The opportunities in the performing arts today reflect the vast and ever-changing world of our varied cultures and technologies. Feature films, daytime and prime-time television, documentaries, original programming, syndicated series, commercials, industrial films, training films, music videos, and instructional videos are all avenues for career opportunities.

Creative artists often possess numerous talents which when combined with the diverse opportunities in the performing arts may lead to new and exciting career paths. AMDA alumni have worked as directors, producers, choreographers, musical directors, playwrights, casting directors, agents, and in technical areas such as costume design, lighting design, and stage and production managment.

What follows is a sampling of some of the shows, films, and television series which have employed AMDA alumni:

Broadway:
42nd Street, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Rent, Les Miserables, On the Town, Kat and the Kings, Miss Saigon, Parade, The Cape Man, Side Show, Cats, High Society, Grease, Jekyll and Hyde; Ah, Wilderness; A Christmas Carol, The Wizard of Oz, Triumph of Loue, Summer and Smoke, The King and I, Smoky Joe's Cafe, Show Boat, Hello Dolly! Once Upon a Mattress, Pal Joey, The Three Sisters, A Chorus Line, A Little Night Music,Anything Goes, Evita, Five Guys Named Moe, Follies, Gypsy, Hair, Nine, Salome, Shenandoah, The Father, The Best Little Whore house in Texas, The Magic Show, The Threepenny Opera, West Side Story.

Film: 
Celebrity, Rounders, The Lay of the Land, U.S. Marshalls, Too Tired to Die, Marshall Law, American Beauty, Never Been Kissed, Killing Mrs. Tingle, The Party, Gravesend, A League of their Own, A Touch of Class, Barry Lyndon, Bonfire of the Vanities, Boomerang, Cabaret, Bugsy, Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez, Cadillac Man, Carrie, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and her Sisters, Love Story, Malcolm X, Regarding Henry, Scenes from a Mall, Sea of Love, That Championship Season, The Brinks Job, The Gifted, You Light up my Life, Creatures of Habit. The Road to Graceland, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Bleach, Music from Another Room, The Thirteenth Floor.

Television: 
Two of a Kind, Promised Land, Spin City, Touched by an Angel, Christy, The Cosby Show; Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn; Cagney and Lacey: The Return, The Grind, The Practice, Cirque Ingenieux, Nash Bridges, Cybill, Love Boat: The Next Wave, Brooklyn South, Millenium, Oz, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Another World, As the World Turns, All My Children, Chicago Hope, The Tiger Woods Story, To Dance with Olivia, Law and Order, Dynasty, Cagney and Lacey, California Dreams, Cover Up, Face of a Stranger, Family Matters, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, MASH, Miami Vice, One Life to Live, Over my Dead Body, Quincy, Roots, Saturday Night Live, Search for Tomorrow, Sweeney Todd, The Odd Couple, The Rookies, The Young and the Restless, Welcome Back, Kotter, Malibu, Steve Harvey Show, Cosby Mysteries, House of Buggin', NY Undercover.

National and European Tours: 
Chicago, Steel City, Ain't Misbehavin, Fame, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz, West Side Story, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Tap Dogs, The Three Musketeers, Carousel, Damn Yankees, A Chorus Line, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hello Dolly!, Mame, Annie Get Your Gun, Zorba, Show Boat, Singin'in the Rain, Miss Saigon, 42nd Street, Cats, Beauty and the Beast, Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, Crazy for You, The Lion King, Into the Woods, Camelot, Hair, Kiss Me Kate, Once on this Island, Oil City Symphony, Peter Pan, South Pacific, Ziegfeld, Grand Hotel, Starlight Express, Little Shop of Horrors, Camelot.

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DEGREE PROGRAMS

AMDA, in conjunction with the New School University, offers a B.F.A. Program to Integrated Program graduates and a B.A. Program to Studio Program graduates. These programs are offered to accommodate those AMDA students who desire a college degree. The continued program of  study at the New School is specially designed to offer a broad choice of courses to enhance the performing artist's education.

After the completion of the two-year AMDA program, the degree candidate may meet with a New School educational advisor to develop an individual study program. Studies may be pursued at a pace conducive to the performer's professional life. Full and part time programs can be arranged.

The New School University, located in the heart of Greenwich Village in Manhattan, is an accredited university with more than 20,000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs and courses in adult education.

In addition to the New School degree Programs, students have had their AMDA credits successfully transfered to numerous colleges and universities.

AMDA BENEFITS

The school is widely known for all its critically acclaimed fund-raising productions beginning in 1964. Among these are the following:

An Evening of Poetry, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Sondheim: A Musical Tribute, an all-star tribute to Stephen Sondheim at the Shubert Theatre with Angela Lansbury and Hermine Gingold.

Jule's Friends at the Palace, an all-star tribute to Jule Styne at the Palace Theatre with Liza Minnelli, Carol Channing, Tony Bennett, and Marvin Hamlisch.

Mr. Words, an all-star tribute to Ira Gershwin at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, with Bette Midler, Elizabeth Ashley, and Doug Henning.

Sing Happy, an all-star tribute to John Kander and Fred Ebb at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, with Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Lotte Lenya, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, and Larry Kert.

You're the Top, an all-star tribute to Cole Porter at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, with Lucie Arnaz, Barry Bostwick, Dick Cavett, and Kevin Kline.

Hey, Look Me Over, an all-star tribute to Cy Coleman at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, with Neil Simon, Imogene Coca, Mel Torme, and Juliet Prowse.