East 15 Acting School

Study at East 15 Acting School - a leading drama school and member of the Federation of Drama Schools training actors, performers, and theatre makers. We place equal importance on developing your craft and creativity, as well as preparing you for a sustainable and varied career in the creative industries.

Our students ranked us as the top drama school or conservatoire for teaching satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2024, and we are the highest ranked drama school in London and the South East and 4th overall for Drama or Dance in the Guardian University Guide 2024 (as part of University of Essex).

True to our founding principles, our aim is to provide you with the skills and confidence to continually develop your throughout your career, finding a balance between personal discovery, intuition and technical skills.

With one of the widest ranges of courses available for vocational training at undergraduate and postgraduate level, East 15 allows you the opportunity to specialise your skills in your areas of interest, whilst establishing the knowledge, abilities, tenacity and networks that are crucial to finding opportunities that are both creatively rich and professionally rewarding.

The School has two Campuses - one in Loughton on the edge of East London and the other in the vibrant and modern resort town of Southend-on-Sea. Both Campuses have quick and direct links to London’s West End theatre district, whilst also offering a peaceful setting in which to study.

The school was founded by Margaret Bury and grew from the work of Joan Littlewood’s famed Theatre Workshop, which broke new ground re-interpreting the classics for a modern age, commissioning new plays from socially committed writers, and creating an ensemble capable of inventing new work that combined improvisational brilliance with method, technique, research, text analysis and the intense expression of truthful emotion.

Much of the original approach was based upon the theories of Stanislavski and over the years training methods at East 15 have now embraced approaches from diverse practitioners, such as Michael Chekhov, Rudolf Laban, Jerzy Grotowski, Jacques Lecoq, Peter Brook, Sanford Meisner and other important contemporary trainers.

Email: east15@essex.ac.uk

Loughton Campus +44 (0) 20 8508 5983 Hatfields Campus Rectory Lane Loughton IG10 3RY

Southend Campus +44 (0) 1702 328200 Elmer Approach Southend-on-Sea SS1 1LW