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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...

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 WELKER WHITE & DAMIAN YOUNG: Cinematic Scene Study Two Weekdays & Two Weekends Dates & Times Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Wednesday, March 5, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 882 9449 6336 Passcode: 512872 Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm FD Photo Studio, 35-58 37th Street, 3rd floor, Astoria, NY, Studio 5 This workshop is open to a limited number of observers. Please register as an observer. About the Workshop Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, return to The Actors Center to lead a cinematic scene study workshop. Over two introductory analysis sessions and two weekends of filming, this workshop is intended to aid actors in building a more sustainable framework from which to draw upon in their film and television work and to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling. The workshop begins with two sessions on Zoom with an analysis of text aimed at identifying how and where visual story is expressed on the page. Actors will then move into two weekends in person, shooting short scripted scenes in pairs. Each scene will have the opportunity to work twice over the two weekends, moving through multiple takes. Participants will explore letting go of previous takes and allowing new stimuli to inform and deepen the possibilities in the work. Introductory sessions run Tuesday and Wednesday evening, 6:30pm-9:00pm. The two weekends of shooting run Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Welker White & Damian Young Welker White and Damian Young are co-founders of The Moving Frame, a process-oriented exploration of screen acting that offers actors an immersion into the language of cinematic storytelling. They have conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, U of Iowa MFA Acting, SMU MFA/BFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory, and private studios in South Korea, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia, and Berlin. As an actor, Welker White has worked with Martin Scorsese on several projects, including The Irishman (Josephine Hoffa opposite Al Pacino) and Goodfellas. Additional select film credits...

In-Person Workshop WELKER WHITE & DAMIAN YOUNG: Cinematic Scene Study Two Weekdays & Two Weekends Dates & Times Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Wednesday, March 5, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 882 9449 6336 Passcode: 512872 Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm FD Photo Studio, 35-58 37th Street, 3rd floor, Astoria, NY, Studio 5 This workshop is open to a limited number of observers. Please register as an observer. About the Workshop Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, return to The Actors Center to lead a cinematic scene study workshop. Over two introductory analysis sessions and two weekends of filming, this workshop is intended to aid actors in building a more sustainable framework from which to draw upon in their film and television work and to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling. The workshop begins with two sessions on Zoom with an analysis of text aimed at identifying how and where visual story is expressed on the page. Actors will then move into two weekends in person, shooting short scripted scenes in pairs. Each scene will have the opportunity to work twice over the two weekends, moving through multiple takes. Participants will explore letting go of previous takes and allowing new stimuli to inform and deepen the possibilities in the work. Introductory sessions run Tuesday and Wednesday evening, 6:30pm-9:00pm. The two weekends of shooting run Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Welker White & Damian Young Welker White and Damian Young are co-founders of The Moving Frame, a process-oriented exploration of screen acting that offers actors an immersion into the language of cinematic storytelling. They have conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, U of Iowa MFA Acting, SMU MFA/BFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory, and private studios in South Korea, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia, and Berlin. As an actor, Welker White has worked with Martin Scorsese on several projects, including The Irishman (Josephine Hoffa opposite Al Pacino) and Goodfellas. Additional select film credits...

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 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 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 WELKER WHITE & DAMIAN YOUNG: Cinematic Scene Study Two Weekdays & Two Weekends Dates & Times Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Wednesday, March 5, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 882 9449 6336 Passcode: 512872 Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm FD Photo Studio, 35-58 37th Street, 3rd floor, Astoria, NY, Studio 5 This workshop is open to a limited number of observers. Please register as an observer. About the Workshop Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, return to The Actors Center to lead a cinematic scene study workshop. Over two introductory analysis sessions and two weekends of filming, this workshop is intended to aid actors in building a more sustainable framework from which to draw upon in their film and television work and to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling. The workshop begins with two sessions on Zoom with an analysis of text aimed at identifying how and where visual story is expressed on the page. Actors will then move into two weekends in person, shooting short scripted scenes in pairs. Each scene will have the opportunity to work twice over the two weekends, moving through multiple takes. Participants will explore letting go of previous takes and allowing new stimuli to inform and deepen the possibilities in the work. Introductory sessions run Tuesday and Wednesday evening, 6:30pm-9:00pm. The two weekends of shooting run Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Welker White & Damian Young Welker White and Damian Young are co-founders of The Moving Frame, a process-oriented exploration of screen acting that offers actors an immersion into the language of cinematic storytelling. They have conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, U of Iowa MFA Acting, SMU MFA/BFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory, and private studios in South Korea, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia, and Berlin. As an actor, Welker White has worked with Martin Scorsese on several projects, including The Irishman (Josephine Hoffa opposite Al Pacino) and Goodfellas. Additional select film credits...

In-Person Workshop WELKER WHITE & DAMIAN YOUNG: Cinematic Scene Study Two Weekdays & Two Weekends Dates & Times Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Wednesday, March 5, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 882 9449 6336 Passcode: 512872 Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm FD Photo Studio, 35-58 37th Street, 3rd floor, Astoria, NY, Studio 5 This workshop is open to a limited number of observers. Please register as an observer. About the Workshop Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, return to The Actors Center to lead a cinematic scene study workshop. Over two introductory analysis sessions and two weekends of filming, this workshop is intended to aid actors in building a more sustainable framework from which to draw upon in their film and television work and to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling. The workshop begins with two sessions on Zoom with an analysis of text aimed at identifying how and where visual story is expressed on the page. Actors will then move into two weekends in person, shooting short scripted scenes in pairs. Each scene will have the opportunity to work twice over the two weekends, moving through multiple takes. Participants will explore letting go of previous takes and allowing new stimuli to inform and deepen the possibilities in the work. Introductory sessions run Tuesday and Wednesday evening, 6:30pm-9:00pm. The two weekends of shooting run Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Welker White & Damian Young Welker White and Damian Young are co-founders of The Moving Frame, a process-oriented exploration of screen acting that offers actors an immersion into the language of cinematic storytelling. They have conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, U of Iowa MFA Acting, SMU MFA/BFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory, and private studios in South Korea, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia, and Berlin. As an actor, Welker White has worked with Martin Scorsese on several projects, including The Irishman (Josephine Hoffa opposite Al Pacino) and Goodfellas. Additional select film 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

In-Person Workshop WELKER WHITE & DAMIAN YOUNG: Cinematic Scene Study Two Weekdays & Two Weekends Dates & Times Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Wednesday, March 5, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 882 9449 6336 Passcode: 512872 Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm FD Photo Studio, 35-58 37th Street, 3rd floor, Astoria, NY, Studio 5 This workshop is open to a limited number of observers. Please register as an observer. About the Workshop Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, return to The Actors Center to lead a cinematic scene study workshop. Over two introductory analysis sessions and two weekends of filming, this workshop is intended to aid actors in building a more sustainable framework from which to draw upon in their film and television work and to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling. The workshop begins with two sessions on Zoom with an analysis of text aimed at identifying how and where visual story is expressed on the page. Actors will then move into two weekends in person, shooting short scripted scenes in pairs. Each scene will have the opportunity to work twice over the two weekends, moving through multiple takes. Participants will explore letting go of previous takes and allowing new stimuli to inform and deepen the possibilities in the work. Introductory sessions run Tuesday and Wednesday evening, 6:30pm-9:00pm. The two weekends of shooting run Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Welker White & Damian Young Welker White and Damian Young are co-founders of The Moving Frame, a process-oriented exploration of screen acting that offers actors an immersion into the language of cinematic storytelling. They have conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, U of Iowa MFA Acting, SMU MFA/BFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory, and private studios in South Korea, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia, and Berlin. As an actor, Welker White has worked with Martin Scorsese on several projects, including The Irishman (Josephine Hoffa opposite Al Pacino) and Goodfellas. Additional select film credits...

In-Person Workshop WELKER WHITE & DAMIAN YOUNG: Cinematic Scene Study Two Weekdays & Two Weekends Dates & Times Tuesday, March 4, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Wednesday, March 5, 2025 – 6:30pm-9:00pm on Zoom Launch Zoom Link Meeting ID: 882 9449 6336 Passcode: 512872 Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, March 22, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, March 23, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm FD Photo Studio, 35-58 37th Street, 3rd floor, Astoria, NY, Studio 5 This workshop is open to a limited number of observers. Please register as an observer. About the Workshop Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, return to The Actors Center to lead a cinematic scene study workshop. Over two introductory analysis sessions and two weekends of filming, this workshop is intended to aid actors in building a more sustainable framework from which to draw upon in their film and television work and to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling. The workshop begins with two sessions on Zoom with an analysis of text aimed at identifying how and where visual story is expressed on the page. Actors will then move into two weekends in person, shooting short scripted scenes in pairs. Each scene will have the opportunity to work twice over the two weekends, moving through multiple takes. Participants will explore letting go of previous takes and allowing new stimuli to inform and deepen the possibilities in the work. Introductory sessions run Tuesday and Wednesday evening, 6:30pm-9:00pm. The two weekends of shooting run Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00pm-4:00pm. About Welker White & Damian Young Welker White and Damian Young are co-founders of The Moving Frame, a process-oriented exploration of screen acting that offers actors an immersion into the language of cinematic storytelling. They have conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, U of Iowa MFA Acting, SMU MFA/BFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory, and private studios in South Korea, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia, and Berlin. As an actor, Welker White has worked with Martin Scorsese on several projects, including The Irishman (Josephine Hoffa opposite Al Pacino) and Goodfellas. Additional select film credits...

In-Person Workshop CHARLIE OATES: Art and Music in Physical Characterization Two Monday Evenings Dates & Times Monday, March 24, 2025 – 6:00pm-9:00pm Monday, March 31, 2025 – 6:00pm-9:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Director, movement coach, and educator Charlie Oates returns to The Actors Center to lead a workshop investigating the use of visual art and music as a way to explore or enhance physical characterization. Every now and then, any creative artist needs a new perspective to shake things up. Actors are no different. The goal is to provide actors with creative tools in order to widen and deepen the range of possibilities as they create a character in rehearsal Since it is critical to join physical technique and expansive creativity, we will also focus on sharpening clarity of expression in our physicality and building a discipline of specificity. In the end, we want movement in performance that comes from both an open and free creativity and a focused and dynamic body. Sessions run Monday evenings 6:00pm-9:00pm. About Charlie Oates For nearly 40 years Charlie Oates taught in actor training programs and universities focusing on the physical training of actors. The majority of his career was spent at the University of California, San Diego where he served for several years as department chair and received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016. As a movement coach and fight choreographer, Oates has worked at numerous theaters including La Jolla Playhouse, The Mixed Blood, The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, San Diego Rep, Chautauqua Theatre Company and the Denver Center Theatre Company. He has been a guest artist in leading actor training programs in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Senegal, Sweden, and China. His years as a creator and performer of original physical theatre works, director and street performer have taken him across North America, the Pacific and Europe. His original work includes Truck Dog  (with James Donlon), which toured the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ireland and with Czech Performers, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic; Staying Married (with Moira Keefe) which played throughout the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Ireland and his solo work Man Overboard, also seen internationally. He has directed over 50 productions at theatres, MFA programs and universities including, Flush at Theatre Alfred in Prague,  Save You, Hate Me in Berlin and Fuatia's Future for the Calico Young People's Theatre of New Zealand, Fool for...

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 CHARLIE OATES: Art and Music in Physical Characterization Two Monday Evenings Dates & Times Monday, March 24, 2025 – 6:00pm-9:00pm Monday, March 31, 2025 – 6:00pm-9:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Director, movement coach, and educator Charlie Oates returns to The Actors Center to lead a workshop investigating the use of visual art and music as a way to explore or enhance physical characterization. Every now and then, any creative artist needs a new perspective to shake things up. Actors are no different. The goal is to provide actors with creative tools in order to widen and deepen the range of possibilities as they create a character in rehearsal Since it is critical to join physical technique and expansive creativity, we will also focus on sharpening clarity of expression in our physicality and building a discipline of specificity. In the end, we want movement in performance that comes from both an open and free creativity and a focused and dynamic body. Sessions run Monday evenings 6:00pm-9:00pm. About Charlie Oates For nearly 40 years Charlie Oates taught in actor training programs and universities focusing on the physical training of actors. The majority of his career was spent at the University of California, San Diego where he served for several years as department chair and received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016. As a movement coach and fight choreographer, Oates has worked at numerous theaters including La Jolla Playhouse, The Mixed Blood, The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, San Diego Rep, Chautauqua Theatre Company and the Denver Center Theatre Company. He has been a guest artist in leading actor training programs in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Senegal, Sweden, and China. His years as a creator and performer of original physical theatre works, director and street performer have taken him across North America, the Pacific and Europe. His original work includes Truck Dog  (with James Donlon), which toured the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ireland and with Czech Performers, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic; Staying Married (with Moira Keefe) which played throughout the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Ireland and his solo work Man Overboard, also seen internationally. He has directed over 50 productions at theatres, MFA programs and universities including, Flush at Theatre Alfred in Prague,  Save You, Hate Me in Berlin and Fuatia's Future for the Calico Young People's Theatre of New Zealand, Fool for...

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 JUSTINE WOLF WILLIAMS: Play & Clown Wednesday & Friday Mornings Dates & Times Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 4, 2025 – 11am-3pm (Note: Different time!) Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 11, 2025 – 10am-2pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. 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, and the key to your creative brilliance was a matter of reconnecting to your playful impulses and your pleasure in playing pretend, and sharing those impulses generously and skillfully with, for and through the audience? Over four sessions, working through exercises from play, improvisation and clown, we'll unleash your brilliance, discovering what is uniquely playful (and funny) about you on stage, and how an actor's connection to play and pleasure can support them in bringing a character, text or theatrical world to life. Sessions run 10am-2pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, with one session on 4/4 running 11am-3pm. About Justine Wolf 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 14+ 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...

In-Person Workshop JUSTINE WOLF WILLIAMS: Play & Clown Wednesday & Friday Mornings Dates & Times Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 4, 2025 – 11am-3pm (Note: Different time!) Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 11, 2025 – 10am-2pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. 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, and the key to your creative brilliance was a matter of reconnecting to your playful impulses and your pleasure in playing pretend, and sharing those impulses generously and skillfully with, for and through the audience? Over four sessions, working through exercises from play, improvisation and clown, we'll unleash your brilliance, discovering what is uniquely playful (and funny) about you on stage, and how an actor's connection to play and pleasure can support them in bringing a character, text or theatrical world to life. Sessions run 10am-2pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, with one session on 4/4 running 11am-3pm. About Justine Wolf 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 14+ 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...

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 JUSTINE WOLF WILLIAMS: Play & Clown Wednesday & Friday Mornings Dates & Times Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 4, 2025 – 11am-3pm (Note: Different time!) Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 11, 2025 – 10am-2pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. 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, and the key to your creative brilliance was a matter of reconnecting to your playful impulses and your pleasure in playing pretend, and sharing those impulses generously and skillfully with, for and through the audience? Over four sessions, working through exercises from play, improvisation and clown, we'll unleash your brilliance, discovering what is uniquely playful (and funny) about you on stage, and how an actor's connection to play and pleasure can support them in bringing a character, text or theatrical world to life. Sessions run 10am-2pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, with one session on 4/4 running 11am-3pm. About Justine Wolf 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 14+ 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...

In-Person Workshop JUSTINE WOLF WILLIAMS: Play & Clown Wednesday & Friday Mornings Dates & Times Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 4, 2025 – 11am-3pm (Note: Different time!) Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 10am-2pm Friday, April 11, 2025 – 10am-2pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. 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, and the key to your creative brilliance was a matter of reconnecting to your playful impulses and your pleasure in playing pretend, and sharing those impulses generously and skillfully with, for and through the audience? Over four sessions, working through exercises from play, improvisation and clown, we'll unleash your brilliance, discovering what is uniquely playful (and funny) about you on stage, and how an actor's connection to play and pleasure can support them in bringing a character, text or theatrical world to life. Sessions run 10am-2pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, with one session on 4/4 running 11am-3pm. About Justine Wolf 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 14+ 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...

In-Person Workshop BETHANY CAPUTO: Michael Chekhov Technique Three Monday Afternoons Dates & Times Monday, April 14, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Monday, April 21, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Monday, April 28, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Anthroposophy NYC, 138 West 15th Street Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Acting teacher, coach, and Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC, Bethany Caputo, returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on Michael Chekhov’s psychophysical approach to acting. We will work with image, tempo, form, and movement. The technique teaches us to rely on our physicality and our image life to give us insight into our characters, such as physicalizing our objectives so that they don't remain an intellectual exercise, but instead are an embodied experience. Chekhov believed 'inherent in every actor is the desire for transformation,' and he set out a method that is playful, imaginative, safe, healthy, creative, and accessible to anyone truly looking to experience themselves differently. Sessions run over three Monday mornings, 11:00am-3:00pm. About Bethany Caputo Bethany Caputo studied at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1997 where she was introduced to the Chekhov Technique. She now teaches the work for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), the Michael Chekhov School of Acting, Terry Knickerbocker Studios, The New York Drama Center, The New School, and a Chekhov Workshop in the grad program at Tisch SOA. Bethany has taught internationally at the University of the Arts in Zurich, Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, Victoria College of the Arts in Australia, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Bethany was an actor in the Master Classes DVD series produced by MICHA and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Bethany is now the Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

In-Person Workshop BETHANY CAPUTO: Michael Chekhov Technique Three Monday Afternoons Dates & Times Monday, April 14, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Monday, April 21, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Monday, April 28, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Anthroposophy NYC, 138 West 15th Street Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Acting teacher, coach, and Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC, Bethany Caputo, returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on Michael Chekhov’s psychophysical approach to acting. We will work with image, tempo, form, and movement. The technique teaches us to rely on our physicality and our image life to give us insight into our characters, such as physicalizing our objectives so that they don't remain an intellectual exercise, but instead are an embodied experience. Chekhov believed 'inherent in every actor is the desire for transformation,' and he set out a method that is playful, imaginative, safe, healthy, creative, and accessible to anyone truly looking to experience themselves differently. Sessions run over three Monday mornings, 11:00am-3:00pm. About Bethany Caputo Bethany Caputo studied at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1997 where she was introduced to the Chekhov Technique. She now teaches the work for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), the Michael Chekhov School of Acting, Terry Knickerbocker Studios, The New York Drama Center, The New School, and a Chekhov Workshop in the grad program at Tisch SOA. Bethany has taught internationally at the University of the Arts in Zurich, Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, Victoria College of the Arts in Australia, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Bethany was an actor in the Master Classes DVD series produced by MICHA and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Bethany is now the Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

In-Person Workshop Yasmine Lee: Physical Theater & Devised Ensemble Creation Three Weekday Afternoons Dates & Times Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, April 24, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Friday, April 25, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we cannot accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Movement director and choreographer Yasmine Lee joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three-day workshop devoted to exploring movement as a powerful tool for performance and storytelling. Through dynamic devised physical work, guided exercises, and ensemble-driven creation, participants will explore skills to build narrative through movement. Yasmine offers an inclusive and supportive space to explore, create, and collaborate. No prior movement experience is required—just a willingness to move, play, engage, and discover. Sessions run Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:00pm-5:00pm. About Yasmine Lee Yasmine Lee is a movement director and choreographer based in New York City, whose work spans theater, film, television, large-scale events, music videos, and concert dance. As Movement Director and/or Choreographer: The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep), Disco Show (Caesar’s directed by Steven Hoggett), SOCIAL! The Social Distance Dance Club collaboration with David Byrne (Park Avenue Armory), Parable Of The Sower Opera (Toshi Reagon and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon at Lincoln Center), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater), Tender Napalm (U.S. premiere at 59E59), Knives In Hens (59E59), World Expo2020 Opening Ceremony (Dubai), American Horror Story: Delicate (FX), Made For Love (MAX), SNL (Season 42 Finale), Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games (Sochi). She is the Tour Choreographer of A Beautiful Noise and choreographed a physical theater flash mob at the Louvre for Issey Miyake. Yasmine was assistant choreographer on Francis Ford Coppola’s film Megalopolis As Associate Choreographer and/or Movement Director Yasmine has contributed to the Broadway productions of: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Crucible (2016 revival), ONCE, and RENT. She was the Associate Choreographer for the acclaimed immersive production of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre and Let The Right One In at Berkeley Rep. Up next, Yasmine will movement direct Franklin’s Key for Pig Iron Theater Company this spring. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop Yasmine Lee: Physical Theater & Devised Ensemble Creation Three Weekday Afternoons Dates & Times Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, April 24, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Friday, April 25, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we cannot accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Movement director and choreographer Yasmine Lee joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three-day workshop devoted to exploring movement as a powerful tool for performance and storytelling. Through dynamic devised physical work, guided exercises, and ensemble-driven creation, participants will explore skills to build narrative through movement. Yasmine offers an inclusive and supportive space to explore, create, and collaborate. No prior movement experience is required—just a willingness to move, play, engage, and discover. Sessions run Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:00pm-5:00pm. About Yasmine Lee Yasmine Lee is a movement director and choreographer based in New York City, whose work spans theater, film, television, large-scale events, music videos, and concert dance. As Movement Director and/or Choreographer: The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep), Disco Show (Caesar’s directed by Steven Hoggett), SOCIAL! The Social Distance Dance Club collaboration with David Byrne (Park Avenue Armory), Parable Of The Sower Opera (Toshi Reagon and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon at Lincoln Center), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater), Tender Napalm (U.S. premiere at 59E59), Knives In Hens (59E59), World Expo2020 Opening Ceremony (Dubai), American Horror Story: Delicate (FX), Made For Love (MAX), SNL (Season 42 Finale), Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games (Sochi). She is the Tour Choreographer of A Beautiful Noise and choreographed a physical theater flash mob at the Louvre for Issey Miyake. Yasmine was assistant choreographer on Francis Ford Coppola’s film Megalopolis As Associate Choreographer and/or Movement Director Yasmine has contributed to the Broadway productions of: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Crucible (2016 revival), ONCE, and RENT. She was the Associate Choreographer for the acclaimed immersive production of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre and Let The Right One In at Berkeley Rep. Up next, Yasmine will movement direct Franklin’s Key for Pig Iron Theater Company this spring. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop Yasmine Lee: Physical Theater & Devised Ensemble Creation Three Weekday Afternoons Dates & Times Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, April 24, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Friday, April 25, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we cannot accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Movement director and choreographer Yasmine Lee joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three-day workshop devoted to exploring movement as a powerful tool for performance and storytelling. Through dynamic devised physical work, guided exercises, and ensemble-driven creation, participants will explore skills to build narrative through movement. Yasmine offers an inclusive and supportive space to explore, create, and collaborate. No prior movement experience is required—just a willingness to move, play, engage, and discover. Sessions run Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:00pm-5:00pm. About Yasmine Lee Yasmine Lee is a movement director and choreographer based in New York City, whose work spans theater, film, television, large-scale events, music videos, and concert dance. As Movement Director and/or Choreographer: The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep), Disco Show (Caesar’s directed by Steven Hoggett), SOCIAL! The Social Distance Dance Club collaboration with David Byrne (Park Avenue Armory), Parable Of The Sower Opera (Toshi Reagon and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon at Lincoln Center), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater), Tender Napalm (U.S. premiere at 59E59), Knives In Hens (59E59), World Expo2020 Opening Ceremony (Dubai), American Horror Story: Delicate (FX), Made For Love (MAX), SNL (Season 42 Finale), Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games (Sochi). She is the Tour Choreographer of A Beautiful Noise and choreographed a physical theater flash mob at the Louvre for Issey Miyake. Yasmine was assistant choreographer on Francis Ford Coppola’s film Megalopolis As Associate Choreographer and/or Movement Director Yasmine has contributed to the Broadway productions of: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Crucible (2016 revival), ONCE, and RENT. She was the Associate Choreographer for the acclaimed immersive production of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre and Let The Right One In at Berkeley Rep. Up next, Yasmine will movement direct Franklin’s Key for Pig Iron Theater Company this spring. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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...

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...

In-Person Workshop BETHANY CAPUTO: Michael Chekhov Technique Three Monday Afternoons Dates & Times Monday, April 14, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Monday, April 21, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Monday, April 28, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm Anthroposophy NYC, 138 West 15th Street Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop. About the Workshop Acting teacher, coach, and Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC, Bethany Caputo, returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on Michael Chekhov’s psychophysical approach to acting. We will work with image, tempo, form, and movement. The technique teaches us to rely on our physicality and our image life to give us insight into our characters, such as physicalizing our objectives so that they don't remain an intellectual exercise, but instead are an embodied experience. Chekhov believed 'inherent in every actor is the desire for transformation,' and he set out a method that is playful, imaginative, safe, healthy, creative, and accessible to anyone truly looking to experience themselves differently. Sessions run over three Monday mornings, 11:00am-3:00pm. About Bethany Caputo Bethany Caputo studied at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1997 where she was introduced to the Chekhov Technique. She now teaches the work for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), the Michael Chekhov School of Acting, Terry Knickerbocker Studios, The New York Drama Center, The New School, and a Chekhov Workshop in the grad program at Tisch SOA. Bethany has taught internationally at the University of the Arts in Zurich, Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, Victoria College of the Arts in Australia, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Bethany was an actor in the Master Classes DVD series produced by MICHA and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Bethany is now the Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

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...

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...