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In-Person Workshop PETER JAY FERNANDEZ: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, April 27, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Saturday, May 3, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, May 4, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. 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 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturdays and Sundays. 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 Suzan Lori Parks, at the Public Theater. Off-Broadway credits include...

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

In-Person Workshop SITA MANI: Meeting & Transforming The Acting Instrument Three Weekday Afternoons Dates & Times Wednesday, May 14, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Thursday, May 15, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Friday, May 16, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio, 2nd Floor Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Movement and Feldenkrais teacher and Head of Movement at Columbia University, Sita Mani, returns to The Actors Center for three weekdays devoted to the body. As actors, the instrument we use is complex. It is regulated by our nervous system, which regulates itself continually in response to shifts in our internal and external environment. Due to how this system functions, oftentimes techniques we previously used effectively to prepare for work, one day no longer work for us, or techniques that seem to be effective for others just never seem to work for us. Based in Feldenkrais principles and practices, this workshop aims to teach us how to most effectively listen to our bodies—using principles that the nervous system understands—in order to bring our human instrument back to its neutral state organically and effectively, and then guide it to readiness and enlivenment for the creative act. Sessions run Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:30pm-4:30pm. About Sita Mani Sita Mani is Head of Movement for the Graduate Acting Program at Columbia University and a founding faculty member of The Studio New York. She has also taught at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Mark Morris Dance School, Feldenkrais Institute, HB Studio, Scott Freeman Studio, and The Drama School Mumbai, as well as privately. Her training includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, The School Of Western Dance and Classical Ballet, Michael Howard Studio and The Feldenkrais Institute. She is a scholarship recipient and graduate of The Actors Center Teacher Development Program and The Hagen Teacher Training Lab. Certifications include Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist, Shiatsu and Reiki Practitioner. Movement work includes Dance, Contact Improvisation, Tae Kwon Do, Aerial Arts, Yoga, Alexander Technique and Lucid Body. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop SITA MANI: Meeting & Transforming The Acting Instrument Three Weekday Afternoons Dates & Times Wednesday, May 14, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Thursday, May 15, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Friday, May 16, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio, 2nd Floor Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Movement and Feldenkrais teacher and Head of Movement at Columbia University, Sita Mani, returns to The Actors Center for three weekdays devoted to the body. As actors, the instrument we use is complex. It is regulated by our nervous system, which regulates itself continually in response to shifts in our internal and external environment. Due to how this system functions, oftentimes techniques we previously used effectively to prepare for work, one day no longer work for us, or techniques that seem to be effective for others just never seem to work for us. Based in Feldenkrais principles and practices, this workshop aims to teach us how to most effectively listen to our bodies—using principles that the nervous system understands—in order to bring our human instrument back to its neutral state organically and effectively, and then guide it to readiness and enlivenment for the creative act. Sessions run Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:30pm-4:30pm. About Sita Mani Sita Mani is Head of Movement for the Graduate Acting Program at Columbia University and a founding faculty member of The Studio New York. She has also taught at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Mark Morris Dance School, Feldenkrais Institute, HB Studio, Scott Freeman Studio, and The Drama School Mumbai, as well as privately. Her training includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, The School Of Western Dance and Classical Ballet, Michael Howard Studio and The Feldenkrais Institute. She is a scholarship recipient and graduate of The Actors Center Teacher Development Program and The Hagen Teacher Training Lab. Certifications include Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist, Shiatsu and Reiki Practitioner. Movement work includes Dance, Contact Improvisation, Tae Kwon Do, Aerial Arts, Yoga, Alexander Technique and Lucid Body. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop SITA MANI: Meeting & Transforming The Acting Instrument Three Weekday Afternoons Dates & Times Wednesday, May 14, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Thursday, May 15, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Friday, May 16, 2025 – 1:30pm-4:30pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio, 2nd Floor Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Movement and Feldenkrais teacher and Head of Movement at Columbia University, Sita Mani, returns to The Actors Center for three weekdays devoted to the body. As actors, the instrument we use is complex. It is regulated by our nervous system, which regulates itself continually in response to shifts in our internal and external environment. Due to how this system functions, oftentimes techniques we previously used effectively to prepare for work, one day no longer work for us, or techniques that seem to be effective for others just never seem to work for us. Based in Feldenkrais principles and practices, this workshop aims to teach us how to most effectively listen to our bodies—using principles that the nervous system understands—in order to bring our human instrument back to its neutral state organically and effectively, and then guide it to readiness and enlivenment for the creative act. Sessions run Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:30pm-4:30pm. About Sita Mani Sita Mani is Head of Movement for the Graduate Acting Program at Columbia University and a founding faculty member of The Studio New York. She has also taught at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Mark Morris Dance School, Feldenkrais Institute, HB Studio, Scott Freeman Studio, and The Drama School Mumbai, as well as privately. Her training includes Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, The School Of Western Dance and Classical Ballet, Michael Howard Studio and The Feldenkrais Institute. She is a scholarship recipient and graduate of The Actors Center Teacher Development Program and The Hagen Teacher Training Lab. Certifications include Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist, Shiatsu and Reiki Practitioner. Movement work includes Dance, Contact Improvisation, Tae Kwon Do, Aerial Arts, Yoga, Alexander Technique and Lucid Body. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Anton Chekhov Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, May 17, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, May 18, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, May 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Sun Location: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for three days devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Each session, Ron will work with company members on three scenes from a different Chekhov play—The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron has selected the following scenes to focus on for this workshop: You can access the scripts here Saturday, May 17 – The Seagull – 11am-2pm Act 2 – Nina & Treplev Act 3 – Arkadina & Treplev Act 3 – Arkadina & Trigorin Sunday, May 18 – Uncle Vanya – 11am-2pm Act 2 – Professor & Yelena Act 2 – Sonya & Astrov Act 2 – Sonya & Yelena Monday, May 19 – Three Sisters – 10am-1pm Act 2 – Masha & Vershinin Act 3 – Masha, Olga, & Irina Act 4 – Tusenbach & Irina Participants will be paired with another company member. You should be off-book with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member...

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Anton Chekhov Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, May 17, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, May 18, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, May 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Sun Location: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for three days devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Each session, Ron will work with company members on three scenes from a different Chekhov play—The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron has selected the following scenes to focus on for this workshop: You can access the scripts here Saturday, May 17 – The Seagull – 11am-2pm Act 2 – Nina & Treplev Act 3 – Arkadina & Treplev Act 3 – Arkadina & Trigorin Sunday, May 18 – Uncle Vanya – 11am-2pm Act 2 – Professor & Yelena Act 2 – Sonya & Astrov Act 2 – Sonya & Yelena Monday, May 19 – Three Sisters – 10am-1pm Act 2 – Masha & Vershinin Act 3 – Masha, Olga, & Irina Act 4 – Tusenbach & Irina Participants will be paired with another company member. You should be off-book with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member...

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Anton Chekhov Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, May 17, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, May 18, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, May 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Sun Location: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for three days devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Each session, Ron will work with company members on three scenes from a different Chekhov play—The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron has selected the following scenes to focus on for this workshop: You can access the scripts here Saturday, May 17 – The Seagull – 11am-2pm Act 2 – Nina & Treplev Act 3 – Arkadina & Treplev Act 3 – Arkadina & Trigorin Sunday, May 18 – Uncle Vanya – 11am-2pm Act 2 – Professor & Yelena Act 2 – Sonya & Astrov Act 2 – Sonya & Yelena Monday, May 19 – Three Sisters – 10am-1pm Act 2 – Masha & Vershinin Act 3 – Masha, Olga, & Irina Act 4 – Tusenbach & Irina Participants will be paired with another company member. You should be off-book with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member...

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

In-Person Workshop Carl Cofield: Greek Origins & Contemporary Offshoots Two Weekdays Dates & Times Tuesday, June 3, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm (with lunch break) Wednesday, June 4, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm (with lunch break) Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Chair of NYU's Grad Acting Program and Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Carl Cofield, returns to The Actors Center for two days devoted to exploring Ancient Greek origins and contemporary offshoots. Why have Greek stories remained relevant throughout history? In this workshop, we will delve into classical Greek source texts alongside their modern adaptations to explore this enduring question. From the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides to the contemporary reimaginings by Luis Alfaro and Will Power, we will examine how these narratives have been reshaped over time. Through scene work and discussion, we’ll consider what has changed—and, just as importantly, what continues to resonate across generations. Sessions meet 10:00am-5:00pm on Tuesday and Wednesday. Participants will work on a scene from one of four plays—Oresteia by Aeschylus (Adapted Robert Icke); The Bacchae by Euripides (Translated and Adapted by Bryan Doerries); Memnon by Will Power; and Mojada by Luis Alfaro. Actors are warmly welcome to explore scenes across age, type, race, and gender. You can sign up either together with a partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. Each pair will work twice over the two days. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for a partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Carl Cofield Carl Cofield is a New York based director, actor, and teacher, and is currently Chair of New York University's Grad Acting Program and Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, where he has directed Seize the King, The Bacchae, A Christmas Carol in Harlem, Antigone, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Dutchman. Other directing credits include Twelfth Night (Yale Rep); King Lear (St. Louis Shakespeare); One Night in Miami (Rogue Machine Theater; Denver Center; Los Angeles NAACP Award, Best Director); A Raisin in the Sun (Two River Theater Company); Henry IV Part 2 (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Disgraced (Denver Center); and The Mountaintop (Cleveland Play House), among others. Carl’s acting credits include Manhattan Theater Club (Ruined), Berkeley Rep, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theater, Intiman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Milwaukee Rep, Alabama...

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

In-Person Workshop Carl Cofield: Greek Origins & Contemporary Offshoots Two Weekdays Dates & Times Tuesday, June 3, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm (with lunch break) Wednesday, June 4, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm (with lunch break) Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Chair of NYU's Grad Acting Program and Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Carl Cofield, returns to The Actors Center for two days devoted to exploring Ancient Greek origins and contemporary offshoots. Why have Greek stories remained relevant throughout history? In this workshop, we will delve into classical Greek source texts alongside their modern adaptations to explore this enduring question. From the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides to the contemporary reimaginings by Luis Alfaro and Will Power, we will examine how these narratives have been reshaped over time. Through scene work and discussion, we’ll consider what has changed—and, just as importantly, what continues to resonate across generations. Sessions meet 10:00am-5:00pm on Tuesday and Wednesday. Participants will work on a scene from one of four plays—Oresteia by Aeschylus (Adapted Robert Icke); The Bacchae by Euripides (Translated and Adapted by Bryan Doerries); Memnon by Will Power; and Mojada by Luis Alfaro. Actors are warmly welcome to explore scenes across age, type, race, and gender. You can sign up either together with a partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. Each pair will work twice over the two days. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for a partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Carl Cofield Carl Cofield is a New York based director, actor, and teacher, and is currently Chair of New York University's Grad Acting Program and Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, where he has directed Seize the King, The Bacchae, A Christmas Carol in Harlem, Antigone, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Dutchman. Other directing credits include Twelfth Night (Yale Rep); King Lear (St. Louis Shakespeare); One Night in Miami (Rogue Machine Theater; Denver Center; Los Angeles NAACP Award, Best Director); A Raisin in the Sun (Two River Theater Company); Henry IV Part 2 (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Disgraced (Denver Center); and The Mountaintop (Cleveland Play House), among others. Carl’s acting credits include Manhattan Theater Club (Ruined), Berkeley Rep, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theater, Intiman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Milwaukee Rep, Alabama...

In-Person Workshop EVAN YIONOULIS: Molière Two Weekdays Dates & Times Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm (with lunch break) Wednesday, June 11, 2025 – 2:00pm-6:00pm Atlantic Acting Studios, 76 Ninth Avenue, Suite 313 This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, acting teacher, and head of Juilliard’s Drama Division, Evan Yionoulis, returns to The Actors Center in June for two days devoted to Molière, one of France’s greatest comedic playwrights. We will dive into the wit, rhythm, and physicality of Molière's works as we explore scenes from three plays—Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, or The Learned Ladies—focusing on embodying and activating the heightened language to bring his sharp satire to life. Access the folder of plays and suggested scenes here. Actors are warmly welcome to explore scenes across age, type, race, and gender. You can sign up either together with a partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. Each pair will work twice over the two days. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for a partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Evan Yionoulis Evan Yionoulis, an Obie award-winning director and nationally recognized teacher of acting, is Juilliard’s Richard Rodgers dean and director of the Drama Division. Previously she spent 20 years on the faculty of Yale School of Drama, where she was a professor in the practice of acting and directing and Lloyd Richards chair of the department of acting from 1998 to 2003. She has directed new plays and classics in New York, across the country, and internationally, including Adrienne Kennedy’s He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (world premiere) and Ohio State Murders (Lortel Award, best revival) for Theatre for a New Audience, Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour (Broadway), Three Days of Rain (Obie for direction, Manhattan Theatre Club), and Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center Theater), and, during her 20 years as a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre, productions including Shakespeare’s Richard II and Cymbeline, Brecht’s Galileo, Ibsen’s The Master Builder, and Guillermo Calderón’s Kiss. With composer/lyricist Mike Yionoulis, she is developing the multi-platform project Redhand Guitar, about five generations of musicians across an American century, and The Dread Pirate Project, about identity and anonymity across the digital and natural worlds. She is...

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

In-Person Workshop EVAN YIONOULIS: Molière Two Weekdays Dates & Times Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm (with lunch break) Wednesday, June 11, 2025 – 2:00pm-6:00pm Atlantic Acting Studios, 76 Ninth Avenue, Suite 313 This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, acting teacher, and head of Juilliard’s Drama Division, Evan Yionoulis, returns to The Actors Center in June for two days devoted to Molière, one of France’s greatest comedic playwrights. We will dive into the wit, rhythm, and physicality of Molière's works as we explore scenes from three plays—Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, or The Learned Ladies—focusing on embodying and activating the heightened language to bring his sharp satire to life. Access the folder of plays and suggested scenes here. Actors are warmly welcome to explore scenes across age, type, race, and gender. You can sign up either together with a partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. Each pair will work twice over the two days. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for a partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Evan Yionoulis Evan Yionoulis, an Obie award-winning director and nationally recognized teacher of acting, is Juilliard’s Richard Rodgers dean and director of the Drama Division. Previously she spent 20 years on the faculty of Yale School of Drama, where she was a professor in the practice of acting and directing and Lloyd Richards chair of the department of acting from 1998 to 2003. She has directed new plays and classics in New York, across the country, and internationally, including Adrienne Kennedy’s He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (world premiere) and Ohio State Murders (Lortel Award, best revival) for Theatre for a New Audience, Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour (Broadway), Three Days of Rain (Obie for direction, Manhattan Theatre Club), and Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center Theater), and, during her 20 years as a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre, productions including Shakespeare’s Richard II and Cymbeline, Brecht’s Galileo, Ibsen’s The Master Builder, and Guillermo Calderón’s Kiss. With composer/lyricist Mike Yionoulis, she is developing the multi-platform project Redhand Guitar, about five generations of musicians across an American century, and The Dread Pirate Project, about identity and anonymity across the digital and natural worlds. She is...

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 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 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 YURA KORDONSKY: Chekhov Three Weekdays Dates & Times Monday, September 15, 2025 – 11:00am-6:00pm Tuesday, September 16, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Wednesday, September 17, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm We'll take an hour long lunch break each day. Mon/Wed: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Ballroom 2nd Floor Tue: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, educator, and Yale faculty member Yura Kordonsky joins The Actors Center for the first-time for a 3-day workshop devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Through practical scene work, participants will examine acting as the art of active listening—to text and subtext, to a partner on stage, and to the physical world of the play. Together with Yura, participants will explore characters’ given circumstances, objectives, and dramatic conflicts in the creation of an actor’s path that leads to a truthful, authentic, and multi-layered life on stage. In particular, Yura draws on Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions, an approach to rehearsal that he developed in the final years of his life but did not complete for publication before his death. At the core of this method lies the exploration of a play through the life of the human body, building the character’s complex emotions out of responses to the simple, specific physical reality of the stage world. Participants may choose any 2- or 3-person scene from any of Chekhov's plays. Yura has shared a list of possible scenes, but participants may select others if desired. Yura has provided a copy of the Laurence Senelick translation of Chekhov's plays, but any translation can be used. You can sign up either together with partner(s) or as an individual and you will be paired with other individual(s). Each scene will work every day. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for partner(s), you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Yura Kordonsky Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura received his MFA degrees in Acting and Directing from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, under the direction of Lev Dodin. He has taught, performed, and directed internationally since 1989. He was previously a resident actor and director at the renowned Maly Drama Theatre–Theatre of Europe in St. Petersburg. His directing credits...

Company Workshop YURA KORDONSKY: Chekhov Three Weekdays Dates & Times Monday, September 15, 2025 – 11:00am-6:00pm Tuesday, September 16, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Wednesday, September 17, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm We'll take an hour long lunch break each day. Mon/Wed: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Ballroom 2nd Floor Tue: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, educator, and Yale faculty member Yura Kordonsky joins The Actors Center for the first-time for a 3-day workshop devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Through practical scene work, participants will examine acting as the art of active listening—to text and subtext, to a partner on stage, and to the physical world of the play. Together with Yura, participants will explore characters’ given circumstances, objectives, and dramatic conflicts in the creation of an actor’s path that leads to a truthful, authentic, and multi-layered life on stage. In particular, Yura draws on Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions, an approach to rehearsal that he developed in the final years of his life but did not complete for publication before his death. At the core of this method lies the exploration of a play through the life of the human body, building the character’s complex emotions out of responses to the simple, specific physical reality of the stage world. Participants may choose any 2- or 3-person scene from any of Chekhov's plays. Yura has shared a list of possible scenes, but participants may select others if desired. Yura has provided a copy of the Laurence Senelick translation of Chekhov's plays, but any translation can be used. You can sign up either together with partner(s) or as an individual and you will be paired with other individual(s). Each scene will work every day. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for partner(s), you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Yura Kordonsky Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura received his MFA degrees in Acting and Directing from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, under the direction of Lev Dodin. He has taught, performed, and directed internationally since 1989. He was previously a resident actor and director at the renowned Maly Drama Theatre–Theatre of Europe in St. Petersburg. His directing credits...

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 YURA KORDONSKY: Chekhov Three Weekdays Dates & Times Monday, September 15, 2025 – 11:00am-6:00pm Tuesday, September 16, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Wednesday, September 17, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm We'll take an hour long lunch break each day. Mon/Wed: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Ballroom 2nd Floor Tue: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, educator, and Yale faculty member Yura Kordonsky joins The Actors Center for the first-time for a 3-day workshop devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Through practical scene work, participants will examine acting as the art of active listening—to text and subtext, to a partner on stage, and to the physical world of the play. Together with Yura, participants will explore characters’ given circumstances, objectives, and dramatic conflicts in the creation of an actor’s path that leads to a truthful, authentic, and multi-layered life on stage. In particular, Yura draws on Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions, an approach to rehearsal that he developed in the final years of his life but did not complete for publication before his death. At the core of this method lies the exploration of a play through the life of the human body, building the character’s complex emotions out of responses to the simple, specific physical reality of the stage world. Participants may choose any 2- or 3-person scene from any of Chekhov's plays. Yura has shared a list of possible scenes, but participants may select others if desired. Yura has provided a copy of the Laurence Senelick translation of Chekhov's plays, but any translation can be used. You can sign up either together with partner(s) or as an individual and you will be paired with other individual(s). Each scene will work every day. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for partner(s), you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Yura Kordonsky Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura received his MFA degrees in Acting and Directing from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, under the direction of Lev Dodin. He has taught, performed, and directed internationally since 1989. He was previously a resident actor and director at the renowned Maly Drama Theatre–Theatre of Europe in St. Petersburg. His directing credits...

Company Workshop Fabio Tavares: Alexander Technique Four Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, September 26, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 3, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm 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 Interdisciplinary artist and teacher Fabio Tavares returns to The Actors Center for four sessions devoted to exploring the principles of the Alexander Technique in action. The technique has been described as a psycho-physical re-education system, or simply a body mind system that looks to clarify a certain relationship between the head, the neck, and the body. When the neck is free, the head will tend to go "forward and up" and when the head goes forward and up the body will tend to "lengthen and widen". But how exactly do we do that? It turns out we need a process—one that feels safe, simple, and fun enough so that it doesn't become yet another thing on our to-do list. A process through which we can play, be curious, and kind to ourselves. Over four sessions, Fabio will guide participants through exercises that help us clarify this process for ourselves. In the latter part of each session, participants are invited to bring in sides or text to work from, exploring one-on-one adjustments in the work. Sessions run Fridays from 10am-1pm. About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. He has also danced with Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme-Action company for 14 years, and was the company's Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010. Fabio...

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

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

Company Workshop Fabio Tavares: Alexander Technique Four Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, September 26, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 3, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm 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 Interdisciplinary artist and teacher Fabio Tavares returns to The Actors Center for four sessions devoted to exploring the principles of the Alexander Technique in action. The technique has been described as a psycho-physical re-education system, or simply a body mind system that looks to clarify a certain relationship between the head, the neck, and the body. When the neck is free, the head will tend to go "forward and up" and when the head goes forward and up the body will tend to "lengthen and widen". But how exactly do we do that? It turns out we need a process—one that feels safe, simple, and fun enough so that it doesn't become yet another thing on our to-do list. A process through which we can play, be curious, and kind to ourselves. Over four sessions, Fabio will guide participants through exercises that help us clarify this process for ourselves. In the latter part of each session, participants are invited to bring in sides or text to work from, exploring one-on-one adjustments in the work. Sessions run Fridays from 10am-1pm. About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. He has also danced with Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme-Action company for 14 years, and was the company's Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010. Fabio...

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

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

Company Workshop Fabio Tavares: Alexander Technique Four Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, September 26, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 3, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm 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 Interdisciplinary artist and teacher Fabio Tavares returns to The Actors Center for four sessions devoted to exploring the principles of the Alexander Technique in action. The technique has been described as a psycho-physical re-education system, or simply a body mind system that looks to clarify a certain relationship between the head, the neck, and the body. When the neck is free, the head will tend to go "forward and up" and when the head goes forward and up the body will tend to "lengthen and widen". But how exactly do we do that? It turns out we need a process—one that feels safe, simple, and fun enough so that it doesn't become yet another thing on our to-do list. A process through which we can play, be curious, and kind to ourselves. Over four sessions, Fabio will guide participants through exercises that help us clarify this process for ourselves. In the latter part of each session, participants are invited to bring in sides or text to work from, exploring one-on-one adjustments in the work. Sessions run Fridays from 10am-1pm. About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. He has also danced with Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme-Action company for 14 years, and was the company's Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010. Fabio...

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

Company Workshop Justine Wolf Williams: Play & Clown Tuesday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Thursday, October 9, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, October 14, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Thursday, October 16, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Sterner Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Actor-creator, director, and Yale faculty member Justine Williams returns to The Actors Center for a two-week workshop devoted to play and clown. What if acting were just play? What if the key to your creative brilliance was a matter of reconnecting with your playful impulses, rediscovering the joy of playing pretend, and sharing that joy generously and skillfully with, for, and through an audience? Across four sessions, we'll work through exercises drawn from play, improvisation, and clown to unleash your own unique brilliance—discovering what is distinctively playful (and funny) about you on stage. Together, we’ll explore how an actor’s connection to play and pleasure can enliven a character, illuminate a text, or bring an entire theatrical world to life. Sessions run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am-2:00pm About Justine Williams Justine is a performer and filmmaker, creative convener, teacher, and coach whose work centers on recovery and re-discovery of authentic voice and presence, the value of play and pleasure as creative and social tools, and the power of individual/collective creativity to imagine and bring about other possible selves, stories, and worlds. Justine’s work is informed by 15+ years as a faculty member and advisor at the Yale School of Drama, guiding learning, collaboration, and storytelling across creative disciplines; and, from over 25+ years of experience collaborating with arts and culture and social impact organizations around the globe. As a filmmaker, Justine’s work has screened at Maryland Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, and Rotterdam Film Festival, and original work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater, Ars Nova, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Women in Film & Television, Queer|Art, Orchard Project, UNM’s Arts and Media Lab, Lighthouse Film Festival, Abrons Arts, and Dixon Place. She has acted on stages at The Public Theater, NYTW, LaMama, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and many others, and is an Affiliated Artist and former fellow with New Georges. Justine holds an MFA from CUNY’s Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, an MA from The New School...

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 Justine Wolf Williams: Play & Clown Tuesday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Thursday, October 9, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, October 14, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Thursday, October 16, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Sterner Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Actor-creator, director, and Yale faculty member Justine Williams returns to The Actors Center for a two-week workshop devoted to play and clown. What if acting were just play? What if the key to your creative brilliance was a matter of reconnecting with your playful impulses, rediscovering the joy of playing pretend, and sharing that joy generously and skillfully with, for, and through an audience? Across four sessions, we'll work through exercises drawn from play, improvisation, and clown to unleash your own unique brilliance—discovering what is distinctively playful (and funny) about you on stage. Together, we’ll explore how an actor’s connection to play and pleasure can enliven a character, illuminate a text, or bring an entire theatrical world to life. Sessions run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am-2:00pm About Justine Williams Justine is a performer and filmmaker, creative convener, teacher, and coach whose work centers on recovery and re-discovery of authentic voice and presence, the value of play and pleasure as creative and social tools, and the power of individual/collective creativity to imagine and bring about other possible selves, stories, and worlds. Justine’s work is informed by 15+ years as a faculty member and advisor at the Yale School of Drama, guiding learning, collaboration, and storytelling across creative disciplines; and, from over 25+ years of experience collaborating with arts and culture and social impact organizations around the globe. As a filmmaker, Justine’s work has screened at Maryland Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, and Rotterdam Film Festival, and original work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater, Ars Nova, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Women in Film & Television, Queer|Art, Orchard Project, UNM’s Arts and Media Lab, Lighthouse Film Festival, Abrons Arts, and Dixon Place. She has acted on stages at The Public Theater, NYTW, LaMama, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and many others, and is an Affiliated Artist and former fellow with New Georges. Justine holds an MFA from CUNY’s Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, an MA from The New School...

Company Workshop Fabio Tavares: Alexander Technique Four Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, September 26, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 3, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm 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 Interdisciplinary artist and teacher Fabio Tavares returns to The Actors Center for four sessions devoted to exploring the principles of the Alexander Technique in action. The technique has been described as a psycho-physical re-education system, or simply a body mind system that looks to clarify a certain relationship between the head, the neck, and the body. When the neck is free, the head will tend to go "forward and up" and when the head goes forward and up the body will tend to "lengthen and widen". But how exactly do we do that? It turns out we need a process—one that feels safe, simple, and fun enough so that it doesn't become yet another thing on our to-do list. A process through which we can play, be curious, and kind to ourselves. Over four sessions, Fabio will guide participants through exercises that help us clarify this process for ourselves. In the latter part of each session, participants are invited to bring in sides or text to work from, exploring one-on-one adjustments in the work. Sessions run Fridays from 10am-1pm. About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. He has also danced with Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme-Action company for 14 years, and was the company's Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010. Fabio...

Company Workshop Justine Wolf Williams: Play & Clown Tuesday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Thursday, October 9, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, October 14, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Thursday, October 16, 2025 – 10:00am-2:00pm Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Sterner Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Actor-creator, director, and Yale faculty member Justine Williams returns to The Actors Center for a two-week workshop devoted to play and clown. What if acting were just play? What if the key to your creative brilliance was a matter of reconnecting with your playful impulses, rediscovering the joy of playing pretend, and sharing that joy generously and skillfully with, for, and through an audience? Across four sessions, we'll work through exercises drawn from play, improvisation, and clown to unleash your own unique brilliance—discovering what is distinctively playful (and funny) about you on stage. Together, we’ll explore how an actor’s connection to play and pleasure can enliven a character, illuminate a text, or bring an entire theatrical world to life. Sessions run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am-2:00pm About Justine Williams Justine is a performer and filmmaker, creative convener, teacher, and coach whose work centers on recovery and re-discovery of authentic voice and presence, the value of play and pleasure as creative and social tools, and the power of individual/collective creativity to imagine and bring about other possible selves, stories, and worlds. Justine’s work is informed by 15+ years as a faculty member and advisor at the Yale School of Drama, guiding learning, collaboration, and storytelling across creative disciplines; and, from over 25+ years of experience collaborating with arts and culture and social impact organizations around the globe. As a filmmaker, Justine’s work has screened at Maryland Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, and Rotterdam Film Festival, and original work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater, Ars Nova, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Women in Film & Television, Queer|Art, Orchard Project, UNM’s Arts and Media Lab, Lighthouse Film Festival, Abrons Arts, and Dixon Place. She has acted on stages at The Public Theater, NYTW, LaMama, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and many others, and is an Affiliated Artist and former fellow with New Georges. Justine holds an MFA from CUNY’s Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, an MA from The New School...