Many famous media personalities and others in the film industry have studied at Dramatiska Institutet, including Anna Asp, Lene Berg, Josef Fares, Mark Levengood, Stina Lundberg Dabrowski, Anders Lundin, Lukas Moodysson, Kjell Sundvall, and Lisa Siwe.

A merger proposal between Dramatiska Institutet and the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting was announced in April 2009.

[5] In 2005, criticism was directed at Dramatiska Institutet after a student read an erotic story at the school for a group of six-year-olds as part of a project to see what effect sex has on children.

The reading was part of a larger project that involved several professors and students from four schools in Stockholm and that was going to lead to a theater play about children's sexuality.

[7] Bengt Westerberg, an investigator hired by the school, found that the students involved in the project had not discussed ethical questions beforehand and had been given bad guidance from the professors.