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Company Workshop John Douglas Thompson: Shakespeare Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times This workshop was originally scheduled for March 13-15, but has been rescheduled due to John's availability. Revised dates are: Friday, May 8, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, May 9, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, May 10, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Fri/Sat at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street Sun at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, Studios A & B This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of the workshop. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson returns to The Actors Center for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. Working through voice, body, and language, participants will investigate how Shakespeare’s heightened writing becomes playable, immediate, and personal in performance. Actors are invited to bring a monologue or soliloquy of their choice and will work twice over the three days. The workshop emphasizes clarity of thought, physical engagement, and truthful connection to text—treating Shakespeare not as a set of rules to master, but as a dynamic score that invites intelligence, imagination, and presence. Open to actors at all stages of their relationship with Shakespeare. Sessions run 12:00pm–4:00pm, Friday through Sunday. About John Douglas Thompson Through his impressive body of work John Douglas Thompson has established himself as a highly regarded and versatile actor in theater, film, and television, hailed by The New York Times “as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.” John most recently appeared as Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Carousel, and Julius Caesar. He also starred in Endgame at Irish Rep; Hamlet and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare In The Park; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Huntington Theatre Company’s Man in the Ring (Elliot Norton Award) and in the titular role of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Hamlet. John's other credits include Troilus & Cressida and King Lear at The Public Theater; The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, and Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Theatre for a New Audience; The Iceman Cometh (Obie and  Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and  the NAACP Theatre Awards) at Westside Theater, ACT, Annenberg Center For...

Company Workshop John Douglas Thompson: Shakespeare Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times This workshop was originally scheduled for March 13-15, but has been rescheduled due to John's availability. Revised dates are: Friday, May 8, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, May 9, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, May 10, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Fri/Sat at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street Sun at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, Studios A & B This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of the workshop. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson returns to The Actors Center for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. Working through voice, body, and language, participants will investigate how Shakespeare’s heightened writing becomes playable, immediate, and personal in performance. Actors are invited to bring a monologue or soliloquy of their choice and will work twice over the three days. The workshop emphasizes clarity of thought, physical engagement, and truthful connection to text—treating Shakespeare not as a set of rules to master, but as a dynamic score that invites intelligence, imagination, and presence. Open to actors at all stages of their relationship with Shakespeare. Sessions run 12:00pm–4:00pm, Friday through Sunday. About John Douglas Thompson Through his impressive body of work John Douglas Thompson has established himself as a highly regarded and versatile actor in theater, film, and television, hailed by The New York Times “as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.” John most recently appeared as Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Carousel, and Julius Caesar. He also starred in Endgame at Irish Rep; Hamlet and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare In The Park; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Huntington Theatre Company’s Man in the Ring (Elliot Norton Award) and in the titular role of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Hamlet. John's other credits include Troilus & Cressida and King Lear at The Public Theater; The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, and Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Theatre for a New Audience; The Iceman Cometh (Obie and  Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and  the NAACP Theatre Awards) at Westside Theater, ACT, Annenberg Center For...

Company Workshop John Douglas Thompson: Shakespeare Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times This workshop was originally scheduled for March 13-15, but has been rescheduled due to John's availability. Revised dates are: Friday, May 8, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, May 9, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, May 10, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Fri/Sat at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street Sun at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, Studios A & B This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of the workshop. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson returns to The Actors Center for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. Working through voice, body, and language, participants will investigate how Shakespeare’s heightened writing becomes playable, immediate, and personal in performance. Actors are invited to bring a monologue or soliloquy of their choice and will work twice over the three days. The workshop emphasizes clarity of thought, physical engagement, and truthful connection to text—treating Shakespeare not as a set of rules to master, but as a dynamic score that invites intelligence, imagination, and presence. Open to actors at all stages of their relationship with Shakespeare. Sessions run 12:00pm–4:00pm, Friday through Sunday. About John Douglas Thompson Through his impressive body of work John Douglas Thompson has established himself as a highly regarded and versatile actor in theater, film, and television, hailed by The New York Times “as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.” John most recently appeared as Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Carousel, and Julius Caesar. He also starred in Endgame at Irish Rep; Hamlet and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare In The Park; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Huntington Theatre Company’s Man in the Ring (Elliot Norton Award) and in the titular role of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Hamlet. John's other credits include Troilus & Cressida and King Lear at The Public Theater; The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, and Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Theatre for a New Audience; The Iceman Cometh (Obie and  Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and  the NAACP Theatre Awards) at Westside Theater, ACT, Annenberg Center For...