<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Can people please list all the Acting and/or Musical Theatre schools, BA or BFA, less than an hour and a half away from New York City please? </p>
<p>BESIDES these:</p>
<p>Rutgers
New York University Tisch/Steinhardt
Marymount Manhattan
Montclair State
SUNY Purchase
Wagner College
Pace University</p>
<p>The Juilliard School</p>
<p>There have been threads on this in the past and you should truly do a search. Also, if you include BA programs (let alone either MT or drama), the list gets longer. </p>
<p>Here are more:</p>
<p>Manhattanville
Hofstra
Drew
Sarah Lawrence
Fordham
Barnard
Columbia
Adelphi
Hunter
C.W. Post
SUNY Stony Brook
Kean University</p>
<p>A little farther:
Muhlenberg
Vassar
SUNY New Paltz
Princeton
Wilkes University</p>
<p>I think AMDA has some sort of agreement with a college that allows intterested students to receive a BFA?? I thought I read that somewhere on here... not sure though.</p>
<p>From AMDA's Website</p>
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AMDA offers two training programs, THE INTEGRATED PROGRAM and THE STUDIO PROGRAM. Both programs comprise four semesters, and students who complete the program earn a Professional Performance Certificate of training.</p>
<p>AMDA's conservatory training is rigorous. The course work is intensive and exclusively focuses on developing craft, technique and the essential tools necessary to build a career in the performing arts.</p>
<p>The Integrated Program - Click here for More Info</p>
<p>This program offers training in acting, singing, and dance to prepare the student for a career in the professional theatre. The first year of training focuses upon the development of technique with special emphasis on individual work. The second year's focus is upon utilization of the acquired techniques as the student develops performance and audition pieces.</p>
<p>The Studio Program - Click here for More Info</p>
<p>This program offers training to prepare the student for a career as a professional actor. The first year of training focuses upon the development of technique with special emphasis on individual work. The second year's focus is upon utilization of the acquired techniques as the student develops performance and audition pieces.</p>
<p>AMDA, in conjunction with the New School University offers a B.F.A. Program to Integrated Program graduates and a B.A. Program to Studio Program graduates.
These programs are offered to accommodate those AMDA students who desire a college degree. The continued program of study at the New School is specially designed to offer a broad choice of courses to enhance the performing artist's education.</p>
<p>After the competition of the two-year AMDA program, the degree candidate may meet with a New School educational advisor to develop an individual study program, Studies may be pursued at a pace conducive to the performer's professional life. Full and part-time programs can be arranged.</p>
<p>The New School University, located in the heart of Greenwich Village in Manhattan, is an accredited university with more than 20,000 student enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs and courses in adult education.</p>
<p>In addition to the New School degree program, students have had their AMDA credits successfully transferred to numerous colleges and universities.
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<p>Westminster Choir College is located in Princeton, NJ less than 45 mins. from NYC.</p>
<p>Oops, I forgot WCC! Thanks Evasmom. Very excited for your daughter and I hope you will be sharing some of her experiences at WCC here next year so that more people can learn about that MT program.</p>
<p>Thanks Soozievt for the infor from the AMDA website.... </p>
<p>On a completely seperate note, In response to my bein room NH... I lived there in high school, and my family has continued to live there... but, unfortunately I don't any longer :( I will get to apend most of my summer there however, and am thrilled for a new england summer!</p>
<p>Kat...that's neat to know that. I never realized. Now, if summer would ever get here, LOL! but good news is that the snow is melting and temps are going way up FINALLY.</p>
<p>You guys still have snow on the ground? Yikes! Here in the Mid-Atlantic, the daffodils have been out for awhile and the tulips are all opening. Not to mention the magnolia trees in bloom. (Yeah, I am enjoying teasing y'all. :))</p>
<p>NMR...Yep! The winter snow had never completely gone away and then for most of April, it has snowed a real lot. A week ago, we had a snowstorm and it looked like a winter wonderland. I was in NYC this past weekend and we got snow here while I was gone. However, today it is finally warming up and this is the first day I can see my deck has no snow on it. The lawn has snow, as well as there are big piles from the plow in the driveway, but there are patches of grass finally showing. If I go out, I am sure our road which is dirt, will be in round #2 of Mud Season. I hope this is the last of winter. I like winter and the change of seasons, but enough is enough for this time of year!</p>
<p>(perhaps we should all visit Kaylagurl on the lovely island of Barbados!)</p>
<p>Add University of the Arts to the list which, at 1 1/2 hours, is right at the geographic limit</p>
<p>What school is AMDA?</p>
<p>AMDA = Amercian Musical and Dramatic Academy which is a two year program in Manhattan. The BA or BFA option is described in my post above, through New School University. But AMDA itself is a two year conservatory program. </p>
<p>There are other two year MT programs in NYC, such as Circle in the Square Theater Program, but the OP wanted BA and BFA degree programs.</p>
<p>I think AADA, which is another two to three year program in both NY and LA, now has agreements with some colleges where you can actually come out with a degree, but I think it's a BA or BS instead of a BFA.</p>