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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 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 Crystal Dickinson is in Moliรจre’s The Imaginary Invalid, adapted by Bill Irwin, directed by company member Brandon Dirden, and presented by Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway. The cast includes Bill Irwin, Dylan Baker, Rachel Bloom, and Brooks Ashmanskas. Professional patient Argan indulges his every ailment, and schemes to marry off his daughter to a doctor to save on medical bills. But she has another life in mind. This fiercely funny production is about to prove that real life is what happens while you and your family are making other plans. Performances run through November 22.

Company member James Seol and Mentorship Program alum Francisco Javier Gonzales are in the national tour of Maybe Happy Ending, the musical by Will Aronson and Hue Park, directed by Michael Arden. Oliver and Claire have never met. Theyโ€™re both living solitary days on repeatโ€”until a chance encounter sparks an unexpected adventure that shows them what it means to be humanโ€ฆ even if theyโ€™re not. The tour debuts in Greensboro, NC through September 27 before moving on to South Carolina, DC, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Minneapolis, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania this fall. It will then have extended runs in Chicago, Cincinnati, and Boston in the new year.

Company member Phillipa Soo is in Pre-Existing Condition, written by Marin Ireland and directed by Maria Dizzia. The play centers on an unnamed woman, brought to life in sequential engagements by Lupita Nyongโ€™o, Phillipa Soo, Susannah Flood, Hari Nef and Edie Falco, alongside a returning cast featuring Dael Orlandersmith, Sarah Steele, and Greg Keller. Staged at the historic Greenwich House Theater, Pre-Existing Condition explores the challenges and everyday indignities of moving forward after a life-altering relationship. Philippa joins the cast September 28 through October 17.

Theater maker, screenwriter, and educator Haruna Lee and Tai Chi instructor Raymond Lee will join The Actors Center Resident Company this fall for workshops on playwriting and Tai Chi.

Company member Alison Cimmet is in Kowalski, written by Gregg Ostrin and directed by Colin Hanlon, presented at the Lookingglass Theatre. Set over one pivotal evening in Provincetown in 1947, Kowalski imagines the first meeting between Tennessee Williams and a young Marlon Brando as Williams searches for the actor who would redefine the role of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blending historical events with theatrical imagination, the play explores ambition, artistry and the creative collaboration behind one of the most influential works in American theater. Performances run through October 25 in Chicago, IL.

Company member Bob Ari is in the feature film Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheim and starring Robert Pattinson. Based on the 2007 Esquire article โ€œTonight on Dateline This Man Will Dieโ€, the film follows the production of the reality series To Catch a Predator, as host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. The cast also includes Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and Phoebe Bridgers. The film premiered in the main competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival earlier this month, and is now in theaters nationwide. Watch the trailer.

Company member Keith Randolph Smith plays Doaker in The Piano Lesson, written by August Wilson and directed by Francois Battiste, at Two River Theatre. This epic play pits brother against sister as the Charles family fights over the fate of their prized heirloomโ€”a hand-carved piano. One wants to get rich off its sale, the other will do anything to keep it in the family. In this Pulitzer Prize winner, the ghosts of the past battle against the promise of the future. Performances run through October 4 in Red Bank, NJ.

Multidisciplinary artist and teacher Budi Miller and dramaturg Taylor Barfield will join The Actors Center Resident Company this October for a workshop where the power of mask becomes a focal point for deep embodiment of a role and scene study.

Company member Mel House is in When Everything Was Blue, a short film written and directed by Christina Chironna, available to stream on YouTube. The short follows a family as they navigate the emotional and physical toll of a father’s 9/11-related illness, all captured through the lens of a home video camera. The short was a 2026 Oscar Qualified Live-Action Short Film, and won Best Short Drama at the NewFilmmakers LA Awards, Best Drama at the Atlanta Women’s Film Festival, Best NY Film at the Imagine This Women’s Film Festival, Outstanding Narrative Short at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, and Best Live Action Short at Phoenix Film Festival. Read more about the film at Pipeline Artists.

Company member Nathan Darrow is in Measure for Measure, written by William Shakespeare and directed by Psalmayene 24 at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. This production is set in the American South in the 1950s, offering a timeless parable of power and redemption. Newly enforced regulations penalize the everyday citizens of Vienna, but donโ€™t stop the hijinks of a rambunctious crew of bawdy residents. In this morally lax city, a corrupt official tries to coerce novice nun Isabella to submit to his desires. Can Isabella maintain her vow of chastity and save her incarcerated brotherโ€™s life? Performances run through November 1.