IAMA Actors Summer Intensive
Cultivating the next generation of L.A. Theatre Artists
June 16 - 29, 2025
Learn how to be a working L.A. actor from working L.A. actors
The IAMA ACTORS SUMMER INTENSIVE is a two-week program for emerging, early-mid career actors that focuses on building the artistic muscles, creative community, and tangible skills necessary to work in the theater and TV/film industries in Los Angeles.
Led by IAMA Executive Director Cara Greene Epstein and IAMA Education & Development Associate Director Laila Ayad, the Intensive features master classes and workshops taught by IAMA ensemble members, including Katie Lowes (Scandal, Inventing Anna), Adam Shapiro (The Bear, Never Have I Ever), Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue, Joe Pickett), Brandon Scott (Dead to Me, The Girls on the Bus), Sheila Carrasco (Ghosts), and other industry experts. Topics include auditioning and acting across mediums; developing one’s own work; physical and mental wellness for artists; workshopping new material; building a network and community; learning the business of “the business”; and survival skills for thriving in L.A.
PLUS conversations with notable industry folks, authentic networking opportunities, and collaboration with the IAMA Ensemble and the IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab.
The IAMA Actors Summer Intensive culminates in a simulated audition for top casting directors.
The cost of the program is $1,750 (Financial Aid available). Space is limited.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY JANUARY 31, 2025.
Click to watch: Actors summer Intensive in One Word!
To get a sneak peek at what’s in store at THE IAMA Actors Summer Intensive, check out our 2024 Class Schedule!
2024 COHORT & GUEST ARTISTS
2023 COHORT & Guest Artists
IAMA ensemble members & GUEST ARTISTS have been featured on:
Designated by Playbill as “one of 20 regional houses every theatre lover must know,” IAMA's passion for live performance, commitment to quality, and original, groundbreaking material has garnered a host of accolades, nominations, and awards including the 2014 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play, a 2019 Ovation Award nomination for Best Season, and several 2021 Ovation Award nominations. We regularly receive recognition from publications like the L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Stage Raw. Plays generated at IAMA have travelled out of Los Angeles to Off-Broadway, Second Stage Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Underground, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and beyond. Recent collaborations include Center Theatre Group, Boston Court Pasadena, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Latino Theatre Co., and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
