Professional Children's School (PCS) is a not-for-profit, college preparatory school geared toward working and aspiring child actors and dancers in grades six through twelve. The school was founded in New York City in 1914 to provide an academic education to young people working on the New York stage, in Vaudeville, or "on the road".

PCS was co-founded by Jean Greer and Jane Harris Hall when they learned that children who were working in entertainment were not able to attend traditional school. The school's original premises were at The Rehearsal Club on West 45th Street in Midtown before it moved to 1860 Broadway, near West 61st Street on the Upper West Side. Its curriculum and hours have changed over time.

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Distinguished alumni

Dance

Jerry Ames

Jared Angle

Tyler Angle

Alexandra Ansanelli

Merrill Ashley

Debra Austin

Peter Boal

Ruthanna Boris

Ashley Bouder

Leslie Browne

Fernando Bujones

Emily Coates

Daniel Duell

Megan Fairchild

Robert Fairchild

Suzanne Farrell

Eliot Feld

Savion Glover

Susan Hendl

Adam Hendrickson

Darla Hoover

Sterling Hyltin

Allegra Kent

Gelsey Kirkland

Darci Kistler

Maria Kowroski

Carla Körbes

Rebecca Krohn

Lourdes Lopez

Savannah Lowery

Nilas Martins

Steven Melendez

Colleen Neary

Kyra Nichols

Tiler Peck

Susan Pilarre

Rachel Piskin

Teresa Reichlen

Nancy Reynolds

Carrie Lee Riggins

Jenifer Ringer

John Selya

Jennie Somogyi

Ethan Stiefel

Marianna Tcherkassky

Ashley Tuttle

Sheryl Ware

Heather Watts

Wendy Whelan

Deborah Wingert

Music

Loni Ackerman

Anastacia

Jack Antonoff

Emanuel Ax

Jessie Baylin

Vanessa Carlton

Kyung Wha Chung

Dana Dawson

Peng-Peng Gong

Andreas Haefliger

Marvin Hamlisch

Lorin Hollander

Caroline Jones

Ida Kavafian

Cho-Liang Lin

Frankie Lymon

Yo-Yo Ma

Jack Metzger

Midori Gotō

Buddy Rich

Beverly Sills

Arlene Smith

Martha Strongin Katz

Conrad Tao

Pinchas Zukerman

Theater, film, and television

Brooke Adams

Trini Alvarado

Adam Arkin

Alex Paez

Essence Atkins

Kaye Ballard

Mischa Barton

Bonnie Bedelia

Milton Berle

Zina Bethune

Nadia Bjorlin

Tempestt Bledsoe

Joan Blondell

Ann Blyth

Laura Bell Bundy

Eddie Bracken

Irene Cara

Phoebe Cates

Helen Chandler

Miles Chapin

Kathleen Cody

Holly Marie Combs

Kieran Culkin

Macaulay Culkin

Rory Culkin

Charlotte d'Amboise

Alexandra Daddario

Sandra Dee

Brandon deWilde

Barrett Doss

Giancarlo Esposito

Donald Faison

Carrie Fisher

Anne Francis

Rebecca Gayheart

Helen Gallagher

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Elliott Gould

Todd Graff

Karron Graves

Lukas Haas

Albert Hackett

Anthony Michael Hall

Huntz Hall

Patti Hansen

Melissa Joan Hart

Amy Irving

Scarlett Johansson

Brad Caleb Kane

Carol Kane

Ruby Keeler

Jean Louisa Kelly

Patsy Kelly

Jane Krakowski

Ricki Lake

Diane Lane

Jennifer Lien

Peggy Lipton

Lorna Luft

Sidney Lumet

Ida Lupino

Helen Mack

Jena Malone

Nancy Malone

Daniel Mann

Patty McCormack

Leighton Meester

Lisa Mordente

Rita Moreno

Phyllis Newman

Jerry O'Connell

Donald O'Connor

Jennifer O'Neill

Sarah Jessica Parker

Martha Plimpton

Laura Prepon

Martha Raye

Tara Reid

Rosemary Rice

Christina Ricci

Eden Riegel

Tanya Rivero

Christy Carlson Romano

Rose Marie

Sara Rue

Michael Rupert

Rebecca Schaeffer

Aaron Schwartz

Shim Eun-kyung

Jonathan Silverman

Penny Singleton

Christian Slater

John Spencer

Julia Stiles

Susan Strasberg

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Uma Thurman

Rachel Ticotin

Ashley Tisdale

Janine Turner

Leslie Uggams

Dick Van Patten

Joyce Van Patten

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