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In-Person Workshop BUDI MILLER & TAYLOR BARFIELD: Embodying Imagination with Masks & Scene Study 4-Day Long Weekend Dates & Times Friday, October 25, 2024 – 5:00pm-9:30pm Saturday, October 26, 2024 – 11:00am-6:00pm Sunday, October 27, 2024 – 11:00am-5:00pm Monday, October 28, 2024 – 12:00pm-5:30pm Houghton Hall Arts Community, 22 East 30th Street Only the final day of this workshop is open to observers. About the Workshop Multidisciplinary artist and teacher Budi Miller and dramaturg Taylor Barfield join The Actors Center for the first time for a 4-day intensive where the power of mask becomes a focal point for deep embodiment of a role and scene study. Training in masks requires us to find the internal power of our most creative selves. Masks unlock the deep knowledge of the physical, emotional, and intuitive body, which directly interacts with taksu—a Balinese concept of performance energy marking the divine moment of manifestation. Understand its universal presence and its ability to transcend cultures and become a source of inspiration for your craft. Participants will then have the opportunity to work from the intersection of their own culture on scenes, using a vast network of scripts that Taylor has assembled from around the world. The process aims to enable participants to explore and celebrate their cultural heritage while pushing them in their training, selecting scenes with a focus on cultural nuance and dramatic challenge. Participants will experience a visceral awareness of character transformation and explore aspects of movement, improvisation, ensemble training, character embodiment, and spiritual practice for actors, fostering genuine artistic and spiritual growth. About Budi Miller Dr. Budi Miller is the former Head of Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (UoM), Australia (the first black person to hold this position at one of the top 3 drama schools in Australia). He is the Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre of Others; a Lead Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a certified integrative studies practitioner; and an UNESCO designated master teacher of mask work. He teaches acting through Balinese Performing Art Training (BPAT) with Mask Work, Fitzmaurice Voicework, Michael Chekhov, Clown, PEM, Viewpoints, and Grotowski. He holds a B.F.A. in theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Practice-as-Research from the University of Melbourne. He has been an actor-director-writer-teacher in the United States, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia since 1992....

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 LEIGH KILTON-SMITH: Scene Study 4 Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, October 10, 2024 – 1:00pm-5:30pm Thursday, October 17, 2024 – 1:00pm-5:30pm Thursday, October 24, 2024 – 1:00pm-5:30pm Thursday, October 31, 2024 – 1:00pm-5:30pm Actors Theatre Workshop 145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to in-person observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Teacher and onset acting coach Leigh Kilton-Smith returns to The Actors Center for four consecutive Thursday afternoons devoted to scene study. Leigh will work with company members on scenes from any 20th- or 21st century play of their choosing. Every scene will work each week, beginning with a first encounter with the text and a particular approach to the memorization process. Throughout, Leigh will offer insights to support actors in being present, listening, trusting connection, and allowing a great story to emerge, with the primary aim that participants leave knowing themselves better as artists. Sessions run 1:00pm-5:30pm. Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual to be paired with another individual. Participants are strongly encouraged to choose material that is new to them, and neither rehearse nor memorize before the first session. If you prefer, Leigh can assign you material or offer suggestions. Occasional conflicts can be accommodated. 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 Leigh Kilton-Smith Leigh Kilton-Smith is a teacher and acting coach with over 35 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She has maintained a balance between classroom work at her studio in Los Angeles and being an in-demand acting coach on sets around the world, providing invaluable guidance to actors as they navigate the challenges of real-time performance. Her work is reflected in dozens of award-winning performances in notable projects, including Oppenheimer, Elvis, Vengeance, Manchester by the Sea, White Lotus, Burlesque, Anne Boleyn, Murder Mystery, Queen & Slim, Iron Man, Aladdin, White Boy Rick, True Detective directed by Issa Lopes, Doug Liman’s The Instigator, Cary Fukunaga’s Masters of the Air, and Jamie Lloyd’s West End revival of Sunset Boulevard, starring Nicole Scherzinger. Collaborators include: B.J. Novak, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lukas Gage, Austin Butler, Guy Ritchie, Casey Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, John...

In-Person Workshop TED SLUBERSKI: Artistic Signature 4 Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, October 11, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 18, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 25, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, November 1, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Actors Theatre Workshop 145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to in-person observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Acclaimed acting coach Ted Sluberski joins The Actors Center for the first time for four Friday mornings devoted to exploring performance on-camera. Ted’s workshops are based on the question, “What do you want to do with this role?” and there is a great deal to consider to effectively answer that question. Regardless of where you are on the call sheet, when the camera is on you, you’re #1 in the shot, so what do you want to do with that opportunity? Ted will collaborate with actors to mine every detail in a script, to be used to build a solid scene, performance, or audition. Once all the analysis is done, Ted will guide participants in exploring what they want to accomplish artistically and how they can collaborate with any project to serve the world of the script, the story, the visual, and most importantly the character, so that their artistic signature is on the role whether it is a guest, recurring, or series regular. Participants will each work twice over the four weeks. Sessions run Friday mornings 10:00am-1:00pm. About Ted Sluberski For the past 20 years Ted Sluberski has worked as an acting coach primarily in film and television. He has collaborated with actors in every genre from Studio features to Indie film and Streaming series to network series. The same question always starts the work: “What do you want to do with the role?” Prior to full-time coaching Ted worked at ICM, then was a Casting Director for 14 years, followed by running the Actors and Directors Workshops at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Ted also directed the ABC Talent Showcase for 14 years, and taught at NYU's Stonestreet and Atlantic Studios. Upcoming projects include Superman, Gladiator 2, SNL 1975, Beef Season 2, The Gilded Age, Fight Night, The Diplomat, Brilliant Minds, Will Trent, Gen V and currently available to stream May/December, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Fellow Travelers, Julia, Mending the Line, We Were the Lucky Ones amongst...

In-Person Workshop SARAH VICTORIA: Perdekamp Emotional Method (PEM) Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 2, 2024 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, November 3, 2024 – 10:00am-5:00pm ART/NY, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Studio E We are unfortunately unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Actor and teacher Sarah Victoria joins The Actors Center for the first time for a weekend workshop devoted to PEM: Perdekamp Emotional Method, an approach to physically accessing authentic emotion. Through body-focused exercises designed to expand emotional range and physically access six key emotions, Sarah will guide actors in learning to come in and out of intense emotional states quickly, safely, and repeatably without needing to refer to traumatic memories or personal story. Participants will learn to organically transition through emotions or combine emotions to cultivate complexity, depth, and nuance in their work, as well as explore how to apply emotion into text work. Beyond the stage and screen, this holistic approach helps to reframe one's understanding of emotions to not only refine artistic skills, but manage auditions and stage-fright, develop emotional intelligence, and improve wellbeing. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm. About Sarah Victoria Sarah Victoria is an actress, PEM Master Instructor, Director and CEO of Kalliso. She is a certified PEM Instructor since 2004 and trained directly with Stephan Perdekamp. She wrote her master thesis about the Perdekamp Emotional Method in 2004. She has been teaching for over 20 years, is on the board of directors of the PEM Center Hamburg as well as an actor in the PEM Ensemble Hamburg and the PEM International Ensemble. She has been teaching and leading PEM masterclasses at drama universities worldwide such as the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, SMU-Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, UCI University of California, Irvine, the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, the National School of Drama in Delhi, the University of Johannesburg, and Babes-Bolyai-University in Romania. As Head of PEM International she has been leading PEM workshops in the US, UK, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Japan, Russia and Europe. She is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where she is director of the Australian company Kalliso. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Participants are expected to attend both days. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop SARAH VICTORIA: Perdekamp Emotional Method (PEM) Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 2, 2024 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, November 3, 2024 – 10:00am-5:00pm ART/NY, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Studio E We are unfortunately unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Actor and teacher Sarah Victoria joins The Actors Center for the first time for a weekend workshop devoted to PEM: Perdekamp Emotional Method, an approach to physically accessing authentic emotion. Through body-focused exercises designed to expand emotional range and physically access six key emotions, Sarah will guide actors in learning to come in and out of intense emotional states quickly, safely, and repeatably without needing to refer to traumatic memories or personal story. Participants will learn to organically transition through emotions or combine emotions to cultivate complexity, depth, and nuance in their work, as well as explore how to apply emotion into text work. Beyond the stage and screen, this holistic approach helps to reframe one's understanding of emotions to not only refine artistic skills, but manage auditions and stage-fright, develop emotional intelligence, and improve wellbeing. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm. About Sarah Victoria Sarah Victoria is an actress, PEM Master Instructor, Director and CEO of Kalliso. She is a certified PEM Instructor since 2004 and trained directly with Stephan Perdekamp. She wrote her master thesis about the Perdekamp Emotional Method in 2004. She has been teaching for over 20 years, is on the board of directors of the PEM Center Hamburg as well as an actor in the PEM Ensemble Hamburg and the PEM International Ensemble. She has been teaching and leading PEM masterclasses at drama universities worldwide such as the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, SMU-Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, UCI University of California, Irvine, the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, the National School of Drama in Delhi, the University of Johannesburg, and Babes-Bolyai-University in Romania. As Head of PEM International she has been leading PEM workshops in the US, UK, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Japan, Russia and Europe. She is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where she is director of the Australian company Kalliso. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Participants are expected to attend both days. 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 RAJA FEATHER KELLY: Behavior As A Way In 2 Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 12, 2024 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, November 19, 2024 – 10:00am-2:00pm Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway Enter at 53A Chambers Street We are unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Choreographer and director Raja Feather Kelly returns to The Actors Center for a 2-day workshop exploring acting through the lens of human behavior. Discover the nuances of task engagement, idle time, and non-verbal expression, while experiencing Raja’s unique devised danced-theatre approach from his company, the feath3r theory. Through immersive exercises and collaborative scene work, participants will enhance their understanding of character, connection, movement, and interaction, unlocking new dimensions of storytelling. Sessions run Tuesdays 10am-2pm. About Raja Feather Kelly Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), a Brooklyn-based dance-theatre-media company that he founded in 2009. Over the past decade, he has created 18 evening-length works with the feath3r theory to critical acclaim. Frequent collaborators include Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Michael R. Jackson. His most recent choreography includes White Girl in Danger at the Second Stage Kiser Theater (2023), written by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. He choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon) and Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA), both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was hailed by The New York Times as the choreographer who “can make your play move” for his extensive work Off-Broadway. Other theater credits include Lempicka (Broadway and La Jolla Playhouse), Bunny Bunny (UC San Diego), We're Gonna Die (Second Stage Theater—his directorial debut), SUFFS (The Public Theater), The Good Swimmer (BAM), The Listeners (Oslo Opera), Macbeth In Stride (ACT, STC, PTC), Teeth (Playwrights Horizons), and The Fires written and directed by Raja at Soho Rep. He has received dozens of awards, fellowships and honors including a Princeton Arts Fellowship (2023-2025), a Mellon Foundation grant (2021), an Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award honor for choreography for A Strange Loop (2020), an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019-2021), a Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts (2019– 2020), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019–2021), a New York Dance Performance Bessie Award (2009), a Creative Capital Award (2019), three Princess Grace...

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 RON VAN LIEU: Tennessee Williams Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 16, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, November 18, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom Sun Location: 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 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 of scene study exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams. Participants are encouraged to play across type and gender if they desire. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. 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 Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as...

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Tennessee Williams Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 16, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, November 18, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom Sun Location: 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 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 of scene study exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams. Participants are encouraged to play across type and gender if they desire. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. 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 Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as...

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Tennessee Williams Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 16, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, November 18, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom Sun Location: 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 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 of scene study exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams. Participants are encouraged to play across type and gender if they desire. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. 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 Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as...

In-Person Workshop RAJA FEATHER KELLY: Behavior As A Way In 2 Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 12, 2024 – 10:00am-2:00pm Tuesday, November 19, 2024 – 10:00am-2:00pm Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway Enter at 53A Chambers Street We are unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Choreographer and director Raja Feather Kelly returns to The Actors Center for a 2-day workshop exploring acting through the lens of human behavior. Discover the nuances of task engagement, idle time, and non-verbal expression, while experiencing Raja’s unique devised danced-theatre approach from his company, the feath3r theory. Through immersive exercises and collaborative scene work, participants will enhance their understanding of character, connection, movement, and interaction, unlocking new dimensions of storytelling. Sessions run Tuesdays 10am-2pm. About Raja Feather Kelly Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), a Brooklyn-based dance-theatre-media company that he founded in 2009. Over the past decade, he has created 18 evening-length works with the feath3r theory to critical acclaim. Frequent collaborators include Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Michael R. Jackson. His most recent choreography includes White Girl in Danger at the Second Stage Kiser Theater (2023), written by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. He choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon) and Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA), both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was hailed by The New York Times as the choreographer who “can make your play move” for his extensive work Off-Broadway. Other theater credits include Lempicka (Broadway and La Jolla Playhouse), Bunny Bunny (UC San Diego), We're Gonna Die (Second Stage Theater—his directorial debut), SUFFS (The Public Theater), The Good Swimmer (BAM), The Listeners (Oslo Opera), Macbeth In Stride (ACT, STC, PTC), Teeth (Playwrights Horizons), and The Fires written and directed by Raja at Soho Rep. He has received dozens of awards, fellowships and honors including a Princeton Arts Fellowship (2023-2025), a Mellon Foundation grant (2021), an Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award honor for choreography for A Strange Loop (2020), an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019-2021), a Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts (2019– 2020), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019–2021), a New York Dance Performance Bessie Award (2009), a Creative Capital Award (2019), three Princess Grace...

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 DEBORAH HECHT: Accents & Dialects 4 Tuesday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 5, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 10, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 12, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Leynse Studio We are unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Voice, speech and dialect coach and teacher Deborah Hecht joins The Actors Center for four days of accent and dialect work. The workshop is intended to help the actor feel secure in preparing for a role or, especially, an audition requiring an accent or dialect. Deb will guide participants in looking at a contemporary English-language dialect and using it to explore muscular shifts, vocal placement shifts, primary and secondary speech sound shifts, rhythm, word linkage, corresponding body language, and the influence of climate and topography. The approach is physical, auditory, and visual and will also look at tips and tricks to make the application of dialects and accents practical and useful for the individual actor. Participants are encouraged to also tackle an accent or dialect of their choosing and work on it during the workshop. There will be individual focus as well as group exploration. Sessions run Tuesday and Thursday mornings over two weeks from 10:00am-1:00pm. About Deborah Hecht Deborah Hecht is an internationally known voice, speech and dialects coach. On Broadway she has coached 99 productions including The Great Gatsby, Sweeney Todd, The Ferryman, Hangmen, and the original and recent productions of Angels in America. Complete list at iBdb.com. Off-Broadway her coaching has been heard in hundreds of productions at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Signature, MCC, Classic Stage Company, New York Theatre Workshop, and more. Deborah has coached shows in England at the National and the RSC. Film and TV work includes Moana, We Were the Lucky Ones, Tokyo Vice, and many others. Actors she has taught and/or worked with include Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, Marisa Tomei, Andre Holland, Patrick Stewart, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Michelle Williams, Sterling K. Brown and many others. She has taught voice and speech, dialects, and Shakespeare text at Juilliard, NYU Graduate Acting, the Yale School of Drama, ACT in San Francisco, and UNC Chapel Hill. She also taught voice at The Freedom Theatre in the West Bank. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14...

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 DEBORAH HECHT: Accents & Dialects 4 Tuesday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 5, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 10, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 12, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Leynse Studio We are unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Voice, speech and dialect coach and teacher Deborah Hecht joins The Actors Center for four days of accent and dialect work. The workshop is intended to help the actor feel secure in preparing for a role or, especially, an audition requiring an accent or dialect. Deb will guide participants in looking at a contemporary English-language dialect and using it to explore muscular shifts, vocal placement shifts, primary and secondary speech sound shifts, rhythm, word linkage, corresponding body language, and the influence of climate and topography. The approach is physical, auditory, and visual and will also look at tips and tricks to make the application of dialects and accents practical and useful for the individual actor. Participants are encouraged to also tackle an accent or dialect of their choosing and work on it during the workshop. There will be individual focus as well as group exploration. Sessions run Tuesday and Thursday mornings over two weeks from 10:00am-1:00pm. About Deborah Hecht Deborah Hecht is an internationally known voice, speech and dialects coach. On Broadway she has coached 99 productions including The Great Gatsby, Sweeney Todd, The Ferryman, Hangmen, and the original and recent productions of Angels in America. Complete list at iBdb.com. Off-Broadway her coaching has been heard in hundreds of productions at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Signature, MCC, Classic Stage Company, New York Theatre Workshop, and more. Deborah has coached shows in England at the National and the RSC. Film and TV work includes Moana, We Were the Lucky Ones, Tokyo Vice, and many others. Actors she has taught and/or worked with include Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, Marisa Tomei, Andre Holland, Patrick Stewart, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Michelle Williams, Sterling K. Brown and many others. She has taught voice and speech, dialects, and Shakespeare text at Juilliard, NYU Graduate Acting, the Yale School of Drama, ACT in San Francisco, and UNC Chapel Hill. She also taught voice at The Freedom Theatre in the West Bank. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14...

In-Person Workshop JEFF CROCKETT: Embodied Presence Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, December 7, 2024 – 10:00am-4:00pm Sunday, December 8, 2024 – 10:00am-4:00pm Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway Enter at 53A Chambers Street We are unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Voice teacher and longtime former A.C.T. faculty member Jeff Crockett joins The Actors Center for the first time for a weekend devoted to awakening your inner resources of wholeness, vitality, and spontaneity. Based on the teachings of Ilse Middendorf and principles from the Alexander Technique, the penumbra method is a movement and meditation practice that centers on the breath as an agent for integration and personal direction. During our time together, we will engage in a dialogue with our active imagination and unconscious. Informed by your unique lived experience, the work offers insight, a sense of your wholeness, and is uniquely personal to you. You will begin to discover you are no longer observing yourself with an eye toward correcting habits, but instead, allowing habitual patterns to unravel and facilitate movement that unifies the entire body, so that you are in command of your presence, both in your work and life. Sessions run 10:00am-5:00pm on Saturday and Sunday. About Jeff Crockett Jeff Crockett was Head of Voice at The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for 22 years. He was resident voice coach at the Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis. Other coaching credits include: Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Mixed Blood, Theatre Manoeuvres (London), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Word for Word and Shotgun Players, and with Play On Shakespeare and The Public in New York. He was a regular guest faculty member at l’Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio D’Amico” in Rome for 11 years. Also in Italy, he taught at Prima del Teatro, San Miniato and Teatro Due in Parma. He has been a guest teacher at Columbia, DePaul University, the University of Maryland, Stanford, Classic Stage Company and Chautauqua Theater Company. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at NYU. He trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where he received an Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies (Distinction). He is certified to teach the FM Alexander Technique and is a certified practitioner of Middendorf Breathwork. His article on Middendorf Breathwork, published in the Voice and Speech Review, has become a chapter in the book, Vocal Traditions:...

In-Person Workshop JEFF CROCKETT: Embodied Presence Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, December 7, 2024 – 10:00am-4:00pm Sunday, December 8, 2024 – 10:00am-4:00pm Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway Enter at 53A Chambers Street We are unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Voice teacher and longtime former A.C.T. faculty member Jeff Crockett joins The Actors Center for the first time for a weekend devoted to awakening your inner resources of wholeness, vitality, and spontaneity. Based on the teachings of Ilse Middendorf and principles from the Alexander Technique, the penumbra method is a movement and meditation practice that centers on the breath as an agent for integration and personal direction. During our time together, we will engage in a dialogue with our active imagination and unconscious. Informed by your unique lived experience, the work offers insight, a sense of your wholeness, and is uniquely personal to you. You will begin to discover you are no longer observing yourself with an eye toward correcting habits, but instead, allowing habitual patterns to unravel and facilitate movement that unifies the entire body, so that you are in command of your presence, both in your work and life. Sessions run 10:00am-5:00pm on Saturday and Sunday. About Jeff Crockett Jeff Crockett was Head of Voice at The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for 22 years. He was resident voice coach at the Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis. Other coaching credits include: Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Mixed Blood, Theatre Manoeuvres (London), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Word for Word and Shotgun Players, and with Play On Shakespeare and The Public in New York. He was a regular guest faculty member at l’Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio D’Amico” in Rome for 11 years. Also in Italy, he taught at Prima del Teatro, San Miniato and Teatro Due in Parma. He has been a guest teacher at Columbia, DePaul University, the University of Maryland, Stanford, Classic Stage Company and Chautauqua Theater Company. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at NYU. He trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where he received an Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies (Distinction). He is certified to teach the FM Alexander Technique and is a certified practitioner of Middendorf Breathwork. His article on Middendorf Breathwork, published in the Voice and Speech Review, has become a chapter in the book, Vocal Traditions:...

In-Person Workshop DEBORAH HECHT: Accents & Dialects 4 Tuesday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 5, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 10, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 12, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Leynse Studio We are unable to accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Voice, speech and dialect coach and teacher Deborah Hecht joins The Actors Center for four days of accent and dialect work. The workshop is intended to help the actor feel secure in preparing for a role or, especially, an audition requiring an accent or dialect. Deb will guide participants in looking at a contemporary English-language dialect and using it to explore muscular shifts, vocal placement shifts, primary and secondary speech sound shifts, rhythm, word linkage, corresponding body language, and the influence of climate and topography. The approach is physical, auditory, and visual and will also look at tips and tricks to make the application of dialects and accents practical and useful for the individual actor. Participants are encouraged to also tackle an accent or dialect of their choosing and work on it during the workshop. There will be individual focus as well as group exploration. Sessions run Tuesday and Thursday mornings over two weeks from 10:00am-1:00pm. About Deborah Hecht Deborah Hecht is an internationally known voice, speech and dialects coach. On Broadway she has coached 99 productions including The Great Gatsby, Sweeney Todd, The Ferryman, Hangmen, and the original and recent productions of Angels in America. Complete list at iBdb.com. Off-Broadway her coaching has been heard in hundreds of productions at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Signature, MCC, Classic Stage Company, New York Theatre Workshop, and more. Deborah has coached shows in England at the National and the RSC. Film and TV work includes Moana, We Were the Lucky Ones, Tokyo Vice, and many others. Actors she has taught and/or worked with include Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, Marisa Tomei, Andre Holland, Patrick Stewart, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Michelle Williams, Sterling K. Brown and many others. She has taught voice and speech, dialects, and Shakespeare text at Juilliard, NYU Graduate Acting, the Yale School of Drama, ACT in San Francisco, and UNC Chapel Hill. She also taught voice at The Freedom Theatre in the West Bank. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14...

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

In-Person Workshop KENNETH NOEL MITCHELL: Prescriptive Scene Study Four Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 20, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 27, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm 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 Acting teacher Kenneth Noel Mitchell leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, crafted to nurture and ignite each actor's distinctive journey over four weeks. You will have the opportunity to articulate a specific acting challenge that you aspire to tackle throughout the workshop. With Kenneth’s guidance, you will select a scene and character that resonates with your goals, ensuring that your experience is both focused and challenging. You may sign up as an individual and you will be paired with another member to work on a scene. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. You should be off-book and rehearsed with your material for this workshop. Sessions run Thursday afternoons, 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Kenneth Noel Mitchell Kenneth Noel Mitchell was the director of Musical Theatre for the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. Before that, he was the founding head of acting for the New Studio on Broadway and the associate chair of the New York University (NYU) Department of Drama. Kenneth served as the coordinator of acting at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Professional Theatre Training Program. Currently, he is teaching acting for the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. As a director and actor, Kenneth’s work has been represented in New York and regionally. Kenneth has served as the Artistic Director for American Stage. He has been affiliated with the New Shakespeare Festival and Circle Rep. Kenneth was a company member of the American Globe Theatre for over twenty years. He was chair of the YoungArts Theatre Panel and a member of Actors Equity. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

In-Person Workshop KENNETH NOEL MITCHELL: Prescriptive Scene Study Four Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 20, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 27, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm 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 Acting teacher Kenneth Noel Mitchell leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, crafted to nurture and ignite each actor's distinctive journey over four weeks. You will have the opportunity to articulate a specific acting challenge that you aspire to tackle throughout the workshop. With Kenneth’s guidance, you will select a scene and character that resonates with your goals, ensuring that your experience is both focused and challenging. You may sign up as an individual and you will be paired with another member to work on a scene. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. You should be off-book and rehearsed with your material for this workshop. Sessions run Thursday afternoons, 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Kenneth Noel Mitchell Kenneth Noel Mitchell was the director of Musical Theatre for the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. Before that, he was the founding head of acting for the New Studio on Broadway and the associate chair of the New York University (NYU) Department of Drama. Kenneth served as the coordinator of acting at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Professional Theatre Training Program. Currently, he is teaching acting for the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. As a director and actor, Kenneth’s work has been represented in New York and regionally. Kenneth has served as the Artistic Director for American Stage. He has been affiliated with the New Shakespeare Festival and Circle Rep. Kenneth was a company member of the American Globe Theatre for over twenty years. He was chair of the YoungArts Theatre Panel and a member of Actors Equity. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop CRYSTAL DICKINSON & BRANDON DIRDEN: August Wilson Three Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, February 22, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, February 23, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Monday, February 24, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Sat: Atlantic Theatre Company Stage 2, 330 West 16th Street, Studio A Sun/Mon: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, educator, and company member Crystal Dickinson and actor, director, and NYU faculty member Brandon Dirden join The Actors Center for the first time for three days exploring the plays of August Wilson. The pair will work with company members on select scenes from Wilson's plays, alongside discussion of his work and context of his plays, their interaction with current culture and society, and the rhythm and specificity of his language. This workshop is open to company members of all backgrounds and races. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm, and Monday from 1:00pm-5:00pm. About Crystal Dickinson & Brandon Dirden Crystal Dickinson is an actor, educator and a New Jersey native. Her New York career began at The Signature Theater alongside her husband, Brandon Dirden, and brother-in-law, Jason Dirden in Leslie Lee's First Breeze of Summer, which starred Leslie Uggums and was directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. She went on to perform on Broadway in the Tony Award winning play, Clybourne Park, for which she received an illustrious Theater World Award, and the Tony nominated play, You Can't Take It With You, alongside James Earl Jones and Rose Byrne. She has performed Off Broadway at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons and Theater for A New Audience and The Atlantic, among others, and worked with Thomas Kail, Michael Greif, Scott Ellis, Bryan Cranston, Wendell Pierce, Pam Mackinnon, Lila Neugebauer, and Leigh Silverman. Her film and television credits include: I Origins, The Good Wife, New Amsterdam and recurring roles on Showtime’s The Chi and the second season of ABC’s For Life. Crystal has also had an illustrious career teaching acting at Stella Adler Studio, Spelman College, NYU, Princeton, Pace University, University of Arkansas and both of her Alumni schools, University of Illinois and Seton Hall and helped countless students get into the best graduate training programs across the country. She believes theatre is both an individual and a communal celebration of humanity and those who choose to educate performing artists must provide their students with an inclusive awareness of theatre and...

In-Person Workshop CRYSTAL DICKINSON & BRANDON DIRDEN: August Wilson Three Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, February 22, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, February 23, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Monday, February 24, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Sat: Atlantic Theatre Company Stage 2, 330 West 16th Street, Studio A Sun/Mon: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, educator, and company member Crystal Dickinson and actor, director, and NYU faculty member Brandon Dirden join The Actors Center for the first time for three days exploring the plays of August Wilson. The pair will work with company members on select scenes from Wilson's plays, alongside discussion of his work and context of his plays, their interaction with current culture and society, and the rhythm and specificity of his language. This workshop is open to company members of all backgrounds and races. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm, and Monday from 1:00pm-5:00pm. About Crystal Dickinson & Brandon Dirden Crystal Dickinson is an actor, educator and a New Jersey native. Her New York career began at The Signature Theater alongside her husband, Brandon Dirden, and brother-in-law, Jason Dirden in Leslie Lee's First Breeze of Summer, which starred Leslie Uggums and was directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. She went on to perform on Broadway in the Tony Award winning play, Clybourne Park, for which she received an illustrious Theater World Award, and the Tony nominated play, You Can't Take It With You, alongside James Earl Jones and Rose Byrne. She has performed Off Broadway at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons and Theater for A New Audience and The Atlantic, among others, and worked with Thomas Kail, Michael Greif, Scott Ellis, Bryan Cranston, Wendell Pierce, Pam Mackinnon, Lila Neugebauer, and Leigh Silverman. Her film and television credits include: I Origins, The Good Wife, New Amsterdam and recurring roles on Showtime’s The Chi and the second season of ABC’s For Life. Crystal has also had an illustrious career teaching acting at Stella Adler Studio, Spelman College, NYU, Princeton, Pace University, University of Arkansas and both of her Alumni schools, University of Illinois and Seton Hall and helped countless students get into the best graduate training programs across the country. She believes theatre is both an individual and a communal celebration of humanity and those who choose to educate performing artists must provide their students with an inclusive awareness of theatre and...

In-Person Workshop CRYSTAL DICKINSON & BRANDON DIRDEN: August Wilson Three Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, February 22, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, February 23, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Monday, February 24, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Sat: Atlantic Theatre Company Stage 2, 330 West 16th Street, Studio A Sun/Mon: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, educator, and company member Crystal Dickinson and actor, director, and NYU faculty member Brandon Dirden join The Actors Center for the first time for three days exploring the plays of August Wilson. The pair will work with company members on select scenes from Wilson's plays, alongside discussion of his work and context of his plays, their interaction with current culture and society, and the rhythm and specificity of his language. This workshop is open to company members of all backgrounds and races. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm, and Monday from 1:00pm-5:00pm. About Crystal Dickinson & Brandon Dirden Crystal Dickinson is an actor, educator and a New Jersey native. Her New York career began at The Signature Theater alongside her husband, Brandon Dirden, and brother-in-law, Jason Dirden in Leslie Lee's First Breeze of Summer, which starred Leslie Uggums and was directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. She went on to perform on Broadway in the Tony Award winning play, Clybourne Park, for which she received an illustrious Theater World Award, and the Tony nominated play, You Can't Take It With You, alongside James Earl Jones and Rose Byrne. She has performed Off Broadway at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons and Theater for A New Audience and The Atlantic, among others, and worked with Thomas Kail, Michael Greif, Scott Ellis, Bryan Cranston, Wendell Pierce, Pam Mackinnon, Lila Neugebauer, and Leigh Silverman. Her film and television credits include: I Origins, The Good Wife, New Amsterdam and recurring roles on Showtime’s The Chi and the second season of ABC’s For Life. Crystal has also had an illustrious career teaching acting at Stella Adler Studio, Spelman College, NYU, Princeton, Pace University, University of Arkansas and both of her Alumni schools, University of Illinois and Seton Hall and helped countless students get into the best graduate training programs across the country. She believes theatre is both an individual and a communal celebration of humanity and those who choose to educate performing artists must provide their students with an inclusive awareness of theatre and...

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life & Art Six Tuesday & Friday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, February 25, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 28, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, March 7, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, March 11, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, March 14, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Tuesdays in the Ballroom, Fridays in the Jefferson This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Award-winning actress, filmmaker, and teacher Tonya Pinkins leads a workshop with The Actors Center devoted to cultivating radical authenticity in your life and art through the Meisner method. Over six sessions, Tonya will guide actors through the principles of the method, emphasizing active listening and truthful, spontaneous reactions. Offering tools to connect actors more authentically with their scene partners, their characters, and their own emotions, this workshop will not only support greater honesty in performance, but support actors in being more present and self-aware in their lives. Martha Graham once said “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time.” Now and in the future, as actors compete with AI versions of themselves and others, it is critical to tap into that unique spark and to allow it to grow and bloom in ways that no algorithm can ever replicate. Sessions run Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:00am-1:00pm. About Tonya Pinkins Tonya Pinkins is an award winning actor. She has been in nine Broadway shows, two day time soap operas, numerous episodic television shows and feature films. Some of her awards include a Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, 3 Lortels, the 2020 Franky Award for long term impact in contemporary theater, and the 2021 Rachel Crothers Leadership Award from The League of Professional Theater Women. She has been nominated for the Olivier, Ovation, Helen Hayes, Noel, Jefferson, and NAACP Theater awards among others. Tonya has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Beinecke Fellow at Yale. Her debut Feature film, Red Pill has won numerous best feature and best director awards around the world. She is the author of “Get Over Yourself: How to drop the drama and claim the life you deserve,” published in 2006 by Hyperion, and “Red Pill Unmasked” available on Audible. Her essays on America...

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 KENNETH NOEL MITCHELL: Prescriptive Scene Study Four Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 20, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 27, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm 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 Acting teacher Kenneth Noel Mitchell leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, crafted to nurture and ignite each actor's distinctive journey over four weeks. You will have the opportunity to articulate a specific acting challenge that you aspire to tackle throughout the workshop. With Kenneth’s guidance, you will select a scene and character that resonates with your goals, ensuring that your experience is both focused and challenging. You may sign up as an individual and you will be paired with another member to work on a scene. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. You should be off-book and rehearsed with your material for this workshop. Sessions run Thursday afternoons, 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Kenneth Noel Mitchell Kenneth Noel Mitchell was the director of Musical Theatre for the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. Before that, he was the founding head of acting for the New Studio on Broadway and the associate chair of the New York University (NYU) Department of Drama. Kenneth served as the coordinator of acting at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Professional Theatre Training Program. Currently, he is teaching acting for the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. As a director and actor, Kenneth’s work has been represented in New York and regionally. Kenneth has served as the Artistic Director for American Stage. He has been affiliated with the New Shakespeare Festival and Circle Rep. Kenneth was a company member of the American Globe Theatre for over twenty years. He was chair of the YoungArts Theatre Panel and a member of Actors Equity. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life & Art Six Tuesday & Friday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, February 25, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 28, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, March 7, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, March 11, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, March 14, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Tuesdays in the Ballroom, Fridays in the Jefferson This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Award-winning actress, filmmaker, and teacher Tonya Pinkins leads a workshop with The Actors Center devoted to cultivating radical authenticity in your life and art through the Meisner method. Over six sessions, Tonya will guide actors through the principles of the method, emphasizing active listening and truthful, spontaneous reactions. Offering tools to connect actors more authentically with their scene partners, their characters, and their own emotions, this workshop will not only support greater honesty in performance, but support actors in being more present and self-aware in their lives. Martha Graham once said “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time.” Now and in the future, as actors compete with AI versions of themselves and others, it is critical to tap into that unique spark and to allow it to grow and bloom in ways that no algorithm can ever replicate. Sessions run Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:00am-1:00pm. About Tonya Pinkins Tonya Pinkins is an award winning actor. She has been in nine Broadway shows, two day time soap operas, numerous episodic television shows and feature films. Some of her awards include a Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, 3 Lortels, the 2020 Franky Award for long term impact in contemporary theater, and the 2021 Rachel Crothers Leadership Award from The League of Professional Theater Women. She has been nominated for the Olivier, Ovation, Helen Hayes, Noel, Jefferson, and NAACP Theater awards among others. Tonya has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Beinecke Fellow at Yale. Her debut Feature film, Red Pill has won numerous best feature and best director awards around the world. She is the author of “Get Over Yourself: How to drop the drama and claim the life you deserve,” published in 2006 by Hyperion, and “Red Pill Unmasked” available on Audible. Her essays on America...

In-Person Workshop JEFF HILLER: Improv for Actors Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, March 1, 2025 – 10:30am-6:30pm Sunday, March 2, 2025 – 10:30am-6:30pm Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, comedian, teacher, and company member Jeff Hiller leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, offering an introduction to improv for actors over two days. Jeff will guide participants though exercises that focus specifically on listening, making choices, and most of all, learning how to trust your gut in order to get out of your head. Improv allows us to face our fears as performers and clarifies the tools we have with us on even a cold read of a script. If this workshop sounds like fun, you should maybe take it, but if it scares you to your bones, you should definitely take it. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10:30am-6:30pm. About Jeff Hiller Jeff Hiller is an actor, who has been seen on stage (Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Midsummer… in the park), screen (HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, American Horror Story: NYC), and in the downtown comedy world (Joe’s Pub, UCB Theatre). Jeff has taught improv and storytelling for the past 15 years at the UCB Training Center and at workshops throughout the US and Europe. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors, who are expected to attend both days in full. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop JEFF HILLER: Improv for Actors Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, March 1, 2025 – 10:30am-6:30pm Sunday, March 2, 2025 – 10:30am-6:30pm Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, comedian, teacher, and company member Jeff Hiller leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, offering an introduction to improv for actors over two days. Jeff will guide participants though exercises that focus specifically on listening, making choices, and most of all, learning how to trust your gut in order to get out of your head. Improv allows us to face our fears as performers and clarifies the tools we have with us on even a cold read of a script. If this workshop sounds like fun, you should maybe take it, but if it scares you to your bones, you should definitely take it. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10:30am-6:30pm. About Jeff Hiller Jeff Hiller is an actor, who has been seen on stage (Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Midsummer… in the park), screen (HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, American Horror Story: NYC), and in the downtown comedy world (Joe’s Pub, UCB Theatre). Jeff has taught improv and storytelling for the past 15 years at the UCB Training Center and at workshops throughout the US and Europe. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors, who are expected to attend both days in full. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life & Art Six Tuesday & Friday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, February 25, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 28, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, March 7, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, March 11, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, March 14, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Tuesdays in the Ballroom, Fridays in the Jefferson This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Award-winning actress, filmmaker, and teacher Tonya Pinkins leads a workshop with The Actors Center devoted to cultivating radical authenticity in your life and art through the Meisner method. Over six sessions, Tonya will guide actors through the principles of the method, emphasizing active listening and truthful, spontaneous reactions. Offering tools to connect actors more authentically with their scene partners, their characters, and their own emotions, this workshop will not only support greater honesty in performance, but support actors in being more present and self-aware in their lives. Martha Graham once said “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time.” Now and in the future, as actors compete with AI versions of themselves and others, it is critical to tap into that unique spark and to allow it to grow and bloom in ways that no algorithm can ever replicate. Sessions run Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:00am-1:00pm. About Tonya Pinkins Tonya Pinkins is an award winning actor. She has been in nine Broadway shows, two day time soap operas, numerous episodic television shows and feature films. Some of her awards include a Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, 3 Lortels, the 2020 Franky Award for long term impact in contemporary theater, and the 2021 Rachel Crothers Leadership Award from The League of Professional Theater Women. She has been nominated for the Olivier, Ovation, Helen Hayes, Noel, Jefferson, and NAACP Theater awards among others. Tonya has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Beinecke Fellow at Yale. Her debut Feature film, Red Pill has won numerous best feature and best director awards around the world. She is the author of “Get Over Yourself: How to drop the drama and claim the life you deserve,” published in 2006 by Hyperion, and “Red Pill Unmasked” available on Audible. Her essays on America...