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

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

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Tennessee Williams Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 16, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, November 18, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom Sun Location: Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for three days of scene study exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams. Participants are encouraged to play across type and gender if they desire. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as...

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Tennessee Williams Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 16, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, November 18, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom Sun Location: Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for three days of scene study exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams. Participants are encouraged to play across type and gender if they desire. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as...

In-Person Workshop RON VAN LIEU: Tennessee Williams Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, November 16, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm Monday, November 18, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Sat/Mon Location: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom Sun Location: Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Revered acting teacher Ron Van Lieu, founding faculty member of The Actors Center and former faculty at NYU, Yale, and Columbia, returns for three days of scene study exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams. Participants are encouraged to play across type and gender if they desire. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, and 10:00am-1:00pm on Monday. Ron will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability and you will have a one-hour time slot assigned for your scene accordingly. You should be off-book and well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Ron Van Lieu Ron Van Lieu was the Master Teacher of Acting and eventually Chair of the NYU Graduate Acting Program where he taught from 1975 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed the Lloyd Richards Professor of Acting and Chair of the Acting Program at the Yale School of Drama where he taught until 2017, and where he is now Professor Emeritus. In 2017, Ron was appointed Professor of Professional Practice at the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Actor Training Program. Actors who have trained with Ron over the past 50 years have won every major award in the field of theater, acting, and dramatic arts, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Academy Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Obie, among others. In addition to his university work, Ron is a founding faculty member of both The Shakespeare Lab at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater where he headed the actor training for 10 years, as...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In-Person Workshop KENNETH NOEL MITCHELL: Prescriptive Scene Study Four Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 20, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 27, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Acting teacher Kenneth Noel Mitchell leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, crafted to nurture and ignite each actor's distinctive journey over four weeks. You will have the opportunity to articulate a specific acting challenge that you aspire to tackle throughout the workshop. With Kenneth’s guidance, you will select a scene and character that resonates with your goals, ensuring that your experience is both focused and challenging. You may sign up as an individual and you will be paired with another member to work on a scene. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. You should be off-book and rehearsed with your material for this workshop. Sessions run Thursday afternoons, 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Kenneth Noel Mitchell Kenneth Noel Mitchell was the director of Musical Theatre for the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. Before that, he was the founding head of acting for the New Studio on Broadway and the associate chair of the New York University (NYU) Department of Drama. Kenneth served as the coordinator of acting at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Professional Theatre Training Program. Currently, he is teaching acting for the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. As a director and actor, Kenneth’s work has been represented in New York and regionally. Kenneth has served as the Artistic Director for American Stage. He has been affiliated with the New Shakespeare Festival and Circle Rep. Kenneth was a company member of the American Globe Theatre for over twenty years. He was chair of the YoungArts Theatre Panel and a member of Actors Equity. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

In-Person Workshop KENNETH NOEL MITCHELL: Prescriptive Scene Study Four Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 20, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 27, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Acting teacher Kenneth Noel Mitchell leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, crafted to nurture and ignite each actor's distinctive journey over four weeks. You will have the opportunity to articulate a specific acting challenge that you aspire to tackle throughout the workshop. With Kenneth’s guidance, you will select a scene and character that resonates with your goals, ensuring that your experience is both focused and challenging. You may sign up as an individual and you will be paired with another member to work on a scene. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. You should be off-book and rehearsed with your material for this workshop. Sessions run Thursday afternoons, 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Kenneth Noel Mitchell Kenneth Noel Mitchell was the director of Musical Theatre for the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. Before that, he was the founding head of acting for the New Studio on Broadway and the associate chair of the New York University (NYU) Department of Drama. Kenneth served as the coordinator of acting at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Professional Theatre Training Program. Currently, he is teaching acting for the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. As a director and actor, Kenneth’s work has been represented in New York and regionally. Kenneth has served as the Artistic Director for American Stage. He has been affiliated with the New Shakespeare Festival and Circle Rep. Kenneth was a company member of the American Globe Theatre for over twenty years. He was chair of the YoungArts Theatre Panel and a member of Actors Equity. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

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

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

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

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

In-Person Workshop KENNETH NOEL MITCHELL: Prescriptive Scene Study Four Thursday Afternoons Dates & Times Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 20, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, February 27, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 2:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Acting teacher Kenneth Noel Mitchell leads a workshop with The Actors Center for the first time, crafted to nurture and ignite each actor's distinctive journey over four weeks. You will have the opportunity to articulate a specific acting challenge that you aspire to tackle throughout the workshop. With Kenneth’s guidance, you will select a scene and character that resonates with your goals, ensuring that your experience is both focused and challenging. You may sign up as an individual and you will be paired with another member to work on a scene. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. You should be off-book and rehearsed with your material for this workshop. Sessions run Thursday afternoons, 2:00pm-5:00pm. About Kenneth Noel Mitchell Kenneth Noel Mitchell was the director of Musical Theatre for the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. Before that, he was the founding head of acting for the New Studio on Broadway and the associate chair of the New York University (NYU) Department of Drama. Kenneth served as the coordinator of acting at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Professional Theatre Training Program. Currently, he is teaching acting for the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. As a director and actor, Kenneth’s work has been represented in New York and regionally. Kenneth has served as the Artistic Director for American Stage. He has been affiliated with the New Shakespeare Festival and Circle Rep. Kenneth was a company member of the American Globe Theatre for over twenty years. He was chair of the YoungArts Theatre Panel and a member of Actors Equity. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. Each scene pair will work twice over the four weeks. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

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

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

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

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...