Bachelor’s degree · Initial professional preparation
BFA: Acting
CalArts School of Theater · Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, United States
- Award
- BFA in Acting
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personfour-year BFA program
- Price
- Not published
About this program
A four-year acting degree covering acting, voice, speech, movement and artistic practice, progressing from American plays to classical texts and on to contemporary screen work.
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Screen acting
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree
- Exact award
- BFA in Acting
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- California Institute of the Arts
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- four-year BFA program
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Teaching location
- CalArts campus, Valencia24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Two monologues of contrasting nature, each no longer than two minutes.
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Self-recorded video audition filmed in a single take, plus a written artist statement; live auditions are held in Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago.
- Writing or research sample
- One-page artist statement
- Deadlines
- Tuesday, December 1, 2026 11:59 PM PST - Preferred Deadline
- Tuesday, January 5, 2027 11:59 PM PST - Regular Deadline
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per class, per term, per year, whole program) and is never converted or added up for you.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)