I just threw questions about what universities or schools are the best in acting. Therefore, today I am a list of the ten best acting schools of the United States. The first 5 schools from this list are among the top ten acting actors in the world. Although most schools offer only master's programs (MFA), many of them take on these programs and those who have no bachelor degree. And although everything is learning together, those who have no bachelor degree receive a certificate, while those who have a bachelor's degree is a masterity. You also need to know that the acting programs will usually last 3 years (and not 2, like most master programs), but there are also exceptions about them - below ... An important point is also that, unlike most specialties, the receipt to which you can do At a distance, for admission to a good acting school will have to come to audition and successfully pass it.

All these programs are very selective and accept 2-5% of all applicants. The fact is that, unlike most other prestigious universities and programs, on the acting programs, a very small set (18-30 people per year), so when 1000-1500 applicants are served, the chances of getting into this twenty-thirty are quite small.

The prices of which I will write do not include Fees, which, though relatively small, but are present in Drama Schools in large quantities due to various listening, insurance and the specifics of training at all. All prices in this article are valid for May 2012. And here are the best Achrooms USA:

Juilliard is considered one of the best schools in the world in all disciplines associated with art. If future businessmen, scientists and engineers are trying to break into Harvard, Yel, Stanford or Mit, future musicians, actors, playwrights, dancers dream of Juilliard. Acceptance Rate in Juilliard is only 7% (yes, less than in Harvard, Princeton and Yel), and the percentage of DRAMA reception is only 2% of all submitting documents. Unlike most acting programs, which last 3 years, the acting program in Juilliard School lasts as much as 4 years, and both for bachelors and masters. In addition to the intensive training program, Juilliard also offers training castings with large acting Agencies of New York and Los Angeles. Studying in Juilliard costs $ 33.630 per year and together with the university housing it comes into something about $ 50,000 per year.

In Yale, you can get either a master's degree or certificate. Study lasts 3 years and costs $ 26,250 per year or $ 43,150, including accommodation, books and other expenses. As they say, 93% of Yale School of Drama students themselves receive some financial assistance from the university or state. From the point of view of the success of graduates, this is one of the best acting schools in the world, which released a bunch of celebrities, one of which is the Muse of the Cohen Brothers Francis McDrend.

NYU offers both the grocery and master program on acting. Training there costs about $ 25,000 per year. Nyu Tisch is one of the favorites for those who dream of a career on New York Broadway.

This is not a university, but a professional program at the American Conservatory Theater Theater. The program lasts 3 years and offers both the master's program and the certificate for those who have no bachelor's degree. The cost of the acting program is $ 20,500 per year and advantages are obvious - students learn in the "live" theater and sometimes even play small roles with professionals, that is, from the first day you can communicate and establish contacts with producers, scripts and successful actors.

It is considered one of the best places to "break through" on the American scene. American Repertory Theater, as well as American Conservatory Theater, is not a university, but offers a professional acting program in Institute for Advanced Theater Training. The program lasts only 2 years, the truth includes summer studies in the first year - during the summer holidays, all students go to theatrical school with MCATE in Moscow for mandatory internship. The full cost of the program is $ 58,600 - it includes 2 years of study and a summer trip to Moscow.

This school is aimed at those who plan to get a bachelor's degree. Although they offer several master's programs, these programs are not acting. The only acting program here is bachelor. The cost of studying in the Boston University School of theater $ 21,500 per year, not including accommodation and other expenses. This university pays attention to both acting talent and performance, taking into account and listening (50% of the decision on adoption) and GPA and points for tests (the remaining 50%). For those who dream of a career in Hollywood there are special features: First, the internship program, available only to graduates of Boston University School of theater, offering 15 weeks of study and work in the heart of the film industry - Los Angeles (cost $ 25,500, including accommodation); Secondly, after internships (or instead of it), graduates of the Boston University School of theater can also continue their studies in Los Angeles by enrolling the Certificate Program Acting In Hollywood with a duration of 16 weeks (cost $ 10,600, including accommodation).

Calarts call "Juilliard of the West", the acting program here is also very competitive (take about 3.5% of all who are invited to listen). Due to the location near Los Angeles, it is a good place to establish links to movies and on television. This university offers both a 4-bfa BFA program and a 3-khletnyum MFA. Training costs $ 37,700 per year, plus about $ 2000 for Fees.

CMU offers the acting program only for bachelors. It is also very selective, taking about 3% of all applicants annually in School of Drama. A large emphasis when you decide who to take on audition (about 80%), GPA and tests affect the remaining 20%.

Here, too, the acting program is only for bachelors. In addition, it is rather heavy. The first year of study is a "trial", this means that you may be excluded at any time for any reason, if you consider that you are not talented or hardworking. The program is one of the four programs in the country (for a number from Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University and University of North Carolina), which is approved by Consortium of Conservatory Theater Training Programs. Thanks to this, the teachers are selected by the most talented graduates who are given the opportunity to speak to more than 300 representatives of major agencies of New York and Los Angeles. This is the most inexpensive program from this tenth. For residents of New York, study costs about $ 5,000 per year, for residents of other states and foreign students - about $ 13,000. Accommodation and Fees will take another $ 10,000 per year.

Here is a bachelor program, from which as well as from the program in Suny Purchase you can easily "fly out". Each semester Dean must personally confirm that he is not against, so that the student continue learning, and for this you need not only to have good estimates, but also, as written on the official website, "demonstrate a significant increase in artistic skills." The cost of a year of study for residents of North Carolina is $ 5,270, for residents of other states and foreign students - $ 18,415. Fees and housing will take another $ 11,000 per year.

The actor is not just a profession, this is a dream, calling, sometimes it's all life. Which of the girls, looking at your favorite films, did not dream of becoming an actress? After all, it is so romantic: tour, shooting, rehearsals. The sweetest is fame and popularity: go down the street, and everyone will know you and ask for an autograph to see yourself not only in the mirror, but also on the big screen. But it is quite difficult to become an actor, for this you need to have a huge talent and pass all the tests. The actor is a permanent work on himself, above his voice, over his body, and most importantly, above his soul.

Full Alexander Petrov threw the economic faculty and entered rati-guitis


Top best theatrical universities

Historically, the acting skills go to learn the applicants of Russia in two capitals. Most of the modern actors are graduates of theatrical universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg. From April, you can observe large queues around acting schools, where girls and boys from different cities of our country are crowded to enroll in the best theatrical institutions of Russia:

  1. , Moscow. This is the largest theater university not only in Russia, but also in Europe. Initially, it was created as a musical dramatic school in 1878.
  2. Higher Theater School named after M.S. Shchepkin at the Small Theater of Russia, Moscow. "Slice" - the oldest highest theater educational institution, which was founded at in 1809 by decree of Emperor Alexander the first.
  3. Capital at the theater them. Vakhtangov, Moscow. "Pike" was formed as the theater circle with MHT for in-depth study of the Stanislavsky system.
  4. , Moscow, he is Vgik - For those who dream of a red carpet. VGIK was founded in 1919 as the world's first state school of cinematography.
  5. , Moscow. It was founded in 1943 by Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko.
  6. . The university was founded in 1918 by decree A.V. Lunacharsky as an acting school and still becoming popular among incoming.
  7. . It was founded in 1918 as the Supreme Institute of Photography and Photographic Engineering, and since 1931 he became the Leningrad Institute of Cinema Engineers.
  8. , Yekaterinburg. This is the only theater university in the Urals.
  9. , Novosibirsk. Initially, it was founded as a theater school in 1960 and in 2003 transformed into the theater Institute.

In order to master the profession of the actor, it is not necessary to go to the capital, where the applicants are many, and the places are limited. In other cities of Russia, such as Yaroslavl, Smolensk, Ufa, Khabarovsk also have theatrical universities, which is much easier to get. But how to figure out as a small university? We understand.

The best Sherlock Holmes in the world Vasily Livanov is one of the graduates "Pike"


How to choose theatrical university

If you have dreamed of glory and popular since childhood, it is worth carefully treating the choice of the theater university or the Institute of Arts. It should be chosen according to the following criteria:

  • Preparation programs. Theatrical universities are not only the actors, it is also directors, screenwriters, etc. Choose the University of the Faculty to which you are going to do, and by the competition in each of these universities.
  • Status of the university.Theatrical university can be state or non-state. In width more government. The level of education there is higher and employed after them is more real.
  • Competition in place. As we have already found out, metropolitan universities are very popular. But the contest is higher and get there more difficult. In addition, there are smaller groups in regional universities, and each student has more opportunities for direct communication with the teacher for teaching theatrical skill.

We recommend submitting documents and prepare for admission to several universities at once and for several programs - you have the right to submit documents in 5 universities of 3 programs in each. So you will have more chances to enter the budget in the theater university. You need to start in advance, for example, to sign up for the theater circle - the talent is ashanded for years!

Danila Kozlovsky graduated Russian State Institute of Stage Arts in St. Petersburg


What artistic specialties are

Artistic specialties are not limited to acting skills. In fact, theatrical professions are a lot:

Specialty Training period Profession
52.03.05 Theaters 4 years Journalist, producer, art manager, art historian, theatrical critic, Teatrovad
52.05.01 Acting Art 4 years Actor of the Music Theater, Artist of Dramatic Theater and Cinema, Artist of pop, Radio and TV presenter, choreographer
55.05.04 Production 5 years Game producer, IT producer, film producer, linear producer, musical producer, director, teleproducer
52.05.03 Scenography 5 years Make-up, Decorator, Clothing designer, Art crop, Cultureologist Specialist in theatrical scenery, Teatranted, Costume artist, Designer artist
52.03.06 Dramaturgy 4 years Playwright, journalist, filmmature, literary critic, literary editor, writer, producer, radio wicker, screenwriter, TV presenter
52.05.02 Direct theater 5 years Actor, film director, music journalist, musical critic, music editor, organizer of mass, events, producer, director of theater, director stage, televiser
55.05.01 film and television director 5 years Art Manager, leading radio and television, film critic, film director, producer, director Animation, director of Internet programs, director Multimedia programs, director director, screenwriter, CHANTERSER
55.05.05 Kinov studies 5 years Art historian, kinemad, filmmature, film critic, film director, literary critic, editor of magazines, books and programs about cinema, screenwriter, scene
55.05.03 Cameracycondition 5 years Video operator, cameraman, editor, operator-director, director of installation, television operator

Star of the series "Interns" Kristina Asmus - Graduate of Shchepkinsky School


How to act in theatrical university

For admission to the Theater Institute, it is not enough to get a high score on the USE, you must prepare for the Move. This is a creative test, during which the applicant must demonstrate its talents. Most of the success in admission depends on this stage. It's hard to hit the jury. Not enough to learn verse by heart.

It is advisable to begin to prepare in advance, as soon as they decided to become a star. Sign up in theatrical circle or studio. If you want to conquer the stage, start vocal with a teacher, learn to dance. All this is useful to you for the successful passage of this stage. The view of Move depends on the faculty to which you want to do.

As creative tests can be:

  • Reading monologue, verse, fables
  • Acting skills
  • Performance of the song
  • Dance

An example of a creative test in the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture:

Many are trying to impress the commission and do the following errors when entering the theater Institute:

  1. Attempt to produce a "right" impression. Among students and applicants are different gossip about how to like the reception commission - appearance, images, manners. And the applicants try to look as much as possible reaching the grounding. This is the most common mistake. On the views is not enough (and no need) to remember with pink hair, you need to show your talent and the ability to be born into the image.
  2. Incorrectly selected image. If you are 19 years old and you choose yourself an image of a magician old man, then it will be a mistake. It is best to choose a hero of one with you age and gender, for reincarnation you will not need to make a lot of effort, and you will have more chances to successfully pass this test.
  3. Do not have time to get born. Many are trying to play a certain hero and "crush" the emotions that they really do not experience. Try to imagine how you act on the place of the hero, whatever emotions experienced.
  4. Choose an educational institution, not a master. If you want to become a professional of your case, first of all determine which mentor you are closer in spirit - your own creativity, experience and simply humanly. Decide for yourself which master will best be able to reveal your talent.
  5. Refuse dreams. Yes, enter the cherished theater university is a difficult task. To do this, you need to work a lot. But no need to tune in the failure initially. Just do everything in your power, and the rest in any case does not depend on you, therefore it's not worth it once again. You can try again. Many famous actors entered the theater school from the first time.

More information about errors in admission you can learn from this video:

How to increase your chances to get to theatrical university? As we said, start to prepare in advance:

  • Many rehearse. Acting work is hard work and duties with minor breaks.
  • Rail in yourself charisma. Needers are not interested in anyone, learn to disclose all the verge of your personality.
  • Read a lot of fiction. The classic will help you feel the heroes of those times.
  • On the Internet there are many rollers in acting. Subscribe to the channels and recognize anything new every day.
  • Go to theaters and adopt the experience of professional actors. It will be useful to you upon admission.
  • Subscribe to the group of your favorite Teatral University VKontakte, follow the news, there you can also learn a lot of useful.

Gitis, VGIK, theatrical institute named after Schukin, VTU. Shchepkin and School-Studio MCAT called the "golden five" theatrical universities, where everyone who dreams of becoming an actor seek. But come there for most and remains a dream. For the receipt, the applicant must go through at least three rounds of listening and the competition. First, the incoming read by heart the so-called program: prosaic passages, poems and fables, then pass the colloquium on the knowledge of the history and theory of literature, theater and cinema. By the end of the selection of several hundred applicants, 30-40 people remain.

We talked with those who have already tried - successfully or not very much - to get to the famous masters. They told why guys to do it easier than girls, which program is better not to read and how on listening can deploy the personal preferences of the teacher, the mongoloid person or ugly teeth. And the teachers themselves shared what mistakes most often make applicants and what is the most important thing for the future actor.

Julia, Applicant, did the first time, did not do

I went to listen to four universities from the "Golden Five": Gitis, MCAT, "Slice", "Pike", in Rgisi in St. Petersburg and in ITI and in ICI.

I have a program from two teachers, although it cannot be done because everyone has its own approach. From prose I have a "letter to Rilke" Tsvetaeva, an excerpt from the memories of TEFFI, very funny, about how someone was shot, "Business man's Day" Averchenko and "Alien wife and husband under the bed" Dostoevsky. Several poems and three fables.

According to the program in teachers there are preferences. In the "pinch", for example, Velichova listens to only the classics. Velikhov all coming know, she has a nickname "Tooth Fairy" because she loves to look at the teeth. She recorded me for the fact that in my questionnaire first stand by Tafffi and Tsvetaeva, and then only Dostoevsky: "Well, you can't do that, you have a Dostoevsky third! Where Tafffi, and where Dostoevsky! "

Only in the "Sliver" allow the university himself. In Gitis, for example, you are kept at all around the gate before listening, take away on audition as a cattle on slaughter, not allowed even in the patio. Of all the masters of Guitis, Kudryashov's most tough selection, he has a preliminary tour. At the same time, Kudryashov at least listen - sometimes you come across that people do not listen to you. I was on the first round in the "pike" the teacher said that I was some kind of taller, let me read two lines and sent me to exit.

In the "sketch" sifted by the type of face and the shape of the teeth: you are asked to open your mouth if some defect is heard, they see the wrong bite - "Thank you, goodbye." It is logical, but rather cruel. Clear, and if a person reads well, but reads the material that is not suitable for him by psychophysics. On the first round in "Pike" there was a pretty complete girl, read an excerpt from the "White Nights" of Dostoevsky. She was told that she reads well, but refused to be very tough, because she reads a program for small and thin. She even looked around. In general, applicants often cry. Those who have been received for no first year, they treat it in philosophically, but those who fly in the first year crying.

Go to the university, and someone in tears to meet you to meet immediately - not passed

This is, of course, discrimination, but it is clear where it comes from. The master is gaining pleasant people or for their future promotion, or for future progress. Not only talent is important in performances, but also what you look.

Non-standard appearance is good everywhere, except for "sinters", there are very conservative views. For example, a very small chance to pass the guys of another nationality, the girl with the Mongoloid type of face was sent to the exit immediately.

It may still be that you have an interesting type, but the course is gained at the theater. I was listening to a man very pretty, looked like a rabbit. I saw that he liked how I read, but I did not take me. I went, asked what's wrong. He replied that everything is so, but the course at the theater and need the types that are not yet.

I eventually did not go anywhere, I will go to file documents in Moscow State University and Vgik on Scenic. There these garbage with the types are not. But acting to do acting. I go to the theater studio, I have a very good director there, I studied at Fomenko and he would have worked in the theater if I had not forced. I will do the next year, and if it does not work, then and another year. Now I will move with your offense to the whole world and again into battle. I am doing an acting in order to enter the directory in the future, but we usually take people with a ready-made one by one formation. And if it does not work on the acting to do, I will do it on scenario and go to the directing.

Varvara Schmykova, actress theater and cinema, entered MCAT from the fifth time

No one has ever argued why they did not take me. No and no. In this sense, admission to theatrical is a ruthless spectacle, because you can be as much as beautiful and charismatic, but all the masters have a different taste.

I formulated the reason for which they did not take me. Here I have such an appearance bright: freckles, long hair, figure, voice, temperament. My soul was not ready to support such appearance. In Vgika Mikhailov told me that I chose not the profession in principle, the pets said that he did not like the cape on the chin. Someone did not like my height. In Gitis, one day a woman on listening asked the skirt to shove as well until the middle of the thigh, to look at his feet.

During my arrival there was no day so that I did not see some kind of crying girl. I myself was this crying girl. I remember the most difficult my non-arrivals, it was just no passing in Mkate. Every year I reached the third round and flew on it. It was almost a tradition. Therefore, when I went through the third tour of Ryzhakov, my panic began. I do not know what will happen next what to do, how to do, I do not know what a competition is. I studied in Gitis on the stage, but there is another competition, and then the training theater is tobacco, Zolotovitsky, Barrynikin, students and artists of Mkhat. It was a very important event in my life.

Our master once said that everyone has its own type, and we will have to follow him. But I really want to do something new, steer stereotypes, expand the horizons. I am a characteristic actress, the heroine I can be, but for this you need to make a lot of effort, meet your director, find my team of people who will be ready to do something extraordinary. Why can't I be Juliet? Or Ophelia? Especially in the theater, not in the movie! It seems to me that this is such nonsense. But I'm struggling with this, because I do not like the stereotypes that are laid in the theater.

Admission to theatrical - ruthless spectacle, because you can be how many beautiful and charismatic, but all masters have a different taste

When I did all these times, I already had friends who studied at the institute. I think, due to the fact that they are good friends, they spoke something to their teachers about me. Is this connection if it is? I do not think. And on someone's daughters and granddaughters simply pay more attention. I personally do not know any example when someone is not talented because of relatives. Genes usually take their own, and all the guys from theatrical families are excellent artists.

I follow a little about how arrival passes, I am insanely interesting to attend auditions. It seems to me that I close some gestalt, I help people, relax them. I know how difficult it is. In recent years, there has been more modern dramaturgy and poetry, some statement of personal. Husky and Oxymon read as poems that, I think, is very cool, because it is a voice of time. If you used to surprise something before and took a little-known author, now people mostly become informed, they say that they worry them.

Those who enter the theatrical, I want to advise: Guys, understand why you need it. Theatrical is a school of survival. We must have a two hundred times to think if you are ready to give up your personal life, from our friends and make a complete thing.

Anton Petrov, received the first time, passed in RGIS

I do the first year, I went to all Masters of Moscow in the "five", tried to enter Yaroslavl and in St. Petersburg in Rgisi, in the end there and passed.

I made a claim due to the fact that I am twenty-one and it is quite late for admission to theatrical universities. And before admission, I studied for a year and a half on the programmer, until I realized that this is not mine and should be acting in the acting. Many people told me: "What are you doing at all on programming, why don't you do into theatrical universities?". And when it was told to me once the fifth or sixth, I thought - and really! And next year I went to do.

When I arrived, I had long hair. No one opened anything to me anything, but, I think, a lot where it could prevent the receipt, especially in the "sketch" and "pike". It was one of the reasons for which I flew for the first time. The types and appearance in any case decide, especially in universities fixed behind theaters.

"Slice" and "Pike" are very conservative. In each university and each master of the school differs. These universities pick up people under their theater, and small and vakhtangov are quite old-fashioned. The fact that can be in the MHT and at the MCAT Studio School is considered too modern in the "pinch", "pike" and their theaters, but, the more different theaters and schools, the better that everyone can find something for himself.

Purely statistically for guys arrival easier. As a rule, on boys more places in the course and there are fewer them. But this does not mean that if you have nothing to imagine anything and learned one and a half bass and one poem, you will succeed.

In Rgisi, they gave a lot of strange tasks: show animals, show a mixer, show Georgian mixer, Japanese mixer. After reading the program, everyone had to stand up, in turn to introduce themselves and do something short to remember.

One girl said: "I am the Queen of Bala, everyone in the mouth of the Ebala," because of which they did not take it, although before that they said that they would take

In guitis or in Moscow, it could come, but in St. Petersburg, it is unlikely. Universities are generally different from each other. In Gitis, everyone is alive, everyone moves, something always happens, and everything is measured in the "sinph". MCAT looks like guitis, but more calm. There are small rooms and there are many students, and the props are exhibited directly in the corridors - all this creates the impression that the performance will begin. Applicants immediately go to the scene, it sets the tone listening. I liked Mkhat and Gitis most of all, they are very living, there is something there is something, and I need to constantly charge the energy, because I myself am quite dead inside a person.


Maria, Applicant, did the third time, did not do

I am 25 years old, this year was the third attempt to enter the universities "Golden Five". Before that, I learned to another specialty and earn a rehytome and copywriter, but I always wanted to be an actress. I don't want to live only my life, I want to try on other images and situations that I do not happen to me in life.

For the practice of income, I realized that there is only one criterion: you either like it or not. Talent, skills - it is secondary. At some point, it seems to me that they decide whether or not, immediately as the group enters the audience.

I can not like, because I am a comedy actress, dramatic love more, everyone likes, when girls suffer. Andreev said I'm old. We are all very much laughing at it, because that I was old at 22, I told me a man who was 88 years old. Then it turned out that Andreev takes to himself only 17-year-old high blondes. Often they are lying about their age, the documents are brought already after listening, and the winners do not judge.

Last year, VGIK was gained by growth: on the second round master before you start reading the program, looked at the growth and chose only high. In the "pike" and "pinch" love traditional Slavic faces, tragic girls, but such traditionality does not benefit. In "Slice", my friend learns, told that there is still taught as in the 20th century, but now 2018, wake up! And the same in the "pike", they are taught by the Vakhtangov system and do not depart from it. Maybe because of this, we have good actors, where to take them from?

Now introduced an electronic queue. You come to your time, you are listening and you leave, and not stand there from four in the morning, not knowing, listen to you or not. It is impossible to move away anywhere, because it is worth a departure, and you will call you. It is good that at least allowed to change clothes before listening, the skirts for girls are mandatory, and it happens to stand in them. Now the electronic queues be everywhere except Macka, there is still living and come there to seven in the morning. There are no night standing, they are categorically against the lists that the applicants themselves make up, right up to the fact that everyone who is in such a list may not allow anyone before listening. But even the electronic queue does not guarantee what you will listen to: this year, Menshikov listened to three dozen, said that he was tired and listening, but it was impossible to overwritten.

The most important thing for the incoming thing is not to be afraid that you would be asked to do

I reached the competition in four workshops, and the same people were selected at competitions. Not just externally similar, they even read the program identical. Pick still under a certain type and specific roles. The role is an internal state, your internal type must be combined with appearance.

The most problematic was the arrival of Carbauskis, because his audition was like mockery. Unpleasant when the master does not listen to you and sits in the phone. Then he still asked to sing for ten songs. You sing a line, and they tell you: "Other. Other. I reached the contest and flew after Colloquium, two days was hysterical. To fly from the first round is not so offensive as from the competition.

Colloquium is a conversation with a master one on one or with teachers. Questions can be any, from "Hi, how are you?" Before "Who was the pharaoh of Egypt in some seventeenth dynasty?", That is, in general any, but I most often asked about your favorite actor and what performances I saw. In colloquium, the most important thing is not to be silent and not to say that you do not know something, it is not even for knowledge, but if you are confused.

The most important thing for the incoming thing is not to be afraid that you would be asked to do, and ask can tell the program, laughing or shouting out of the window. Many people are lost at such moments. I remember, the carpenter in Gitis girl gave a task to tell the program on some fictional language, and I was asked to read the fastener and sob.

Igor Yasovilovich, People's Artist of Russia, Head of Acting Department in Vgika


It is definitely impossible to say which criteria are important for admission. All applicants are different people, pay attention to everything, including appearance. Not necessarily handsome looking, there must be interesting guys, alive, open, unscrew. They come to learn, and not to show what they have already worked.

The main thing is to guess, recognize, there is a gift from a person or not, if he accidentally came to us. It happens, people come, who are so preparing that it is impossible to understand, [what the preparation is worth], it is necessary to knead. If they are interested, it is important to understand how much they closed preparation. I repeat once again how the applicants are alive and open, as they communicate, is the most important thing. All pay attention is the process, to explain that and how to end is impossible. It is very important that the personality began was in man. It happens, you will see a person and it seems to you that there is something in it, something he is.

Valentina Nikolaenko, actress, teacher of the theater institute named after Schukin


First of all, we pay attention to appearance. This is a public profession, a person must be charming, attractive, he must be something insane, talented. It all enters the concept of appearance, appearance - not just a pretty face. We are not guided by the types when receiving, they do not worry us. For a person coming to the Schukinsky Institute, it is important to have a soul. I didn't just take the story on the Internet, I learned by heart and sward, it's not interesting. And when he did this text with his own and he wants to tell about something - about the war or about love, it does not matter - that's the other thing.

This, for example, so that the applicant is immediately denied due to excess weight, it cannot be nonsense. Only if the girl weighs under one hundred fifty - two hundred kilograms, and this is clearly unhealthy fullness. I studied at one course with Gundarere Natalia Georgievna, yes, she had a big figure and a lot of weight, but this does not mean that every thick gydly girl is Gundareva.

The legends of applicants are complete nonsense. We are talking about the best theater school of the world, Europe for sure. The legends of applicants are two: I came, covered and immediately took me, and the second one - I entered and I immediately said "Thank you, do not need."

There are a lot of mentally unhealthy people. These are listening long to not offend, do not upset. There are special children, it seems to them that they can be actors. Human, let's say with tick too can not be offended, but there are no time to listen, because the day comes a hundred people and more. We listen to the first listening quickly, because we check the material, whether there is an appearance, charm, whether letters speak. On the next round we listen in more detail, the contest is very detailed.

If we talk about the experience of a set, then I can see in a standing crowd and understand that this is not our person, I don't want this, I want to be high, beautiful. I want him to have a texture so that he later starred into the cinema so that he could make money this profession. I want to gain a course that will create glory to school and myself, work in the profession.

Oleg Kudryashov, Honored Artist of Russia, artistic director of the workshop in Gitis


We need, first of all, capable of talented people, well would be more musical, with a good singing voice. I pay great attention to the musical side of learning, because I believe that the music should be the main subject in the training of the actor not only the musical theater, but also dramatic.

The face and eyes are the mirror of the soul, I least pay attention to what can be called lifting, beautiful dolls. It is very important for me a living, diverse, rolling face, moving eyes, moving muscles that react very well to any inner movement. And such a criterion that you need to recruit only beautiful young guys and girls, we have no.

The first major mistake of applicants on auditions - they are too trying. They are too worried and give extra. Secondly, they extremely insist on their solutions regarding the material. The program becomes incredibly aggressive, very active, and because of this, the essence is often lost.

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Those who wish to study at the actors are trying to often in all theatrical universities - Shchepkinskaya School, Schukinskaya School, MHAT School and Rati / Gitis (and even one notteatral VGIK). Most no matter where - just to take. The average applicant has no idea where it comes and than one school is different from the other. Therefore, already standing under the cherished door, they share rumors, more or less fantastic. Most of the whole myths on the topic of what university look at. In the price of any details: "It all depends on the type"; "In VGIK can even take 25-year-olds, and the theater universities take young"; "We need boys in Mkate"; "Gitis and Pike - Schools are more game"; "Pike looks like a circus: here you need to throw out some number"; "And guitis as a big mental hospital"; "In the Moscow Institute of Mchat, the Ryzhakov is gaining: rumors have been rumored that they are asked to read rap on listening to the boys."

In a chips, as they say, a certain type is welcomed: the state Russian guys of the Bogatyan physique and good-apartment girls with a slant and high voice. A student of the acting center course of guitis says that during his studies in the chips played some grandmothers from the Urals, because Shpikinskaya school is focused on the role and the appearance decides everything. Students of the MCAT Studio Studies believe that in Gityis it is easier to get a discount on the invoice: "In Mkat, I never, never asked for a certainty, and in Gitis I immediately said:" Read as drunk "." And the guitars themselves say the opposite: "We have teachers do not drive you under the finished scheme, but trying to see your individuality and go from her. In Gitis, they look at your inner world, and in Pike - to appearance. " About what exactly the appearance appreciate in the pike, the testimony diverges up to the opposite. Who says that they take the same type of handsome men and beauties, from year to year of the same: high, dark-haired and "heroic". And who - that in Pike love funny, wonderful, such fools, and the younger, the better. The rector of the Schukinsky school of Evgeny Knyazev assures: "It happens, we do those who do not pass anywhere: the growth of small and the voice is not like that - and we find some individuality in them."

Studio School MCAT - university, most outdoor new trends. Students feel here in a good account, confidently talk about their prospects and are easy to compare with other theater schools: "In Pike, more attention is paid to movement, but there are too much free time in students: the actors study one and a half hours a day - this is the third -This year! And we have no free minute. Classes on skill pass twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, sometimes you have to prepare two etudes at once. And in the guitis classes skill three times a week - well, how can it be? "

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Shchepkinskaya school leads first of all in ensuring security. At the Watch of Gitis, I scored the number of the dean of the acting faculty, introduced himself, and they immediately missed me. In Pike, the guard himself volunteered to catch me the actors in the crowd of applicants. And I have passed unnoticed by the security of the Studio Studio MCAT. Schepkinskaya school was the first (and, to admit the only one) school in which I was demanded by an official letter addressed to the rector and official pass, certifying the right to ask questions to students and applicants of the Higher Theater School (Institute). M.S. Shchepkin at the State Academic Small Theater of Russia. It was the first tradition with which I encountered, barely crossing the threshold of the oldest theater school.

From new trends, students are guarded about the same zeal. Rise in the spirit of patriotism. Shcheckins in a conversation with me were not shy of pathos and elevated words: the chips stores classical traditions, and traditions are good; Classic to catch more difficult than modernity; Theater has always been a reflection of social life; You need to put the plays as written; The theater should cut off vulgarity; Any action should be psychologically justified; Everything should be truly, as in life. I ask: "What is the play from the latter, I remember? In which theater? " - "In Malom. The last stunning performance is the "peak lady" ... I do not remember whose production. "

Thousands of applicants are attracted annually from all over Russia. It is not easy to enter one of them. This is evidenced by stories from the life of outstanding actors and directorists who once managed to become students of prestigious theatrical universities with only the second or third attempt. And how many more, unrecognized talents, which could not get a pass to the world of art?

The topic of today's article - we will provide a list of the most prestigious metropolitan universities, producing actors and directories. We will tell about how to enter in Moscow, and what difficulties are usually arising in the path of applicants.

There is a list of universities in which every schoolboy dreams of acting career wants to get. There are many cities, but when it comes to the profession associated with cinema and the theater, GTIS, School, are remembered. Shchepkin. After all, these are the best theatrical institutions of Moscow.

List of universities

Among educational institutions, which are in question in this article, there are academy, and colleges, and institutes. Some of them are called theatrical, as if their graduates can work exclusively in the temple of Melpomen. In the title of one of them there is a word "cinematography", as if those who received a diploma of this university will spend their entire lives on the set. In fact, there is no particular difference between them. They can be attributed to one category - theatrical institutions of Moscow.

It is worth saying that there is no guarantee that a student of one of these educational institutions will be a famous, in demand by the actor. How no confidence is that Glory is able to make a person. But we will not be distracted by philosophical topics, but we will call the best theatrical institutions of Moscow:

  • Guitis;
  • school them. Shchepkin;
  • school them. Schukina;
  • studio School MCAT;
  • VGIK.

Russian University of Theater Art

This is the largest theater university in Europe. Girls and boys, flowing scene, seek to get first of all here. History of guitis begins at the end of the nineteenth century. Teaching is conducted in all specialties that only exist in the scenic world. Gityis produces directories of drama, pop and circus. Training is also conducted by the specialties "Balletmaster", "Teatranov", "Scenbon".

In Gityis, eight faculties: acting, directorial, theater, balletmaster, producer. There are also faculties of pop art, musical theater, scenography.

Among the teachers of Guitis a lot of outstanding actors and directors. Perhaps this is the best theatrical institute in Moscow.

Gitis: what to do

The biggest influx of applicants every year is experiencing this particular institution. At the acting department to submit documents a graduate of secondary school to twenty-five years. assumes the presence of life experience. Therefore, here the age qualifications increased to thirty-five years.

Since most applicants are dreaming of or director, consider the reception conditions at the faculties that are preparing these specialists. And in the first, and in the second case, potential students undergo creative selection. At the acting faculty, he takes three stages. On the director, four.

The future actor at the first stage of the qualifying round reads a poem, fables and an excerpt from prose before members of the admission committee. The reason for the failures of applicants is often incorrectly chosen work. An excerpt should be selected so that it corresponds to internal state, appearance. At all, the monologue of Taras Bulba from the mouth of the subtitle young man will sound harmoniously. And an apprentice with a rare comic gift should not be included in the image of Romeo. It should also be taken into account that members of the admission committee may give a difficult task. We will have to improvise, by connecting your life experience, observation, the ability to respond quickly.

Case of life

Yuri Nikulin - Great Clown - several years of theatrical institutions, including guitis. None of the universities, the list of which is given above, did not take it. But in his book of memories, he told about one interesting case, whose witness he became on the entrance exams.

One of the applicants asked to play the thief. The girl reacted very strange. She began to be outraged, ran to the table, followed by members of the admission commission, and shouting out: "How can you? After all, I am a Komsomolka!" - ran out in tears outside the door. And only a minute later, one of the teachers noticed the loss of his watches. At that moment, the "offended" apprentice returned and returned the clock with the words: "I coped with your task?"

The final stage

Those who successfully passed the first stage to demonstrate the stage speech and confirm their knowledge from the history of theatrical art. And only after this test in Russian and literature.

Future directors also give the oral exam on the theory of director. Regardless of which specialty the applicant chose, not enough talent for admission. Need and theoretical knowledge. And in order to get them, you should read a lot of references dedicated to theatrical and directorial art.

Higher Theater School them. Shchepkin

At the acting department of this institute, the reception takes place in four stages. The first is a qualifying consultation. As in other theatrical universities, entering several passages of both poetic and prosaic works. With successful passage, applicants are allowed to the second stage. Here they also have to demonstrate artistic skills by reading literary works. But the selection in the second round is tougher. The ability of the applicant, the latitude of its artistic range is taken into account. The third stage is an oral exam on the theory of theatrical art.

Other universities

Reception in the school. Schukin and the Studio School MCAT occurs in the same way: an assessment of acting skills, Colloquium. That is why many applicants submit documents into several universities and read the same works in Gitis that, for example, in the school they. Shchepkin.

Such a reception in the theater institutions of Moscow. After grade 9, you can enter the following educational institutions:

  • State School of Music and Pop Art;
  • State Theater College. Filatova;
  • Moscow Regional College of Arts.