[3] It was originally on Prince of Wales Road, Chalk Farm, but moved first to Back Hill, Clerkenwell in 2004, then to King's Cross in 2011.
From 1999 to 2020, it operated as an integral school of Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, offering degree programmes in acting, directing and screenwriting.
A principal aim in the school's founding was to bring some of the major developments in American and European theatre to the training of British and international actors.
It offered a theatre-based training incorporating both modern and classical texts; and prepared actors for the demands of screen acting, for which it had a two-year postgraduate course.
It holds 360 in a variety of configurations, has an orchestra pit and a full flying tower and is equipped to high professional standards.