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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 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, 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 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 Handmaid’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, 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 members Jason Butler Harner and James Waterston are in Rope, written by Gordon Greenberg and adapted from the play by Patrick Hamilton, directed by Scott Elliott at The New Group Off-Broadway. What happens when two beautiful, brilliant, and dangerously bored Princeton grad students decide that ordinary rules don’t apply to them? For Garrett Stern and Nate Singer, murder is an intellectual challenge — one they believe they are clever enough to get away with. But as their carefully controlled world begins to close in around them, their greatest advantage may become their greatest weakness: the certainty that they’re smarter than everyone else. Performances run though December 6.

Company member Marjan Neshat is in The Unbelievers, written by Nick Payne and directed by Knud Adams, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club Off-Broadway. Faith means believing in something. Especially when it feels impossible. As the years go by and the mystery of the sudden disappearance of Miriam and David’s teenage son remains unsolved, their blended family must figure out how to go on, relearning how to live through the ups and downs of ordinary days in their altered world. Performances run through November 29 at New York City Center.

Company members Tala Ashe and Austin Durant are in Waiting for Lefty, written by Clifford Odets and directed by Steven Pasquale at Classic Stage Company. Exploited, exhausted, and pushed to the edge, the taxi drivers of Depression-era New York City gather to make a choice that will change their lives forever. But as they wait for their leader, the tension reaches a fever pitch. This innovative production uses original music and arrangements by Yeller Tooth to breathe fresh life into the 1935 masterpiece, transforming the theater into a high-stakes union hall. Both then and now, speaking truth to power can come at a deadly cost. Performances run through November 22.

Company member Celia Keenan-Bolger is in The Visitors, written by Bryna Turner and directed by Jenna Worsham at Second Stage Theater. Joanna is in her mid-thirties and eager to become a parent. When she invites her three siblings to her New York City apartment to ask them for a shocking favor, they’re all forced to get to know each other as adults — but whether they’ll emerge from the visit closer or more at odds than ever is anyone’s guess. Performances run through December 6.

On Monday night, we threw a joyous celebration commemorating the 30th Anniversary of The Actors Center. It was a spectacular evening where seven generations of artists came together to celebrate three decades of community and artistic excellence! See a gallery of our favorite moments from the night, captured by photographer Arden Dickson.

Company member Mark H. Dold is in Vanya, written by Simon Stephens after Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, directed by Alan Paul at Barrington Stage Company. This one-man adaptation of Chekhov’s classic tale of love, art, and attempted murder explores the kaleidoscope of human emotions. Comedic and tragic, our shared humanity is thrust into sharp focus as this tour-de-force performance harnesses the power of the intimate bond between audience and one actor playing all of the roles. Performances run through October 24 in Pittsfield, MA.

Company member Daniel K. Isaac returns as Lieutenant Connor in Season 4 of Elsbeth. Created and written by Michelle King and Robert King, the series follows the astute but unconventional attorney Elsbeth Tascioni, played by Carrie Preston, who utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. New episodes air Wednesday on CBS and Paramount+. Watch the trailer.

Company member K.K. Moggie is in the feature film Verity, adapted from the novel by Colleen Hoover, directed by Michael Showalter, and starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett. This psychological thriller follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer who relocates to a remote estate to ghostwrite for renowned author Verity Crawford. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity’s chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy, and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession. Now in theaters nationwide. Watch the trailer.

Company member Baize Buzan is in Livia: A Roman Tragedy, written by Paul David Young and directed by Danilo Gambini, at The Flea Theater. The late Roman Empire teeters on the brink of collapse under the rule of a corrupt, narcissistic madman. As chaos consumes the nation, Livia longs for her lover, who departed Rome to lead an armed rebellion against the incompetent, debauched emperor. Isolated in her opposition to the demented dictator, who exiles and executes anyone who voices dissent, Livia asks how the once-noble republic succumbed to the tyrant’s hand and resolves to discover what one woman can do to save her crumbling society. Performances run through November 15.

Company member Blake Hackler is in I Am My Own Wife, written by Doug Wright and directed by Garret Storms at Theatre Three. This solo performance tells the compelling true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transgender woman who survived two of the twentieth century’s most oppressive regimes. Through a richly theatrical and deeply personal lens, the play explores identity, memory, morality, and survival. Intimate, thought-provoking, and profoundly moving, it is a remarkable portrait of a singular life. Performances run through November 1 in Dallas, TX.