Best Theater Schools In Charlotte Near Me

4worldlovers: Classes are offered year-round for kids to adults at all experience levels with 4 convenient studio locations in Charlotte, Fort Mill, Cornelius, and SouthPark. Students are guided through the entire process of acting for the camera and breaking into the biz.

Acting Out Studio specializes in bringing professional instruction to the Southeast and shaping talented students.

Acting Out Studio offers Classes in Acting for the Camera, Improv, Musical Theater, Modeling, and Voiceover. Working on your craft is the single most important aspect of being an actor.Learn More »

Whether you’re preparing for an audition or simply want one on one supplemental training, AOS offers unique, customizable, private training with one of our professional acting coaches. Coaching can be in person or virtual.Learn More »

Acting Out Studio offers private vocal lessons for students of all ages. Lessons are available in person at all 3 of our locations or can also be done virtually from the comfort of your home.

Interested in learning about the business of acting? You or your child want to become an actor but don’t know how to get started? You are an actor but not booking the job? Being an actor is not just about acting. It’s a business. Knowing the business and promoting yourself as an actor is key.Learn More »

Most auditions are taped submissions. Casting directors look at hundreds of tapes. What is going to set you apart from other actors? What is going to make you look professional? What is going to get you booked? Acting Out Studio provides actors with the highest quality of COACHING and TAPING that has been consistently recommended by agents and casting directors.Learn More »

Award Winning Camp Acting Out! Come spend your summer at Acting Out Studio! AOS has a ton of fun and creative ways to spend your summer break. Our AOS Summer Camps are offered all summer long – June through August – at our Charlotte, Fort Mill, Cornelius and SouthPark Studios. We have weekly themed camps every week of the summer! You can find everything from Mary Poppins to Laugh Out Loud in our inspired themed camps. Don’t wait to register! Our camps fill up quickly.Learn More »

AOS offers industry workshops with some of the best casting directors, talent agents, and acting coaches across the country. We feel that learning from the best in the industry is important to our students.Learn More »

AOS offers Talent Inc. our intensive development program. This prestigious program is by audition only and is designed to develop new and advanced actors by taking them to the next level and getting them ready to audition, book jobs, and get representation.Learn More »

4worldlovers:
Film Actors' Studio Charlotte, (FASt) was created in 1997 with the mission of offering the novice and professional actor instruction in authentic acting techniques. While many disciplines anchor their instruction in the doctrine of fiction, FASt holds true to the belief that the most powerful performances are always based on the exploration and utilization of the truth. Over 6500 students have taken class at FASt since its inception making it one of the most successful actor training grounds in the Southeast.


Film Actors' Studio of Charlotte is an acting-training studio geared for working adults (18+) that's been offering instruction by noted local acting coach, director and university instructor Lon Bumgarner since 1997. We train actors in specific, authentic techniques that result in true and moving presence, on camera or stage. Roots of this original technique are derived from Stanislovski, with augmentation based on our broad experience. This training delves into what YOU have to bring to the role. No gimmicks, no quickies. You will learn how to work, and how to make the technique work for you.

Studio, the ongoing, invitation-only advanced class focusing on independent scene selection with presentation on Sunday evenings, offers those serious about achieving sensitivity and true impact in film acting a weekly, informal yet focused, individualized coaching forum. Instruction by FAST founder Lon Bumgarner, with supporting instruction by Marilyn Carter, two of the most knowledgeable veterans in the region. It is here, with warm encouragement from fellow students, and keenly targeted & insightful instruction, that the greatest advances for a student usually take place. Foundations for this growth are created in the technique studied in the prior classes, Subtext and Technique. Any prospective parties are invited to come audit the Advanced Studio class for a glimpse of FAST instruction in its advanced environment.

Our instructors have multiple degrees from some of the top institutions for theatre and film; 85 years’ combined experience in the film and theater business on both coasts, practical experience in New York and LA as well as North Carolina. Want to see a resume? Here you are!

FASt is committed to fostering your sense of well-being, security and safety while exploring this complex art form; and do so with a sense of humor and accessible personalities. You’ll find a warmly encouraging place in which to learn to relax and call on your creative impulses.

The FIlm Actors' Studio technique has been developed by Lon Bumgarner, with the other instructors, to include classic styles drawing from the Stanislavski school, direct observation in the filmmaking industry, and experience in the classroom and in stage directing for over 35 years. It enhances theatrical acting but is specific to film in terms of teaching ‘Truth;” i.e. the underlying truth in an actor that the camera will pick up and reveal.

Lon Bumgarner of The Film Actors Studio Charlotte on Authentic Acting