What is so good about WAAPA!!!

Drama schools in general, is not a GUARANTEED way of getting you work.

Put it this way, every year you have 40-50 grads coming out every year from WAAPA/NIDA/VCA who are all roughly in the same demographic. In terms of how much work there is out there for that age-group in the industry - the grads are up against last year's grads and all the non-drama school actors and you'll find the competition is just as hard regardless of the degree.

Drama school is a great place to have intensive training that will make you a PROFESSIONAL performer.

Actually, a friend of mine in 2nd year Acting at NIDA told me his teacher told the class that only 2 from each group will get a fulltime successful career as an actor. The rest, will disappear into the woodwork.

Does anybody know what happened to Hugh Jackman's classmates at WAAPA? I don't remember reading any interviews about any high profile actor who said he was in Hugh's class at WAAPA

Like Rhoda said, its a cut-throat business.