Acting Classes in Massachusetts
My Acting School lists 17 acting schools and studios in Massachusetts, each one checked against its own website, in 3 cities with several to compare and 10 more towns. 33 Massachusetts colleges awarded degrees or certificates in theater, acting, directing or musical theater in 2024; they are listed below.
Cities in Massachusetts
Acting classes in Boston
3 schools and studios, including Improv Asylum and My College Audition.
Acting classes in Natick
2 schools and studios, including Natick Drama Workshop and The Holly Chin Natick Academy of Performing Arts.
Acting classes in Scituate
2 schools and studios, including Spotlight Music And Theater Academy and Spotlight Music and Theater Academy.
More towns in Massachusetts
- Framingham: Performing Arts Center of Metrowest
- Franklin: Franklin School for the Performing Arts
- Holyoke: Broadway Brings Joy! Musical Theater Academy of Holyoke
- Jamaica Plain: Urban Improv
- Kingston: Dreamworks Performing Arts Center
- Methuen: Center For The Performing Arts
- Sudbury: The Performing Arts Connection
- Taunton: Drama Kids of Southeastern MA
- Weston: Weston Drama Workshop
- Worcester: The Actors Loft
Colleges with theater and acting degrees in Massachusetts
From the U.S. Department of Education's 2024 completions data: each college below awarded at least one degree or certificate in the programs shown. Sorted by how many it awarded.
| College | City | Programs | Degrees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson College | Boston | Acting, Directing, Drama, other, Musical theater, Theater | Bachelor |
| Berklee College of Music | Boston | Directing, Musical theater | Bachelor |
| Boston University | Boston | Acting, Directing, Theater | Bachelor |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Amherst | Theater | Bachelor, Master |
| Dean College | Franklin | Musical theater, Theater | Associate, Bachelor |
| Salem State University | Salem | Acting, Directing | Bachelor |
| Suffolk University | Boston | Theater | Bachelor |
| University of Massachusetts-Boston | Boston | Theater | Bachelor |
| Smith College | Northampton | Theater | Bachelor, Master |
| Harvard University | Cambridge | Theater | Master |
| Clark University | Worcester | Theater | Bachelor |
| Massasoit Community College | Brockton | Theater | Associate |
| Tufts University | Medford | Theater | Bachelor, Doctorate |
| Bridgewater State University | Bridgewater | Theater | Bachelor |
| Northeastern University | Boston | Theater | Bachelor |
| Westfield State University | Westfield | Theater | Bachelor |
| Brandeis University | Waltham | Theater | Bachelor |
| Bristol Community College | Fall River | Drama, other | Associate |
| Bunker Hill Community College | Boston | Theater | Associate |
| Gordon College | Wenham | Theater | Bachelor |
| Wellesley College | Wellesley | Theater | Bachelor |
| Wheaton College (Massachusetts) | Norton | Drama, other | Bachelor |
| Holyoke Community College | Holyoke | Theater | Associate |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hill | Theater | Bachelor |
| College of the Holy Cross | Worcester | Theater | Bachelor |
| American International College | Springfield | Theater | Bachelor |
| Cape Cod Community College | West Barnstable | Theater | Associate |
| Emmanuel College | Boston | Theater | Bachelor |
| Merrimack College | North Andover | Theater | Bachelor |
| Mount Wachusett Community College | Gardner | Theater | Associate |
| Quinsigamond Community College | Worcester | Directing | Associate |
| Bard College at Simon's Rock | Great Barrington | Theater | Bachelor |
| Williams College | Williamstown | Theater | Bachelor |
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Listings include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), with contributions from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others. College programs: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS 2024.
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