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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 Andréa Burns in A Walk on the Moon, written by Pamela Gray, with music and lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo, and directed by Sheryl Kaller Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theater. It’s the Summer of 1969. Pearl Kantrowitz, a Brooklyn mother and housewife, takes the annual trip north to a Catskills bungalow colony just as the world begins to shift beneath her feet. The country is reaching for the moon. A new spirit of freedom is sweeping the nation. And an unexpected encounter leads her to a musical festival happening just around the corner. As the countercultural revolution begins, and music starts to change the world, Pearl awakens to a life beyond the one she’s always known. Performances run through August 22.

Company member Ato Blankson-Wood is in Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare, directed by company member Vivienne Benesch at The Old Globe. Justice and desire collide in Shakespeare’s timeless tale of power and hypocrisy. When Vienna’s Duke suddenly disappears, his morally rigid deputy Angelo takes control—determined to rid the city of vice. But when he condemns a young man to death and then propositions the man’s sister, his actions reveal the cracks in his facade of authority. Filled with rich characters, surprising twists, and a comic group of seedy grifters on the make, this classic explores who holds power, who gets punished, and what it truly means to be virtuous. Performances run through July 22 in San Diego, CA.

The Actors Center is thrilled to open applications for its 2026-27 Mentorship Program for Emerging Artists. This innovative 8-month initiative is designed specifically to support artists who are in the early stages of their acting careers.

The program offers a cohort of 16 participants a unique opportunity to help bridge the crucial gap between their training and a sustainable, fulfilling career by providing artistic development and mentorship from an unparalleled network of seasoned professionals from our esteemed Resident Company.

Learn more about the program.

Company member Molly Bernard is in Birthright, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Teddy Bergman at MCC Theater. What begins as a reunion among six young friends after a Birthright trip to Israel in 2006 becomes, over the span of 18 years, an exploration of identity, fracturing communities, and the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths. Performances run through July 26.

Company member Colby Minifie is in the world premiere of Camping, written by Victoria Lynne Barclay and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, at HERE Arts Center. Three decades. One tent. A million things left unsaid. Brit and Ari collide over and over again, reaching for each other across firsts, fistfuls of hair, and the fractures that are born of time and distance. A story of desperately falling in and out of love with your best friend inside a camping tent while everything outside rages. Performances run through July 11.

Company member Ethan Dubin is in The Family Dog, written by Bailey Williams and directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, presented as part of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks. In which Whiney returns to her childhood home to say goodbye to the pet who replaced her. Miracles abound, some in meatball form. Performances run through June 30 at The Wild Project.

Company member Neil Tyrone Pritchard is in Fear & Wonder, written by Jason Tseng and directed by Emily Hartford, presented by Flux Theatre Ensemble. Forced to share a room at a conservative Christian summer camp, picture-perfect Ryan and cynical rebel Jabez expect nothing but a week of forced prayers. Instead, their late-night debates spark a magnetic, dangerous attraction that threatens everything they know. When the real world crashes in, will the fear of losing it all tear them apart, or will they risk everything to make something wonderful? Performances run through June 27 at ART/NY Theaters.

Company member Natalie Gold is in the feature film Welcome to the Fishbowl, written by Sheryl Glubok and Donald Rae and directed by Sheryl Glubok. With 40 receding in the rearview mirror, Elizabeth Ford, a Denver mother of two and an aspiring writer, gets a sudden career-making opportunity. All she has to do is chaperone a narcissistic, literary legend by the name of Storm Grandquist across the Rocky Mountains to an awards ceremony in Telluride. What could possibly go wrong? The film had its world premiere earlier this month at the Bentonville Film Festival in Bentonville, AR.

Company member Jess Gabor is in the short film Four Itchy Boys, written and directed by Andrew Hebert. Four young men quarantined for an unexplainable, unrelenting itch prepare for a live-stream press event to prove they’re not the monsters the world believes them to be. But behind the scenes, a ruthless producer is plotting a more grotesque spectacle that’ll shock and awe her captive audience. The short premiered earlier this month at Raindance Film Festival in London.

Company members James Cusati-Moyer and Philippa Soo are in the short film I’m Gonna Kill You, written and directed by Andrew Chappelle. Set in the distant future, the short takes place inside an all gay colony, and follows the journey of Cal and Spector — two paired lovers fighting an internal battle while remaining colony members pay the price for their twisted games. The film has had screenings at Palm Springs International ShortFest, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, and Provincetown International Film Festival.

Company member Chris McLinden co-produces and stars in the short film Precious Light, directed by Nickon C. Hemati. In a quiet, post-collapse world, a couple’s peaceful routine is disrupted by the sudden appearance of a mysterious beam of light in their cabin—what begins as a curiosity soon becomes an obsession that threatens to unravel their relationship. The film premiered earlier this month at Lighthouse International Film Festival in New Jersey and will have its West Coast premiere at Dances With Films on June 26. Watch trailer here.

Company member Julyana Soelistyo is in Henry VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Stephen Brown-Fried at The Public Theater, presented in collaboration with NAATCO. Condensed into two parts and performed in rep, experience this saga of a nation spinning wildly out of control. Part 1: Foreign Wars kicks off with the funeral of King Henry V, leaving his infant son on the throne and sending the country into decades of spiraling chaos both abroad and at home. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later, as nascent domestic feuds rapidly metastasize into the full-blown civil war known as the War of the Roses. Performances run through July 19.

Company members Bhavesh Patel, Clark Jackson, and Maria-Christina Oliveras are in Not Suitable for Work, the new series from creator Mindy Kaling. The series follows five friends who would rather die than fail at their careers. Navigating post-college life in The Big Apple while chasing their own dreams, they learn to find success in ways that are just not suitable for work. Through personal disasters, professional triumphs, and messy encounters, they find their way through the ups and downs of early adulthood. New episodes released on Tuesdays through June 23 on Hulu.

Company member Caitlin Nasema Cassidy is in As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare, choreographed by Kelsey Burns, directed by Emma Rosa Went as part of The Public Theatre’s Mobile Unit. When Duke Frederick exiles her father, Rosalind and her cousin Celia flee to the forest. Disguised as a young man, Rosalind encounters the heart-sick Orlando, who is desperately seeking none other than Rosalind. While the two young lovers role-play their way back into each other’s arms, the forest of Arden is abuzz with lovelorn shepherds, pining jesters, and battling brothers. True lovers, strange capers, and fools in the forest go heart-in-heart in Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy. The Mobile Unit performs at parks and correctional facilities across the city through June 28.

Orlagh Cassidy appears on Chicago Med in Season 11, Episode 19, ”Exit Strategies“ and Episode 21, “Heaven Help Us” on NBC/Peacock.

 

Angel Desai appears on Your Friends & Neighbors in Season 2, Episode 10, “The Night of the Hunter” on Apple TV.

Company member Mary Bacon is in Eugene Onegin—A Bluegrass Musical, written by Sarah Gancher and directed by Rachel Chavkin at TheatreSquared. A potent mix of original bluegrass and country, barbeque, and feverish young love, Pushkin’s novel and Tchaikovsky’s opera have been completely reimagined. The story is now set in 1940s rural Arkansas, where a girl who dreams of writing songs falls for a dangerously magnetic—but jaded—touring musician. Performances run through June 28 in Fayetteville, AR.