Every year, LAMDA is able to offer a range of scholarships and bursaries thanks to the tremendous generosity of a wide variety of donors.
The LAMDA Student Scholarship Programme aims to ensure that any talented student is able to take up their place to train at the Academy, regardless of their financial circumstances.
LAMDA bursaries and scholarships vary in size, but some may cover fees and/or up to half of a student’s annual living expenses. All scholarships and bursaries are allocated at the Academy’s discretion and there is no application procedure for support prior to being offered a place.
Our generous scholarship and bursary supporters have the satisfaction of knowing that they are making a direct difference to the lives of students training at the Academy. By providing a bursary or scholarship, our donors give talented students the chance to follow their dreams to become actors, directors, stage managers or theatre technicians.
Recent LAMDA graduates who benefited from bursaries during their training:
Dominic Cooper (The History Boys, National Theatre & on Broadway, Mamma Mia! the Movie, with Meryl Streep, The Duchess, starring opposite Keira Knightley & An Education)
Samuel Barnett (The History Boys, National Theatre & on Broadway, Dealer’s Choice, with Roger Lloyd Pack at Trafalgar Studios, The Whiskey Taster,the Bush Theatre & BBC series Beautiful People and Desperate Romantics)
Emily Taaffe (World premiere of Terry Pratchett’s Nation, at the National Theatre)
Ben Aldridge (Channel 4’s The Devil’s Whore, Compulsion for ITV & BBC period drama Larkrise to Candleford)
Gary Carr (Dido Queen of Carthage & Nation, both at the National Theatre)
Christian Roe (BBC’s Wallander, alongside Kenneth Branagh, Roaring Trade, Soho Theatre & The Power of Yes, National Theatre)
George Rainsford (All’s Well That Ends Well, alongside Clare Higgins at the National Theatre)
Natalie Klamar (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, alongside Anna Friel at the Royal Haymarket Theatre)
Nick Blood (The Priory at the Royal Court & BBC series Material Girl alongside Dervla Kirwin)
Tom Riley (The Woman Before & The Vertical Hour with Indira Varma and Anton Lesser, both at the Royal Court Theatre, ITV series Lost in Austen, feature films Happy Ever Afters, I Want Candy & Quelques Jours en Septembre with Juliette Binoche)
Harry Treadaway (Mark Ravenhill’s Over There, Royal Court Theatre, Ghosts with Lesley Sharpe at the Duchess Theatre & feature films Brothers of the Head & Control)
Luke Treadaway (Brothers of the Head, Over There, Warhorse at the National Theatre & 2010 blockbuster Clash of the Titans)
Please click here to see a full list of current Bursary Supporters.
As the Academy is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, donations to LAMDA may also generate additional funds for its benefit through the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s matched funding scheme.