On Wednesday, September 17, the students at Hollywood Arts spent the day with visiting members of the William Morris Talent Agency. Students were paired up with William Morris employees for one-on-one workshops focusing on marketing and self-promotion. Students also had the opportunity to participate in a lengthy Q&A session with the William Morris employees, who stayed afterward for an Acting Improvisation class. It was an incredibly successful session and an excellent learning opportunity for both the students at Hollywood Arts and their new friends at William Morris.

Click here to see more pictures of our students with their William Morris matches.

Hollywood Arts' students had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with musician Jesse Carmichael from the Grammy Award winning band Maroon 5. Jesse taught beginning piano and then jammed with the students. View Photos!

Let's Get Loud! was a tremendous success! The variety show, which was performed and produced by the students at Hollywood Arts, delighted and enlightened the crowd at the filled-to-capacity National Comedy Theatre.

View photos of the show
View photos of the reception
View our Youtube playlist featuring most of the night's performances

View photos! Students at Hollywood Arts had the opportunity to meet with Assemblymember Kevin De Leon who shared his own personal journey and life challenges with them and answered their questions with incredible candor. Students asked the Assemblymember about foster care, housing, and education and each shared a little about themselves in their questions. They also learned about budgeting for the State and working with others in creating legislation. After the two-hour round table, the Assemblymember passed out his card, and invited the students to contact him with additional questions or concerns.

                Hollywood Arts is proud to announce our second student production, “The Artist’s Manifesto: A Night of Truths,” taking place October 1^st Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood. Drawing influence from early 20^th-century movements including Dada and Surrealism, our students will be performing and exhibiting their original work expressing personal artistic truths through a variety of mediums: spoken word, music, photography, theater and painting. The night will also serve as a celebration of our students’ achievements during our recently completed summer session – students who completed our Certification program will be awarded with their Certificates of Achievement. We are also proud to announce that three of our students will be commended at this event for their recent enrollment at Community College.

                As with “Let’s Get Loud,” our hugely successful production at the end of our spring session, “The Artist’s Manifesto” will be an entertaining, enlightening, and truly unique night of performance and celebration. We invite everyone, whether they are an old friend or a new member of Hollywood Arts’ community, to come and share in this very special event.

First Annual Hollywood Arts Dream Awards to honor Tommy Tallarico and the Art of Video Games- Event February 17, 2007 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood.

A letter from Executive Director, Dylan Kendall, to our supporters summarizing what their help enabled us to make possible.

Film Producer Andrew Lazar created an exciting course outline to teach Hollywood Arts students how to pitch their story ideas to executives. The class is very successful! Stay tuned for a video clip of the movie ideas in December! (click here to see course outline)

Producer Andrew Lazar leads the next theater workshop "Developing a motion picture...the fundumental ins and outs of having an idea realized to the big screen, from incepton to screenplay" Like all programs at Hollywood Arts, the class is based on the English-Language Arts standards. This intensive workshop culminates in a chance for students to pitch their motion picture ideas to Andrew and a select industry panel.