Does acting school/classes count as education that I can claim? Acting does not provide me income but I am hoping to get into it. Can I claim the tuition I pay as credit?

[taxpayerkia]

No degrees, just a certification to help me get work in the future.
I go to class twice a week for 3 hours each. A semester is 10 weeks.

[MinhT1]

No.

Tuition for these classes aren't qualified education expenses and can't be used to claim education credits.

See this IRS document.

[Hal_Al]

A certificate program does qualify for an education credit. But, to be eligible for the tuition credits, the course must be taken at "an eligible institution". The school should be able to tell you if it is an eligible educational institution. In general, an eligible educational institution is an accredited college, university, vocational school, or other postsecondary educational institution, including accredited, public, nonprofit, and proprietary (privately-owned, profit-making) postsecondary institutions. Additionally, in order to be an eligible educational institution, the school must be eligible to participate in a student aid program administered by the Department of Education. If they issue a 1098-T they are probably an eligible institution.

Enter your school at the link below, to see if it's on the dept. of education list.

https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/home

Rule of thumb: if you have to ask, your school is not an eligible institution.