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The Actors Center provides actors with extraordinary creative opportunities designed to advance their artistic development, spark innovation, and cultivate transcendent works of art on stage, on screen, and in communities throughout the United States.

Through our creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship, we are a leading advocate for the highest levels of excellence in the craft of acting and the theatre, film, and television industries.

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Meet our Resident Company of 300 Actors
Leaders Who Work Throughout Theater, Film, and Television

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Working with almost every major non-profit theatre in NYC, including the Public Theater, Roundabout, Vineyard, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Company, Classic Stage Company.

Including Mother Play, Purlie Victorious, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Between Riverside and Crazy, Fat Ham, Life of Pi, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, The Piano Lesson, A Beautiful Noise, A Strange Loop,  Slave Play, and many more.

Including top shows from every network, such as Abbott Elementary, Succession, Ozark, Black Bird, Atlanta, Dear Edward, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Handmaid’s Tale, Billions, and The Walking Dead.

Including Dune, The Irishman, The Report, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Big Sick, The Greatest Showman, Black Panther, Boston Strangler, working with directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, Spike Lee, Ava Duvernay, and Denzel Washington.

Teaching at training programs across the country including Juilliard, Yale, NYU, Brown, Columbia, USC, A.C.T., Purchase, among others, as well as independent studios and public school programs.

Working at regional theaters and national tours in 40 of 50 states including at the Guthrie, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Trinity Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, Cincinnati Playhouse.

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Movement director and choreographer, Yasmine Lee, and actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this Spring for a series of artist development workshops focused on ensemble creation and contemporary scene work.

The Actors Center hosts Resonance Room, Edition No. 2, a sharing of works in process by the 2024-25 Mentorship Cohort. The evening will feature excerpts from plays by Dominique Morisseau, Cheryl L. West, and Shakespeare, among others, along with dancing and singing. Join us!

Company member Willa Fitzgerald stars in the new Netflix medical drama Pulse from first-time creator Zoe Robyn and veteran showrunner Carlton Cuse. As a hurricane barrels towards Miami’s busiest Level 1 Trauma Center, third-year resident Dr. Danny Simms is unexpectedly thrust into a promotion when beloved Chief Resident Dr. Xander Phillips is suspended. Amid the worsening storm and an onslaught of trauma cases, the hospital goes into lockdown, and Simms and Phillips must find a way to work together—even as the bombshell details of a complicated and illicit romance between them begin to spill out. All episodes are available to stream on Netflix. Watch the Trailer.

Company member Jason Kravits plays Sneezy in Snow White, the live-action musical reimagining of the 1937 classic Disney film from director Marc Webb. The magical music adventure journeys back to the timeless story with Rachel Zegler in the title role. Fleeing from the Evil Queen, Snow White finds refuge with Dopey, Bashful, Grumpy, Sneezy, Happy, Doc, and Sleepy. When the palace guards embark on a mission to bring her back, a commoner and his group of woodland bandits band together to protect her. See the film in the theaters nationwide. Watch the Trailer.

Join us for an intimate evening at the home of Judy Kuhn, four-time Tony Nominee and member of our Resident Company on Monday, May 5 as Judy and special guests gather around the piano in her living room. The event will benefit our Mentorship Program.

Becoming Eve, a play by Emil Weinstein based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein, directed by Tyne Rafaeli and presented by New York Theatre Workshop. A week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised. As we jump through memory—and wrestle with theology—truths and secrets emerge that ensure no one will read the old stories the same way again. Performances run through April 27 at Abrons Arts Center.

Justine Wolf Williams—actor-creator, director, and Yale faculty member—and Bethany Caputo— acting teacher, coach, and Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in April for a series of artist development workshops focused on play, clown, and the Michael Chekhov technique.

The Actors Center hosts an evening of short films written by, directed by, or featuring work from members of our Resident Company on Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 at 7:00pm at Macaulay Honors College.

Jill Larson appears on the debut season of NCIS: Origins in Episode 15 “From the Ashes” on CBS/Paramount+

 

Deirdre Lovejoy appears on Chicago Med in Season 10, Episode 16 “Poster Child” on NBC/Peacock

 

Becky London appears on Daredevil: Born Again in Season 1, Episode 1 “Heaven’s Half Hour” on Disney+

 

Delphi Harrington appears on Daredevil: Born Again in Season 1, Episode 6 “Excessive Force” on Disney+

Company member Tonya Pinkins’ new play Jeffrey Manor will receive an Apollo Works in Process developmental presentation on April 12 at 2pm and 7pm, featuring company members Perri Gaffney, Gillian Glasco, and Pernell Walker. This searing exploration of Black womanhood explores the lengths a family will go to preserve their legacy and love for one another. Set in the textured tapestry of the South Side of Chicago, the play is a testament to the strength and resilience of Black Womanhood. Presented by The Apollo in partnership with Divinity to Infinity Unlimited and produced by Sheila K. Davis of New Professional Theatre.

Company member Lynnette R. Freeman is in Fat Ham, the Pulitzer winning play written by James Ijames, directed by Elizabeth Carter at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The grill isn’t the only thing turning up the heat. This deliciously funny play follows Juicy, a queer Black kid living in the South. When the ghost of his dead father appears at a family BBQ demanding revenge for his murder, Juicy must grapple with the decision to heed his phantom father’s advice or remain true to himself. Performances run through June 27 in Ashland, OR.

Company member Ato Blankson-Wood is in the Off-Broadway premiere of The Swamp Dwellers, written by Wole Soyinka and directed by Awoye Timpo, now playing at Theatre for a New Audience. The rarely produced drama, written in 1958, follows a day in the life of a Nigerian family. In a hut built on stilts over swamps in a village in the Niger Delta, an impoverished couple who farm discuss their twin sons. Awuchike, who left their village ten years ago for the city, has cut off all connections. His brother Igwezu, who also left the village for the city eight months earlier, has remained connected to his parents. Igwezu has just returned, but must navigate the swamps and reach his fields to see if they have produced a harvest. In the Yoruban faith, twins are spiritually connected. If one dies, so may the other. Performances run through April 20.

Company member Lizan Mitchell is in cullud wattah, a play by Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Danielle A. Drakes, now playing at Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, DC. It is 2016 and it has been 936 days and counting since Flint, Michigan, has had clean water. Third-generation General Motors employee Marion finds herself on the cusp of a promotion until her sister begins participating in protests accusing the company of poisoning the water. Forced to confront their past and weigh their limited options for the future, the family finds their tight-knit unit threatened by more than just the toxicity of the water. This play deconstructs the linear passage of time to ponder the choices we make for the sake of our survival. Performances run through April 27.

Company member Armand Schultz plays President John F. Kennedy in the audio drama Central Intelligence, a smash hit with listeners on BBC Sounds and part of the Limelight series of podcast dramas. The drama was awarded Outstanding Contribution by the BBC Audio Drama Awards last month, and was recognized for the sheer scale of its ambition and its success with digital listeners, with over 2.5 million plays. Written by Greg Haddrick and starring Kim Cattrall and Ed Harris, the serialized podcast tells the true insider story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page, who joined on the agency’s first day in 1947 and became one of its most powerful women. Narrating in hindsight, Eloise takes the listener on a journey spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as well as portraying her relationships with early CIA leaders. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are streamed.

Company member Arturo Luíz Soria has won a 2025 Off-West End (Offie) Award for Ni Mi Madre, his solo show, which ran at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024. The show tells the story an over-the-top Brazilian woman with too much botox, who scrambles to raise her queer son in a backwards American culture where children get ‘time outs’ instead of chancletas. The show first premiered Off-Broadway in 2021 at Rattlestick Theater and went on to win an Obie Award for Best Performance and be nominated for an Outer Circle Critics Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Drama League Award. Watch an interview with Arturo.

Company members Sarah Baskin, Jess Gabor and Joel Van Liew appear in the feature film The Friend—Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s screen adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s beloved National Book Award winning novel, now released in theaters nationwide. Novelist and creative writing teacher Iris finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor commits suicide and bequeaths his beloved Great Dane to her. As Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding to the animal, she begins to come to terms with her past, her lost friend, and her own creative inner life. Starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, the film debuted at the Telluride Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. Watch the Trailer.