We are an intellectual academic community that, combining educational, artistic and social goals, is committed to shaping a world in which independent thought, sensitivity and empathy are promoted to spread knowledge and beauty.
Our mission is to foster attitudes of responsibility for culture and to teach these to future generations by creating ethical role models, respecting the accepted value system and freedom of artistic and scientific activity. AST strives for wide recognition at home and abroad. For more than seventy years the academy has been educating actors of various specializations, directors, and playwrights.
Thanks to its excellent educators, AST continues to develop the Polish formula of teaching performing art, which stems from the deep cultural and literary traditions, and at the same time enters into a creative dialogue with the contemporary times and the latest trends in culture.
The Academy educates actors in four majors dramatic and vocal acting, dance, theatre, puppetry and directors drama and puppetry theatre, dramaturgy. The long-cycle programme ends with a graduate dissertation and a diploma performance, which leads to a Master of Arts degree. The proprietary curricula of the academic teachers are based on the individual master-student relationship.
Students not only acquire solid professional skills, but also complete their studies as enlightened, open, curious, tolerant, and creative people. Rector: dr hab. Grzegorz Mielczarek Vice-rector: dr hab. Ewelina Ciszewska Chancellor: Leszek Bednarz. The desired result of this project is a broad action plan to overcome difficulties in perceiving and thinking about people with disabilities, their place in an accessible theatre academy, and consequently in theatre.
