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Specialties
Drama training. Acting courses. Directing courses. The Science of Acting. Stanislavski. Full and part time courses.
History
Established in 1991.
The Academy, formerly known as The School of the Science of Acting, was founded by Sam Kogan (1946 – 2004). Sam trained at GITIS in Moscow, now known as The Russian University of Theatre Arts, under the tutelage of Maria Knebel who was a student and later colleague, of Stanislavski’s at the Moscow Arts Theatre. Kogan established and developed the stand-alone acting technique ‘The Science of Acting’, which is now also a book published by Routledge. Significant students include — Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, David Bark-Jones, Sara Marie Maltha and Philip Bulcock.