AMDA Los Angeles
In the heart of Hollywood, where bright lights and legendary studios inspire greatness, you are at the center of creativity and innovation.
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Why AMDA Los Angeles?
Tour Our Los Angeles Campus
Home to our degree programs, AMDA Los Angeles immerses you into Hollywood’s creative community. You will even walk the Hollywood Walk of Fame on your way to class.
With soundstages and famous theaters in Los Angeles as the backdrop for your Hollywood classroom, you’ll learn the entertainment business firsthand in a city where hundreds of films, television shows, and live performances are in production every day.
For generations, artists from around the world have been drawn to Hollywood to pursue their creative passions.
Join them on your own path to success.
AMDA Los Angeles, home to our degree programs, is immersed in Hollywood’s creative community. Classrooms are steps away from famous theatres, iconic landmarks, and close to the studios where hundreds of films and television shows are performed and taped every day. Start your AMDA journey.
Find your place in Hollywood
Your campus. Your neighborhood.
Explore the area, AMDA’s buildings and residence halls, and Hollywood landmarks.
AMDA in Los Angeles
In the heart of Hollywood, surrounded by legendary studios and cultural landmarks, set between the mountains and the Pacific beaches of Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu.
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AMDA in Hollywood
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Explore around campus
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Tower Building
6305 Yucca Street
Main campus, academic spaces, the library, and the campus café.
Vine Building
1777 Vine Street
Classrooms, performance studios, and student learning spaces.
Cosmo Building
1636 Cosmo Street
Performance and production spaces for training, rehearsal, and student work.
Bungalow Residence Hall
The residence bungalows just north of Yucca Street Apartments.
Sycamore Residential Building
1321 N Sycamore Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028
AMDA residence southwest of this map. The arrow shows its direction beyond this view.
Capitol Records
The unmistakable Capitol Records tower is part of the Hollywood skyline around campus.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Walk of Fame runs along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street; this marker identifies the Hollywood/Vine area.
Hollywood & Vine
A famous Hollywood intersection near campus, with its distinctive illuminated sign.
TCL Chinese Theatre
Historic theatre farther west along Hollywood Boulevard, beyond this map view.
Hollywood Sign
The Hollywood Sign is in the hills north of campus, beyond this map view.
Step inside
AMDA Buildings
Where you’ll train
Tower Building
The eight-story, historic Art Deco AMDA Tower — located just off Hollywood Boulevard — houses performance studios, classrooms, a stage combat armory, the library, AMDA’s black box theatre, and the main administrative offices. Grab a bite at the AMDA Café or meet with friends in the outdoor piazza along the front of the building.
Vine Building
This five-story facility houses classrooms, laboratory theatres, dance studios, private voice rooms, and a general education classroom. The building also features a student lounge, the film production office, and the scene shop, as well as storage space for costumes, props, and production sets.
Cosmo Building
A flexible performance space, studios, and production facilities give students room to rehearse, create, and perform.
Performance Spaces
Our Los Angeles campus features four main theatres for learning, skill development, and performance. Our black box theatre and two laboratory theatres seat 99 audience members and feature full theatrical lighting, sound packages, and climate control. You’ll also find an outdoor amphitheater that hosts everything from theatrical performances to dances.
Film, TV, and Editing Facilities
Full shooting setups with lighting instruments, cameras, and playback and editing equipment give you the opportunity to feel what it’s like to perform on camera and see firsthand how productions come to life.
Where you’ll live
Explore the residence halls and apartments featured on our LA campus page.
Vine Street Residence Hall
Apartments here include hardwood floors, large windows, and efficiency kitchens. Residents also enjoy a courtyard patio, a student activity room, and laundry facilities.
Bungalow Residence Hall
Situated around a landscaped courtyard, our authentic Craftsman bungalows are bright, spacious, and uniquely Californian. Each furnished bungalow features oak hardwood floors, crown molding, huge windows, and a faux fireplace. Bungalows sleep four students and include a separate dining area and efficiency kitchen.
Franklin Residence Hall
The loft-style spaces in our five-story neoclassical building feature exposed brick, hardwood floors, and oversized French windows with impressive Hollywood views. Each unit comes with fully contemporary kitchens and newly renovated restrooms and closets. You’ll have access to a fitness center, computer lab, study room, Zen garden, private gated parking lot, and 24-hour laundry room.
Yucca Street Apartments
These two-bedroom furnished flats sleep six and include hardwood floors, large bay windows, and plenty of extra space. Surrounded by palm trees and featuring an enclosed courtyard, these classic Los Angeles apartments have separate living and dining rooms, efficiency kitchens, and on-site laundry.
Sycamore Apartments
Sycamore Apartments offers apartment-style student housing at 1321 N Sycamore Avenue. Amenities include gated underground parking, 24-hour security, an elevator, laundry facilities on every floor, and a backyard patio.
Life between classes
Performing Arts Library
Learn moreYou’ll find an expansive collection of scripts, scores, and films. The Performing Arts Library also offers several listening and viewing stations, computers, internet access, and study spaces. The nearby public library and Hollywood’s famous performing arts bookstores also offer a wide range of entertainment reference materials.
Campus Café
The social hub for students on campus is known for affordable, healthy, and organic cuisine. It also offers a variety of ethnic specialty foods. The restaurant is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Campus Piazza
The campus piazza is a student quad located in a courtyard outside the Campus Café, near the mainstage black box theatre. Here you can enjoy the sunny Southern California weather while you eat your lunch, study, meet up with friends or just enjoy the free wi-fi access. The piazza is also the venue for open houses and other special AMDA events.
Features of Our AMDA Los Angeles Campus
Located in the center of Hollywood at the historic intersection of Yucca and Vine Streets, the AMDA Los Angeles campus features academic and administrative buildings, residence halls, and the AMDA Café.
Performance and practice spaces are on campus or nearby. The Cosmo building houses our largest performance space, which can be converted into a traditional proscenium theatre or theatre-in-the-round. The facility also contains several performance studios; an audio recording studio; production, costume, and stagecraft shops; dressing rooms; and offices. Additionally, the Ivar building, located on the grounds of the main campus in a renovated Hollywood recording studio, houses private voice rooms, film production, information technology, and media departments.
Life beyond the studio
Campus Neighborhood
Your Hollywood surroundings are part of the experience.
Pantages Theatre
Live performance in the heart of Hollywood.
Capitol Records
An unmistakable landmark just along Vine Street.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
A Hollywood icon woven into the neighborhood.
TCL Chinese Theatre
Movie history and premieres on Hollywood Boulevard.
Hollywood & Vine
A famous intersection at the center of the neighborhood.
Hollywood Sign
A Los Angeles landmark to explore beyond campus.
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