Acclaimed director, educator, and founder and co-artistic director of SITI Company, Anne Bogart, joins actor and teacher Gian-Murray Gianino for an evening of conversation about her life and influences, her three decades leading SITI Company, exploring her creative process and training philosophy, and the unique relationship between actor and director.
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The Actors Center is thrilled to introduce sixteen early career actors who are part of our inaugural 2024-25 Mentorship Cohort. The program offers an opportunity to help bridge the crucial gap between training and a sustainable, fulfilling career with mentorship from our esteemed Resident Company, alongside workshops with leading teachers and artists.
Voice, speech and dialect coach and educator, Deborah Hecht, and voice teacher and longtime former A.C.T. faculty member, Jeff Crockett, join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in December for a series of artist development workshops focusing on accents, dialects, and embodied presence.
Acclaimed acting teacher, and former Yale, NYU, and Columbia faculty member Ron Van Lieu returns to The Actors Center in November for a teaching residency, exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams with members of the Resident Company.
Sarah Victoria, master instructor of PEM, joins actress and teacher Welker White on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 7:00pm for an evening of conversation exploring our understanding of authentic emotion, reframing its role in acting and actor training, and supporting the emotional intelligence and wellbeing of actors.
Raja Feather Kelly, choreographer, director, and movement director, and Seret Scott, actor, director and playwright, are in residence this fall, leading creative development workshops with The Actors Center’s Resident Company focusing on the nuances of human behavior and writing personal narratives.
Award-winning choreographer and director, Raja Feather Kelly, joins Ato Blankson-Wood on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:00pm for an intimate conversation exploring Raja’s creative process, his unique devised danced-theatre approach from his company, the feath3r theory, the connection between physicality and emotion, and the power of movement in storytelling.
Acclaimed acting coach, Ted Sluberski, multi-disciplinary artist Budi Miller, and dramaturg Taylor Barfield join our Resident Company for the first time this fall for a series of artist development workshops focused on performance on-camera and embodying imagination through mask.
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, actor and director, Stephen Adly Guirgis, joins Andrea Syglowski and members of The Actors Center’s Resident Company on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 7:00pm for an intimate evening of conversation about his writing process and what it means to be a multi-hyphenate artist—how his acting informs his writing and how his writing informs his acting.
Leigh Kilton-Smith, teacher and acting coach, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in October 2024 for an artist development workshop. She will also lead a Scene Study workshop open to any professional actor to attend by application.