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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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Working with almost every major non-profit theatre in NYC, including the Public Theater, Roundabout, Vineyard, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre for a New Audience, New York Theatre Workshop, and Classic Stage Company.

Including Liberation, Waiting for Godot, Dead Outlaw, Othello, Gypsy, English, Cult of Love, Swept Away, Moulin Rouge, Mother Play, Purlie Victorious, Jajaโ€™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 The Gilded Age, The Pitt, Poker Face, Paradise, Elsbeth, Ghosts, Somebody Somewhere, Untamed, The Fall of the House of Usher, Long Bright River, Zero Day, Abbott Elementary, Succession, Ozark, Atlanta, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Handmaidโ€™s Tale, and Billions.

Including Materialists, Relay, Lost & Found in Cleveland, A Complete Unknown, Christy, Ballad of a Small Player, Civil War, Maestro, American Fiction, The Holdovers, Snow White, Dune, The Trial of the Chicago 7,ย and working with directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, 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, Huntington, Yale Rep, Trinity Rep, PlayMakers Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, and Cincinnati Playhouse.

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Company member Mahira Kakkar is in the Broadway production of A Few Good Men, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Michael Arden, presented by Lincoln Center Theater. Military lawyer Daniel Kaffee is known for his wit, charm, and uncanny talent for closing cases before they ever get to trial. When assigned to defend two young Marines accused of murder, his typical strategy is upended by Lt. Commander JoAnne Galloway, a sharp attorney determined to prove the menโ€™s innocence. But the evidence soon leads them to a cover-up, putting them on a collision course with the entire chain of command. The cast includes Tom Blyth, Krysta Rodriguez, and Bradley Whitford. Performances run through January 10, 2027.

Company member John-Andrew Morrison reprises his role as Mary’s Husband is in the national tour of Oh, Mary!, written by Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton. The Tony Award-winning dark comedy follows a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincolnโ€™s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln, through the lens of an idiot. John will play opposite Alaska Thunderf*ck’s Mary Todd Lincoln in Las Vegas and San Francisco through November 1. He’ll then return to the tour in January 2027 opposite J. Harrison Ghee.

Company member Maureen Sebastian is in King of the Yees, written by Lauren Yee and directed by Joshua Kahan Brody, presented Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre. For nearly twenty years, Larry Yee has been the heart and soul of the Yee Fung Toy Family Association, a fraternal organization in San Franciscoโ€™s iconic Chinatown. But to his daughter Lauren, a playwright living in New York, the association is an obsolete relic of a vanishing world. When Larry suddenly disappears, Lauren sets off on a wild quest to find him, embarking on a surreal, magical journey through the history and myths of her own lineage. The cast includes Francis Jue and Kelly Marie Tran. Performances run through November 15.

Company member Tatiana Wechsler is in Copperfield! The New Musical, with book, lyrics and music by Jeffrey Scharf, and directed and choreographed by Gabriel Barre, presented Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street. Adapted from Charles Dickensโ€™ favorite and most autobiographical novel, the story follows David Copperfield’s life. As a child, David endures the sadism of his stepfather Murdstone, the depredations of the villainous schoolmaster Creakle, and the mind-numbing routine of a London sweatshop. As an adult, he is visited by happiness and success, tragedy and loss. Along the way, he meets some of Dickensโ€™ most memorable characters: his formidable Aunt Betsey, the seafaring Peggotty family, the grandiloquent Mr. Micawber and the contemptible Uriah Heep.โ€‹โ€‹ The production stars Bobby Conte as David Copperfield. Performances run through December 6.

Company member Katie Firth is in Phyl, written by Cicely Hamilton and directed by Britt Berke, presented by Mint Theater Company. The play follows Phyllis Chester, a governess for a pair of cheeky sisters who take delight in tormenting her. Trapped in a solitary existence and walled off from the life she craves, a moment of lost temper leads her to risk everything. Has Phyl finally hit rock bottom, or is she on the brink of a new world of adventures? Or both? Performances run through November 7.

Company member Heather Raffo was commissioned to write a play for Women+ on the Edge of Democracy, a landmark collaboration by 36 of the most influential women in contemporary theater, initiated and commissioned by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Playwrights include Haruna Lee, Migdalia Cruz, Dael Orlandersmith, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, and Heidi Schreck, among others. Between October 23 and November 3, participants will gather all across the country to share and discuss plays from the anthology. Together, these individual conversations will become part of a larger national dialogue at a consequential moment for American democracy. A marathon world premiere of all the plays commissioned through Women+ on the Edge of Democracy will take place in a live performance on stage at the Flynn in Burlington, Vermont, on October 23 and 24.

Company member Joel Van Liew is in the world premiere of Anon, written by Anne Washburn and directed by Anne Kauffman, presented Off-Broadway at MCC Theater. When a gay pride flag is unfurled across the street from Jeanie, an increasingly online TikToker in a suburb in Texas, two seemingly different householdsโ€ฆfreak out. How well do โ€ฏyou know the people you live among, and with, in an America where the line between fantasy and reality has becomeโ€ฏincreasingly optional? Performances run through November 1.

For three decades, The Actors Center has been a haven for curious, courageous artists. As we approach thirty years of artistic excellence, we hope you will join us for a joyous 30th Anniversary Celebration on Monday, October 19, 2026 at 7pm. We will enjoy drinks, light fare, and good company.

Company member Chris Perfetti returns as Jacob Hill in the sixth season of the award winning television series Abbott Elementary. The workplace comedy follows a group of dedicated teachersโ€”and an oblivious principalโ€”in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed. Created by and starring Quinta Brunson, the show has won several awards, including 3 Golden Globes and 4 Emmys. New episodes air every Wednesday on ABC and Hulu.

Company member Alison Cimmet returns as Irma, the town hairdresser, in season 2 of Best Medicine from creator Dominic Minghella and starring Josh Charles and Abigail Spencer. A brilliant surgeon abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Despite his medical skills, his rude manner alienates locals as he battles hidden phobias and struggles with personal connections. New episodes air every Tuesday on FOX, with next-day streaming on Hulu. Watch the trailer.