Welker White & Damian Young: Cinematic Scene Study (3/4-3/23)
2025-03-22 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-23 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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
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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 include the Sundance award-winning The 40-Year Old Version, Emmy award-winning HBO’s Bad Education, Eat Pray Love, Dead Poet’s Society, and the upcoming film Outcome directed by Jonah Hill starring Keanu Reeves. Onstage Welker has originated roles in New York premieres on and off Broadway and in noted U.S. theaters by leading American playwrights Lisa Kron, Craig Lucas, Sam Shepard, John Patrick Shanley, Mac Wellman, David Ives, and many others. Welker attended NYU Tisch BFA Acting Program, and holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College. She served on the Acting faculty for over 15 years at Brooklyn College. Welker has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist designation for her teaching.
As an actor, Damian Young has over 100 credited roles in film and tv. He is often recognized for his early work in the films of Hal Hartley (Amateur, Simple Men, No Such Thing) and cult favorite Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete and Pete. His many television credits include recurring and series regular roles on: Ozark, Shrill, House of Cards, Damages, The War Next Door, Californication, The Comeback, The Good Wife, Blacklist, White Collar, Person Of Interest, Numb3rs, Elementary, Third Watch, CSI: Miami, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Law and Order. His many film roles include Catfight, We Only Know So Much, Ocean’s 8, The Greatest Showman, Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, and Alejandro Inarritu’s Birdman. Theater credits include the Broadway productions of Sacrilege with Ellen Burstyn and All My Sons with Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow. Other theatre includes work on many new plays off-Broadway in New York and at noted regional theaters across the U.S.
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Saturday 3/15 – 12pm-4pm

Sunday 3/16 – 12pm-4pm

Saturday 3/22 – 12pm-4pm

Sunday 3/23 – 12pm-4pm

Participants
Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. You will be paired with another individual. Slight conflicts can be accommodated.

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Charlie Oates: Art and Music in Physical Characterization (3/24 & 3/31)
2025-03-24 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-03-31 18:00 - 21:00
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 Love at Chalk Rep in Los Angeles, nine productions at Creede Repertory Theatre and Where I Live and Fresh Paine at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Most recently, he co-created and directed Morph Masters, a new work focusing on the intersection of art and disability for Phamaly Theatre Company in Denver.
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Weekly Community Space
2025-03-25 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-01 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-08 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-15 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-22 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-29 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-06 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-13 11:00 - 12:30
Company CoLabs

Community Space
Tuesday Mornings

Dates & Times
Every Tuesday – 11:00am-12:30pm ET

Launch Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 837 0411 7798
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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.
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Justine Wolf Williams: Play & Clown (4/2-4/11)
2025-04-02 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-04 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-09 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-11 10:00 - 14:00
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 School in Media and Culture, a BA from Brown University in Theater Studies, and she trained with Augusto Boal’s Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris.

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Bethany Caputo: Michael Chekhov Technique (4/14-4/28)
2025-04-14 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-21 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-28 11:00 - 15:00
In-Person Workshop

BETHANY CAPUTO:
Michael Chekhov Technique
Three Monday Afternoons

Dates & Times
Monday, April 14, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm
Monday, April 21, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm
Monday, April 28, 2025 – 11:00am-3:00pm
Anthroposophy NYC, 138 West 15th Street
Unfortunately we can not accommodate observers at this workshop.
About the Workshop
Acting teacher, coach, and Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC, Bethany Caputo, returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on Michael Chekhov’s psychophysical approach to acting. We will work with image, tempo, form, and movement. The technique teaches us to rely on our physicality and our image life to give us insight into our characters, such as physicalizing our objectives so that they don’t remain an intellectual exercise, but instead are an embodied experience. Chekhov believed ‘inherent in every actor is the desire for transformation,’ and he set out a method that is playful, imaginative, safe, healthy, creative, and accessible to anyone truly looking to experience themselves differently. Sessions run over three Monday mornings, 11:00am-3:00pm.
About Bethany Caputo
Bethany Caputo studied at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1997 where she was introduced to the Chekhov Technique. She now teaches the work for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), the Michael Chekhov School of Acting, Terry Knickerbocker Studios, The New York Drama Center, The New School, and a Chekhov Workshop in the grad program at Tisch SOA. Bethany has taught internationally at the University of the Arts in Zurich, Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, Victoria College of the Arts in Australia, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Bethany was an actor in the Master Classes DVD series produced by MICHA and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Bethany is now the Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC.
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Company CoLab: Singing Space (4/22)
2025-04-22 11:00 - 14:00
COMPANY COLABS

Singing Space
Tuesday Morning

Dates & Times
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Ballroom
Hosted by Alison Cimmet & Ka-Ling Cheung
About the CoLab

Company members Ka-Ling Cheung and Alison Cimmet are hosting another edition of Singing Space. Singers of all levels (as well as those who consider themselves non-singers) are welcome! Try out some repertoire, prepare an audition, work on your nerves, or just have fun! Participants will work individually on the song of their choice. An accompanist will be provided. Each participant will choose how to spend their allotted time and if/how they would like feedback from the group. There will be no teacher and facilitators Ka-Ling and Alison will ensure a supportive atmosphere. Observers are welcomed and encouraged!

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.
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Yasmine Lee: Physical Theater & Devised Ensemble Creation (4/22-4/25)
2025-04-22 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-24 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-25 13:00 - 17:00
In-Person Workshop

Yasmine Lee:
Physical Theater & Devised Ensemble Creation
Three Weekday Afternoons

Dates & Times
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm
Thursday, April 24, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm
Friday, April 25, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Jefferson Studio
Unfortunately we cannot accommodate observers at this workshop.
About the Workshop
Movement director and choreographer Yasmine Lee joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three-day workshop devoted to exploring movement as a powerful tool for performance and storytelling. Through dynamic devised physical work, guided exercises, and ensemble-driven creation, participants will explore skills to build narrative through movement. Yasmine offers an inclusive and supportive space to explore, create, and collaborate. No prior movement experience is required—just a willingness to move, play, engage, and discover. Sessions run Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1:00pm-5:00pm.
About Yasmine Lee

Yasmine Lee is a movement director and choreographer based in New York City, whose work spans theater, film, television, large-scale events, music videos, and concert dance.
As Movement Director and/or Choreographer: The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep), Disco Show (Caesar’s directed by Steven Hoggett), SOCIAL! The Social Distance Dance Club collaboration with David Byrne (Park Avenue Armory), Parable Of The Sower Opera (Toshi Reagon and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon at Lincoln Center), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater), Tender Napalm (U.S. premiere at 59E59), Knives In Hens (59E59), World Expo2020 Opening Ceremony (Dubai), American Horror Story: Delicate (FX), Made For Love (MAX), SNL (Season 42 Finale), Opening Ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games (Sochi). She is the Tour Choreographer of A Beautiful Noise and choreographed a physical theater flash mob at the Louvre for Issey Miyake. Yasmine was assistant choreographer on Francis Ford Coppola’s film Megalopolis
As Associate Choreographer and/or Movement Director Yasmine has contributed to the Broadway productions of: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Crucible (2016 revival), ONCE, and RENT. She was the Associate Choreographer for the acclaimed immersive production of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre and Let The Right One In at Berkeley Rep. Up next, Yasmine will movement direct Franklin’s Key for Pig Iron Theater Company this spring.

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Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study (4/26-5/4)
2025-04-26 11:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-27 11:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-03 11:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-04 11:00 - 14:00
In-Person Workshop

PETER JAY FERNANDEZ:
Scene Study
Two Weekends

Dates & Times
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm
Sunday, April 27, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm
Saturday, May 3, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm
Sunday, May 4, 2025 – 11:00am-2:00pm
Actors Theatre Workshop, 145 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor
This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend.
About the Workshop
Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 11:00am-2:00pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Peter Jay will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days.
You should be well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead.
If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory.
About Peter Jay Fernandez

Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others.
Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by Suzan Lori Parks, at the Public Theater. Off-Broadway credits include Macbeth (Theatre for a New Audience), Othello, As You Like It, Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, Spell #7 (Public Theatre), Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop), Zooman and the Sign (Signature), Too Much Memory (Fourth St. Theater), The Pain and The Itch (Playwrights Horizons), Thunder Knocking On The Door (Minetta Lane), RICHARD III: Born with Teeth and Widowers’ Houses (Epic Theatre), among many others.
He has worked throughout the United States at regional theatres including Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Old Globe, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, Williamstown, Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva, The Wilma, among others. Peter’s film and television credits include Shades of Blue, Luke Cage, Royal Pains, Gotham, Elementary, House of Cards, Fringe, Deception, Damages, Law and Order(s), The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Body of Proof, The Adjustment Bureau, Preaching To The Choir, and Funny Valentines.

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Sat. 4/26 - 11:00am

Sat. 4/26 - 12:00pm

Sat. 4/26 - 1:00pm

Sun. 4/27 - 11:00am

Sun. 4/27 - 12:00pm

Sun. 4/27 - 1:00pm

Sat. 5/3 - 11:00am

Sat. 5/3 - 12:00pm

Sat. 5/3 - 1:00pm

Sun. 5/4 - 11:00am

Sun. 5/4 - 12:00pm

Sun. 5/4 - 1:00pm
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Enrollment is limited to 3 scenes each day.

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Kathy McCaffertyEd JewettSat. 4/26 - 11:00am

Adinah AlexanderBob AriSat. 4/26 - 12:00pm

Neal LernerMaggie BofillSat. 4/26 - 1:00pm

Ben BeckleyAto Blankson-WoodSun. 4/27 - 11:00am

Andres Santiago PiñaKate AbbruzzeseSun. 4/27 - 12:00pm

Kathleen Turco-LyonJohn RothmanSun. 4/27 - 1:00pm

Alexandra NeilChris McLindenSat. 5/3 - 11:00am

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Sita Mani: Feldenkrais & Movement (5/14-5/16)
2025-05-14 13:30 - 16:30, 2025-05-15 13:30 - 16:30, 2025-05-16 13:30 - 16:30
In-Person Workshop

SITA MANI:
Meeting & Transforming The Acting Instrument
Three Weekday Afternoons

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