The Los Angeles campus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts is set to close at the end of the next school year, but some people aren't letting it happen without a fight.
The Los Angeles campus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts is set to close at the end of the next school year, but some people aren't letting it happen without a fight.The Los Angeles campus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts is set to close at the end of the next school year, but some people aren't letting it happen without a fight.
"It was heartbreaking to watch mostly the students absorb this news," said adjunct faculty member Erin Coleman. "There were a lot of tears." "We do a good service to the kids that come here. We teach them about life. We teach them how to be what they want to be, and to have that yanked out from under them, it's kind of unconscionable," said teacher and alumnus Joe Garcia.
"Kind of all hell broke loose in the dorms a little bit," recalled Noah Dittmer, a student at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. "Everybody was like running out like, 'What's happening?'"
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