College student from Northampton flying off to LA after audition
Harriet Mosedale, 17, is one of 650 of 100,000 applicants selected to attend AMDA (America drama academy) after an audition.
A MUSICAL theatre student from Northampton has been offered a place to study at a top Los Angeles drama school.
Harriet Mosedale, aged 17, was one of 100,000 youngsters to secure an audition, before she was told she was selected to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in California.
Harriet, of Ledaig Way, Parklands, said she was thrilled to be offered one of only 650 places.
She said: “I’ve wanted to perform in the West End or on Broadway since I was little. I just want to be on stage performing.”
The Northampton College student has also attended Chaplins Stage School and Top Hat Theatre in the town.
After researching AMDA online, Harriet applied and was invited to audition last month in London.
She said: “We had to prepare a monologue, a song and go through an interview. It was more relaxed than I thought it would be, but I had been stressed about it.”
Harriet is a regular visitor to Royal & Derngate in Northampton and Milton Keynes Theatre, and cites American actress Idina Menzel, of Rent, Wicked and Glee fame, as an inspiration.
She had high praise for her course at Northampton College, and said: “It’s a really good course. They prepare you for auditions and really help you out.
“My tutors were really proud.”
Harriet hopes to start a four-year musical theatre course at AMDA in July, but needs to find £20,000 each year to fund her studies.
Although fund-raising and family will help, she has also started searching for sponsorship.
Her mother, Jacqueline, said: “If I could I would pay for Harriet because it’s her dream and I would support her, but I haven’t got that kind of money.
“It’s such a wonderful opportunity we just don’t want it to slip through our fingers.”
Anyone interested in sponsoring Harriet can email Jacqueline at jay.mosedale@hotmail.co.uk
The American Musical and Dramatic Academy is a college conservatory for the performing arts, with campuses in New York and Los Angeles.
AMDA was founded in 1964 by members of the New York theatre community, including Philip Burton, an acting teacher who is best known as having trained his adopted son, actor Richard Burton.
The aim was to create a school to teach practical acting skills, run by professional performers, for performers.
Among AMDA’s most notable graduates are singer Jason Derulo and Gretchen Mol, of Boardwalk Empire and the US version of Life on Mars.
The academy has also trained many successful stage and screen actors.
AMDA is an accredited institution of the US National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST).
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