Actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis, the founder of the Freedom Theatre at the Jenin refugee camp, was a member of faculty until his assassination on April 4, 2011.

Assembled from donations from various sources, the Academy has one of the largest theatre and culture library in Tel Aviv, and in 2015 the Gideon Tamir reading corner was inaugurated, for the use of students, faculty and the general public.

The Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv is not recognized as a higher education institution conferring degrees, yet it collaborates with the Israeli Open University of which it is an official study centre (no.

As of summer 2017 the Academy theatre has launched the Alpha 13 annual festival, to be held every year celebrating the end of the summer, including a prize competition of stage performances, house and guest productions, as well as music and film events.

Some of the most successful shows were Split Screen, a combined intertwined dramatization of short stories by Israeli poet Dalia Rabikowitz and Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz; Commedia dell'Arte adaptations of Carlo Goldoni's Military Lover and Leon Katz' The Three Cuckolds; Krum(Excerpts) and Heffets by Hanoch Levin; Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba(Excerpts); Arthur Miller's The Crucible(Excerpts); Sarah Daniels' Neaptide(Excerpts) Woyzeck by Büchner; Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes and Mountain Language(Excerpts); Good by C. P. Taylor (Who by Fire by Leonard Cohen, Hebrew lyrics by Avraham Oz, musical arrangement by Yuval Messner, from the production of Good at the Academy Theatre); Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (Jessica's departure, to the lyrics of Serge Reggiani's Ma fille); Pam Gems' Dusa, Fish, Vy, Stas (in Arabic); Back River by Rachel Shalita; The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, and many others, as well as "playlects" ("play cum lecture"), such as Avraham Oz and his players performing and discussing love, courtship and marriage in Shakespeare (Oz and players in Shakespeare playlect).