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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd 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 Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay 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. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be 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. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by...

Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd 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 Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay 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. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be 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. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by...

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

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

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

Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd 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 Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay 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. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be 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. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by...

Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd 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 Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay 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. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be 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. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by...

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 Emmanuelle Delpech: Neutral Mask Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, April 4, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday,  April 5, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Studio E This workshop is only open to participants. We are unable to accommodate observers. About the Workshop Physical theatre artist, director, and teacher Emmanuelle Delpech joins The Actors Center for the first time for a weekend workshop devoted to Neutral Mask. The mask of calm and balance, it is a pedagogical tool that challenges the actor to use their entire body to discover presence through experiencing and understanding the ‘neutral state’—a state without personal stories, where there is no past nor future. Through emphasizing presence, the actor works toward an economy of movement, and thus, uncovers their unique, personal rhythms and habits. By letting go of those habits, the actor can create a blank slate from which characters can be built and acting can begin. About Emmanuelle Delpech Emmanuelle Delpech is a French physical theater artist and teacher living in the United States. She was classically trained in France at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de la Ville de Paris and then studied physical theater at l’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where she now serves on the faculty. Emmanuelle was a member of The Pig Iron Theatre Company for 8 years as an actor/creator and now teaches at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Training. She has an MFA in Directing from Temple University, where she currently serves on faculty as well. As an independent artist, Emmanuelle directs new creations for other artists, she also creates and performs in her own pieces or directs for regional theaters. She created and performed Spinning Immigrant, and in Madame Douce-Amere produced by 1812 Productions. Her collaboration with Jen Child continued for her project The Woman and Comedy Project: It’s my party! ‍Emmanuelle also directed Oedipus at FDR, FRONTIN’ with James Ijames on the tradition of Blackface performances and the identity of the black performers in America, Charlotte Ford’s BANG, her clown adaptation of Marivaux’s La Dispute, and for her thesis Moliere’s Tartuffe as an urban clown feast. As a teacher, Emmanuelle has taught semester-long courses at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College and University of the Arts. She has also taught workshops for the Volcano Institute in Toronto and the Movement Theater Studio in NYC (where she is a regular on the...

Company Workshop Emmanuelle Delpech: Neutral Mask Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, April 4, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday,  April 5, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Studio E This workshop is only open to participants. We are unable to accommodate observers. About the Workshop Physical theatre artist, director, and teacher Emmanuelle Delpech joins The Actors Center for the first time for a weekend workshop devoted to Neutral Mask. The mask of calm and balance, it is a pedagogical tool that challenges the actor to use their entire body to discover presence through experiencing and understanding the ‘neutral state’—a state without personal stories, where there is no past nor future. Through emphasizing presence, the actor works toward an economy of movement, and thus, uncovers their unique, personal rhythms and habits. By letting go of those habits, the actor can create a blank slate from which characters can be built and acting can begin. About Emmanuelle Delpech Emmanuelle Delpech is a French physical theater artist and teacher living in the United States. She was classically trained in France at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de la Ville de Paris and then studied physical theater at l’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where she now serves on the faculty. Emmanuelle was a member of The Pig Iron Theatre Company for 8 years as an actor/creator and now teaches at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Training. She has an MFA in Directing from Temple University, where she currently serves on faculty as well. As an independent artist, Emmanuelle directs new creations for other artists, she also creates and performs in her own pieces or directs for regional theaters. She created and performed Spinning Immigrant, and in Madame Douce-Amere produced by 1812 Productions. Her collaboration with Jen Child continued for her project The Woman and Comedy Project: It’s my party! ‍Emmanuelle also directed Oedipus at FDR, FRONTIN’ with James Ijames on the tradition of Blackface performances and the identity of the black performers in America, Charlotte Ford’s BANG, her clown adaptation of Marivaux’s La Dispute, and for her thesis Moliere’s Tartuffe as an urban clown feast. As a teacher, Emmanuelle has taught semester-long courses at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College and University of the Arts. She has also taught workshops for the Volcano Institute in Toronto and the Movement Theater Studio in NYC (where she is a regular on the...

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 Jane Guyer Fujita: Voice, Movement, and Creation Three Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, April 13, 2026 – 10:00am-1:30pm Monday, April 20, 2026 – 10:00am-1:30pm Monday, April 27, 2026 – 10:00am-1:30pm FABnyc, 70 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor Studio This workshop is only open to participants. We are unable to accommodate observers. About the Workshop Head of Voice and Speech at NYU Grad Acting and voice and dialect coach, Jane Guyer Fujita, joins The Actors Center for the first time for a workshop over three Monday mornings. Jane will investigate release work in the body through movement and voice exercises that connect the actor’s experience to their sound. This workshop acknowledges the challenges that require an actor’s perseverance and aims to create space for restoration, curiosity, and play. The goal is to bring the actor back into contact with the body as a responsive, imaginative instrument. We are capable of greater ease, resonance, and expressive freedom. Jane will guide participants in resetting habits of tension, deepening their listening, and reawakening a sense of creative aliveness that can sustain both the craft and the long arc of a life in the theater. About Jane Guyer Fujita Jane Guyer Fujita is the Head of Voice and Speech at New York University’s Graduate Acting Program. As a voice and speech specialist, she has coached voice and accents for productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at regional theaters across the country. She has also served as a dialect coach for both major film studios and independent film productions. As a voice teacher, she has trained in several major vocal techniques, including Fitzmaurice Voicework, Linklater, Roy Hart, and Chuck Jones. Her background in speech training includes both the Knight-Thompson and Skinner methodologies. Jane is certified by Catherine Fitzmaurice as an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Her previous teaching appointments include positions in the MFA acting programs at the Yale School of Drama, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University, where she earned her MFA under Nancy Houfek. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 14 actors. Very limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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