Playwrights Horizons Theater School
at Playwrights Downtown
Playwrights Horizons Theater School, under the auspices of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, offers an innovative four-year multi-disciplinary training program that is consistently ranked as one of the best undergraduate theater training programs in the country.
Since 1983, the Playwrights Horizons Theater School has provided thousands of theater students with intensive theater training, through a four-year program that emphasizes professional development and interdisciplinary theater training. The curriculum includes courses in acting, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, design, musical theater, movement, voice, speech, script analysis, and theater management for over 150 students each year.
The renovation of the Playwrights Downtown third floor studios was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.