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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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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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Acclaimed acting coach, Ted Sluberski, multi-disciplinary artist Budi Miller, and dramaturg Taylor Barfield join our Resident Company for the first time this fall for a series of artist development workshops focused on performance on-camera and embodying imagination through mask.

Company members Deirdre Lovejoy and Adinah Alexander are in the cast of In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot written by Sarah Mantell and directed by Sivan Battat, now playing at Playwrights Horizon. As the oceans rise, a band of queer warehouse workers travel from job to job, running from the encroaching coastline. An unlikely love story and a startling new work of speculative fiction, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is a quietly revolutionary tale of queer aging, chosen family, and the search for home in a volatile world. Deirdre plays Ani and Adinah is understudying all of the roles. Performances run through November 17.

Company member Santino Fontana wrote, directed, and stars in the short film Death Wish playing at the New Hampshire Film Festival October 17-20. After losing his grandfather and job to COVID-19, an enraged deliveryman decides to do the only logical thing: hunt down and kill every plague spreader who won’t wear a damn mask. The cast includes Reed Birney, Chris Sarandon, Mare Winningham, Ann Harada, and Sarah Stiles. Watch the trailer.

Company member Emma Ramos is in the feature film Seven Cemeteries written and directed by John Gulager and starring Maria Canals-Barrera, Danny Trejo, and Efren Ramirez. A recent parolee gets a Mexican witch to resurrect his old posse so that they can help him save a woman’s ranch from a ruthless drug lord. The film had its world premier at the Circle Cinema Film Festival in Tulsa. Seven Cemeteries can now be seen in select theaters throughout the country and on streaming platforms.

Company members Maria-Christina Oliveras and Dee Pelletier are in the world premiere of A Woman Among Women, a new play by Julia May Jonas, directed by Sarah Hughes, with music by Brian Cavanagh-Strong, now playing at The Bushwick Starr in a co-production with New Georges. A riff off Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, the play challenges the audience to participate in the making of a tragic hero, experience her Aristotelian fall from grace, and interrogate the meaning of collective catharsis. A Woman Among Women is part of Jonas’s All Long True American Stories, a cycle of five “response plays” which reimagine five canonical 20th-Century male-experience plays for other people. Performances run through November 3 in Brooklyn, New York.

Company members Santino Fontana and Jeff Hiller are in the feature film Lost & Found in Cleveland from co-writers and directors Keith Gerchak and Marisa Guterman. The film will have its world premiere October 19 and 23 at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California. A new American fable about the post-Industrial American dream in the industrial midwest, the film offers a 24-hour slice-of-life depiction that follows the personal odysseys of five very different people, whose lives intertwine when America’s favorite televised antiques appraisal show comes to Cleveland. Watch the trailer.

Company member Tina Chilip is in The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw, adapted and directed by David Staller with Gingold Theatrical Group. It’s 1777 in New Hampshire and the future of our country is at stake. What can one determined woman and two confused men do to ensure a Democratic future? In this adaptation, female ferocity rules as this legendary and almost true historical adventure comedy is told by five power-house women. Performances run through November 23 at Theatre Row.

Company member Nathan Darrow is in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Mayhem abounds on the streets of Victorian London in this taut psychological thriller. The well-respected Dr. Jekyll is pitted against his villainous alter-ego, the mysterious Mr. Hyde, in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. In this witty and suspenseful adaptation directed by Melia Bensussen, decency and depravity battle to see which side will ultimately control the man. Performances run through November 3 in Hartford, CT.

Company member Timothy Thomas is in Scotland, PA at Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis, MN, directed by Lonny Price and Matt Cowart with a book by Michael Mitnick and music and lyrics by Adam Gwon. Stifled by the limitations of their lives in ’70s small-town Pennsylvania, Mac and Pat are burger joint employees with ambition. As their hunger for power grows–and the body count rises–the couple cooks up a plan to supersize their serving of the American dream. The dark musical comedy is based on a film by Billy Morrissette. Performances run through October 27.

Company member James Waterston is in the feature film, La Cocina, written and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios and based on the play by Arnold Wesker. The film is playing at Village East by Angelika starting October 25, and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica starting November 1. In the heart of a bustling Times Square kitchen, dreams and desperation collide as the staff each chase the elusive American dream. The film premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival and stars Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara. Watch the trailer.

Company member Christine Bruno was a guest on SAG-AFTRA’s podcast to discuss National Disability Employment Awareness Month and inclusive employment practices. Christine is the chair of the National and New York Local Performers with Disabilities Committees, and the Diversity Advisory Committee vice chair. The episode also featured guest Nic Novicki was hosted by Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. The two share insights on the progress and challenges for performers with disabilities, the critical importance of intersectionality and the economic potential of disability-inclusive content.

Company member Chris Perfetti returns as Jacob Hill in Season 4 of Abbott Elementary. A workplace comedy centered around a group of dedicated teachers—and an oblivious principal— in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Season 4 will also feature a highly anticipated crossover episode with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. New episodes released every Wednesday on ABC/Hulu. Watch the Season 4 trailer.

Company member Taylor Schilling is in season 2 of Accused on Fox. Based on BBC’s BAFTA-winning crime anthology series, Accused is told from the defendant’s point of view, in which each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial. Each episode is a fast-paced provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city with an entirely different original cast. Season two includes Felicity Hoffman, William H. Macy, and Michael Chiklis. Taylor’s episode debuts October 15. New episodes every Tuesday. Watch the trailer.

Joe Holt returns as Fred Wilkes in two episodes in Season 3 of Bel-Air on Peacock

 

Jeff Hiller in Season 3 of American Horror StoriesEpisode 9, “The Thing Under the Bed” on Hulu

 

Jason Kravits in Season 4 of Only Murders in the BuildingEpisode 7, “Valley of the Dolls” on Hulu

 

Stephanie Kurtzuba returns in Season 2 of Tulsa King, Episode 3, “Oklahoma v. Manfredi” on Paramount+

Company member Chris Henry Coffey was in Waterwell’s production of The Ford/Hill Project, created by Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel and presented by Woolly Mammoth in association with The Public Theater. This excavation of the testimonies of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford was revisited in the nation’s capital in a special debut presentation of a new play. Ford and Hill, 30 years apart, stood in front of one of the highest bodies of power in our country to publicly tell their stories about some of the most private moments of their lives. The cast included Elizabeth Marvel, Amber Iman, and Eric Berryman.

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, actor and director, Stephen Adly Guirgis, joins Andrea Syglowski and members of The Actors Center’s Resident Company on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 7:00pm for an intimate evening of conversation about his writing process and what it means to be a multi-hyphenate artist—how his acting informs his writing and how his writing informs his acting.