Help Aishwarya for her Drama School dream (LAMDA)
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Hello everyone !!
My name is Aishwarya Gaikwad, I am 24, from Pune, India.
LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) is England’s most prestigious and one of the top 5 drama schools in the world. I am one of the 30 students selected at LAMDA and proud to be the only one from Asia and one of the youngest in the batch for MA Classical Acting Course, 2021.
I have participated throughout 4 years of college in drama competitions and won several awards in acting and direction. Post that, I have done parallel, experimental theater for 3 years. With an engineering degree in hand, when it came time to choose between a well paid job vs learning method acting, I decided to pursue masters in Classical Acting.
What is LAMDA?
LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) is a home for brilliant minds in theatre like ( Benedict Cumberbatch, Jim Broadbent, Ruth Wilson, Rory Kinnear, John Lithgow, Chiwetel Ejiofor to name but a few), we also consistently see LAMDA graduates in cast lists at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe and other UK theatres. It provides rigorous, world-class training to only a small number of students, carefully selected from all over the world through different rounds of auditions and interviews totally based on their talents.
So why the need for funds?
After rigorous auditions and the selection process, one would imagine it to be a cakewalk after securing a place in LAMDA, but the real struggle for me is to be able to cover the tuition fees for this expensive course. The tuition fee is £24,700 which does not take into account the cost of living in London. It is payable in 4 instalments of over £6000. The course is intensive & full time and demands maximum commitment both in and out of school.
Despite emotional support from parents who are both school teachers and do farming, arranging finances is tough. Your financial support means I can learn from the world’s best masters and make best use of my time to focus on studies and experiments with fellow classmates & alumni. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity and I would have been a fool to turn it down.
The available national student scholarships in India, for post-graduation in non-technical courses are negligible, and several fundraising routes previously to performing artists have been halted because of shortages due to the pandemic. I will, however, be working over the summer break and doing everything in my capacity to source funding from external institutions, charities and trusts.
Hence, I am asking for your financial help to the best of your capacity for my tuition fees. I assure you my best efforts in return! From the bottom of my heart, and with so much love and expectations. I will be forever indebted with gratitude.
Thanks for reading my plea!.
- Aishwarya.
My name is Aishwarya Gaikwad, I am 24, from Pune, India.
LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) is England’s most prestigious and one of the top 5 drama schools in the world. I am one of the 30 students selected at LAMDA and proud to be the only one from Asia and one of the youngest in the batch for MA Classical Acting Course, 2021.
I have participated throughout 4 years of college in drama competitions and won several awards in acting and direction. Post that, I have done parallel, experimental theater for 3 years. With an engineering degree in hand, when it came time to choose between a well paid job vs learning method acting, I decided to pursue masters in Classical Acting.
What is LAMDA?
LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) is a home for brilliant minds in theatre like ( Benedict Cumberbatch, Jim Broadbent, Ruth Wilson, Rory Kinnear, John Lithgow, Chiwetel Ejiofor to name but a few), we also consistently see LAMDA graduates in cast lists at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe and other UK theatres. It provides rigorous, world-class training to only a small number of students, carefully selected from all over the world through different rounds of auditions and interviews totally based on their talents.
So why the need for funds?
After rigorous auditions and the selection process, one would imagine it to be a cakewalk after securing a place in LAMDA, but the real struggle for me is to be able to cover the tuition fees for this expensive course. The tuition fee is £24,700 which does not take into account the cost of living in London. It is payable in 4 instalments of over £6000. The course is intensive & full time and demands maximum commitment both in and out of school.
Despite emotional support from parents who are both school teachers and do farming, arranging finances is tough. Your financial support means I can learn from the world’s best masters and make best use of my time to focus on studies and experiments with fellow classmates & alumni. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity and I would have been a fool to turn it down.
The available national student scholarships in India, for post-graduation in non-technical courses are negligible, and several fundraising routes previously to performing artists have been halted because of shortages due to the pandemic. I will, however, be working over the summer break and doing everything in my capacity to source funding from external institutions, charities and trusts.
Hence, I am asking for your financial help to the best of your capacity for my tuition fees. I assure you my best efforts in return! From the bottom of my heart, and with so much love and expectations. I will be forever indebted with gratitude.
Thanks for reading my plea!.
- Aishwarya.
Additional info:
https://www.lamda.ac.uk/all-courses/acting-directing-courses/ma-classical-acting-professional-theatre
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