Our School of Drama combines rigor with creative experimentation. We focus on authenticity of expression and confront today's most pressing societal issues through the making of theater, film, and emerging media.
Our faculty is made up of New York's contemporary legends–award-winning actors, playwrights, and directors who bring a currency of professional experience, artistic training, and project-based learning into the classroom. Our integration with Parsons School of Design, Mannes School of Music, and the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music offers you new avenues for collaboration and creativity.
Our four-year BFA program in Dramatic Arts prepares you to be an artist and collaborator in today's changing world, a creative thinker, and an engaged citizen. Our MFA program immerses you in an intensive, highly collaborative, and ensemble-driven training, with a focus on the creation of new works and relevant reinterpretation of existing plays.
We take inspiration from the greats who walked these halls before us, including Harry Belafonte, and Tennessee Williams, as well as our more recent graduates, like Adrienne C. Moore and Jason Kim.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.