The Stage Scholarships 2024: Win free training at All in Actors

Following on from the success of last year’s collaboration, The Stage Scholarships is once again teaming up with training academy All in Actors. The south London-based school offers a new approach to performing arts tuition, which allows students to work alongside their training schedule.

Once again this year, All in Actors is offering one full scholarship and one half scholarship on its hugely popular one-year programme Act 3, which consists of three days of tuition per week. The total value of this scholarship is £6,750, making it a not-to-be-missed opportunity for anyone looking for part-time training.

All in Actors was set up in 2019 by co-principals Stephen Sobal and Ami Sayers, and it has proved hugely popular with students in search of flexible training.

“It’s been a really busy year,” says Sobal. “We were finding, especially with the Act 3 course, that a number of students used it to access a three-year BA course.
But now we’re getting a lot of students who realise that that isn’t something they need to do or want to do. So this will be their training.”

“In the first year, I would say that wasn’t the case,” adds Sayers. “Maybe that’s to do with people hearing about us, or not, but I think there is a shift in the industry where people are realising that going to one of the top drama schools shouldn’t be the only way into this industry.”

The Act 3 course offers intense, hands-on training over a three-day week – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Students undertake two, three-hour classes each day, training in the core skills of acting, voice, movement and clowning. As well as these, there are also classes in audition technique, acting in song and acting on screen. There are also professional prep classes, which involve workshops with casting directors and Q&A sessions with agents.

In the final term, students go into full-time rehearsals, three days a week for their end-of-year production, which is produced at a London venue. On average, there are approximately 25 people on the course, with nearly 500 people auditioning.

Last year’s winners were Wambui Hardcastle and Gabrielle Gardner, who were particularly impressed with the auditions for All in Actors.

Gardner recalls: “I remember messaging my best friend saying that it was the nicest audition I’ve ever done. So we had to do two monologues, but there was a short interview at the end, which made it feel like they wanted to get to know me, rather than just testing me.”

This year there are two types of audition available to applicants. Sayers explains: “We have in-person auditions and online auditions available. Our auditions are free and always have been and always will be. We normally spend about 45 minutes with each person. We ask for two speeches of your own choice. It doesn’t have to be one classical, one contemporary. It could be two contemporary. We’ve had people do some spoken word poetry before. We’ve had people that have written their own monologue. We’ve had people do something from TV or film. We kind of want to see the individual in the audition as well as them perform something that is scripted.”

Details: All In Actors training

Course: One-year programme
Educational level: 18 years and over
Number of scholarships offered: one full scholarship and one half scholarship
Value of scholarships: £6,750
What costs are covered? Fees only. This excludes a £500 deposit
Where is the school? 8A Harleyford Street, London SW17 9RY
Likely audition date: April 27 (online) or May 1 (in person)
How do I apply? Apply on the website