London Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA) was a drama school, which specialised in a classical acting training.
[1][2] The core acting skills of voice, text and movement, were taught across the training, with regular staged, productions.
The curriculum included Shakespeare's plays, wider English Renaissance theatre, Greek tragedy, Restoration comedy, French Neo-Classicism, Commedia dell'Arte, 18thC, 19thC and Twentieth-century theatre.
Writers whose material was used regularly included Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward, Arthur Miller, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams and Caryl Churchill.
Here is a selection of alumni: Pascale Aebischer,[8][9] Lauren Booth, Norman Bowman,[10] Pooja Ghai,[11] Drew Goodall,[12] Laura Harring, Elvina Ibru,[13] Abbas Kazerooni,[14] Yunjin Kim, Alex McSweeney, Grant Neal,[15] Joris Putman,[16] Tempest Rose,[17] Edward Rowe (The Kernow King),[18] Raz Shaw,[19] Chris Simmons, Jon Trenchard,[20] and Emily Yarrow[21] and Christopher Patrick Nolan (Rogue One) Some years after LAPA closed, another organisation was set up using the same name.