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Company Workshop Orlando Pabotoy: Elevation Through Stilt Walking Tuesday & Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, November 6, 2025 – 11am-4pm Tuesday, November 11, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Thursday, November 13, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Tuesday, November 18, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Thursday, November 20, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Sterner Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist, director, and educator, Orlando Pabotoy, returns to The Actors Center for a 3-week workshop introducing the art of stilt walking. With Orlando's guidance, participants will develop their trust, confidence, and physical awareness while embracing vulnerability and rediscovering their childlike sense of play. Stilt work opens the body to new possibilities of movement, scale, and presence, sparking fresh approaches to character, storytelling, and artistic inquiry. Alongside physical practice, the workshop invites reflection on deeper questions of why we create, how the artist impacts others on a human level, and the cultural traditions that have long used stilts as a tool for performance and community. About Orlando Pabotoy Orlando Pabotoy is an Obie Award-winning multidisciplinary theatre artist. His role as a choreographer and movement designer has been showcased in productions of Henry VI (National Asian American Theatre Company), The Cherry Orchard (Classic Stage Company by Andrei Belgrader), and Marisol (Trinity Rep), among others. He is the winner of the 2023 Callaway award for Choreography in The Half God of Rainfall at New York Theatre Workshop. He has also directed a physical approach to Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at PlayMakers Repertory Company, and his contributions to the world of new productions extend to writing and performing in Sesar (commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company) and writing and directing That Beautiful Laugh (La MaMa’s 50th year anniversary). He is a founding member of the Campfire Project, where he leads an innovative approach to arts therapy through the arts of stilt walking in order to support the resilience and wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers worldwide. He is currently on faculty at the Juilliard School and has taught for graduate programs nationwide, as well as at The Actors Center, the Public Theater’s Summer Lab, and internationally in Italy, the Philippines, Amsterdam, and Abu-Dhabi. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 10 individuals. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Ken Barnett: Dreaming the Character Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, November 14, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Saturday, November 15, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Sunday, November 16, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop “Now is the moment to develop and commit yourself. For we are getting nearer and nearer to the subconscious and the more subtle our work, the better conditioned our physical instrument must be to express it. The work you are doing is difficult, impossible, essential.” — Konstantin Stanislavski Actor, teacher, and company member, Ken Barnett, will return to The Actors Center for a 3-day workshop sharing the tools of Dreamwork, while focusing on using unconscious material to develop a character. Each participant is asked to choose a role to prepare and also bring in a dream to explore. The process of using Dreamwork to create a role is a beautiful, mysterious, and profoundly inspiring methodology. By engaging with fresh material from the unconscious as delivered by a dream, we find the fertile intersection between our own selves and the character. We then discover what is deeply personal about the script and how urgent it is for us to inhabit this story and character. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness: a call from one’s destiny. Ken has offered Dreamwork to the company before, but this is the first time we will focus on character work. Working physically, Ken will guide participants in asking the thinking mind to soften in order to invite the truth held in the body to express freely. Discover what is within you that is longing to be revealed through the fiction of the character, and unveil the connections to your personal truth that are held in the script. We will work with gesture in the body, freedom in the voice, and an expansive approach to engaging the imagination. Prior experience with Dreamwork is welcomed but not required. About Ken Barnett Ken is an actor, director, acting coach, and teacher of Dreamwork for Artists. He studied and trained extensively under his mentor, Kim Gillingham, in Los Angeles, and he has furthered his study of Dreamwork with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association of New York, the C.G. Jung Foundation, and...

Company Workshop Ken Barnett: Dreaming the Character Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, November 14, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Saturday, November 15, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Sunday, November 16, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop “Now is the moment to develop and commit yourself. For we are getting nearer and nearer to the subconscious and the more subtle our work, the better conditioned our physical instrument must be to express it. The work you are doing is difficult, impossible, essential.” — Konstantin Stanislavski Actor, teacher, and company member, Ken Barnett, will return to The Actors Center for a 3-day workshop sharing the tools of Dreamwork, while focusing on using unconscious material to develop a character. Each participant is asked to choose a role to prepare and also bring in a dream to explore. The process of using Dreamwork to create a role is a beautiful, mysterious, and profoundly inspiring methodology. By engaging with fresh material from the unconscious as delivered by a dream, we find the fertile intersection between our own selves and the character. We then discover what is deeply personal about the script and how urgent it is for us to inhabit this story and character. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness: a call from one’s destiny. Ken has offered Dreamwork to the company before, but this is the first time we will focus on character work. Working physically, Ken will guide participants in asking the thinking mind to soften in order to invite the truth held in the body to express freely. Discover what is within you that is longing to be revealed through the fiction of the character, and unveil the connections to your personal truth that are held in the script. We will work with gesture in the body, freedom in the voice, and an expansive approach to engaging the imagination. Prior experience with Dreamwork is welcomed but not required. About Ken Barnett Ken is an actor, director, acting coach, and teacher of Dreamwork for Artists. He studied and trained extensively under his mentor, Kim Gillingham, in Los Angeles, and he has furthered his study of Dreamwork with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association of New York, the C.G. Jung Foundation, and...

Company Workshop Ken Barnett: Dreaming the Character Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, November 14, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Saturday, November 15, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Sunday, November 16, 2025 – 1:30pm-5:30pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop “Now is the moment to develop and commit yourself. For we are getting nearer and nearer to the subconscious and the more subtle our work, the better conditioned our physical instrument must be to express it. The work you are doing is difficult, impossible, essential.” — Konstantin Stanislavski Actor, teacher, and company member, Ken Barnett, will return to The Actors Center for a 3-day workshop sharing the tools of Dreamwork, while focusing on using unconscious material to develop a character. Each participant is asked to choose a role to prepare and also bring in a dream to explore. The process of using Dreamwork to create a role is a beautiful, mysterious, and profoundly inspiring methodology. By engaging with fresh material from the unconscious as delivered by a dream, we find the fertile intersection between our own selves and the character. We then discover what is deeply personal about the script and how urgent it is for us to inhabit this story and character. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness: a call from one’s destiny. Ken has offered Dreamwork to the company before, but this is the first time we will focus on character work. Working physically, Ken will guide participants in asking the thinking mind to soften in order to invite the truth held in the body to express freely. Discover what is within you that is longing to be revealed through the fiction of the character, and unveil the connections to your personal truth that are held in the script. We will work with gesture in the body, freedom in the voice, and an expansive approach to engaging the imagination. Prior experience with Dreamwork is welcomed but not required. About Ken Barnett Ken is an actor, director, acting coach, and teacher of Dreamwork for Artists. He studied and trained extensively under his mentor, Kim Gillingham, in Los Angeles, and he has furthered his study of Dreamwork with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association of New York, the C.G. Jung Foundation, and...

Company Workshop Fay Simpson: High-Stakes Scene Work 5 Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 17, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm -- No Session November 24 -- Monday, December 1, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 8, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 15, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Founder of the Lucid Body, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Head of Movement at NYU Grad Acting, Fay Simpson, returns to The Actors Center for a five week workshop focusing on building high stakes scenes respectfully and deeply utilizing her physical approach. The first two weeks will delve into advanced tools for active listening and somatic sensitivity needed when approaching scenes involving close relationships. Over the subsequent three weeks, a scene partner and scene will be chosen and explored using exercises to help build physical history, affection, and the bile that may occur as an aftermath. Whether you are new to Lucid Body or not, this workshop will offer tools for embodying the conflicting layers present inside a character, as well as between characters, on a blood and bone level. About Fay Simpson Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express human complexity and passion with safety and skill. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). She is an IPA-certified Intimacy Coordinator and has been a physical acting director and somatic acting coach for more than twenty years. Fay has also taught at The Yale School of Drama, the New School’s Eugene Lang, Michael Howard Studios, The Studio/NY, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center. Fay was awarded a Fox Foundation Fellowship to intern with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater in London in 2000. Re-balancing the nervous system and energetic body of each actor and between actors after every rehearsal is a priority and the reason she became an intimacy coordinator. She has choreographed intimacy for numerous plays, ballets, and screen projects, with credits that include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Classical Theater of...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Orlando Pabotoy: Elevation Through Stilt Walking Tuesday & Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, November 6, 2025 – 11am-4pm Tuesday, November 11, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Thursday, November 13, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Tuesday, November 18, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Thursday, November 20, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Sterner Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist, director, and educator, Orlando Pabotoy, returns to The Actors Center for a 3-week workshop introducing the art of stilt walking. With Orlando's guidance, participants will develop their trust, confidence, and physical awareness while embracing vulnerability and rediscovering their childlike sense of play. Stilt work opens the body to new possibilities of movement, scale, and presence, sparking fresh approaches to character, storytelling, and artistic inquiry. Alongside physical practice, the workshop invites reflection on deeper questions of why we create, how the artist impacts others on a human level, and the cultural traditions that have long used stilts as a tool for performance and community. About Orlando Pabotoy Orlando Pabotoy is an Obie Award-winning multidisciplinary theatre artist. His role as a choreographer and movement designer has been showcased in productions of Henry VI (National Asian American Theatre Company), The Cherry Orchard (Classic Stage Company by Andrei Belgrader), and Marisol (Trinity Rep), among others. He is the winner of the 2023 Callaway award for Choreography in The Half God of Rainfall at New York Theatre Workshop. He has also directed a physical approach to Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at PlayMakers Repertory Company, and his contributions to the world of new productions extend to writing and performing in Sesar (commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company) and writing and directing That Beautiful Laugh (La MaMa’s 50th year anniversary). He is a founding member of the Campfire Project, where he leads an innovative approach to arts therapy through the arts of stilt walking in order to support the resilience and wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers worldwide. He is currently on faculty at the Juilliard School and has taught for graduate programs nationwide, as well as at The Actors Center, the Public Theater’s Summer Lab, and internationally in Italy, the Philippines, Amsterdam, and Abu-Dhabi. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 10 individuals. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Orlando Pabotoy: Elevation Through Stilt Walking Tuesday & Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, November 6, 2025 – 11am-4pm Tuesday, November 11, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Thursday, November 13, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Tuesday, November 18, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Thursday, November 20, 2025 – 12pm-4pm Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Sterner Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist, director, and educator, Orlando Pabotoy, returns to The Actors Center for a 3-week workshop introducing the art of stilt walking. With Orlando's guidance, participants will develop their trust, confidence, and physical awareness while embracing vulnerability and rediscovering their childlike sense of play. Stilt work opens the body to new possibilities of movement, scale, and presence, sparking fresh approaches to character, storytelling, and artistic inquiry. Alongside physical practice, the workshop invites reflection on deeper questions of why we create, how the artist impacts others on a human level, and the cultural traditions that have long used stilts as a tool for performance and community. About Orlando Pabotoy Orlando Pabotoy is an Obie Award-winning multidisciplinary theatre artist. His role as a choreographer and movement designer has been showcased in productions of Henry VI (National Asian American Theatre Company), The Cherry Orchard (Classic Stage Company by Andrei Belgrader), and Marisol (Trinity Rep), among others. He is the winner of the 2023 Callaway award for Choreography in The Half God of Rainfall at New York Theatre Workshop. He has also directed a physical approach to Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at PlayMakers Repertory Company, and his contributions to the world of new productions extend to writing and performing in Sesar (commissioned by the Ma-Yi Theater Company) and writing and directing That Beautiful Laugh (La MaMa’s 50th year anniversary). He is a founding member of the Campfire Project, where he leads an innovative approach to arts therapy through the arts of stilt walking in order to support the resilience and wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers worldwide. He is currently on faculty at the Juilliard School and has taught for graduate programs nationwide, as well as at The Actors Center, the Public Theater’s Summer Lab, and internationally in Italy, the Philippines, Amsterdam, and Abu-Dhabi. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 10 individuals. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Ron Van Lieu: Scene Study 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, November 22, 2025 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, November 23, 2025 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, November 24, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for 3 days of scene work. Ron will be working with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as well as The Actors Center, where is Artistic Director Emeritus. Ron trained at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His acting credits include major regional theaters, leading roles off-Broadway, New...

Company Workshop Ron Van Lieu: Scene Study 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, November 22, 2025 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, November 23, 2025 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, November 24, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for 3 days of scene work. Ron will be working with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as well as The Actors Center, where is Artistic Director Emeritus. Ron trained at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His acting credits include major regional theaters, leading roles off-Broadway, New...

Company Workshop Ron Van Lieu: Scene Study 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, November 22, 2025 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, November 23, 2025 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, November 24, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for 3 days of scene work. Ron will be working with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as well as The Actors Center, where is Artistic Director Emeritus. Ron trained at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His acting credits include major regional theaters, leading roles off-Broadway, New...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Fay Simpson: High-Stakes Scene Work 5 Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 17, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm -- No Session November 24 -- Monday, December 1, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 8, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 15, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Founder of the Lucid Body, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Head of Movement at NYU Grad Acting, Fay Simpson, returns to The Actors Center for a five week workshop focusing on building high stakes scenes respectfully and deeply utilizing her physical approach. The first two weeks will delve into advanced tools for active listening and somatic sensitivity needed when approaching scenes involving close relationships. Over the subsequent three weeks, a scene partner and scene will be chosen and explored using exercises to help build physical history, affection, and the bile that may occur as an aftermath. Whether you are new to Lucid Body or not, this workshop will offer tools for embodying the conflicting layers present inside a character, as well as between characters, on a blood and bone level. About Fay Simpson Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express human complexity and passion with safety and skill. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). She is an IPA-certified Intimacy Coordinator and has been a physical acting director and somatic acting coach for more than twenty years. Fay has also taught at The Yale School of Drama, the New School’s Eugene Lang, Michael Howard Studios, The Studio/NY, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center. Fay was awarded a Fox Foundation Fellowship to intern with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater in London in 2000. Re-balancing the nervous system and energetic body of each actor and between actors after every rehearsal is a priority and the reason she became an intimacy coordinator. She has choreographed intimacy for numerous plays, ballets, and screen projects, with credits that include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Classical Theater of...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Fay Simpson: High-Stakes Scene Work 5 Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 17, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm -- No Session November 24 -- Monday, December 1, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 8, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 15, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Founder of the Lucid Body, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Head of Movement at NYU Grad Acting, Fay Simpson, returns to The Actors Center for a five week workshop focusing on building high stakes scenes respectfully and deeply utilizing her physical approach. The first two weeks will delve into advanced tools for active listening and somatic sensitivity needed when approaching scenes involving close relationships. Over the subsequent three weeks, a scene partner and scene will be chosen and explored using exercises to help build physical history, affection, and the bile that may occur as an aftermath. Whether you are new to Lucid Body or not, this workshop will offer tools for embodying the conflicting layers present inside a character, as well as between characters, on a blood and bone level. About Fay Simpson Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express human complexity and passion with safety and skill. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). She is an IPA-certified Intimacy Coordinator and has been a physical acting director and somatic acting coach for more than twenty years. Fay has also taught at The Yale School of Drama, the New School’s Eugene Lang, Michael Howard Studios, The Studio/NY, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center. Fay was awarded a Fox Foundation Fellowship to intern with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater in London in 2000. Re-balancing the nervous system and energetic body of each actor and between actors after every rehearsal is a priority and the reason she became an intimacy coordinator. She has choreographed intimacy for numerous plays, ballets, and screen projects, with credits that include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Classical Theater of...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Beth McGuire: Approach To Learning Dialects Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, December 12, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Saturday, December 13, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, December 14, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Voice and dialect coach and former Yale faculty member Beth McGuire returns to The Actors Center in December for a three day workshop on approaching dialects. A dialect is not a believable one, unless it is fully embodied. This process depends on the individual actor’s access to their instrument. Beth will guide participants in exploring melody, rhythm, pace, oral posture, phonemic changes, source and path of the resonance, and focus of articulation. “This may sound technical,” says Beth, “but inevitably, aspects surface as pathways for the actor to weave the accent into the matrix of transformation. The modality that the actor chooses in their approach can change as one moves from one accent to another, but there are landmarks that can help the actor embody any accent.” We'll start by working with multicultural Parisian accents, branching outward across the globe exploring a French accent of your choice. About Beth McGuire Beth has worked as a vocal/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for 40 years. She was a Professor in the Practice of Acting and served as the Director of Speech and Dialects at Yale School of Drama for 23 years. She is currently freelancing, teaching and coaching film, television and theatre, and occasionally still gets on the boards. With colleague Jane Guyer Fujita, she teaches a series of teacher training workshops covering Phonology, Text, Dialects, and production coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors (Routledge press, November 2015), is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre. Most recent dialect coaching projects include Lady in the Lake with Natalie Portman, Lupita N'yongo in The Wild Robot, Ryan Coogler's SINNERS with Michael B Jordan, the Marvel action film, Black Panther, and Jordan Peel’s sociopolitical horror flick US. Selected work in theater includes: African Voices Now: 3 One Acts, Almasi Collaborative Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe; He Brought Her Home in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy at Theatre for a New Audience and KISS by Guillermo Calderón at the Yale Repertory Theatre both directed Evan...

Company Workshop Beth McGuire: Approach To Learning Dialects Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, December 12, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Saturday, December 13, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, December 14, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Voice and dialect coach and former Yale faculty member Beth McGuire returns to The Actors Center in December for a three day workshop on approaching dialects. A dialect is not a believable one, unless it is fully embodied. This process depends on the individual actor’s access to their instrument. Beth will guide participants in exploring melody, rhythm, pace, oral posture, phonemic changes, source and path of the resonance, and focus of articulation. “This may sound technical,” says Beth, “but inevitably, aspects surface as pathways for the actor to weave the accent into the matrix of transformation. The modality that the actor chooses in their approach can change as one moves from one accent to another, but there are landmarks that can help the actor embody any accent.” We'll start by working with multicultural Parisian accents, branching outward across the globe exploring a French accent of your choice. About Beth McGuire Beth has worked as a vocal/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for 40 years. She was a Professor in the Practice of Acting and served as the Director of Speech and Dialects at Yale School of Drama for 23 years. She is currently freelancing, teaching and coaching film, television and theatre, and occasionally still gets on the boards. With colleague Jane Guyer Fujita, she teaches a series of teacher training workshops covering Phonology, Text, Dialects, and production coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors (Routledge press, November 2015), is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre. Most recent dialect coaching projects include Lady in the Lake with Natalie Portman, Lupita N'yongo in The Wild Robot, Ryan Coogler's SINNERS with Michael B Jordan, the Marvel action film, Black Panther, and Jordan Peel’s sociopolitical horror flick US. Selected work in theater includes: African Voices Now: 3 One Acts, Almasi Collaborative Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe; He Brought Her Home in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy at Theatre for a New Audience and KISS by Guillermo Calderón at the Yale Repertory Theatre both directed Evan...

Company Workshop Beth McGuire: Approach To Learning Dialects Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, December 12, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Saturday, December 13, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, December 14, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Voice and dialect coach and former Yale faculty member Beth McGuire returns to The Actors Center in December for a three day workshop on approaching dialects. A dialect is not a believable one, unless it is fully embodied. This process depends on the individual actor’s access to their instrument. Beth will guide participants in exploring melody, rhythm, pace, oral posture, phonemic changes, source and path of the resonance, and focus of articulation. “This may sound technical,” says Beth, “but inevitably, aspects surface as pathways for the actor to weave the accent into the matrix of transformation. The modality that the actor chooses in their approach can change as one moves from one accent to another, but there are landmarks that can help the actor embody any accent.” We'll start by working with multicultural Parisian accents, branching outward across the globe exploring a French accent of your choice. About Beth McGuire Beth has worked as a vocal/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for 40 years. She was a Professor in the Practice of Acting and served as the Director of Speech and Dialects at Yale School of Drama for 23 years. She is currently freelancing, teaching and coaching film, television and theatre, and occasionally still gets on the boards. With colleague Jane Guyer Fujita, she teaches a series of teacher training workshops covering Phonology, Text, Dialects, and production coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors (Routledge press, November 2015), is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre. Most recent dialect coaching projects include Lady in the Lake with Natalie Portman, Lupita N'yongo in The Wild Robot, Ryan Coogler's SINNERS with Michael B Jordan, the Marvel action film, Black Panther, and Jordan Peel’s sociopolitical horror flick US. Selected work in theater includes: African Voices Now: 3 One Acts, Almasi Collaborative Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe; He Brought Her Home in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy at Theatre for a New Audience and KISS by Guillermo Calderón at the Yale Repertory Theatre both directed Evan...

Company Workshop Fay Simpson: High-Stakes Scene Work 5 Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 17, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm -- No Session November 24 -- Monday, December 1, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 8, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 15, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Founder of the Lucid Body, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Head of Movement at NYU Grad Acting, Fay Simpson, returns to The Actors Center for a five week workshop focusing on building high stakes scenes respectfully and deeply utilizing her physical approach. The first two weeks will delve into advanced tools for active listening and somatic sensitivity needed when approaching scenes involving close relationships. Over the subsequent three weeks, a scene partner and scene will be chosen and explored using exercises to help build physical history, affection, and the bile that may occur as an aftermath. Whether you are new to Lucid Body or not, this workshop will offer tools for embodying the conflicting layers present inside a character, as well as between characters, on a blood and bone level. About Fay Simpson Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express human complexity and passion with safety and skill. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). She is an IPA-certified Intimacy Coordinator and has been a physical acting director and somatic acting coach for more than twenty years. Fay has also taught at The Yale School of Drama, the New School’s Eugene Lang, Michael Howard Studios, The Studio/NY, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center. Fay was awarded a Fox Foundation Fellowship to intern with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater in London in 2000. Re-balancing the nervous system and energetic body of each actor and between actors after every rehearsal is a priority and the reason she became an intimacy coordinator. She has choreographed intimacy for numerous plays, ballets, and screen projects, with credits that include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Classical Theater of...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Will Davis: Play Laboratory Sarah Ruhl's Late, A Cowboy Song Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, January 24, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio 3A) Sunday, January 25, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Black Box) Monday, January 26, 2026 – 5:00pm-9:00pm (Studio X) Sat/Sun: Playwrights Studios @440, 440 Lafayette Street Mon: Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Director, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, Will Davis, returns to The Actors Center this January for a three-day play laboratory exploring the world of Sarah Ruhl’s Late, A Cowboy Song. Working collaboratively and on our feet, we’ll investigate the play—exploring scenes and alternating roles (across age, gender, type)—guided by Will’s physically adventurous and ensemble-driven directing style. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll experiment with how the text behaves in space, in bodies, and in relation to sound and movement. Will will lead investigations that explore moments of claustrophobia versus moments of openness; play with layering voices and redistributing text among multiple actors; and work with a slowed-down line dance as a possible ritual form—asking how poetry, music, and choreography affect the play’s emotional landscape and sense of time. The emphasis throughout will be on exploration rather than outcome: allowing the play to reveal itself through shared inquiry, physical experimentation, and attentive ensemble work. About the Play Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy named Red who teaches her how to ride a horse. Red exudes a taste of freedom that Mary didn't even know she lacked, and is suddenly desperate to find. Late, a Cowboy Song, is the story of one woman's education and her search to find true love outside the box. Written by Sarah Ruhl, the play premiered in 2003 at Clubbed Thumb. » Read the play About Will Davis Will Davis is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater. As a director and choreographer, his work has been seen Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, City Center, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Soho Rep. Regionally, his work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and ATC in Chicago where Davis previously served as Artistic Director. He received a Helen Hayes award for best direction for his work on Colossal at the Olney Theatre Center, was...

Company Workshop Will Davis: Play Laboratory Sarah Ruhl's Late, A Cowboy Song Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, January 24, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio 3A) Sunday, January 25, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Black Box) Monday, January 26, 2026 – 5:00pm-9:00pm (Studio X) Sat/Sun: Playwrights Studios @440, 440 Lafayette Street Mon: Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Director, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, Will Davis, returns to The Actors Center this January for a three-day play laboratory exploring the world of Sarah Ruhl’s Late, A Cowboy Song. Working collaboratively and on our feet, we’ll investigate the play—exploring scenes and alternating roles (across age, gender, type)—guided by Will’s physically adventurous and ensemble-driven directing style. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll experiment with how the text behaves in space, in bodies, and in relation to sound and movement. Will will lead investigations that explore moments of claustrophobia versus moments of openness; play with layering voices and redistributing text among multiple actors; and work with a slowed-down line dance as a possible ritual form—asking how poetry, music, and choreography affect the play’s emotional landscape and sense of time. The emphasis throughout will be on exploration rather than outcome: allowing the play to reveal itself through shared inquiry, physical experimentation, and attentive ensemble work. About the Play Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy named Red who teaches her how to ride a horse. Red exudes a taste of freedom that Mary didn't even know she lacked, and is suddenly desperate to find. Late, a Cowboy Song, is the story of one woman's education and her search to find true love outside the box. Written by Sarah Ruhl, the play premiered in 2003 at Clubbed Thumb. » Read the play About Will Davis Will Davis is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater. As a director and choreographer, his work has been seen Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, City Center, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Soho Rep. Regionally, his work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and ATC in Chicago where Davis previously served as Artistic Director. He received a Helen Hayes award for best direction for his work on Colossal at the Olney Theatre Center, was...

Company Workshop Will Davis: Play Laboratory Sarah Ruhl's Late, A Cowboy Song Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, January 24, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio 3A) Sunday, January 25, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Black Box) Monday, January 26, 2026 – 5:00pm-9:00pm (Studio X) Sat/Sun: Playwrights Studios @440, 440 Lafayette Street Mon: Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Director, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, Will Davis, returns to The Actors Center this January for a three-day play laboratory exploring the world of Sarah Ruhl’s Late, A Cowboy Song. Working collaboratively and on our feet, we’ll investigate the play—exploring scenes and alternating roles (across age, gender, type)—guided by Will’s physically adventurous and ensemble-driven directing style. Over the course of the weekend, we’ll experiment with how the text behaves in space, in bodies, and in relation to sound and movement. Will will lead investigations that explore moments of claustrophobia versus moments of openness; play with layering voices and redistributing text among multiple actors; and work with a slowed-down line dance as a possible ritual form—asking how poetry, music, and choreography affect the play’s emotional landscape and sense of time. The emphasis throughout will be on exploration rather than outcome: allowing the play to reveal itself through shared inquiry, physical experimentation, and attentive ensemble work. About the Play Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy named Red who teaches her how to ride a horse. Red exudes a taste of freedom that Mary didn't even know she lacked, and is suddenly desperate to find. Late, a Cowboy Song, is the story of one woman's education and her search to find true love outside the box. Written by Sarah Ruhl, the play premiered in 2003 at Clubbed Thumb. » Read the play About Will Davis Will Davis is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater. As a director and choreographer, his work has been seen Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, City Center, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Soho Rep. Regionally, his work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and ATC in Chicago where Davis previously served as Artistic Director. He received a Helen Hayes award for best direction for his work on Colossal at the Olney Theatre Center, was...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop José Zayas: Play Laboratory Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Dates & Times Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 20, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, February 25, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 27, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 20 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom 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 Director and educator José Zayas joins The Actors Center for first time for a four-day play laboratory exploring the world of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding. A lyrical and visceral work of poetic theater, José will lead a collaborative investigation of Lorca’s language, rhythm, and mythic landscape through rehearsal and text work. Engaging with the emotional and poetic extremes of the piece: desire and repression, fate and freedom, ritual and rupture—the group will examine how Lorca’s heightened theatricality ignites contemporary performance, while asking how the body, voice, and imagination unlock the play’s emotional and physical stakes. » Read the Play About José Zayas José Zayas is an award-winning director. He has directed over 100 productions in New York, regionally, and internationally. His credits include: El Perro del Hortelano (Gala Theatre), Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (En Garde Arts), The Queen of Basel (Studio Theatre, DC), Exquisita Agonía (Repertorio Espanol), The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (BAM, MASS MoCA, US & European Tours), A Nonesuch Celebration (BAM), Washed Up on the Potomac (San Francisco Playhouse, The Flea Theater), Undocumented (Joe's Pub), Pinkolandia and El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom (Two River Theater), The House of the Spirits (Teatro Espressivo, Gala Theatre, Denver Center, ACE, HOLA, and Ovation Awards for Best Production and Direction), Your Name Will Follow You Home, La Nena Se Casa, Love in the Time of Cholera, In the Time of the Butterflies, In The Name of Salome, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Burundanga (Repertorio Español, ACE and HOLA Awards for Best Production and Direction for the latter two), Corazon Eterno, (Mixed Blood), Southern Promises and Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist (PS 122, The Brick), Useless (IRT), Father of Lies and Vengeance Can Wait (PS 122); P.S. Jones and the Frozen City, Feeder: A Love Story (TerraNOVA Collective); Privilege, Okay, Mrs. Jones and the Man From Dixieland (EST), The Idea of Me (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Queen Bees (Queens Theatre...

Company Workshop José Zayas: Play Laboratory Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Dates & Times Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 20, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, February 25, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 27, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 20 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom 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 Director and educator José Zayas joins The Actors Center for first time for a four-day play laboratory exploring the world of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding. A lyrical and visceral work of poetic theater, José will lead a collaborative investigation of Lorca’s language, rhythm, and mythic landscape through rehearsal and text work. Engaging with the emotional and poetic extremes of the piece: desire and repression, fate and freedom, ritual and rupture—the group will examine how Lorca’s heightened theatricality ignites contemporary performance, while asking how the body, voice, and imagination unlock the play’s emotional and physical stakes. » Read the Play About José Zayas José Zayas is an award-winning director. He has directed over 100 productions in New York, regionally, and internationally. His credits include: El Perro del Hortelano (Gala Theatre), Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (En Garde Arts), The Queen of Basel (Studio Theatre, DC), Exquisita Agonía (Repertorio Espanol), The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (BAM, MASS MoCA, US & European Tours), A Nonesuch Celebration (BAM), Washed Up on the Potomac (San Francisco Playhouse, The Flea Theater), Undocumented (Joe's Pub), Pinkolandia and El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom (Two River Theater), The House of the Spirits (Teatro Espressivo, Gala Theatre, Denver Center, ACE, HOLA, and Ovation Awards for Best Production and Direction), Your Name Will Follow You Home, La Nena Se Casa, Love in the Time of Cholera, In the Time of the Butterflies, In The Name of Salome, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Burundanga (Repertorio Español, ACE and HOLA Awards for Best Production and Direction for the latter two), Corazon Eterno, (Mixed Blood), Southern Promises and Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist (PS 122, The Brick), Useless (IRT), Father of Lies and Vengeance Can Wait (PS 122); P.S. Jones and the Frozen City, Feeder: A Love Story (TerraNOVA Collective); Privilege, Okay, Mrs. Jones and the Man From Dixieland (EST), The Idea of Me (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Queen Bees (Queens Theatre...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop José Zayas: Play Laboratory Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Dates & Times Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 20, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, February 25, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 27, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 20 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom 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 Director and educator José Zayas joins The Actors Center for first time for a four-day play laboratory exploring the world of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding. A lyrical and visceral work of poetic theater, José will lead a collaborative investigation of Lorca’s language, rhythm, and mythic landscape through rehearsal and text work. Engaging with the emotional and poetic extremes of the piece: desire and repression, fate and freedom, ritual and rupture—the group will examine how Lorca’s heightened theatricality ignites contemporary performance, while asking how the body, voice, and imagination unlock the play’s emotional and physical stakes. » Read the Play About José Zayas José Zayas is an award-winning director. He has directed over 100 productions in New York, regionally, and internationally. His credits include: El Perro del Hortelano (Gala Theatre), Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (En Garde Arts), The Queen of Basel (Studio Theatre, DC), Exquisita Agonía (Repertorio Espanol), The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (BAM, MASS MoCA, US & European Tours), A Nonesuch Celebration (BAM), Washed Up on the Potomac (San Francisco Playhouse, The Flea Theater), Undocumented (Joe's Pub), Pinkolandia and El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom (Two River Theater), The House of the Spirits (Teatro Espressivo, Gala Theatre, Denver Center, ACE, HOLA, and Ovation Awards for Best Production and Direction), Your Name Will Follow You Home, La Nena Se Casa, Love in the Time of Cholera, In the Time of the Butterflies, In The Name of Salome, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Burundanga (Repertorio Español, ACE and HOLA Awards for Best Production and Direction for the latter two), Corazon Eterno, (Mixed Blood), Southern Promises and Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist (PS 122, The Brick), Useless (IRT), Father of Lies and Vengeance Can Wait (PS 122); P.S. Jones and the Frozen City, Feeder: A Love Story (TerraNOVA Collective); Privilege, Okay, Mrs. Jones and the Man From Dixieland (EST), The Idea of Me (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Queen Bees (Queens Theatre...

Company Workshop José Zayas: Play Laboratory Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding Wednesday and Friday Afternoons Dates & Times Wednesday, February 18, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 20, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, February 25, 2026 – 12:30pm-4:30pm Friday, February 27, 2026 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 20 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom 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 Director and educator José Zayas joins The Actors Center for first time for a four-day play laboratory exploring the world of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding. A lyrical and visceral work of poetic theater, José will lead a collaborative investigation of Lorca’s language, rhythm, and mythic landscape through rehearsal and text work. Engaging with the emotional and poetic extremes of the piece: desire and repression, fate and freedom, ritual and rupture—the group will examine how Lorca’s heightened theatricality ignites contemporary performance, while asking how the body, voice, and imagination unlock the play’s emotional and physical stakes. » Read the Play About José Zayas José Zayas is an award-winning director. He has directed over 100 productions in New York, regionally, and internationally. His credits include: El Perro del Hortelano (Gala Theatre), Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (En Garde Arts), The Queen of Basel (Studio Theatre, DC), Exquisita Agonía (Repertorio Espanol), The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (BAM, MASS MoCA, US & European Tours), A Nonesuch Celebration (BAM), Washed Up on the Potomac (San Francisco Playhouse, The Flea Theater), Undocumented (Joe's Pub), Pinkolandia and El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom (Two River Theater), The House of the Spirits (Teatro Espressivo, Gala Theatre, Denver Center, ACE, HOLA, and Ovation Awards for Best Production and Direction), Your Name Will Follow You Home, La Nena Se Casa, Love in the Time of Cholera, In the Time of the Butterflies, In The Name of Salome, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Burundanga (Repertorio Español, ACE and HOLA Awards for Best Production and Direction for the latter two), Corazon Eterno, (Mixed Blood), Southern Promises and Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist (PS 122, The Brick), Useless (IRT), Father of Lies and Vengeance Can Wait (PS 122); P.S. Jones and the Frozen City, Feeder: A Love Story (TerraNOVA Collective); Privilege, Okay, Mrs. Jones and the Man From Dixieland (EST), The Idea of Me (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Queen Bees (Queens Theatre...

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries

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...

Company Workshop Judy Kuhn: Acting the Song Monday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, March 16, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 19, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, March 23, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 26, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Bruce Mitchell Room Open to observers, all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, singer, and company member Judy Kuhn returns to The Actors Center to lead a two-week Acting the Song workshop this March. Designed for the actor who sings or the actor curious about singing, this workshop explores how thought, intention, and impulse are expressed through song. Participants will work individually on material of their choice, investigating song interpretation through improvisation, personalization, close attention to text, and how to “speak” a song. The focus is not on vocal polish, but on storytelling: clarity of intention, relationship to scene partner and audience, and the courage to let a song reveal something immediate and human. About Judy Kuhn Judy Kuhn is a multiple Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in such shows as Fun Home, She Loves Me, Chess, and Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, the Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical Rags, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Recent credits include The Baker's Wife and I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Classic Stage Company (OCC Award), Becoming Eve at New York Theatre Workshop, and Unknown Soldier at Arena Stage. She played Sara Jane Moore in John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at Classic Stage Company (OCC & Drama Desk Noms). Other Off-Broadway credits include Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Award), Eli’s Comin’ at Vineyard Theatre (Obie Award), Fosca in Passion (Drama League Award Nom) In 2019 she starred in Trevor Nunn’s Olivier Award winning production of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for which she received her 2nd Olivier Award Nomination. Film & TV includes: Dear Edward, Tick Tick Boom, Disney’s Pocahontas; Enchanted; Law & Order. Judy has appeared on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall. She has recorded four solo albums. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

Company CoLabs Community Space Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798 Passcode: 374737 Hosted by Jodie Lynne McClintock About the CoLab Started three years ago at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown as a way to connect, it has continued weekly as a family of actors navigating the changing landscape of our times. Here you will find a supportive, safe virtual space where artists in our company bring their stories, concerns, questions, recommendations, and inspirations in a free-wheeling but facilitated discussion. With no set agenda, we delve into whatever is of interest or concern in any given week. We explore what it means to be an actor and what place our art holds in the world.  People suggest balm for body and soul while walking hand-in-hand along the actor’s way. About the Series Company CoLabs are a series at The Actors Center that offer a framework for collaborative explorations and community programming among company members. Company members host or facilitate projects—play reading groups, explorations of new material or approaches, writing labs, devising work, field trips, retreats—in short, anything inspiring to explore among peers. CoLabs offer creative outlets to explore work you might not otherwise have the opportunity for, while continuing to share resources and deepen connections among our Actors Center community. Comments/Queries