Dallas Young Actors Studio

Congrats to Kaitlyn on your nomination!🌟❤️

Congrats to Kaitlyn Dever on her newest TV series! DYAS alumni actor🤩❤️⭐️.

Kaitlyn Dever started filming Abby and Joel's "Last of Us" twist three days after her mom's funeral.

"To be as honest as possible, I will just say that my days leading up to this scene were horrible. I lost my mom two or three weeks before I actually shot this scene. My mom’s funeral was three days before I did my first day. So I was sort of in a fog. I was in a daze.”

“The Last of Us” creative team changed the shooting schedule so the scene would start filming with coverage shots that did not require Dever. She was then allowed to pick the day she wanted to film her on-camera moments.

“We said, ‘Take your time. Take all the time you need,'” series co-creator Craig Mazin told EW. “While I care extraordinarily about the show, it’s a TV show. I’m not going to disrupt someone’s grieving process for their own parent, especially [with] a show that’s partly about the grieving process.”

Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/kaitlyn-dever-last-of-us-joel-death-scene-abby-1236373833/

Summer 2024 was filled with our (2) Rising Stars Week Camps with our exciting TV sitcom shows and (13) Short Film productions!⭐️ Classes, Workshops, Labs and more! 🎭🎬😄

Our Dallas Young Actors busy filming their Sitcom scenes and Drama short Films🎬⭐️

Acting students have worked all semester training comedy and drama scenes, commercials, improv, and more. The Actors receive awards on the last day of class!

We’ll see everyone in a few weeks for summer camps! ☀️

The stars from drama short “Hidden Truth”!

On set for Student Productions 🎥🌟

A great weekend of classes ending with Parents Day and comedy monologues! 🤩🌟

Actors ages 10-17 can star in our Rising Stars TV Sitcom Camp! 🌟🎬

Gain on-set experience this Summer.
Star in a sitcom, drama scenes, and commercials!
Learn the ins-and-outs of the industry and build a career in acting.

Visit our website for more details!👩‍💻

…and send! 💬 what goes down when your friend tries to steal your phone - and succeeds?

The actors find out through the art of improv! 🎬