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Company Workshop Timothy Douglas: Freeing the Natural Actor 3-Day Workshop Dates & Times Monday, June 15, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, June 16, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Wednesday, June 17, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street About the Workshop Director, actor, and educator, Timothy Douglas, joins The Actors Center for the first time for a 3-day workshop devoted to deepening awareness, presence, and authentic expression through spoken text. In our efforts to expand the efficient and authentic use of our training and performance experience, many of us can find ourselves engaging the process like a fish swimming in the ocean looking for the water. Genuine advancement and deepening of individual process begin when old patterns are no longer unconsciously engaged. This work does not require added effort, but simply renewed attention and awareness. Through in-the-moment investigation of mind, body, and breath consciousness, this workshop invites actors to reconnect with a more centered and organic truth, expressed dynamically through heightened language. Drawing on foundational principles from Kristin Linklater’s Freeing the Natural Voice, participants will explore a fuller appreciation of creativity, presence, and self. Participants will be asked to bring in 8-10 memorized lines of Shakespeare verse from a play (or other heightened language text)—ideally new to the participant. About Timothy Douglas Timothy Douglas is a stage director, actor, and educator whose recent directing credits include Primary Trust with McCarter Theatre/Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the world premiere of She Who Dared with Chicago Opera Theater, Nina Simone: Four Women at Arena Stage, An Octoroon at NIDA (Sydney), and Blue with New Orleans Opera. Upcoming: the world premiere of Safronia with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Sally and Tom at Roundhouse Theatre. He is a Linklater-designated voice instructor who has taught voice, scene study, and directing at American Conservatory Theater, Emerson College, Juilliard School, the Theatre School at DePaul University, University of Southern California, Yale School of Drama, Birmingham School of Acting (UK), and Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School). Representative productions include The Color Purple at Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award for best musical), the U.S. premiere of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Roundhouse Theatre, Champion with Boston Lyric Opera, the premiere of Something Happened in Our Town with Children’s Theatre Company, the U.S. premiere of Tristan Bernay’s adaptation of Frankenstein at Classic Stage Company, Richard II with Shakespeare & Company, Brönte Off-Broadway, and the Great Theatre of China’s production/tour...

Company Workshop Timothy Douglas: Freeing the Natural Actor 3-Day Workshop Dates & Times Monday, June 15, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, June 16, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Wednesday, June 17, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street About the Workshop Director, actor, and educator, Timothy Douglas, joins The Actors Center for the first time for a 3-day workshop devoted to deepening awareness, presence, and authentic expression through spoken text. In our efforts to expand the efficient and authentic use of our training and performance experience, many of us can find ourselves engaging the process like a fish swimming in the ocean looking for the water. Genuine advancement and deepening of individual process begin when old patterns are no longer unconsciously engaged. This work does not require added effort, but simply renewed attention and awareness. Through in-the-moment investigation of mind, body, and breath consciousness, this workshop invites actors to reconnect with a more centered and organic truth, expressed dynamically through heightened language. Drawing on foundational principles from Kristin Linklater’s Freeing the Natural Voice, participants will explore a fuller appreciation of creativity, presence, and self. Participants will be asked to bring in 8-10 memorized lines of Shakespeare verse from a play (or other heightened language text)—ideally new to the participant. About Timothy Douglas Timothy Douglas is a stage director, actor, and educator whose recent directing credits include Primary Trust with McCarter Theatre/Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the world premiere of She Who Dared with Chicago Opera Theater, Nina Simone: Four Women at Arena Stage, An Octoroon at NIDA (Sydney), and Blue with New Orleans Opera. Upcoming: the world premiere of Safronia with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Sally and Tom at Roundhouse Theatre. He is a Linklater-designated voice instructor who has taught voice, scene study, and directing at American Conservatory Theater, Emerson College, Juilliard School, the Theatre School at DePaul University, University of Southern California, Yale School of Drama, Birmingham School of Acting (UK), and Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School). Representative productions include The Color Purple at Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award for best musical), the U.S. premiere of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Roundhouse Theatre, Champion with Boston Lyric Opera, the premiere of Something Happened in Our Town with Children’s Theatre Company, the U.S. premiere of Tristan Bernay’s adaptation of Frankenstein at Classic Stage Company, Richard II with Shakespeare & Company, Brönte Off-Broadway, and the Great Theatre of China’s production/tour...

Company Workshop Timothy Douglas: Freeing the Natural Actor 3-Day Workshop Dates & Times Monday, June 15, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, June 16, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Wednesday, June 17, 2026 – 10:00am-2:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street About the Workshop Director, actor, and educator, Timothy Douglas, joins The Actors Center for the first time for a 3-day workshop devoted to deepening awareness, presence, and authentic expression through spoken text. In our efforts to expand the efficient and authentic use of our training and performance experience, many of us can find ourselves engaging the process like a fish swimming in the ocean looking for the water. Genuine advancement and deepening of individual process begin when old patterns are no longer unconsciously engaged. This work does not require added effort, but simply renewed attention and awareness. Through in-the-moment investigation of mind, body, and breath consciousness, this workshop invites actors to reconnect with a more centered and organic truth, expressed dynamically through heightened language. Drawing on foundational principles from Kristin Linklater’s Freeing the Natural Voice, participants will explore a fuller appreciation of creativity, presence, and self. Participants will be asked to bring in 8-10 memorized lines of Shakespeare verse from a play (or other heightened language text)—ideally new to the participant. About Timothy Douglas Timothy Douglas is a stage director, actor, and educator whose recent directing credits include Primary Trust with McCarter Theatre/Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the world premiere of She Who Dared with Chicago Opera Theater, Nina Simone: Four Women at Arena Stage, An Octoroon at NIDA (Sydney), and Blue with New Orleans Opera. Upcoming: the world premiere of Safronia with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Sally and Tom at Roundhouse Theatre. He is a Linklater-designated voice instructor who has taught voice, scene study, and directing at American Conservatory Theater, Emerson College, Juilliard School, the Theatre School at DePaul University, University of Southern California, Yale School of Drama, Birmingham School of Acting (UK), and Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School). Representative productions include The Color Purple at Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award for best musical), the U.S. premiere of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Roundhouse Theatre, Champion with Boston Lyric Opera, the premiere of Something Happened in Our Town with Children’s Theatre Company, the U.S. premiere of Tristan Bernay’s adaptation of Frankenstein at Classic Stage Company, Richard II with Shakespeare & Company, Brönte Off-Broadway, and the Great Theatre of China’s production/tour...