Emil Dale Academy
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- 270 (full-time)
- 400 (part-time)
 Letchworth campus (Old Grammar School) | |
| Established | 2009 |
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| Address | The Old Grammar School, Broadway , Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire SG6 3PA , England |
| Nickname | EDA |
| Website | emildale |
Emil Dale Academy is a musical theatre school founded in Hitchin, Hertfordshire before relocating to Letchworth in 2024. The Hertfordshire school offers a Bachelor of Arts degree awarded by the University of Bedfordshire, BTEC Level 3 diploma, and foundation and sixth form courses for full-time students (16+). Weekend classes for part-time students (3–21) are also held.
In 2014, a second campus opened in Cambridge under the name Emil Dale's School of Performing Arts, which ran part-time and weekend programmes until closing in 2023.
The Stage called Emil Dale one of the fastest-growing musical theatre schools in the country in 2016. The school is affiliated with Dale Hammond Associates.
The school's namesake Emil Dale, a graduate of London's ArtsEd from Biggleswade, began hosting a musical theatre Sunday school with co-founder Victoria Hammond when he was 23 with the idea of inviting West End professionals to guest teach classes at a more affordable rate than other programmes of its kind.[1] They started off with 22 students in the school hall of St Andrews' Church of England Primary School in Benslow.[2]
The Cambridge branch, affiliated with North Cambridge Academy, began in 2014.[3][4]
An official Hitchin campus was established at the site of a former factory on Wilbury Road converted into studios in 2014 and a 200-seat theatre, known as the Factory Playhouse Theatre, in 2015. West Side Story was the venue's inaugural performance.[5][4]
In 2018, the Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Musical Theatre path was introduced in a partnership with the University of Bedfordshire.[6]
A new campus at the site of a former grammar school on Broadway in Letchworth opened its doors in 2024, moving the theatre school up the road from Hitchin.[7]
