Located in New York City, Playwrights Horizons Theater School is a professional training program for theater artists: actors, directors, playwrights, and dramaturgs. During the academic year, the student body consists of students from the Department of Drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. All full-time students must be registered as matriculating undergraduates. Independent courses, open to the public, are available through the non-NYU curriculum..