The Moscow Art Theater School is a higher educational institution at the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. It is a public educational institution.
In the 1940s, there was only one faculty of drama theater and cinema actors. In 1987, a new department for theater artists was opened under the direction of Valery Yakovlevich LeventhalValery Yakovlevich Leventhal. In 1989, a new department of stage costume technologists was opened under the leadership of the People's Artist of Russia Eleonora Petrovna Maklakova. The Department of Lighting Artists was opened in 1988.