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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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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.

Company member Emma Ramos is in the indie drama, In the Summers, written and directed by Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio. Company member Johnny Sánchez also served as an acting coach on the film. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and Directing award at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The film is now available to view in theaters at IFC Center in New York. Watch the trailer.

Company member Mary Bacon is in Dirty Laundry, written by Mathilde Dratwa and directed by Rebecca Martinez at WP Theater by special arrangement with Spark Theatrical/Laurie Bernhard. After the woman who unites them dies, three people grapple with love, loss, lust…and household chores. Meanwhile, a spin cycle of voices pings with questions: are you still a daughter when your mother dies? Are you still the other woman when the first woman is gone? And maybe more importantly—how do you clean all that dirty laundry? Performances run through October 20.

Company member Maggie Bofill is in American Mariachi by José Cruz González, directed by James Vásquez with musical arrangements by Cynthia Reifler Flores, presented by Two River Theater. Cousins Lucha and Boli have a plan—start an all-girl mariachi band! So what if it’s the 1970s and no one’s heard of such a thing? So what if they can’t play and have no costumes? So what if their families disapprove? They are on a mission to find some bandmates and make their mariachi dreams come true. Performances run through October 20 in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Company member Paco Tolson is in The Wind and the Rain, a site-specific multimedia theatrical experience, written by Sarah Gancher, directed by Jared Mezzocchi, and produced by En Garde Arts in association with the Vineyard Theatre. At the end of Conover Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on the waterfront, there is a bar called Sunny’s. For over one hundred years, it’s been run by one family, through booms and busts, prohibition and pandemics, blight and gentrification. It’s been home to dreamers and immigrants, artists, bootleggers, longshoremen, union bosses, corrupt police, numbers runners, bluegrass musicians, and hipsters. And to Tone Johansen, who fought to save it after Hurricane Sandy, against incredible odds. Performances run through October 27 in Brooklyn, New York.

Company members Helen Coxe, Jess Gabor, Emmy Harrington, and Elizabeth Morton are in Three Women, a new series based on the New York Times bestseller by Lisa Taddeo and starring Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, and Gabrielle Creevy. Three Women explores the compellingly raw and honest stories of women who had the audacity to believe that they deserved more in life through a nuanced portrait of female desire. The series is now streaming on STARZ, with new episodes every Friday. Watch the trailer.

Company member Jason Butler Harner plays Detective Les Zoeller in Season 2 of Monsters, the anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. This season stars Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny, and centers on the 1989 murders of José and Kitty Menendez, who were brutally murdered in their Beverly Hills home by their sons Lyle and Erik. Monsters dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters? The series explores the complex dynamics within the Menendez family, and whether the brothers were troubled individuals acting out of fear and desperation due to years of abuse, or calculating killers driven by financial gain and greed. Watch the trailer.

Company member Daniel K Isaac has been named a MacDowell Fellow. The prestigious artist residency program announced 147 fellowships for artists working in a variety of artistic disciplines from 27 states and 11 countries for the fall and winter season. They will each spend time at MacDowell’s historic campus in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Company member Lenne Klingaman released a new full-length album Phoenix. The album features original songs written and produced by Lenne over the past several years. Since releasing her first single off the album, the title track “Phoenix” and her follow ups “Tylenol” co-written with Bryan Fenkart, “Don’t Have Much To Give,” and “Hand Me The Fire,” Lenne has seen over 125k streams in just over four months. “Phoenix marks the debut of my songwriting,” says Lenne. “I am a storyteller at heart. These songs are an amalgam of me, my tastes and inspirations from a life steeped in music.” Lenne will be performing live at Rockwood Music Hall on December 9th and celebrating the Vinyl Release. Listen to Phoenix now on all music streaming platforms.

Company member Adriana Gaviria, Co-Artistic Director of The Sol Project, is the producer of SolFest 2024, an annual Latiné Theater Festival, produced in partnership with Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT). SolFest is entering its seventh consecutive year under Adriana’s leadership, and aims to provide more opportunities to amplify Latiné artists, and to further cultivate relationships and collaborations with Latiné artists both in New York and around the world. This year’s festival includes an October 8 presentation of Reynaldo Piniella’s solo theater piece, Afro-Borinqueño, as well as La Gringa No Baila by Jen Diaz, which will be directed by Adriana. The festival runs from October 6 through 10.

Company member Magaly Colimon-Christopher is the Festival Director and the Executive Board President of the Conch Shell International Film Festival, which runs October 10-13 in Queens, New York. CSIFF’s goal is to infuse unique Caribbean Diaspora and Caribbean filmmaker voices into the American film industry, showcasing the best of emerging Caribbean heritage artists from the U.S and Internationally. This year’s festival will feature a line up of innovative narrative, experimental and documentary short films from filmmakers from the USA, Canada, France, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Suriname, and the United Kingdom, who bring new storytelling and perspectives. The focus of this year’s festival: films that awaken.

Company members Chris McLinden, Elizabeth Stahlmann and Welker White are in Compagnia de’ Colombari’s international theatrical tour of Everything that Rises Must Converge, based on a story by Flannery O’Connor and adapted and created for the stage by Karin Coonrod. The piece is a tragic-comic interracial seat-shifting dance between Blacks and whites on a school bus in America’s deep south. Speaking and performing the original text verbatim, eight actors morph into the various characters from O’Connor’s 1961 story about how all lives (classes, races, and religions) eventually have to intersect. The tour began earlier this month in Rome, Italy and now travels the US in October with performances in Houston, Cleveland, and Belmont, NC. The tour finishes in New York City with performances October 12 at the Bronx Community Reentry Center and October 13 at St. Paul’s Church in Brooklyn.

Company member Sarah Baskin appears in the feature film The Friend, Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s beloved National Book Award winning novel. Starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, the film debuted in late August at the Telluride Film Festival and plays in early October at the New York Film Festival. 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. Screenings take place October 3, 4, and 14.

Company member Emma Ramos is a writer for Season 2 of Dora, an animated children’s television series created by Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes. Emma wrote the episode “We are the Grumples”. A reboot of the original series, which debuted in 2000, it follows the adventures of Dora and her monkey friend, Boots, as they go on epic adventures in a rainforest. Accompanied by Dora’s Map, Dora and her friends must work as a team to overcome many obstacles in the rainforest. The series can be streamed on Paramount+.

Company member Brian McManamon is in The Path, a feature film written by, directed by, and starring Tom Archdeacon. The Path tells the tale of a young woman, who after losing her parents in a fatal car crash, returns home to care for her younger sister and help to manage the family farm. She soon begins to suffer strange and unsettling moments that grow into unexplainable and terrifying events. Determined to sell the failing farm, the young woman and her sister eventually discover the dark past linked to their childhood home, as well as the strange circumstances surrounding her parents’ deaths. The movie had its theatrical premiere on September 12 and can now be streamed on various platforms. Watch the trailer.

Company member Kathryn Markey directs Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle at Penobscot Theatre Company. On her seventeenth birthday, Ernestine Ashworth yearns for an extraordinary life. In a flash, she’s 18, then 40, then 73 and with the passing of each year her dreams and her aspirations are transformed by the shifting tides of her changing world. Over the course of 84 birthdays, we experience the impossible, heartbreaking, joyful wonder of what makes up a life. Performances run through October 6 in Bangor, Maine.