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Company Workshop Andrea Haring: Embodied Imagery in Voice and Text Saturday & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Saturday, October 25, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, October 26, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop “Imagination is the language of acting. When you regularly employ imagery to exercise the experience of the voice, you program a mind/body connection that brings imagination out of the head and into the realm of the body. Images arouse feelings that trigger impulse and action… Only when imagination is embodied in the actor’s organism will the actor perform as a whole entity.” — Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice Vocal coach, educator, and Executive Director of The Linklater Center for Voice and Language, Andrea Haring, joins The Actors Center for the first time in October for a weekend workshop. The workshop will explore how our voice can express the vibrancy of our human emotional experience, the complexity of our thought process, and the power of our intention to enliven the communication of our text. An essential ingredient for this connection is opening to being influenced by imagery. Our ability to respond to images runs through our nervous system. We are training to develop our creative artistry as storytellers, and to freely bring our unique personal perspective through our voices and bodies into our work. Andrea will guide participants through a vocal warm-up that focuses on releasing tensions that inhibit expression, developing vocal resonance, and building the actor’s range of expressive choices, as well as clarity in speaking—allowing you to find your personal connection and vocal freedom, and then see how that can translate to work on a text of your choice. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Andrea Haring Andrea Haring is the Executive Director of The Linklater Center for Voice and Language in NYC. Recent Broadway plays and other projects she’s coached are: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott), American Buffalo (Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss), Walking With Ghosts (Gabriel Byrne), Fosse/Verdon (Sam Rockwell), Wolf Hall (RSC), Disgraced, Fool for Love (Sam Rockwell), Private Lives (Kim Cattrall). Off-Broadway includes: Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Liza Colon-Zayas, Patrice Johnson), In the Blood (Russell G Jones, Signature Theater), Sell/Buy/Date (Sarah Jones, MTC), Lips Together, Teeth Apart (America Ferrera, Second Stage), John...

Company Workshop Andrea Haring: Embodied Imagery in Voice and Text Saturday & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Saturday, October 25, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, October 26, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop “Imagination is the language of acting. When you regularly employ imagery to exercise the experience of the voice, you program a mind/body connection that brings imagination out of the head and into the realm of the body. Images arouse feelings that trigger impulse and action… Only when imagination is embodied in the actor’s organism will the actor perform as a whole entity.” — Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice Vocal coach, educator, and Executive Director of The Linklater Center for Voice and Language, Andrea Haring, joins The Actors Center for the first time in October for a weekend workshop. The workshop will explore how our voice can express the vibrancy of our human emotional experience, the complexity of our thought process, and the power of our intention to enliven the communication of our text. An essential ingredient for this connection is opening to being influenced by imagery. Our ability to respond to images runs through our nervous system. We are training to develop our creative artistry as storytellers, and to freely bring our unique personal perspective through our voices and bodies into our work. Andrea will guide participants through a vocal warm-up that focuses on releasing tensions that inhibit expression, developing vocal resonance, and building the actor’s range of expressive choices, as well as clarity in speaking—allowing you to find your personal connection and vocal freedom, and then see how that can translate to work on a text of your choice. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Andrea Haring Andrea Haring is the Executive Director of The Linklater Center for Voice and Language in NYC. Recent Broadway plays and other projects she’s coached are: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott), American Buffalo (Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss), Walking With Ghosts (Gabriel Byrne), Fosse/Verdon (Sam Rockwell), Wolf Hall (RSC), Disgraced, Fool for Love (Sam Rockwell), Private Lives (Kim Cattrall). Off-Broadway includes: Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Liza Colon-Zayas, Patrice Johnson), In the Blood (Russell G Jones, Signature Theater), Sell/Buy/Date (Sarah Jones, MTC), Lips Together, Teeth Apart (America Ferrera, Second Stage), John...

Company Workshop ERICA FAE: Body As Source Six Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, September 23, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, September 30, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm —No Meeting October 14— Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 28, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, November 4, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Gibney Dance 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street (9/23, 9/30, 10/7) Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor (10/21, 10/28, 11/4) This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Teacher, director, performer, and writer Erica Fae returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on emotional and physical integration. Over six weeks, participants will investigate the body as a vehicle for deep transformation, a container of emotional experience, and an elegant tool in articulation. Erica will begin with physical training practices based on the early work of Jerzy Grotowski to awaken and deepen an already-innate connection to mind, heart, and body. Erica will guide participants in expanding their emotional life through full-body training, working with image as a source and tool, and unpacking innate patterns or habits in the body. We will parse out experience, observations, and judgements within the work, and work with how the body can be a roadmap towards specific acting choices. About Erica Fae Writer, director, performer, and teacher Erica Fae brings radical stories from history to stage and screen. Her first feature film To Keep the Light won the Fipresci Prize, among other festival awards, and is currently on Amazon Prime. Her original plays include A Girl Joan, Saved Again and by Him, and Take What Is Yours with Jill A. Samuels. Erica currently teaches Physical Acting at Yale's David Geffen School of Drama. She first trained in Grotowski-based work at age 15 and studied at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing where she later taught. She has also taught at The New School for Drama, Columbia’s M.F.A. Film Program, The Actors Center, and in private workshops and retreats. As actor, she’s been on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix's Partner Track, Random Acts of Flyness and Doll & Em, and in feature films First Reformed, Synecdoche New York, The Savages, Little Children, Please Give. She’s also worked with, among others, Martha Clarke, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time, and Ping Chong; and has performed at The New Victory, The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theater, American Conservatory Theater, the Walker Arts Center, Performing Arts Chicago, the McCarter Theatre and the Power...

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 Scott Illingworth: Physical Actioning Tuesday & Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, October 23, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Tuesday, October 28, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, October 30, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Director, educator, and faculty member at NYU Grad Acting, Scott Illingworth, joins The Actors Center for the first time for a workshop on his Physical Actioning technique. Physical Actioning builds on the vocabulary of simple action verbs to generate an entire set of practical tools from first read to performance that harnesses modern knowledge about the integration of the mind and the rest of the body. Scott will guide participants in creating character palettes to explore in rehearsal, embodied exercises to deepen your relationship to character history, and new ways to connect text with your physical response to partner and circumstance. Physical Actioning creates a modern toolkit for the actor’s work that keeps the exploration embodied at every step and empowers them with specific techniques to apply on stage and in front of the camera. Sessions run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Scott Illingworth Scott is the Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a freelance director. He is the author of Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning (Routledge); a founder of SOCIETY, a New York City theatre company; and a Fulbright grant recipient. Scott has taught at universities and schools across the U.S. and internationally. Directing credits span off-Broadway, regional, and international work including new play collaborations with Lucas Hnath, Mona Mansour, Christina Anderson, Ken Urban, Stefanie Zadravec, and Keith Reddin, among others. Scott's work has been seen in New York, across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Recent projects include The Verbatim Salon, a monthly fundraising event where actors perform verbatim stories taken from interviews with people interacting with the US immigration system; and The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine, a performance built entirely from audio diaries and interviews with young Ukrainians in 2022. Scott is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (GCFT). Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 individuals. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop Scott Illingworth: Physical Actioning Tuesday & Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, October 23, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Tuesday, October 28, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, October 30, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Director, educator, and faculty member at NYU Grad Acting, Scott Illingworth, joins The Actors Center for the first time for a workshop on his Physical Actioning technique. Physical Actioning builds on the vocabulary of simple action verbs to generate an entire set of practical tools from first read to performance that harnesses modern knowledge about the integration of the mind and the rest of the body. Scott will guide participants in creating character palettes to explore in rehearsal, embodied exercises to deepen your relationship to character history, and new ways to connect text with your physical response to partner and circumstance. Physical Actioning creates a modern toolkit for the actor’s work that keeps the exploration embodied at every step and empowers them with specific techniques to apply on stage and in front of the camera. Sessions run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Scott Illingworth Scott is the Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a freelance director. He is the author of Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning (Routledge); a founder of SOCIETY, a New York City theatre company; and a Fulbright grant recipient. Scott has taught at universities and schools across the U.S. and internationally. Directing credits span off-Broadway, regional, and international work including new play collaborations with Lucas Hnath, Mona Mansour, Christina Anderson, Ken Urban, Stefanie Zadravec, and Keith Reddin, among others. Scott's work has been seen in New York, across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Recent projects include The Verbatim Salon, a monthly fundraising event where actors perform verbatim stories taken from interviews with people interacting with the US immigration system; and The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine, a performance built entirely from audio diaries and interviews with young Ukrainians in 2022. Scott is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (GCFT). Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 individuals. Comments/Queries

Company Workshop ERICA FAE: Body As Source Six Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, September 23, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, September 30, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm —No Meeting October 14— Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 28, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, November 4, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Gibney Dance 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street (9/23, 9/30, 10/7) Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor (10/21, 10/28, 11/4) This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Teacher, director, performer, and writer Erica Fae returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on emotional and physical integration. Over six weeks, participants will investigate the body as a vehicle for deep transformation, a container of emotional experience, and an elegant tool in articulation. Erica will begin with physical training practices based on the early work of Jerzy Grotowski to awaken and deepen an already-innate connection to mind, heart, and body. Erica will guide participants in expanding their emotional life through full-body training, working with image as a source and tool, and unpacking innate patterns or habits in the body. We will parse out experience, observations, and judgements within the work, and work with how the body can be a roadmap towards specific acting choices. About Erica Fae Writer, director, performer, and teacher Erica Fae brings radical stories from history to stage and screen. Her first feature film To Keep the Light won the Fipresci Prize, among other festival awards, and is currently on Amazon Prime. Her original plays include A Girl Joan, Saved Again and by Him, and Take What Is Yours with Jill A. Samuels. Erica currently teaches Physical Acting at Yale's David Geffen School of Drama. She first trained in Grotowski-based work at age 15 and studied at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing where she later taught. She has also taught at The New School for Drama, Columbia’s M.F.A. Film Program, The Actors Center, and in private workshops and retreats. As actor, she’s been on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix's Partner Track, Random Acts of Flyness and Doll & Em, and in feature films First Reformed, Synecdoche New York, The Savages, Little Children, Please Give. She’s also worked with, among others, Martha Clarke, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time, and Ping Chong; and has performed at The New Victory, The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theater, American Conservatory Theater, the Walker Arts Center, Performing Arts Chicago, the McCarter Theatre and the Power...

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 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 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