The Complete UK Drama School Guide
Founder price: £14.99 for the first 20 buyers. Full price £19.99 after that.
Choosing where to train as an actor is one of the biggest, most expensive, most confusing decisions you'll ever make. And most of the advice out there assumes you've already made it.
This guide is different. It's not a rankings list telling you which school is "the best". It's a decision tool to help you work out what's right for you, written by a working actor with eighteen years in the industry.
Inside you'll find:
- A full deep dive into twelve of the UK's leading drama schools: courses, fees, audition requirements and what each is genuinely known for, all fact-checked so you don't have to trawl a hundred websites
- Shorter profiles of the other schools worth knowing about, from musical theatre and dance specialists to part-time and regional options
- The honest truth about costs, debt and student finance
- Different course options and alternative pathways into the industry, including the routes nobody talks about
- How the application and audition maze really works, plus strategy, audition tips and mindset
- A worksheet to help you decide if drama school is right for you now
- 'From the Green Room', a bonus supplement of candid interviews with eight working actors on how they actually got in and what their training was really like
70 pages, plus a 47-page bonus supplement and a printable worksheet. Instant download, delivered as PDFs, straight to your inbox.
Who it's for: Performers, aspiring actors, musical theatre students, actor-musicians, and the families and teachers supporting them.
Who it's not for: If you want one-to-one coaching on a specific speech or a pure audition guide, this isn't that book. I'm working on that one.
Whether you're a school-leaver, a parent trying to help, or someone considering a change into acting, this is the honest, practical picture no prospectus will give you.
It's the guide I wish I'd had at seventeen.
Less than the cost of a single audition fee at most of the schools inside.
Buy once, yours to keep, and every time I revise the guide you get the new edition free.
“Not getting in (at 18) was probably the best thing that ever happened to me though. There was also some personal stuff happening at the time, illness in the family, and honestly I just wasn't ready. If that kid had gone to a three year musical theatre college with that little self knowledge, I think he'd have faded into the background. I genuinely don't see that version of me having the career I've managed to build”