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
- Audition/selection
- 16–18
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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5–10 Oct
Working Actor Practice: intensive
An intensive, week-long professional acting workshop designed to flex your creative muscles, make bold choices and develop your professional audition practice.
- Acting
- 6 days
- All day
- 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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Multiple dates available
Technique Workshops: Character, a Physical Approach
This detailed 2-day course will equip you with techniques to stimulate your imagination and explore different ways of moving in order to create a character.
- Acting
- 2 days
- All day
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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7–11 Dec 2026
Scene Study: intensive
Learn the techniques actors use to approach and rehearse scenes in this 5-day in-depth course.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates available
Advanced Acting Fundamentals
A semi-intensive training in acting skills over six weeks for anyone who has studied acting previously and wants to develop their skills to a more advanced level.
- Acting
- 6 weeks
- Evenings and Weekends
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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Thu 8 - Fri 9 Oct 2026
Technique Workshops: The Singing Actor
This detailed 2-day course will equip you with techniques and strategies to improve your singing from a musical, dramatic, and imaginative viewpoint.
- Acting
- 2 days
- All day
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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7–12 Dec 2026
Advanced Acting for Camera
Strengthen your acting technique and develop powerful connections with audiences for Film & TV, using Meisner technique.
- Acting
- 6 days
- Evenings
- Audition/selection
- 18+
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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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Multiple dates
Technique Workshops: Stanislavski
This detailed 2-day workshop enables you to go deeper into your acting work through Stanislavski's approach.
- Acting
- 2 days
- All day
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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17–21 Aug; 30 Nov–4 Dec
Spoken English for Actors: in-person
A course for actors with English as an additional language, focusing on text analysis, monologues, scene study and voice.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates available
Technique Workshops: Voice
This detailed 2-day course will equip you with techniques and exercises to develop and maintain a healthy voice.
- Acting
- 2 days
- All day
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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17–21 Aug; 30 Nov–4 Dec
Fundamentals of Classical Acting
This week-long course, in-person at RADA, will give you practical insight into the cornerstones of RADA's classical actor training.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates available
Acting for Camera
Create powerful connections with audiences for Film & TV in this 6-day course, working with Meisner Technique.
- Acting
- 6 days
- Weekdays
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates available
Short Course Saturdays
Get practical insight into four key aspects of RADA's acting training at our one-day workshops, taught in-person on a Saturday.
- Acting
- 1 day
- Weekends
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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14–18 Sept; 9–14 Nov 2026
Starting Shakespeare
A down-to-earth approach to Shakespeare for beginners, helping you understand the text and respond to the vivid situations and characters that abound in Shakespeare’s works.
- Acting
- 5 days
- Evenings
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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Multiple dates available
Technique Workshops: Meisner
Explore Meisner technique in this detailed introductory 2-day course for actors.
- Acting
- 2 days
- All day
- No audition/selection
- 18+
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