-camera study. Students perform scenes in front of the camera and then watch...
In this course, students examine the current landscape of the New York theater scene, investigating the artistic climate of Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off...
The Laban/Bartenieff principles are used to explore, describe and analyze movement to promote physical clarity and specificity. The class is designed to...
A technical approach to Shakespeare immerses students in the nature and practice of poetry. Students learn to revolutionize the imagination and to...
The first year of the acting conservatory program includes an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) with a concentration intentional and...
