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In-Person Workshop JASON KRAVITS: Musical Improv for Actors 2 Weekday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 13, 2023 – 11:00am-3:30pm Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 11:00am-2:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor, Ballroom About the Workshop Actor, writer, improviser, and company member, Jason Kravits, returns for another offering of his workshop Musical Improv for Actors. Over two sessions, Jason extends the tenets of improv games to explore using music as a tool in telling stories and expanding character—looking at how melody, rhythm, pace and volume influence the meaning behind lyrics, and touching on musical styles, song structure, and rhyming. No previous singing or improv experience necessary! Monday's session runs 11:00am-3:30pm and Tuesday's session runs 11:00am-2:00pm. About Jason Kravits Jason Kravits is the creator and performer of the award-winning show “Off the Top!,” a solo, completely improvised cabaret that he has performed over 50 times in 7 cities on 3 continents (and one ocean). Jason’s television credits include his long-running role as Richard Bay on ABC’s The Practice, recurring roles on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Mick, Madam Secretary, Smash, The Michael J. Fox Show, Royal Pains, and Dallas, and numerous other appearances on shows including Young Sheldon, Disjointed, Homeland, Kevin Can Wait, Instinct, Major Crimes,Blindspot, The Blacklist, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hot in Cleveland, The Kominsky Method, Married, Masters of Sex, Raising Hope, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Gilmore Girls, CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, Everybody Loves Raymond and all the Law and Order franchises. Film Credits include Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois), The Stepford Wives, Sweet November, Morning Glory, Laura Gets a Cat, and What Just Happened. On Broadway, Jason is best know for his work in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other credits include Sly Fox and most recently, Relatively Speaking, three original one-acts by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen. He is also co-founder of University of Maryland’s long-running improv group, “Erasable, Inc.,” now in it’s 37th year. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 12 actors. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. Comments/Queries

COMPANY COLABS The Writer's CoLab Wednesday Mornings Dates & Times Wednesday, September 20, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Pier 57, 25 11th Ave, Seahorse Room Wednesday, September 27, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, October 4, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, October 11, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, October 18, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, October 25, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, November 1, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, November 8, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, November 15, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall Arts Community, 22 E 30th St, 3rd Floor, The Booth Studio Hosted by Emily Kratter, Lena Kaminsky, and Rebecca Harris About the CoLab The Writer’s CoLab is a space where members can gather to write and share pages. Writing can often be isolating and working from home can be distracting. Our hope is to establish a designated space to work collectively each week, making the writing process more communal, offering accountability, and creating an opportunity to hear work aloud. The first 90 minutes of the meeting will be devoted to independent work. You are welcome to use that time however you’d like. There will be three prompts offered at the beginning of each session to inspire if needed. The second 90 minutes will be devoted to sharing, and reading. Each week, three people will have the opportunity to sign up for a 30 minute slot to use according to what is most helpful for their process. In most cases, the writer will assign roles for their pages, the pages will be read aloud, and if desired, the writer can ask for a round of feedback based upon their specific questions and needs. If you are not writing, but would like to join for the second half of this gathering to participate or listen to the shared work, you are more than welcome. Sessions run Wednesday mornings from 10am-1pm. 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

Zoom Workshop DAMIAN YOUNG: Screenplay Analysis Three Thursday Evenings Dates & Times Thursday, November 9, 2023 – 7:00pm-9:00pm ET Thursday, November 16, 2023 – 7:00pm-9:00pm ET Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 7:00pm-9:00pm ET This workshop takes place on Zoom. Enrollment is open to all company members. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and co-founder of The Moving Frame, Damian Young, returns to The Actors Center this November for three Zoom sessions devoted to Screenplay Analysis. Screenplays and Television scripts are blueprints for building visual stories. Do you often find yourself reading a film or tv scene and thinking “there’s not much here” or, on set, asking yourself “why are they shooting it that way?” Our ability to quickly and effectively analyze a scene prior to making specific acting choices ensures we are telling the same story as our collaborators. Damian will guide participants in how to more readily identify genre, story, tone, environment, and emotional stakes of a scene. He will share distinct scenes from a variety of filmed material. Sessions run Thursdays, 7:00pm-9:00pm, on Zoom. About Damian Young Damian Young is an actor and teacher. He is a partner in The Moving Frame, which conducts screen acting intensives and workshops both privately as well as in training programs across the US and abroad. The Moving Frame’s many visits include: The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, Syracuse University/ Tepper, SMU MFA/BFA, Bowdoin College, Yale School of Drama Summer Program, The Freeman Studio, Emerson MFA Film, The Atlantic Conservatory and Atlantic NYU, 16th Street Actors Studio in Australia, among others. Damian has served on the faculty of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers’ Teacher Development Program for several years. Damian is a career actor with over 100 credited film and television appearances. His work spans the films of Hal Hartley and cult favorite Nickelodeon's Pete and Pete, to roles in films such as Birdman, Catfight, Wonderstruck, and Ocean's 8. His recent work includes a series regular on HBO’s The Comeback, and recurring roles on House of Cards, Ozark, Homeland, and The Good Wife. Damian has worked extensively in theatre, both on and off-Broadway, as well as regionally. Register Now Participants Participants may attend any of the sessions and conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

COMPANY COLABS Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now 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 Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life and Art Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom 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. Tonya learned the Meisner method fifty years ago, first from her elementary school teacher, and then from Sanford Meisner, followed by William H. Macy, Steven Shachter, William Esper, and Tim Phillips. Over seven 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. Sessions run Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 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 Theater can be found on Medium. Register Now Participants Participants are expected to be able to attend most sessions, while limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life and Art Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom 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. Tonya learned the Meisner method fifty years ago, first from her elementary school teacher, and then from Sanford Meisner, followed by William H. Macy, Steven Shachter, William Esper, and Tim Phillips. Over seven 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. Sessions run Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 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 Theater can be found on Medium. Register Now Participants Participants are expected to be able to attend most sessions, while limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

Zoom Workshop DAMIAN YOUNG: Screenplay Analysis Three Thursday Evenings Dates & Times Thursday, November 9, 2023 – 7:00pm-9:00pm ET Thursday, November 16, 2023 – 7:00pm-9:00pm ET Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 7:00pm-9:00pm ET This workshop takes place on Zoom. Enrollment is open to all company members. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and co-founder of The Moving Frame, Damian Young, returns to The Actors Center this November for three Zoom sessions devoted to Screenplay Analysis. Screenplays and Television scripts are blueprints for building visual stories. Do you often find yourself reading a film or tv scene and thinking “there’s not much here” or, on set, asking yourself “why are they shooting it that way?” Our ability to quickly and effectively analyze a scene prior to making specific acting choices ensures we are telling the same story as our collaborators. Damian will guide participants in how to more readily identify genre, story, tone, environment, and emotional stakes of a scene. He will share distinct scenes from a variety of filmed material. Sessions run Thursdays, 7:00pm-9:00pm, on Zoom. About Damian Young Damian Young is an actor and teacher. He is a partner in The Moving Frame, which conducts screen acting intensives and workshops both privately as well as in training programs across the US and abroad. The Moving Frame’s many visits include: The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, Syracuse University/ Tepper, SMU MFA/BFA, Bowdoin College, Yale School of Drama Summer Program, The Freeman Studio, Emerson MFA Film, The Atlantic Conservatory and Atlantic NYU, 16th Street Actors Studio in Australia, among others. Damian has served on the faculty of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers’ Teacher Development Program for several years. Damian is a career actor with over 100 credited film and television appearances. His work spans the films of Hal Hartley and cult favorite Nickelodeon's Pete and Pete, to roles in films such as Birdman, Catfight, Wonderstruck, and Ocean's 8. His recent work includes a series regular on HBO’s The Comeback, and recurring roles on House of Cards, Ozark, Homeland, and The Good Wife. Damian has worked extensively in theatre, both on and off-Broadway, as well as regionally. Register Now Participants Participants may attend any of the sessions and conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

COMPANY COLABS Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop WILL DAVIS: Play Laboratory Picnic by William Inge 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, December 2, 2023 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio W) Sunday, December 3, 2023 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio D) Monday, December 4, 2023 – 5:00pm-9:00pm (Studio D) Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center 280 Broadway, Entrance at 53A Chambers Street This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director and choreographer Will Davis joins The Actors Center for the first time this December for a play laboratory, examining the world of William Inge’s Picnic. Over three days, we’ll experiment with the play, collaboratively exploring scenes on our feet and alternating roles (including across gender), all informed by Will’s unique and physically adventurous directing style. From Will Davis: This piece has always compelled me. It's a world where big emotions are forbidden and yet all anyone has in this play are big emotions, which builds fantastic pressure inside the scenes. The play is melancholy and strange, it's pastoral and poetic and it can also feel stilted and pulpy. All these things seem to crash together and create more of a dream logic to me, than a naturalistic ordered play. The language can sound weird to our current ears. I like the opportunity it presents to create a world of emotion under the surface of the language and then use that language as a pressurizing force. As a result, I find these scenes are great canvases to play on—they can hold as much as we want them to, they're very malleable. This play is all in the subtext. It's a very internal dreamy play that at first seems to be all surface. A mentor once told me: Inge is America's Chekhov and Picnic is his masterpiece. I agree. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10am-5pm, and Monday, 5pm-9pm. About WIll Davis Will Davis is a transgender director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new work for the stage. Will is Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, and the first transgender person to lead a major nonprofit institution without a defined LGBTQ mission. Off-Broadway credits include: Road Show (Encores! Off-Center); India Pale Ale (MTC); Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Underground); Charm (MCC); Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons—Lucille Lortel nomination); and Duat (Soho Rep). Regional credits include: As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse) The Swindlers (Baltimore Center Stage); Everybody (Shakespeare Theater Company); A Doll’s...

In-Person Workshop WILL DAVIS: Play Laboratory Picnic by William Inge 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, December 2, 2023 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio W) Sunday, December 3, 2023 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio D) Monday, December 4, 2023 – 5:00pm-9:00pm (Studio D) Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center 280 Broadway, Entrance at 53A Chambers Street This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director and choreographer Will Davis joins The Actors Center for the first time this December for a play laboratory, examining the world of William Inge’s Picnic. Over three days, we’ll experiment with the play, collaboratively exploring scenes on our feet and alternating roles (including across gender), all informed by Will’s unique and physically adventurous directing style. From Will Davis: This piece has always compelled me. It's a world where big emotions are forbidden and yet all anyone has in this play are big emotions, which builds fantastic pressure inside the scenes. The play is melancholy and strange, it's pastoral and poetic and it can also feel stilted and pulpy. All these things seem to crash together and create more of a dream logic to me, than a naturalistic ordered play. The language can sound weird to our current ears. I like the opportunity it presents to create a world of emotion under the surface of the language and then use that language as a pressurizing force. As a result, I find these scenes are great canvases to play on—they can hold as much as we want them to, they're very malleable. This play is all in the subtext. It's a very internal dreamy play that at first seems to be all surface. A mentor once told me: Inge is America's Chekhov and Picnic is his masterpiece. I agree. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10am-5pm, and Monday, 5pm-9pm. About WIll Davis Will Davis is a transgender director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new work for the stage. Will is Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, and the first transgender person to lead a major nonprofit institution without a defined LGBTQ mission. Off-Broadway credits include: Road Show (Encores! Off-Center); India Pale Ale (MTC); Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Underground); Charm (MCC); Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons—Lucille Lortel nomination); and Duat (Soho Rep). Regional credits include: As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse) The Swindlers (Baltimore Center Stage); Everybody (Shakespeare Theater Company); A Doll’s...

In-Person Workshop WILL DAVIS: Play Laboratory Picnic by William Inge 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Saturday, December 2, 2023 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio W) Sunday, December 3, 2023 – 10:00am-5:00pm (Studio D) Monday, December 4, 2023 – 5:00pm-9:00pm (Studio D) Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center 280 Broadway, Entrance at 53A Chambers Street This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director and choreographer Will Davis joins The Actors Center for the first time this December for a play laboratory, examining the world of William Inge’s Picnic. Over three days, we’ll experiment with the play, collaboratively exploring scenes on our feet and alternating roles (including across gender), all informed by Will’s unique and physically adventurous directing style. From Will Davis: This piece has always compelled me. It's a world where big emotions are forbidden and yet all anyone has in this play are big emotions, which builds fantastic pressure inside the scenes. The play is melancholy and strange, it's pastoral and poetic and it can also feel stilted and pulpy. All these things seem to crash together and create more of a dream logic to me, than a naturalistic ordered play. The language can sound weird to our current ears. I like the opportunity it presents to create a world of emotion under the surface of the language and then use that language as a pressurizing force. As a result, I find these scenes are great canvases to play on—they can hold as much as we want them to, they're very malleable. This play is all in the subtext. It's a very internal dreamy play that at first seems to be all surface. A mentor once told me: Inge is America's Chekhov and Picnic is his masterpiece. I agree. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 10am-5pm, and Monday, 5pm-9pm. About WIll Davis Will Davis is a transgender director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new work for the stage. Will is Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, and the first transgender person to lead a major nonprofit institution without a defined LGBTQ mission. Off-Broadway credits include: Road Show (Encores! Off-Center); India Pale Ale (MTC); Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Underground); Charm (MCC); Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons—Lucille Lortel nomination); and Duat (Soho Rep). Regional credits include: As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse) The Swindlers (Baltimore Center Stage); Everybody (Shakespeare Theater Company); A Doll’s...

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life and Art Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom 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. Tonya learned the Meisner method fifty years ago, first from her elementary school teacher, and then from Sanford Meisner, followed by William H. Macy, Steven Shachter, William Esper, and Tim Phillips. Over seven 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. Sessions run Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 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 Theater can be found on Medium. Register Now Participants Participants are expected to be able to attend most sessions, while limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life and Art Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom 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. Tonya learned the Meisner method fifty years ago, first from her elementary school teacher, and then from Sanford Meisner, followed by William H. Macy, Steven Shachter, William Esper, and Tim Phillips. Over seven 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. Sessions run Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 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 Theater can be found on Medium. Register Now Participants Participants are expected to be able to attend most sessions, while limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

COMPANY COLABS Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life and Art Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom 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. Tonya learned the Meisner method fifty years ago, first from her elementary school teacher, and then from Sanford Meisner, followed by William H. Macy, Steven Shachter, William Esper, and Tim Phillips. Over seven 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. Sessions run Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 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 Theater can be found on Medium. Register Now Participants Participants are expected to be able to attend most sessions, while limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life and Art Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom 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. Tonya learned the Meisner method fifty years ago, first from her elementary school teacher, and then from Sanford Meisner, followed by William H. Macy, Steven Shachter, William Esper, and Tim Phillips. Over seven 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. Sessions run Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 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 Theater can be found on Medium. Register Now Participants Participants are expected to be able to attend most sessions, while limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

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

In-Person Workshop TONYA PINKINS: Radical Authenticity in Life and Art Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, November 28, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, November 30, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 5, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 7, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Saturday, December 9, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, December 12, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom 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. Tonya learned the Meisner method fifty years ago, first from her elementary school teacher, and then from Sanford Meisner, followed by William H. Macy, Steven Shachter, William Esper, and Tim Phillips. Over seven 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. Sessions run Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 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 Theater can be found on Medium. Register Now Participants Participants are expected to be able to attend most sessions, while limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries

COMPANY COLABS Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON: Shakespeare 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Friday, December 15, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Saturday, December 16, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Sunday, December 17, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. John will guide participants in finding their connection to Shakespeare in voice and body, bringing text into performance. Participants are asked to bring in a monologue or soliloquy of their choice, and will have the opportunity to work twice over the three days. All spirits welcome, regardless of Shakespeare experience. Sessions run 12:00pm-3:30pm, Friday through Sunday. About John Douglas Thompson Through his impressive body of work John Douglas Thompson has established himself as a highly regarded and versatile actor in theater, film, and television. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Julius Caesar. His Off-Broadway credits include Hamlet, Endgame (Drama League, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel nominations), The Iceman Cometh (Obie, Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie, Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, NAACP, Outer Critics Circle Awards), King Lear, Macbeth, Othello (Obie, Lucille Lortel Awards), The Emperor Jones (Lucille Lortel, Drama League, Drama Desk nominations), and Hedda Gabler. Regionally his credits include The Tempest (Elliott Norton Award); Man In The Ring (Elliott Norton Award); Joe Turner’s Come And Gone (Ovation Award); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Barrymore Award). On television and film, John has appeared in Till, The Gilded Age, Mare Of Easttown, For Life, 21 Bridges, and Glass Chin. John is a recipient of 2022 Eugene O’Neill Medallion. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON: Shakespeare 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Friday, December 15, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Saturday, December 16, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Sunday, December 17, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. John will guide participants in finding their connection to Shakespeare in voice and body, bringing text into performance. Participants are asked to bring in a monologue or soliloquy of their choice, and will have the opportunity to work twice over the three days. All spirits welcome, regardless of Shakespeare experience. Sessions run 12:00pm-3:30pm, Friday through Sunday. About John Douglas Thompson Through his impressive body of work John Douglas Thompson has established himself as a highly regarded and versatile actor in theater, film, and television. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Julius Caesar. His Off-Broadway credits include Hamlet, Endgame (Drama League, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel nominations), The Iceman Cometh (Obie, Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie, Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, NAACP, Outer Critics Circle Awards), King Lear, Macbeth, Othello (Obie, Lucille Lortel Awards), The Emperor Jones (Lucille Lortel, Drama League, Drama Desk nominations), and Hedda Gabler. Regionally his credits include The Tempest (Elliott Norton Award); Man In The Ring (Elliott Norton Award); Joe Turner’s Come And Gone (Ovation Award); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Barrymore Award). On television and film, John has appeared in Till, The Gilded Age, Mare Of Easttown, For Life, 21 Bridges, and Glass Chin. John is a recipient of 2022 Eugene O’Neill Medallion. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop JOHN DOUGLAS THOMPSON: Shakespeare 3-Day Weekend Dates & Times Friday, December 15, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Saturday, December 16, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Sunday, December 17, 2023 – 12:00pm-3:30pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson joins The Actors Center for the first time for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. John will guide participants in finding their connection to Shakespeare in voice and body, bringing text into performance. Participants are asked to bring in a monologue or soliloquy of their choice, and will have the opportunity to work twice over the three days. All spirits welcome, regardless of Shakespeare experience. Sessions run 12:00pm-3:30pm, Friday through Sunday. About John Douglas Thompson Through his impressive body of work John Douglas Thompson has established himself as a highly regarded and versatile actor in theater, film, and television. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Julius Caesar. His Off-Broadway credits include Hamlet, Endgame (Drama League, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel nominations), The Iceman Cometh (Obie, Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie, Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, NAACP, Outer Critics Circle Awards), King Lear, Macbeth, Othello (Obie, Lucille Lortel Awards), The Emperor Jones (Lucille Lortel, Drama League, Drama Desk nominations), and Hedda Gabler. Regionally his credits include The Tempest (Elliott Norton Award); Man In The Ring (Elliott Norton Award); Joe Turner’s Come And Gone (Ovation Award); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Barrymore Award). On television and film, John has appeared in Till, The Gilded Age, Mare Of Easttown, For Life, 21 Bridges, and Glass Chin. John is a recipient of 2022 Eugene O’Neill Medallion. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. 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 Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now 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 Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now 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 Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 22, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, September 29, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 6, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 13, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, October 27, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 3, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 10, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, November 17, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 1, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 8, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, December 15, 2023 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Rebecca Harris About the CoLab Are you feeling that back to school vibe? Do you find yourself buying blank notebooks and 10 packs of rollerball pens? Perhaps you would like to write a play to perform or your add a chapter to your memoir? Maybe you need to apply for a grant for your short film? Or just do some of that onerous paperwork that comes with adulting? Rebecca Harris continues hosting Study Hall, a series of informal gatherings for company members to work on writing projects (or other tasks) you have in development. The idea is to support each other’s progress by providing consistent time, space, and community, to use as you see fit. The group will meet Friday mornings on Zoom from 9:00am-11:00am. In each of the sessions, there will be a quick (optional) check in at the beginning. You can feel free to share an intention for the time (or not.) And then work, cameras on or off. Then reconvene around 10:45am to report back or check out, which is also optional. Please come and go as you wish and feel free to use the time and accountability in the way that best serves your artistic purposes. 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. RSVP Now 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 Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, January 12, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 19, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 26, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 2, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 9, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 16, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 23, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 1, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 8, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 15, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Heidi Armbruster About the CoLab From Host Heidi Armbruster: Happy New Year! Do you want to jumpstart your writing goals for 2024? Have you been toying with a writing idea but haven't been able to set aside time to make it happen? Or are you like me—and you sit down with good intentions to do some writing—but then "squirrel!" to something shiny like cleaning toilets or baking emergency banana bread? Study Hall can help! I've found that writing ”alone together” can help to keep me accountable. Sometimes a community of people at work is what I need to start a project, make progress in my writing, or (fingers crossed!) finish something. Join me and the rest of the Study Hall crew for a 2024 edition. Open to all newcomers and returning Study Hall-ers 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. RSVP Now 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 Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, January 12, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 19, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 26, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 2, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 9, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 16, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 23, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 1, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 8, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 15, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Heidi Armbruster About the CoLab From Host Heidi Armbruster: Happy New Year! Do you want to jumpstart your writing goals for 2024? Have you been toying with a writing idea but haven't been able to set aside time to make it happen? Or are you like me—and you sit down with good intentions to do some writing—but then "squirrel!" to something shiny like cleaning toilets or baking emergency banana bread? Study Hall can help! I've found that writing ”alone together” can help to keep me accountable. Sometimes a community of people at work is what I need to start a project, make progress in my writing, or (fingers crossed!) finish something. Join me and the rest of the Study Hall crew for a 2024 edition. Open to all newcomers and returning Study Hall-ers 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. RSVP Now 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 The Writer's CoLab Wednesday Mornings Dates & Times Wednesday, January 24, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, January 31, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 7, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 14, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 21, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 28, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, March 6, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, March 13, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Pier 57, 25 11th Avenue Hosted by Emily Kratter, Lena Kaminsky, Rebecca Harris, and Kathleen Turco-Lyon About the CoLab The Writer’s CoLab is a space where members can gather to write and share pages. Writing can often be isolating and working from home can be distracting. Our hope is to establish a designated space to work collectively each week, making the writing process more communal, offering accountability, and creating an opportunity to hear work aloud. The first two hours of the meeting will be devoted to independent work. You are welcome to use that time however you’d like. There will be three prompts offered at the beginning of each session to inspire if needed. The third hour will be devoted to sharing and reading. Each week, two people will have the opportunity to sign up for a 30-minute slot to use according to what is most helpful for their process. In most cases, the writer will assign roles for their pages, the pages will be read aloud, and if desired, the writer can ask for a round of feedback based upon their specific questions and needs. If you are not writing but would like to join for the reading portion of this gathering to participate or listen to the shared work, you are more than welcome. Sessions run Wednesday mornings from 10am-1pm from January 24th- February 28th. 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

COMPANY COLABS Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, January 12, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 19, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 26, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 2, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 9, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 16, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 23, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 1, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 8, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 15, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Heidi Armbruster About the CoLab From Host Heidi Armbruster: Happy New Year! Do you want to jumpstart your writing goals for 2024? Have you been toying with a writing idea but haven't been able to set aside time to make it happen? Or are you like me—and you sit down with good intentions to do some writing—but then "squirrel!" to something shiny like cleaning toilets or baking emergency banana bread? Study Hall can help! I've found that writing ”alone together” can help to keep me accountable. Sometimes a community of people at work is what I need to start a project, make progress in my writing, or (fingers crossed!) finish something. Join me and the rest of the Study Hall crew for a 2024 edition. Open to all newcomers and returning Study Hall-ers 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop WELKER WHITE: Working Fast and Slow, Screen Acting Workshop Six Tuesday and Friday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 2, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm (Cancelled) Tuesday, February 6, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 9, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, February 13, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 16, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and founder of The Moving Frame, Welker White, returns to The Actors Center to lead a screen acting workshop over three weeks in February. Participants will have a chance to investigate (Fast) avenues for preparation, alongside (Slow) exploration working with the camera. This is an opportunity to find new avenues for discovery. Working on film scenes, we’ll look to bring greater specificity, ease, and present-moment veracity to your work in front of a camera. We’ll examine specific principles in on-camera storytelling, aim to strengthen a relationship to the camera’s lens, and unpack where you might be getting stuck in your process. Sessions run Tuesday and Friday from 10am-1pm. About Welker White Welker White is an actor and educator with deep roots in theater, film and television. Her company, The Moving Frame, is a process-oriented exploration of screen acting designed to offer actors an immersion into the world of cinematic storytelling. Welker has worked with director Martin Scorsese multiple times and can be seen currently in his film, Killers of the Flower Moon, as well as in a leading role in the independent film Crookedfinger. Other select film credits include The 40-Year Old Version, Bad Education, Goodfellas, Eat Pray Love, Dead Poet’s Society, and The Irishman, opposite Al Pacino. She has performed on and off-Broadway, as well as regionally. Welker has 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, Syracuse University/ Tepper, SMU MFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory/Atlantic NYU, Dallas Theater Center acting company, Factory Acting Studio Brisbane, 16th Street Actors Studio in Australia. Additionally, Welker has served on the faculty for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers’ Teacher Development Program. Welker has several published pieces on using the camera in acting training and has been awarded a Fulbright...

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 The Writer's CoLab Wednesday Mornings Dates & Times Wednesday, January 24, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, January 31, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 7, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 14, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 21, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, February 28, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, March 6, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Wednesday, March 13, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Pier 57, 25 11th Avenue Hosted by Emily Kratter, Lena Kaminsky, Rebecca Harris, and Kathleen Turco-Lyon About the CoLab The Writer’s CoLab is a space where members can gather to write and share pages. Writing can often be isolating and working from home can be distracting. Our hope is to establish a designated space to work collectively each week, making the writing process more communal, offering accountability, and creating an opportunity to hear work aloud. The first two hours of the meeting will be devoted to independent work. You are welcome to use that time however you’d like. There will be three prompts offered at the beginning of each session to inspire if needed. The third hour will be devoted to sharing and reading. Each week, two people will have the opportunity to sign up for a 30-minute slot to use according to what is most helpful for their process. In most cases, the writer will assign roles for their pages, the pages will be read aloud, and if desired, the writer can ask for a round of feedback based upon their specific questions and needs. If you are not writing but would like to join for the reading portion of this gathering to participate or listen to the shared work, you are more than welcome. Sessions run Wednesday mornings from 10am-1pm from January 24th- February 28th. 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

COMPANY COLABS Study Hall Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, January 12, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 19, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, January 26, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 2, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 9, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 16, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, February 23, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 1, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 8, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET Friday, March 15, 2024 - 9:00am-11:00am ET On Zoom Hosted by Heidi Armbruster About the CoLab From Host Heidi Armbruster: Happy New Year! Do you want to jumpstart your writing goals for 2024? Have you been toying with a writing idea but haven't been able to set aside time to make it happen? Or are you like me—and you sit down with good intentions to do some writing—but then "squirrel!" to something shiny like cleaning toilets or baking emergency banana bread? Study Hall can help! I've found that writing ”alone together” can help to keep me accountable. Sometimes a community of people at work is what I need to start a project, make progress in my writing, or (fingers crossed!) finish something. Join me and the rest of the Study Hall crew for a 2024 edition. Open to all newcomers and returning Study Hall-ers 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. RSVP Now Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop WELKER WHITE: Working Fast and Slow, Screen Acting Workshop Six Tuesday and Friday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 2, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm (Cancelled) Tuesday, February 6, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 9, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, February 13, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 16, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and founder of The Moving Frame, Welker White, returns to The Actors Center to lead a screen acting workshop over three weeks in February. Participants will have a chance to investigate (Fast) avenues for preparation, alongside (Slow) exploration working with the camera. This is an opportunity to find new avenues for discovery. Working on film scenes, we’ll look to bring greater specificity, ease, and present-moment veracity to your work in front of a camera. We’ll examine specific principles in on-camera storytelling, aim to strengthen a relationship to the camera’s lens, and unpack where you might be getting stuck in your process. Sessions run Tuesday and Friday from 10am-1pm. About Welker White Welker White is an actor and educator with deep roots in theater, film and television. Her company, The Moving Frame, is a process-oriented exploration of screen acting designed to offer actors an immersion into the world of cinematic storytelling. Welker has worked with director Martin Scorsese multiple times and can be seen currently in his film, Killers of the Flower Moon, as well as in a leading role in the independent film Crookedfinger. Other select film credits include The 40-Year Old Version, Bad Education, Goodfellas, Eat Pray Love, Dead Poet’s Society, and The Irishman, opposite Al Pacino. She has performed on and off-Broadway, as well as regionally. Welker has 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, Syracuse University/ Tepper, SMU MFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory/Atlantic NYU, Dallas Theater Center acting company, Factory Acting Studio Brisbane, 16th Street Actors Studio in Australia. Additionally, Welker has served on the faculty for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers’ Teacher Development Program. Welker has several published pieces on using the camera in acting training and has been awarded a Fulbright...

COMPANY COLABS The Artist's Way Once a Week on Zoom Dates & Times Tentative Date: Saturday Mornings – 11:00am ET / 8:00am PT Beginning February 3, 2024 The day and time is negotiable Hosted by Jason Butler Harner About the CoLab From Jason Butler Harner: Have you ever thought about doing The Artist’s Way? Or maybe you did it years ago, and could use some hopeful invigoration now? Anyone ever started, not completed, and/or had the books gathering dust on your shelf, in the closet, or under a bed side-eying you? Well I have and I’d like to complete it this time. Here’s a chance for community support towards completion and inspiration. Let’s go diving for pearls. The key task in the book is the dreaded Morning Pages with a few artist dates alone in the week, and occasional time for introspection. I’m starting a group, with the solid goal of completing the 13 week cycle. Here’s how it will work: We meet once a week on Zoom for 60-75 minutes. We read the short chapter aloud until the ‘Tasks and Check In’ section, followed by a brief discussion. We also pair or throuple up. These smaller groups will encourage each other throughout the week, however each decides best for that group. I could potentially record the discussion portion and make it accessible for anyone who can’t join that week, with the set intention of showing up for each other and ourselves. The day and time is negotiable. Weekend mornings seem optimal currently. If you're interested, please kindly RSVP by Friday, January 26th. ​Let’s leap so the net will appear - yet again. Hoping for a nice group. 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. RSVP to Attend This CoLab is now full. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop PATRICK MULRYAN: Presence & Connection Four Monday Afternoons Dates & Times Monday, February 5, 2024 – 3:00pm-5:00pm Monday, February 12, 2024 – 3:00pm-5:00pm Monday, February 19, 2024 – 3:00pm-5:00pm Monday, February 26, 2024 – 3:00pm-5:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Jefferson Studio Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and Juilliard faculty member Patrick Mulryan leads a series of four Monday afternoons devoted to cultivating presence and connection through the Miller Voice Method. We all carry various patterns of tension and habits that prevent us from being fully in the moment and allowing for access to our full expressive potential. In this workshop, participants will begin a conversation with their instrument, finding where they can encourage release so as to deepen the breath and allow fuller access to both their emotional life and clear, energized thinking. This in turn will result in a deeper connection to one’s own experience, one’s scene partner, and the audience. When we truly free our breath, we find our way back to the present moment, able to bring our full humanity to the circumstances, with spontaneity and clear point of view. Participants will learn a progression of exercises that are repeatable and that can serve them for audition prep, in rehearsal, and in performance. Sessions run Mondays from 3:00pm-5:00pm. About Patrick Mulryan Patrick Mulryan is a queer director, actor, teacher, and voice and dialect coach based in New York City. He has performed and directed in New York City and internationally. The focus of his work is on expanding one’s expressive palette and sense of self through freeing one’s authentic voice and through that process expanding our capacity for empathy. Patrick recently joined the Voice and Speech faculty at the Juilliard School. He also serves as Dialect Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway.  Patrick is a board member of Colored Criticism, an organization that highlights the voices of artists, audiences, and professionals historically sidelined from cultural criticism. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 16 actors. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop WELKER WHITE: Working Fast and Slow, Screen Acting Workshop Six Tuesday and Friday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 2, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm (Cancelled) Tuesday, February 6, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 9, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, February 13, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, February 16, 2024 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, 2nd Floor, Ballroom This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, teacher, and founder of The Moving Frame, Welker White, returns to The Actors Center to lead a screen acting workshop over three weeks in February. Participants will have a chance to investigate (Fast) avenues for preparation, alongside (Slow) exploration working with the camera. This is an opportunity to find new avenues for discovery. Working on film scenes, we’ll look to bring greater specificity, ease, and present-moment veracity to your work in front of a camera. We’ll examine specific principles in on-camera storytelling, aim to strengthen a relationship to the camera’s lens, and unpack where you might be getting stuck in your process. Sessions run Tuesday and Friday from 10am-1pm. About Welker White Welker White is an actor and educator with deep roots in theater, film and television. Her company, The Moving Frame, is a process-oriented exploration of screen acting designed to offer actors an immersion into the world of cinematic storytelling. Welker has worked with director Martin Scorsese multiple times and can be seen currently in his film, Killers of the Flower Moon, as well as in a leading role in the independent film Crookedfinger. Other select film credits include The 40-Year Old Version, Bad Education, Goodfellas, Eat Pray Love, Dead Poet’s Society, and The Irishman, opposite Al Pacino. She has performed on and off-Broadway, as well as regionally. Welker has 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, Syracuse University/ Tepper, SMU MFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory/Atlantic NYU, Dallas Theater Center acting company, Factory Acting Studio Brisbane, 16th Street Actors Studio in Australia. Additionally, Welker has served on the faculty for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers’ Teacher Development Program. Welker has several published pieces on using the camera in acting training and has been awarded a Fulbright...

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