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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...

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...