NYFA Los Angeles | Main Building - Burbank, California

Coconan

别来这学Cinematography，纯骗钱，纯浪费时间。课程安排乱得一批，学一堆没用的课，写一堆没用的paperwork，被一堆没什么本事但脾气很大的老师霸凌。举报没用，因为从上到下都烂透，就是为了掏你兜里的钱。
拿这么多钱干点什么不好，喂给这些没本事的人真的没意思，听劝，谁来谁痛苦。

Reinaldo Kibel

Can’t really see much so I’m just a wonderer walking around , maybe if you do the tour will be much better. As we know W&B produce phenomenal entertainment

Dani Covarrubias

Waste of money and time, for acting at least, better go to a studio or private classes. With all we pay they can’t even sweep the rooms I’m doing the 1 year conservatory I’ve have some good teachers but the Head of department gives me an idea as to why the industry is the mess it is so just look for better options.

Midas & Lily Entertainment

They do not care about hiring teachers that will harass students. I was a student there and had 2 teachers that constantly made inappropriate comments about the girls, as well as touched us with the excuse that they were correcting our posture. Another teacher I had literally called my class "a disgrace full of cry-babies" because we asked him to upload the material that was going to be on the mid-term exam. We complained as a class and nothing was done about it. The only incident where they did something was when a teacher had a tantrum in class and called an African American student the N word. These are just some examples of how they do not care at all about who they hire. The few teachers that are actually good constantly complain about how the school is trash and eventually leave after a couple semesters. In regards to the industry, they have industry showcases for agents and managers, but NO ONE ever shows up. This school is not worth anyone's time or money. Go somewhere else.

LuckyDog Lu

DON'T TAKE THIS SCHOOL! They accept everyone who pays them and putting students with different experienced in the same class. They only gave a 1-hour lunch break, but there is no restaurant within 10mins walking distance. Some professors refuse to show their respect to the students’ work. They change their schedule even the students do not have the material they need to buy. If you are looking for a degree, don’t come here, the course load is heavy. If you are looking for good education, you deserve better.

Surya Putta

I had the best team ever for my 4 week acting for film course!! It is intense and you have to work your ass, but it is fun and exciting when u are passionate about it and have great colleagues. I loved the instructors, they are professional and know their stuff. Overall, a memorable and productive experience!!!

Astro_Avenger_YT

Don’t even go there. They’re just a money making business who accepts everyone so they can make money off of them. Don’t fall for they’re perfect school stuff. I applied there as a senior and then they told me in the acceptance letter that I had to give proof that I graduated high school if I didn’t already then when I confronted them after declining. they made up an excuse and said it was confusion in grades but that couldn’t have happened because they knew the year I was gonna graduate.and tried to suck me back in so I was basically lied to twice from my point of view.Don’t even apply there or go there at all. It not worth it and some other college would be better.

Campbell Sadeghy

This will be a rather lengthy review but long story short it's a waste of money.

Disclaimer: I was kicked out due to excessive absences. Take that as you will, this was back in October and I've waited to post this so I don't come off as a sore loser who is just mad about being kicked out.

First thing is I had about 8 acting teachers and I respected only two of them. Bob Lipton to date has been hands down the best acting coach/teacher I've ever seen even against coaches and teachers from other schools. The other 6 were garbage to say the least. Had super ego issues that reeked of "since I didn't become a famous actor i don't want to see anyone else become one and they should never question my methods." Almost got into a physical confrontation with Mark Ivan who I backed off from because I didn't want to go jail. I have a short temper, but I manage to keep nothing more than words 99% of the time but this guy was ready to fight. I could see the look in his eyes. All of the class saw it and was shocked. He was among the worst.

Paying 30,000 for a year... listen, if you're fortunate not to have to have a special visa to be in the US please please please go to local acting classes. The only advantage this school has is that they take you to the backlots on Universal to work. If you can afford to just blow 30k to do that, than this place is for you.

Another thing I noticed and I have nothing against actors/actresses from other countries many foreign movies stars are my favs, but a good majority of the ones who went here just seemed like they wanted to come to the U.S. to party and didn't really have any ambition on pursuing the industry as a passion. Two of them I knew even admitted they were more interested in psychology and for some odd reason thought acting would help them in that field.

I can't say whether or not that's valid, but what I can say it seemed they were almost always out partying and not focusing on their work.

Now I have been going through some serious personal issues that caused me to miss quite a bit of class so one could make the case that I'm not the one to speak about that to which I would respond, rather simply, fair enough.

But I feel I can say this and the school had told me I couldn't miss as many classes as I did the first semester in the second which I didn't plan on. Little did I know they kicked me out because of low GPA which they should have known about when I was told during the first semester I was put on academic probation for missing too many classes. Well, you can't really go back in time and make up acting in films that have already been shot. So my grades were obviously going to be bad. So to me, I wasn't really given a true second chance.

Either way, before they even told me about this, I was already upset with school because I didn't feel like it was worth the money I was paying.

Another thing I did not like is the fact they taught you editing. You can go around all day and say it's good to know editing but I'm not paying you to teach me how to edit, I'm paying you to teach me how improve my acting techniques. They had additional classes such as stage combat and meisner that would have been much more helpful but you couldn't take those classes because you'd have to miss your primary classes if you wanted to. So you'd either have to wait a semester(six months) and just get lucky that your classes wouldn't fall on the same day and time the side classes were or you were SOL.

Well, I hold no ill against NYFA. I chose to go there when many other seasoned actors and directors I knew told me not to waste my money and I refused to research into it, but before you decide to either commit to a student loan or fork out cash, please do your research on this school to see if it's right for you and ask for a list of all the acting teachers so you can look into them as well. If you're a true passionate artist who loves acting, you'll save yourself a lot of time, resources, and money and if you haven't figured it out yet because you're not familiar with Los Angeles, you'll need it.