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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, 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 member Ato Blankson-Wood is in Ms. Blakk for President, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau, and directed by Tina Landau at Vineyard Theatre. Introducing Joan Jett Blakk—the first (and only) Black Drag Queen Candidate for President of the United States of America. It’s the early 90s, the height of the AIDS epidemic, and Joan and the newly formed Queer Nation Chicago set off on an exhilarating and dangerous journey to drag queer politics out of the closet—and onto the floor of the DNC. Inspired—but not bound—by the true story of drag performer and activist Terence Alan Smith, this new play with music is a joyous stampede through urgent and unfinished business. Performances run through November 29.

Acclaimed actor, playwright, teacher, and author Anna Deveare Smith joins actor Ken Marks for an intimate evening of conversation exploring Anna’s creative process, her groundbreaking documentary theater technique, and her legacy of activism through art.

Company member Brandon Flynn is in Here There Are Blueberries, written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman, and presented by Tectonic Theater Project on Broadway. 2007. A mysterious photo album arrives at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nazi-era images unlike any that have been seen before. A relentless search begins into the history trapped in the lens. As the album makes headlines, questions surface that ignite a worldwide reckoning. Based on true events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity. Performances run through January 10, 2027.

Company member Paco Tolson is in The Verge, written by Susan Glaspell and directed by Jessie Austrian, presented by Fiasco Theater at The Public Theater. Botanist Claire Archer is on a quest to create a new life: a plant unlike any that has ever come before. When her husband, lover, and soulmate each arrive in her greenhouse seeking heat in a snowstorm, chaos ensues. But as Claire pushes—sometimes violently—against the constraints of her own good breeding, she wonders if the only way to transcend boundaries is to destroy them. Performances run through November 22.

Company members Louisa Jacobson and Celia Keenan-Bolger will reprise their roles in Season 4 of the HBO drama The Gilded Age. From creator and writer Julian Fellowes, the period drama centers on two families—one old money and one new money—as they navigate New York society at a significant turn of the century for which the show is named. In the new season, the Russells face the fallout of Bertha’s rise to the top of society, while Agnes van Rhijn sees her chance to win back her standing. Meanwhile, Marian strikes out on a new path of her own. New episodes air Sundays through December 20 on HBO Max. Watch the trailer.

Company member Irene Sofia Lucio is in Liberation, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White, presented by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in co-production with Geffen Playhouse, Studio Theatre, and American Repertory Theater. It’s 1970s Ohio, and Lizzie has gathered a group of women in a rec center basement to change their lives and maybe the world. Decades later, Lizzie’s daughter delves into her mother’s history to find answers to the feminist revolution’s unanswered questions, reliving those necessary, messy, and impassioned meetings that asked: What does it mean for a woman to be free? Performances run through November 29 in Berkeley, CA.

Company member Denise Cormier is in Little Bear Ridge Road, written by Samuel D. Hunter and directed by Rob Ruggiero at TheaterWorks Hartford. Family reunions can be complicated—especially when they involve a crumbling house, an estranged nephew, a sharp-tongued aunt, and years of unresolved history. Little Bear Ridge Road follows two relatives forced back into each other’s lives as they confront memories and emotions they have spent years avoiding. Performances run through November 8 in Hartford, CT.

James Bundy, former Dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Artistic Director of Yale Rep, will join The Actors Center Resident Company this November for a workshop dedicated to Shakespeare.

Actor and educator Cotter Smith and voice & dialect coach and actor Joshua David Robinson will join The Actors Center Resident Company this October for workshops on Active Analysis and Miller Voice Method.

Caroline Aaron appears on Brothers in Season 1, Episode 7 “The Interview“ on Amazon Prime.

 

Paco Tolson appears on Cupertino in Season 1, Episode 3 “Juno” on CBS/Paramount+.

 

Robert David Grant appears on NCIS: New York in Season 1, Episode 3 “Carousel” on CBS/Paramount+.

 

Baize Buzan appears on Chicago Med in Season 12, Episode 1 “Shots Fired” on NBC/Peacock.

 

Maggie Bofill appears on Law & Order in Season 26 Episode 3 “Bad News“ on NBC/Peacock.

 

Ed Jewett appears on NCIS: New York in Season 1, Episode 4 “Homecoming” on CBS/Paramount+.

 

Celia Keenan-Bolger appears on Line of Fire in Season 1, Episode 2 “A Bigger Picture” on NBC/Peacock.

 

Nathan Darrow appears on Crystal Lake in Season 1, Episode 2 “Part 2” on NBC/Peacock.