Overview of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

At UCLA the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.

Located in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) draws upon industry leaders for its faculty, advisors and mentors. Storytelling is the heart of our curriculum, and our talented alumni and faculty members have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys — nearly every meaningful artistic accolade in the performing and visual arts.

Strongly committed to nurturing diverse individual talents, TFT's 140 nationally and internationally respected faculty members work with a student body held to just 410 undergraduate and 390 graduate students. The School's strong academic programs are enhanced by exceptional resources such as the UCLA Film & Television Archive — the largest university-based film and television archive in the world — and The Geffen Playhouse, one of Los Angeles' most prestigious performance venues.

Our approach to instruction seamlessly combines theory and practice. While students are directing, acting, writing, producing and designing, they are also learning history, criticism and theory: Students of criticism gain hands-on creative experience and media artists acquire fine-tuned critical awareness.

TFT aims to provide the highest possible standard of professional training while also encouraging an independent spirit of innovation and creative risk-taking. The objective is not to train students to fit into pre-existing slots in the entertainment industry, but to prepare them to become pathfinders in their chosen fields, the leaders of the future.

Overview of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

At UCLA the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.

Overview of TFT

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