Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School

The ABCT Acting School aims to provide intense, high-quality learning and performing opportunities in an atmosphere where young people are encouraged to set goals, take risks, and view mistakes as an avenue for learning. ABCT opens students up to the greatness within them and creates an awareness that the Performing Arts are a constructive vehicle of personal expression.

The Anthony Bean Community Theater (ABCT) was established in Spring 2000 to meet the growing demands of New Orleans area residents seeking a quality, culturally diverse performing arts venue. The theater also met the needs of individuals seeking to learn the art of acting, set design, and theatre management. In recent years, ABCT has become a vehicle to enter New Orleans' booming "Hollywood South" film industry.

ABCT is unique in that it is not only a major theater production company but a year-round, open-enrollment acting school serving both adults and children with an eclectic group of courses designed to meet the basic needs of individuals seeking careers in stage and screen acting, set design and theatre management.

Testimonials

Wendell Pierce, an American actor and businessman, said, " I got my first start in acting under the auspices of Anthony Bean. I must confess that without his directions and hands-on approach to the arts, I wouldn't be the professional actor that I am today. I strongly support the Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School."

Sally-Ann Roberts, former TV newscaster, on her son, Jeremiah Craft. "My only son, Jeremiah, expressed an interest in acting and theatre at age eight. I heard about A