Short Courses
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Unlock your potential with RADA's world-renowned training.
Whether you're exploring acting for the first time, developing your career or honing professional skills, our Short Courses offer flexible ways to learn, with options to study at RADA London, RADA New York, or online.
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Featured - 7-11 Dec 2026
An Actor's Workout: Stage and Screen Acting in New York
Sharpen your acting skills with An Actor's Workout. Explore practice exercises, develop performance techniques and build confidence through expert training with RADA Short Courses in New York City
- Acting
- 5 days
- All day
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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Featured - Multiple dates
Acting Essentials - New York
Develop your acting skills with Acting Essentials in New York. Train with experienced practitioners through RADA Short Courses and build confidence, technique and performance skills.
- Acting
- Evenings
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Featured - Multiple dates available
Young Actors: Saturday School
Experience the cornerstones that underpin RADA's actor training with weekend workshop days for 16-18 year-olds.
- Young Actors
- 1 day
- Weekends
- No audition/selection
- 16–18
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Featured - 24 Oct–28 Nov 2026
Professional Acting Practice: Saturdays
This practical course for professional actors enables you to revitalise your rehearsal practice, advance your skills and build confidence as a working actor.
- Acting
- 6 weeks
- Weekends
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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Featured - Multiple dates
Shakespeare in New York
Join us in New York City for a 5-day advanced Shakespeare workshop. Refine your craft, deepen your connection to Shakespeare's text, and elevate your performance skills with RADA.
- Acting
- Weekdays
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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Featured - Multiple dates
Intermediate Meisner
You will immerse yourself in Meisner technique to create powerful connections in scenes. Classes in voice, movement, and scene study will provide a robust grounding to support the practice.
- Acting
- 6 weeks
- Weekdays
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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Featured - 22 Oct–26 Nov 2026
Advanced Improvisation
Develop your strengths as an improvisor to collaborate with other performers in longer-form improvisations and more challenging exercises.
- Acting
- 6 weeks
- Evenings
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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7 Dec–11 Dec 2026
Monologue Workout
Learn how to playfully approach monologues and speeches and develop autonomy in your audition preparation and practice with this intensive workshop.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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19 - 23 April 2027
Monologue Workout - New York
Learn how to playfully approach monologues and speeches and develop autonomy in your audition preparation and practice with this intensive workshop.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates
Voicing Character
Explore the imaginative and vocal skills required to create characters for audio across five key areas: commercials, audio drama, audiobooks, animation and video games.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Evenings
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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16–27 Nov 2026
Working Actor Practice: evening intensive
This 2-week professional acting workshop, taught on weekday evenings in-person at RADA, is designed to flex your creative muscles, make bold choices and develop your professional audition practice.
- Acting
- 2 weeks
- All day
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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24 Oct–28 Nov 2026
Monologue Workout: Saturdays
Learn how to playfully approach monologues and speeches and develop autonomy in your audition preparation and practice with this workshop taught weekly on Saturdays.
- Acting
- 6 weeks
- Weekends
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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7–11 Dec 2026
Stanislavski in Action
Refine your acting technique and embed Stanislavski’s Physical Action approach in your rehearsal practice in this immersive and playful week-long course.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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12–16 Oct
Shakespeare: Acting the Verse
This online course is designed for those who already have some experience speaking Shakespeare and want to deepen their technical and imaginative connection to the verse.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Evenings
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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26–30 Oct
Shakespeare: Scene Workout
This advanced online course is for experienced actors who want to refine their classical craft through sustained scene work.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Evenings
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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7–12 Dec 2026
Classical Page to Stage
Take a Shakespeare play from page to stage and put your classical acting skills into practice in this immersive six-day course.
- Acting
- 6 days
- Weekdays
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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19–30 Oct 2026
Meisner Fundamentals: evening intensive
An introduction to the core principles of Meisner Technique, a unique training form that teaches actors to respond to stimuli and develop observation and active listening.
- Acting
- 2 weeks
- Evenings
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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7-11 Dec 2026
Improvisation: intensive
Explore the cornerstones of performance improvisation, from letting go of limiting beliefs to unleashing your creativity to bring stories to life.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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17–22 Aug; 30 Nov–5 Dec
Meisner Fundamentals
A 6 day introduction to the core principles of Meisner Technique, a unique training form that teaches actors to respond to stimuli and develop observation and active listening.
- Acting
- 6 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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30 Nov-4 Dec 2026
Storytelling: in-person
Explore the power of storytelling in all its forms through in-depth classes in voice, movement and text analysis.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates
Elements of RADA: in-person
Evening workshops exploring Voice, Movement, Contemporary Text and Classical Text.
- Acting
- 1 evening
- Evenings
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates available
Acting Fundamentals
A semi-intensive training in acting skills over six weeks for anyone at the beginning of their acting journey – particularly those who are thinking about going to drama school.
- Acting
- 6 weeks
- Evenings and Weekends
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates available
Acting for Camera: Saturdays
Acting For Camera provides rigorous training weekly on Saturdays to hone your practice when acting on camera, working with the Meisner Technique.
- Acting
- 6 weeks
- Weekends
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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19 - 30 April 2027
Intensive Actor's Workout - New York
Join us in New York City for a 5-day professional acting workshop. Refine your craft, deepen your studio practice, and elevate your performance skills with RADA.
- Acting
- Two weeks
- Weekdays
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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