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 Scholarships & Bursaries Scheme 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 scholarships and bursaries 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. Scholarships are available for students currently studying at the Academy. In light of rising tuition fees, from 2012/13, the Academy will be offering a number of scholarships to incoming students prior to the start of their training.*
LAMDA’s General Bursary Fund (working title) provides smaller bursaries for students who find themselves in financial difficulties during their training. Those wishing to support LAMDA’s Scholarships & Bursaries Scheme who are unable to provide a named scholarship can make a donation to the General Bursary Fund.
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 scholarship or bursary, our donors give talented students the chance to pursue their chosen career and become actors, directors, stage managers or theatre technicians.
Recent LAMDA graduates who benefitted from the LAMDA Scholarships & Bursaries Scheme during their training:
Tom Riley (Genesis Foundation Scholar) starred in the 2011 Broadway production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and received a nomination for a 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for Arcadia
Oliver Rix (Boris Karloff Foundation Scholar) took the title role in the RSC’s 2011 production of Cardenio and appeared in A City Madam
Katherine Parkinson (Lionel Bart Foundation Scholar) was nominated for a 2011 BAFTA Television Award (Female Performance in a Comedy Role for The IT Crowd)
Robert Emms (Sir John Gielgud Trust Scholar) was named as one of the 2011 Screen International Stars of Tomorrow
Sam Barnett (Genesis Foundation Scholar) took a lead role in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Haymarket Theatre in 2011
Sam Claflin (Goldman Sachs Scholar) started filming with Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart in Universal Pictures’ Snow White and the Huntsman, due for release in 2012
Tom Bateman (Leverhulme Trust Scholar) appeared in Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham’s Theatre alongside Catherine Tate and David Tennant
Please click here to see a full list of current supporters of our Scholarships & Bursaries Scheme.
*Click here for further details about the support available.
For more information, please contact a member of the Development team on +44 (0)20 8834 0510 or email development@lamda.org.uk.
As an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, donations to LAMDA can help to generate additional funds through HEFCE's matched funding scheme.
(Last updated 25.10.11)