A. at Yale Drama School in 1932.

NEWYORKER: Method Man

Oscar-nominated Postlethwaite left a job as a teacher to take up his place at the prestigious drama school in Clifton.

BBC: Pete Postlethwaite fund at Bristol Old Vic School

Freddie went to Harvard and studied playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.

NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

The drama teacher at Hingham High School outside Boston says her students are talking less about "Glee" than they used to, and she hopes "Smash" will offer a deeper look into the theater world.

WSJ: The High Stakes of NBC's 'Smash'

When I witnessed the job-search drama as a student at Yale Law School, just about the most desirable placement was a spot at Cravath.

WSJ: Elizabeth Wurtzel: Tough Times for Big Law

However, his parents instead enrolled him at the China Drama Academy, a talent school of hard knocks with a draconian regime that included training in music, acrobatics and martial arts that lasted 18 hours a day.

CNN: All hail Jackie Chan, King of Comedy Kung Fu!

But the 22-year-old Brit, who started writing music at age 4, also studied composition and violin at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama and wrote a piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra last year.

NPR: Micachu And The Shapes: Kitchen Sink Music

Singleton was a music and drama teacher at Alfreton Grange Arts College, previously Mortimer Wilson Secondary School, where he worked for 35 years.

BBC: Russell Singleton

Griffiths was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, and left school at 15 but later returned to education to study drama, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company.

BBC: Potter and Withnail actor Richard Griffiths dies