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In-Person Workshop Fabio Tavares: Body, Breath & Voice Alexander On-Camera 4 Week Workshop Dates & Times Friday, October 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 28, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 4, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 11, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist and teacher, Fabio Tavares, returns to The Actors Center for a series of four Friday mornings devoted to the Alexander Technique. Alexander’s own quest began as an attempt to solve his vocal issues. Later on he realized that breath, body and voice were all part of the same organism, all deeply connected to his thinking. In order to look at voice and breath we need to understand how the body works. The body produces the voice. In this workshop, Fabio will guide an exploration of ideas and activities that will encourage our bodies to release in order to produce sound and movement with more ease and flow. Whether on stage or on set, the principles are the same. A freer body will produce a freer sound. In the latter part of each session, participants will be invited to bring in film or TV sides to work on-camera and explore adjustments in the work. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares (he/him) is a queer Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, flying, falling, crashing, studying, learning, teaching and making noise since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. Fabio has danced with Elizabeth STREB and her extreme-action company for 14 years where he served as the Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on...

In-Person Workshop DANIELLE SKRAASTAD: Games 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Monday, October 24, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, October 31, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 7, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Ripley Grier, 520 8th Avenue, 16th Floor This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and NYU Grad Acting faculty, Danielle Skraastad, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Monday mornings devoted to Games. Come indulge in the simple pleasure of play and rekindle your connection to joy, divine love, and big feelings with an equally big physicality of passion. Danielle will guide participants through a series of games designed to enhance your ability to listen, find spontaneity and cultivate freedom within structure. Life is hard, making art doesn’t have to be. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Masking required: KN95 or N95 Participants may be able to remove masks for individual exercises Large studio Windows and HVAC system About Danielle Skraastad Danielle Skraastad is a director, teacher and actor. Danielle teaches Games at NYU's MFA Graduate Acting Program. She has worked on the development of The Games Project since 2006. She has previously taught classes and workshops for SUNY Albany, SUNY Purchase, QuestStar, SummerStage, The Heifeitz Institute, The Actors Center, and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, among others. Danielle’s acting credits include the Broadway production of All My Sons, IHO and The Wake at The Public Theater, The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons, Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop, Anon at The Atlantic, Lidless for Page 73, Red Haired Thomas, Cressida Among the Greeks and The Eyes of Others at The Ohio, Carrie PS 122 with Theater Couture, Big Times with WET, A Midsummer Night's Dream with The Continuum Project, New Day at Theater for a New City, Fugue at The Cherry Lane Theater and Lascivious Something at The Cherry Lane (Mentor Project). Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, The Kirk, Two River Theater Festival, The Wilma, Hartford Stage, ACT/Seattle, Portland Stage Co, StageWorks/Hudson, The Lantern. TV/Film: Unforgettable, Law & Order, SVU, Fringe, Mercy, 27 Dresses, and The Business of Story. Danielle's directing credits include the Rope In Your Hands(Frigid Festival), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train and A Hudson Holiday (StageWorksHudson), and original plays Confidence Camp, Road Trip and...

In-Person Workshop Fabio Tavares: Body, Breath & Voice Alexander On-Camera 4 Week Workshop Dates & Times Friday, October 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 28, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 4, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 11, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist and teacher, Fabio Tavares, returns to The Actors Center for a series of four Friday mornings devoted to the Alexander Technique. Alexander’s own quest began as an attempt to solve his vocal issues. Later on he realized that breath, body and voice were all part of the same organism, all deeply connected to his thinking. In order to look at voice and breath we need to understand how the body works. The body produces the voice. In this workshop, Fabio will guide an exploration of ideas and activities that will encourage our bodies to release in order to produce sound and movement with more ease and flow. Whether on stage or on set, the principles are the same. A freer body will produce a freer sound. In the latter part of each session, participants will be invited to bring in film or TV sides to work on-camera and explore adjustments in the work. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares (he/him) is a queer Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, flying, falling, crashing, studying, learning, teaching and making noise since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. Fabio has danced with Elizabeth STREB and her extreme-action company for 14 years where he served as the Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on...

In-Person Workshop DANIELLE SKRAASTAD: Games 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Monday, October 24, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, October 31, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 7, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Ripley Grier, 520 8th Avenue, 16th Floor This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and NYU Grad Acting faculty, Danielle Skraastad, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Monday mornings devoted to Games. Come indulge in the simple pleasure of play and rekindle your connection to joy, divine love, and big feelings with an equally big physicality of passion. Danielle will guide participants through a series of games designed to enhance your ability to listen, find spontaneity and cultivate freedom within structure. Life is hard, making art doesn’t have to be. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Masking required: KN95 or N95 Participants may be able to remove masks for individual exercises Large studio Windows and HVAC system About Danielle Skraastad Danielle Skraastad is a director, teacher and actor. Danielle teaches Games at NYU's MFA Graduate Acting Program. She has worked on the development of The Games Project since 2006. She has previously taught classes and workshops for SUNY Albany, SUNY Purchase, QuestStar, SummerStage, The Heifeitz Institute, The Actors Center, and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, among others. Danielle’s acting credits include the Broadway production of All My Sons, IHO and The Wake at The Public Theater, The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons, Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop, Anon at The Atlantic, Lidless for Page 73, Red Haired Thomas, Cressida Among the Greeks and The Eyes of Others at The Ohio, Carrie PS 122 with Theater Couture, Big Times with WET, A Midsummer Night's Dream with The Continuum Project, New Day at Theater for a New City, Fugue at The Cherry Lane Theater and Lascivious Something at The Cherry Lane (Mentor Project). Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, The Kirk, Two River Theater Festival, The Wilma, Hartford Stage, ACT/Seattle, Portland Stage Co, StageWorks/Hudson, The Lantern. TV/Film: Unforgettable, Law & Order, SVU, Fringe, Mercy, 27 Dresses, and The Business of Story. Danielle's directing credits include the Rope In Your Hands(Frigid Festival), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train and A Hudson Holiday (StageWorksHudson), and original plays Confidence Camp, Road Trip and...

In-Person Workshop Fabio Tavares: Body, Breath & Voice Alexander On-Camera 4 Week Workshop Dates & Times Friday, October 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 28, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 4, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 11, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist and teacher, Fabio Tavares, returns to The Actors Center for a series of four Friday mornings devoted to the Alexander Technique. Alexander’s own quest began as an attempt to solve his vocal issues. Later on he realized that breath, body and voice were all part of the same organism, all deeply connected to his thinking. In order to look at voice and breath we need to understand how the body works. The body produces the voice. In this workshop, Fabio will guide an exploration of ideas and activities that will encourage our bodies to release in order to produce sound and movement with more ease and flow. Whether on stage or on set, the principles are the same. A freer body will produce a freer sound. In the latter part of each session, participants will be invited to bring in film or TV sides to work on-camera and explore adjustments in the work. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares (he/him) is a queer Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, flying, falling, crashing, studying, learning, teaching and making noise since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. Fabio has danced with Elizabeth STREB and her extreme-action company for 14 years where he served as the Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on...

In-Person Workshop Joanna Merlin & Bethany Caputo: Michael Chekhov Technique Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 5, 2022 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 6, 2022 – 11:00am-2:00pm Ripley Grier, 520 8th Avenue, 16th Floor, Studio 16D This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Esteemed actress, educator, and the last living student of Michael Chekhov, Joanna Merlin, returns to The Actors Center alongside colleague Bethany Caputo to lead a two-day workshop on Chekhov’s Psychological Gesture. Chekhov developed this technique as a psychophysical approach in which transformation, working with impulse, imagination, and inner and outer gesture are central. Joanna and Bethany will guide participants through various qualities of movement, physical exploration of gesture, and character choices, aimed at provoking the actor’s body, spirit, and imagination into action. Sessions run 11:00am-2:00pm each day. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and ventilation system About Joanna Merlin & Bethany Caputo Joanna Merlin, a student of Michael Chekhov, is an actor, teacher, and former casting director.  She is a faculty member at New York University’s Graduate Acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts and currently serves as President of the Michael Chekhov Association. She is the recipient of two Casting Society of America Artios Awards for casting Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and Sondheim’s Into the Woods. As Harold Prince’s Casting Director, she cast the original Broadway productions of Sondheim’s Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, and Merrily We Roll Along, as well as Evita, Candide, A Doll’s Life, Play Memory, End of the World, and On the Twentieth Century. As an actor, her Broadway credits include Becket opposite Laurence Olivier and Fiddler on the Roof in which she created the role of Tzeitel, the eldest daughter. Films include Sarah’s Key, The Wackness, Invasion, City of Angels, Class Action, Mystic Pizza, Fame, The Killing Fields, The Ten Commandments. She has appeared on “The Good Wife” and “Homeland” and had a recurring part in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” as Judge Lena Petrovsky. Joanna is a co-founder of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts (formerly the Non-Traditional Casting Project) and was a member of the Tony Awards Nominating Committee. Her book, Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide, was published by Vintage in May, 2001 and is still in print. Bethany Caputo is an acting coach and...

In-Person Workshop Joanna Merlin & Bethany Caputo: Michael Chekhov Technique Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 5, 2022 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 6, 2022 – 11:00am-2:00pm Ripley Grier, 520 8th Avenue, 16th Floor, Studio 16D This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Esteemed actress, educator, and the last living student of Michael Chekhov, Joanna Merlin, returns to The Actors Center alongside colleague Bethany Caputo to lead a two-day workshop on Chekhov’s Psychological Gesture. Chekhov developed this technique as a psychophysical approach in which transformation, working with impulse, imagination, and inner and outer gesture are central. Joanna and Bethany will guide participants through various qualities of movement, physical exploration of gesture, and character choices, aimed at provoking the actor’s body, spirit, and imagination into action. Sessions run 11:00am-2:00pm each day. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and ventilation system About Joanna Merlin & Bethany Caputo Joanna Merlin, a student of Michael Chekhov, is an actor, teacher, and former casting director.  She is a faculty member at New York University’s Graduate Acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts and currently serves as President of the Michael Chekhov Association. She is the recipient of two Casting Society of America Artios Awards for casting Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and Sondheim’s Into the Woods. As Harold Prince’s Casting Director, she cast the original Broadway productions of Sondheim’s Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, and Merrily We Roll Along, as well as Evita, Candide, A Doll’s Life, Play Memory, End of the World, and On the Twentieth Century. As an actor, her Broadway credits include Becket opposite Laurence Olivier and Fiddler on the Roof in which she created the role of Tzeitel, the eldest daughter. Films include Sarah’s Key, The Wackness, Invasion, City of Angels, Class Action, Mystic Pizza, Fame, The Killing Fields, The Ten Commandments. She has appeared on “The Good Wife” and “Homeland” and had a recurring part in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” as Judge Lena Petrovsky. Joanna is a co-founder of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts (formerly the Non-Traditional Casting Project) and was a member of the Tony Awards Nominating Committee. Her book, Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide, was published by Vintage in May, 2001 and is still in print. Bethany Caputo is an acting coach and...

In-Person Workshop DANIELLE SKRAASTAD: Games 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Monday, October 24, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, October 31, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 7, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Ripley Grier, 520 8th Avenue, 16th Floor This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and NYU Grad Acting faculty, Danielle Skraastad, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Monday mornings devoted to Games. Come indulge in the simple pleasure of play and rekindle your connection to joy, divine love, and big feelings with an equally big physicality of passion. Danielle will guide participants through a series of games designed to enhance your ability to listen, find spontaneity and cultivate freedom within structure. Life is hard, making art doesn’t have to be. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Masking required: KN95 or N95 Participants may be able to remove masks for individual exercises Large studio Windows and HVAC system About Danielle Skraastad Danielle Skraastad is a director, teacher and actor. Danielle teaches Games at NYU's MFA Graduate Acting Program. She has worked on the development of The Games Project since 2006. She has previously taught classes and workshops for SUNY Albany, SUNY Purchase, QuestStar, SummerStage, The Heifeitz Institute, The Actors Center, and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, among others. Danielle’s acting credits include the Broadway production of All My Sons, IHO and The Wake at The Public Theater, The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons, Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop, Anon at The Atlantic, Lidless for Page 73, Red Haired Thomas, Cressida Among the Greeks and The Eyes of Others at The Ohio, Carrie PS 122 with Theater Couture, Big Times with WET, A Midsummer Night's Dream with The Continuum Project, New Day at Theater for a New City, Fugue at The Cherry Lane Theater and Lascivious Something at The Cherry Lane (Mentor Project). Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, The Kirk, Two River Theater Festival, The Wilma, Hartford Stage, ACT/Seattle, Portland Stage Co, StageWorks/Hudson, The Lantern. TV/Film: Unforgettable, Law & Order, SVU, Fringe, Mercy, 27 Dresses, and The Business of Story. Danielle's directing credits include the Rope In Your Hands(Frigid Festival), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train and A Hudson Holiday (StageWorksHudson), and original plays Confidence Camp, Road Trip and...

Zoom Workshop Ron Daniels: The Soliloquy 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Wednesday, November 9, 2022 – 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, November 16, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET – Break for Thanksgiving, No Session – Wednesday, November 30, 2022 – (Cancelled) Wednesday, December 7, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 14, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 21, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET (Added) This workshop will take place on Zoom. All company members are invited to observe. About the Workshop Acclaimed international director, teacher, and Honorary Associate Director of the RSC, Ron Daniels, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Wednesday afternoons devoted to Shakespeare's soliloquies. In a collaborative workshop format, each taking turns with the text, we’ll explore moments where both the character and the actor find themselves in a unique situation: alone on stage with nobody but the audience. These are moments when the narrative of the play is suspended and a character confides his or her innermost thoughts with the audience and simply tells the truth, without equivocation. But who is “the audience”? And is the identity of the audience always the same or does it change for different characters and under different circumstances? And above all, if the character is truly engaging with the audience, should we not rather think of these moments as imaginary dialogues between actor and audience instead of as lonely soliloquies? Far from the rush and tumble of the rehearsal room floor and the need to quickly find results, Ron will gently guide participants through unraveling a series of soliloquies, not from an academic, but from an actor’s point of view, inviting greater awareness of moments of possibility and discovery, enhancing the richness of text, and in service of the actor's ability to inhabit Shakespeare's language and make it truly your own. About Ron Daniels Ron Daniels is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a distinction he received after fifteen years directing many RSC productions and serving as Artistic Director of RSC’s The Other Place Theatre. His work with RSC has included two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and one with Mark Rylance), The Tempest (with Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard II and Henry V along with plays by Stephen Poliakoff, David Rudkin, David Edgar and Naomi Wallace, including Anthony Burgess' A...

In-Person Workshop Ken Barnett: Dreamwork for Actors 4 Day Workshop Dates & Times Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 2:30pm-6:30pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th Street) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop “The dream is a theater in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the author, the producer, the public and the critic.” — Carl Jung Actor, teacher, and company member, Ken Barnett, leads a 4-day workshop devoted to Dreamwork for Actors. In this workshop, participants will be engaging with fresh material from their unconscious as delivered by a dream. This potent material provides the opportunity to drop into our most intimate inner lives. 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 expressed in your creative work, and unveil the unacknowledged patterns of thinking or behavior that are limiting you in your capacity for full expression. What is standing in your way in your acting? What might you be holding on to that you no longer need? By engaging with one's own dream material, the actor learns tools that can then be applied to any script in order to deepen the personal connection to your work. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Ken Barnett Ken Barnett is an actor, acting coach, and teacher of Dreamwork for Actors. He studied and trained extensively under Kim Gillingham in Los Angeles and has been coaching privately and teaching workshops in New York and LA for over a decade. He has worked with actors and artists of various disciplines as well as with non-practicing artists who are interested in exploring the unconscious. As an actor, he has worked professionally in New York and Los Angeles for over twenty-five years, performing on and off Broadway and in TV & film. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to...

In-Person Workshop Fabio Tavares: Body, Breath & Voice Alexander On-Camera 4 Week Workshop Dates & Times Friday, October 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 28, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 4, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 11, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist and teacher, Fabio Tavares, returns to The Actors Center for a series of four Friday mornings devoted to the Alexander Technique. Alexander’s own quest began as an attempt to solve his vocal issues. Later on he realized that breath, body and voice were all part of the same organism, all deeply connected to his thinking. In order to look at voice and breath we need to understand how the body works. The body produces the voice. In this workshop, Fabio will guide an exploration of ideas and activities that will encourage our bodies to release in order to produce sound and movement with more ease and flow. Whether on stage or on set, the principles are the same. A freer body will produce a freer sound. In the latter part of each session, participants will be invited to bring in film or TV sides to work on-camera and explore adjustments in the work. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares (he/him) is a queer Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, flying, falling, crashing, studying, learning, teaching and making noise since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. Fabio has danced with Elizabeth STREB and her extreme-action company for 14 years where he served as the Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on...

In-Person Workshop Beth McGuire: Idiolect The way you speak, is where you begin Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 12, 2022 – 11:00am-3:30pm Sunday, November 13, 2022 – 11:00am-3:30pm Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue, 4th Floor, Studio #412 This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Vocal coach, dialect coach, teacher, and company member, Beth McGuire, leads a workshop at The Actors Center for the first time with a weekend devoted to Idiolect. From Beth: “For folks who are unfamiliar with the term Idiolect, it is the particular way in which one speaks. In my experience, when an actor is in service to a script there is nearly always a transformation in relation to how they speak. Sometimes it can be quite clear because a dialect is required in relation to where the event takes place. Other considerations can be status, gender, age, and tactical i.e. code shifting.” Over two days, Beth will guide participants in exploring the psycho-physical relationship we have with our own idiolect, as well as looking at questions of how the understanding of this cellular relationship can be liberating in terms of transformation, and encourage a robust embodiment in relation to accent and dialect work. Areas of investigation will include: experiential anatomy, breath and vibration, articulation of phonemes, prosody, vowel and consonant systems and their relationship to each other and finally, the transformation of sound into image as spoken in ‘the word’.  Sessions run Saturday and Sunday 11:00am-3:30pm with a half-hour break for lunch. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Beth McGuire Beth McGuire has worked as a vocal and accent/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for over 30 years. She was on the Yale School of Drama faculty for over 20 years and recently joined the faculty of Juilliard Drama Division. Beth lives in NYC and has a private practice teaching and coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors, is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre.  Some of Beth’s most recent theater projects include, He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy, at TFNA, directed by Evan Yionoulis, and Twelfth Night at the YRT, directed by Carl Cofield. One of her favorite projects on Broadway was A Streetcar Named...

In-Person Workshop Beth McGuire: Idiolect The way you speak, is where you begin Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 12, 2022 – 11:00am-3:30pm Sunday, November 13, 2022 – 11:00am-3:30pm Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue, 4th Floor, Studio #412 This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Vocal coach, dialect coach, teacher, and company member, Beth McGuire, leads a workshop at The Actors Center for the first time with a weekend devoted to Idiolect. From Beth: “For folks who are unfamiliar with the term Idiolect, it is the particular way in which one speaks. In my experience, when an actor is in service to a script there is nearly always a transformation in relation to how they speak. Sometimes it can be quite clear because a dialect is required in relation to where the event takes place. Other considerations can be status, gender, age, and tactical i.e. code shifting.” Over two days, Beth will guide participants in exploring the psycho-physical relationship we have with our own idiolect, as well as looking at questions of how the understanding of this cellular relationship can be liberating in terms of transformation, and encourage a robust embodiment in relation to accent and dialect work. Areas of investigation will include: experiential anatomy, breath and vibration, articulation of phonemes, prosody, vowel and consonant systems and their relationship to each other and finally, the transformation of sound into image as spoken in ‘the word’.  Sessions run Saturday and Sunday 11:00am-3:30pm with a half-hour break for lunch. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Beth McGuire Beth McGuire has worked as a vocal and accent/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for over 30 years. She was on the Yale School of Drama faculty for over 20 years and recently joined the faculty of Juilliard Drama Division. Beth lives in NYC and has a private practice teaching and coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors, is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre.  Some of Beth’s most recent theater projects include, He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy, at TFNA, directed by Evan Yionoulis, and Twelfth Night at the YRT, directed by Carl Cofield. One of her favorite projects on Broadway was A Streetcar Named...

In-Person Workshop DANIELLE SKRAASTAD: Games 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Monday, October 24, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, October 31, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 7, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Ripley Grier, 520 8th Avenue, 16th Floor This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and NYU Grad Acting faculty, Danielle Skraastad, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Monday mornings devoted to Games. Come indulge in the simple pleasure of play and rekindle your connection to joy, divine love, and big feelings with an equally big physicality of passion. Danielle will guide participants through a series of games designed to enhance your ability to listen, find spontaneity and cultivate freedom within structure. Life is hard, making art doesn’t have to be. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Masking required: KN95 or N95 Participants may be able to remove masks for individual exercises Large studio Windows and HVAC system About Danielle Skraastad Danielle Skraastad is a director, teacher and actor. Danielle teaches Games at NYU's MFA Graduate Acting Program. She has worked on the development of The Games Project since 2006. She has previously taught classes and workshops for SUNY Albany, SUNY Purchase, QuestStar, SummerStage, The Heifeitz Institute, The Actors Center, and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, among others. Danielle’s acting credits include the Broadway production of All My Sons, IHO and The Wake at The Public Theater, The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons, Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop, Anon at The Atlantic, Lidless for Page 73, Red Haired Thomas, Cressida Among the Greeks and The Eyes of Others at The Ohio, Carrie PS 122 with Theater Couture, Big Times with WET, A Midsummer Night's Dream with The Continuum Project, New Day at Theater for a New City, Fugue at The Cherry Lane Theater and Lascivious Something at The Cherry Lane (Mentor Project). Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, The Kirk, Two River Theater Festival, The Wilma, Hartford Stage, ACT/Seattle, Portland Stage Co, StageWorks/Hudson, The Lantern. TV/Film: Unforgettable, Law & Order, SVU, Fringe, Mercy, 27 Dresses, and The Business of Story. Danielle's directing credits include the Rope In Your Hands(Frigid Festival), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train and A Hudson Holiday (StageWorksHudson), and original plays Confidence Camp, Road Trip and...

In-Person Workshop Ken Barnett: Dreamwork for Actors 4 Day Workshop Dates & Times Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 2:30pm-6:30pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th Street) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop “The dream is a theater in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the author, the producer, the public and the critic.” — Carl Jung Actor, teacher, and company member, Ken Barnett, leads a 4-day workshop devoted to Dreamwork for Actors. In this workshop, participants will be engaging with fresh material from their unconscious as delivered by a dream. This potent material provides the opportunity to drop into our most intimate inner lives. 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 expressed in your creative work, and unveil the unacknowledged patterns of thinking or behavior that are limiting you in your capacity for full expression. What is standing in your way in your acting? What might you be holding on to that you no longer need? By engaging with one's own dream material, the actor learns tools that can then be applied to any script in order to deepen the personal connection to your work. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Ken Barnett Ken Barnett is an actor, acting coach, and teacher of Dreamwork for Actors. He studied and trained extensively under Kim Gillingham in Los Angeles and has been coaching privately and teaching workshops in New York and LA for over a decade. He has worked with actors and artists of various disciplines as well as with non-practicing artists who are interested in exploring the unconscious. As an actor, he has worked professionally in New York and Los Angeles for over twenty-five years, performing on and off Broadway and in TV & film. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to...

Zoom Workshop Ron Daniels: The Soliloquy 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Wednesday, November 9, 2022 – 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, November 16, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET – Break for Thanksgiving, No Session – Wednesday, November 30, 2022 – (Cancelled) Wednesday, December 7, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 14, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 21, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET (Added) This workshop will take place on Zoom. All company members are invited to observe. About the Workshop Acclaimed international director, teacher, and Honorary Associate Director of the RSC, Ron Daniels, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Wednesday afternoons devoted to Shakespeare's soliloquies. In a collaborative workshop format, each taking turns with the text, we’ll explore moments where both the character and the actor find themselves in a unique situation: alone on stage with nobody but the audience. These are moments when the narrative of the play is suspended and a character confides his or her innermost thoughts with the audience and simply tells the truth, without equivocation. But who is “the audience”? And is the identity of the audience always the same or does it change for different characters and under different circumstances? And above all, if the character is truly engaging with the audience, should we not rather think of these moments as imaginary dialogues between actor and audience instead of as lonely soliloquies? Far from the rush and tumble of the rehearsal room floor and the need to quickly find results, Ron will gently guide participants through unraveling a series of soliloquies, not from an academic, but from an actor’s point of view, inviting greater awareness of moments of possibility and discovery, enhancing the richness of text, and in service of the actor's ability to inhabit Shakespeare's language and make it truly your own. About Ron Daniels Ron Daniels is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a distinction he received after fifteen years directing many RSC productions and serving as Artistic Director of RSC’s The Other Place Theatre. His work with RSC has included two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and one with Mark Rylance), The Tempest (with Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard II and Henry V along with plays by Stephen Poliakoff, David Rudkin, David Edgar and Naomi Wallace, including Anthony Burgess' A...

In-Person Workshop Ken Barnett: Dreamwork for Actors 4 Day Workshop Dates & Times Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 2:30pm-6:30pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th Street) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop “The dream is a theater in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the author, the producer, the public and the critic.” — Carl Jung Actor, teacher, and company member, Ken Barnett, leads a 4-day workshop devoted to Dreamwork for Actors. In this workshop, participants will be engaging with fresh material from their unconscious as delivered by a dream. This potent material provides the opportunity to drop into our most intimate inner lives. 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 expressed in your creative work, and unveil the unacknowledged patterns of thinking or behavior that are limiting you in your capacity for full expression. What is standing in your way in your acting? What might you be holding on to that you no longer need? By engaging with one's own dream material, the actor learns tools that can then be applied to any script in order to deepen the personal connection to your work. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Ken Barnett Ken Barnett is an actor, acting coach, and teacher of Dreamwork for Actors. He studied and trained extensively under Kim Gillingham in Los Angeles and has been coaching privately and teaching workshops in New York and LA for over a decade. He has worked with actors and artists of various disciplines as well as with non-practicing artists who are interested in exploring the unconscious. As an actor, he has worked professionally in New York and Los Angeles for over twenty-five years, performing on and off Broadway and in TV & film. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to...

In-Person Workshop DANIELLE SKRAASTAD: Games 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Monday, October 24, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, October 31, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 7, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 10:00am-1:00pm Ripley Grier, 520 8th Avenue, 16th Floor This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and NYU Grad Acting faculty, Danielle Skraastad, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Monday mornings devoted to Games. Come indulge in the simple pleasure of play and rekindle your connection to joy, divine love, and big feelings with an equally big physicality of passion. Danielle will guide participants through a series of games designed to enhance your ability to listen, find spontaneity and cultivate freedom within structure. Life is hard, making art doesn’t have to be. Sessions run weekly, 10am-1pm. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Masking required: KN95 or N95 Participants may be able to remove masks for individual exercises Large studio Windows and HVAC system About Danielle Skraastad Danielle Skraastad is a director, teacher and actor. Danielle teaches Games at NYU's MFA Graduate Acting Program. She has worked on the development of The Games Project since 2006. She has previously taught classes and workshops for SUNY Albany, SUNY Purchase, QuestStar, SummerStage, The Heifeitz Institute, The Actors Center, and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, among others. Danielle’s acting credits include the Broadway production of All My Sons, IHO and The Wake at The Public Theater, The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons, Hurricane Diane at New York Theatre Workshop, Anon at The Atlantic, Lidless for Page 73, Red Haired Thomas, Cressida Among the Greeks and The Eyes of Others at The Ohio, Carrie PS 122 with Theater Couture, Big Times with WET, A Midsummer Night's Dream with The Continuum Project, New Day at Theater for a New City, Fugue at The Cherry Lane Theater and Lascivious Something at The Cherry Lane (Mentor Project). Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, The Kirk, Two River Theater Festival, The Wilma, Hartford Stage, ACT/Seattle, Portland Stage Co, StageWorks/Hudson, The Lantern. TV/Film: Unforgettable, Law & Order, SVU, Fringe, Mercy, 27 Dresses, and The Business of Story. Danielle's directing credits include the Rope In Your Hands(Frigid Festival), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train and A Hudson Holiday (StageWorksHudson), and original plays Confidence Camp, Road Trip and...

In-Person Workshop Ken Barnett: Dreamwork for Actors 4 Day Workshop Dates & Times Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 14, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 2:30pm-5:30pm Monday, November 21, 2022 – 2:30pm-6:30pm Lucid Body House, 230 Lexington Ave (at 34th Street) This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop “The dream is a theater in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the author, the producer, the public and the critic.” — Carl Jung Actor, teacher, and company member, Ken Barnett, leads a 4-day workshop devoted to Dreamwork for Actors. In this workshop, participants will be engaging with fresh material from their unconscious as delivered by a dream. This potent material provides the opportunity to drop into our most intimate inner lives. 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 expressed in your creative work, and unveil the unacknowledged patterns of thinking or behavior that are limiting you in your capacity for full expression. What is standing in your way in your acting? What might you be holding on to that you no longer need? By engaging with one's own dream material, the actor learns tools that can then be applied to any script in order to deepen the personal connection to your work. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Ken Barnett Ken Barnett is an actor, acting coach, and teacher of Dreamwork for Actors. He studied and trained extensively under Kim Gillingham in Los Angeles and has been coaching privately and teaching workshops in New York and LA for over a decade. He has worked with actors and artists of various disciplines as well as with non-practicing artists who are interested in exploring the unconscious. As an actor, he has worked professionally in New York and Los Angeles for over twenty-five years, performing on and off Broadway and in TV & film. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to...

Zoom Workshop Ron Daniels: The Soliloquy 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Wednesday, November 9, 2022 – 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, November 16, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET – Break for Thanksgiving, No Session – Wednesday, November 30, 2022 – (Cancelled) Wednesday, December 7, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 14, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 21, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET (Added) This workshop will take place on Zoom. All company members are invited to observe. About the Workshop Acclaimed international director, teacher, and Honorary Associate Director of the RSC, Ron Daniels, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Wednesday afternoons devoted to Shakespeare's soliloquies. In a collaborative workshop format, each taking turns with the text, we’ll explore moments where both the character and the actor find themselves in a unique situation: alone on stage with nobody but the audience. These are moments when the narrative of the play is suspended and a character confides his or her innermost thoughts with the audience and simply tells the truth, without equivocation. But who is “the audience”? And is the identity of the audience always the same or does it change for different characters and under different circumstances? And above all, if the character is truly engaging with the audience, should we not rather think of these moments as imaginary dialogues between actor and audience instead of as lonely soliloquies? Far from the rush and tumble of the rehearsal room floor and the need to quickly find results, Ron will gently guide participants through unraveling a series of soliloquies, not from an academic, but from an actor’s point of view, inviting greater awareness of moments of possibility and discovery, enhancing the richness of text, and in service of the actor's ability to inhabit Shakespeare's language and make it truly your own. About Ron Daniels Ron Daniels is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a distinction he received after fifteen years directing many RSC productions and serving as Artistic Director of RSC’s The Other Place Theatre. His work with RSC has included two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and one with Mark Rylance), The Tempest (with Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard II and Henry V along with plays by Stephen Poliakoff, David Rudkin, David Edgar and Naomi Wallace, including Anthony Burgess' A...

In-Person Workshop Erica Jensen: On-Camera Audition Lab 3-Week Workshop Dates & Times Thursday, December 1, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm Thursday, December 8, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm Thursday, December 15, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm (Postponed) Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 W 28th St, 3rd Floor This workshop will take place in person. All company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Casting director and teacher Erica Jensen joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three week On-Camera Audition Lab. Over a series of Thursday evenings, Erica will help you refine your audition skills, explore tools and approaches for self taping, and lead conversation about the current industry and casting landscape. Erica will work with 5 participants each week on audition sides of your choice, providing feedback and coaching to address obstacles you may be facing in your audition work, and to support greater agency and individual creative freedom. Sessions meet 6:30pm-9:30pm and take place in person. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Partial Masking: All observers must wear N95/KN95 masks Only working participants and teacher will be unmasked Portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers provided in the space About Erica Jensen Erica is one third of the Artios-Award winning team of Calleri Jensen Davis where she has worked steadily as a casting director in film, television and theater for over 20 years. In addition to her work in casting, Erica is a professor of practice at Syracuse University and the director of the Tepper Semester program, the Department of Drama's New York City immersion program. She is also the founder of the She-Collective, a creative safe space for women, female identifying, and non-binary artists that endeavors to connect and aid actors, writers, producers, directors, and creators from underrepresented and diverse backgrounds. Erica previously taught for both the New School and the Tepper Semester, served as an industry mentor at Brown University/Trinity Rep, and is a proud member of the Casting Society of America. She holds an MFA in Acting from Illinois State University and was named American Theater magazine's Top Theater Workers you should know in 2017. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 5 working participants each week. All company members are invited to attend and observe sessions. Comments/Queries

Zoom Workshop Ron Daniels: The Soliloquy 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Wednesday, November 9, 2022 – 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, November 16, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET – Break for Thanksgiving, No Session – Wednesday, November 30, 2022 – (Cancelled) Wednesday, December 7, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 14, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 21, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET (Added) This workshop will take place on Zoom. All company members are invited to observe. About the Workshop Acclaimed international director, teacher, and Honorary Associate Director of the RSC, Ron Daniels, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Wednesday afternoons devoted to Shakespeare's soliloquies. In a collaborative workshop format, each taking turns with the text, we’ll explore moments where both the character and the actor find themselves in a unique situation: alone on stage with nobody but the audience. These are moments when the narrative of the play is suspended and a character confides his or her innermost thoughts with the audience and simply tells the truth, without equivocation. But who is “the audience”? And is the identity of the audience always the same or does it change for different characters and under different circumstances? And above all, if the character is truly engaging with the audience, should we not rather think of these moments as imaginary dialogues between actor and audience instead of as lonely soliloquies? Far from the rush and tumble of the rehearsal room floor and the need to quickly find results, Ron will gently guide participants through unraveling a series of soliloquies, not from an academic, but from an actor’s point of view, inviting greater awareness of moments of possibility and discovery, enhancing the richness of text, and in service of the actor's ability to inhabit Shakespeare's language and make it truly your own. About Ron Daniels Ron Daniels is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a distinction he received after fifteen years directing many RSC productions and serving as Artistic Director of RSC’s The Other Place Theatre. His work with RSC has included two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and one with Mark Rylance), The Tempest (with Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard II and Henry V along with plays by Stephen Poliakoff, David Rudkin, David Edgar and Naomi Wallace, including Anthony Burgess' A...

In-Person Workshop Erica Jensen: On-Camera Audition Lab 3-Week Workshop Dates & Times Thursday, December 1, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm Thursday, December 8, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm Thursday, December 15, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm (Postponed) Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 W 28th St, 3rd Floor This workshop will take place in person. All company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Casting director and teacher Erica Jensen joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three week On-Camera Audition Lab. Over a series of Thursday evenings, Erica will help you refine your audition skills, explore tools and approaches for self taping, and lead conversation about the current industry and casting landscape. Erica will work with 5 participants each week on audition sides of your choice, providing feedback and coaching to address obstacles you may be facing in your audition work, and to support greater agency and individual creative freedom. Sessions meet 6:30pm-9:30pm and take place in person. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Partial Masking: All observers must wear N95/KN95 masks Only working participants and teacher will be unmasked Portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers provided in the space About Erica Jensen Erica is one third of the Artios-Award winning team of Calleri Jensen Davis where she has worked steadily as a casting director in film, television and theater for over 20 years. In addition to her work in casting, Erica is a professor of practice at Syracuse University and the director of the Tepper Semester program, the Department of Drama's New York City immersion program. She is also the founder of the She-Collective, a creative safe space for women, female identifying, and non-binary artists that endeavors to connect and aid actors, writers, producers, directors, and creators from underrepresented and diverse backgrounds. Erica previously taught for both the New School and the Tepper Semester, served as an industry mentor at Brown University/Trinity Rep, and is a proud member of the Casting Society of America. She holds an MFA in Acting from Illinois State University and was named American Theater magazine's Top Theater Workers you should know in 2017. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 5 working participants each week. All company members are invited to attend and observe sessions. Comments/Queries

Company CoLab STUDY HALL: A Weekly Writing Space Friday Mornings on Zoom Upcoming Dates & Times Friday, December 9, 2022 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 16, 2022 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 23, 2022 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Hosted in December by Rebecca Harris Two Hours Each Week on Zoom, Dedicated to Showing Up and Writing About the Event Last year, Heidi Armbruster helped us launch a once-a-week informal gathering for company members to work on writing projects you might have in development, called Study Hall. The idea is to support each other in making progress with our work by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. We are launching a reboot of Study Hall and want to welcome any company members who would like to join! For now, we will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am until 11:00am. We’ll do a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. We’ll reconvene around 10:50am to report back or check out. Again, that’s optional. Come and go as you wish. Feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. Sessions this month will take place December 9, 16, and 23. RSVP below for the Zoom link and join us. Please also be on the lookout for other writing based activities, including in person groups, coming in the new year. About Company CoLabs Company CoLabs is a series at The Actors Center that offers 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. RSVP to Attend Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop Kevin Isola: Clown Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, December 10, 2022 – 11:00am-4:30pm Sunday, December 11, 2022 – 11:00am-4:30pm Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor This workshop will take place in person. We are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and NYU Grad Acting faculty, Kevin Isola, returns to The Actors Center for a weekend workshop, December 10th and 11th, diving into the world of the clown. Come tap into your sense of joy and invite the assumption of your own brilliance to be a guiding force in your work. We’ll demystify and befriend the concept of failure, so that risk, surprise, fearlessness, and delight can become the backbone of your artistry. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 11am-4:30pm with a lunch break. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: At-home rapid covid test required before each session Masks optional Daily health screening questionnaire Large studio Windows and portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers About Kevin Isola Kevin Isola has been on the faculty of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program for the past 13 years where he teaches Shakespeare’s Clowns in the first year and Advanced Theatre Clowning Techniques in the third year. Additionally, he’s been invited to teach at The Actors Center, Fordham University, Wagner College, Muhlenberg College, Red Bull Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and The 52nd Street Project. Kevin is a professional actor who for the past twenty seven years has performed in most every facet of the entertainment industry. From Broadway and Off-Broadway to regional theatre. From Lincoln Center to Shakespeare in the Park, Manhattan Theatre Club to Signature. Yale Rep to The Old Globe, The Guthrie to South Coast Rep. He has worked on everything from major studio films to small independents, streaming services to network shows. He also co-created the clown show The New Bozena with Rainn Wilson (The Office), David Costabile (Billions, Lincoln), and Michael Dahlen (Blue Man Group) which ran for five months Off-Broadway, continued regionally, and sold to Twentieth Century Fox. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Participants are asked to be able to attend both sessions. Comments/Queries

Zoom Workshop Ron Daniels: The Soliloquy 5 Week Workshop Dates & Times Wednesday, November 9, 2022 – 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, November 16, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET – Break for Thanksgiving, No Session – Wednesday, November 30, 2022 – (Cancelled) Wednesday, December 7, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 14, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET Wednesday, December 21, 2022– 3:00pm-6:00pm ET (Added) This workshop will take place on Zoom. All company members are invited to observe. About the Workshop Acclaimed international director, teacher, and Honorary Associate Director of the RSC, Ron Daniels, returns to The Actors Center for a series of five Wednesday afternoons devoted to Shakespeare's soliloquies. In a collaborative workshop format, each taking turns with the text, we’ll explore moments where both the character and the actor find themselves in a unique situation: alone on stage with nobody but the audience. These are moments when the narrative of the play is suspended and a character confides his or her innermost thoughts with the audience and simply tells the truth, without equivocation. But who is “the audience”? And is the identity of the audience always the same or does it change for different characters and under different circumstances? And above all, if the character is truly engaging with the audience, should we not rather think of these moments as imaginary dialogues between actor and audience instead of as lonely soliloquies? Far from the rush and tumble of the rehearsal room floor and the need to quickly find results, Ron will gently guide participants through unraveling a series of soliloquies, not from an academic, but from an actor’s point of view, inviting greater awareness of moments of possibility and discovery, enhancing the richness of text, and in service of the actor's ability to inhabit Shakespeare's language and make it truly your own. About Ron Daniels Ron Daniels is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a distinction he received after fifteen years directing many RSC productions and serving as Artistic Director of RSC’s The Other Place Theatre. His work with RSC has included two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and one with Mark Rylance), The Tempest (with Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard II and Henry V along with plays by Stephen Poliakoff, David Rudkin, David Edgar and Naomi Wallace, including Anthony Burgess' A...

In-Person Workshop Erica Jensen: On-Camera Audition Lab 3-Week Workshop Dates & Times Thursday, December 1, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm Thursday, December 8, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm Thursday, December 15, 2022 – 6:30pm-9:30pm (Postponed) Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 W 28th St, 3rd Floor This workshop will take place in person. All company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Casting director and teacher Erica Jensen joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three week On-Camera Audition Lab. Over a series of Thursday evenings, Erica will help you refine your audition skills, explore tools and approaches for self taping, and lead conversation about the current industry and casting landscape. Erica will work with 5 participants each week on audition sides of your choice, providing feedback and coaching to address obstacles you may be facing in your audition work, and to support greater agency and individual creative freedom. Sessions meet 6:30pm-9:30pm and take place in person. COVID-19 Safety Policies For this workshop: Partial Masking: All observers must wear N95/KN95 masks Only working participants and teacher will be unmasked Portable HEPA/equivalent air purifiers provided in the space About Erica Jensen Erica is one third of the Artios-Award winning team of Calleri Jensen Davis where she has worked steadily as a casting director in film, television and theater for over 20 years. In addition to her work in casting, Erica is a professor of practice at Syracuse University and the director of the Tepper Semester program, the Department of Drama's New York City immersion program. She is also the founder of the She-Collective, a creative safe space for women, female identifying, and non-binary artists that endeavors to connect and aid actors, writers, producers, directors, and creators from underrepresented and diverse backgrounds. Erica previously taught for both the New School and the Tepper Semester, served as an industry mentor at Brown University/Trinity Rep, and is a proud member of the Casting Society of America. She holds an MFA in Acting from Illinois State University and was named American Theater magazine's Top Theater Workers you should know in 2017. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 5 working participants each week. All company members are invited to attend and observe sessions. Comments/Queries