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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

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 PETER FRANCIS JAMES: Shakespeare Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, February 10, 2024 – 12:00pm-4:30pm Sunday, February 11, 2024 – 12:00pm-4:30pm 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 Actor and educator Peter Francis James returns to The Actors Center for a weekend Shakespeare workshop, February 10 and 11. Over two afternoons, Peter will guide participants through exploration of text and language, discovering what can be found on the page and how it can be used by the actor. From Peter: “For 30 years, I’ve been trying to find the best way to assist actors and directors (and myself) in understanding, approaching, and delivering Shakespeare as Performance. The core of what I propose, centers on the idea of Tools, Not Rules. We'll look at several ideas that seem to consistently yield useful results: geography, the iambic, taking a pass, and planting versus plowing. I have been heavily influenced by John Barton, and the students it has been my privilege to learn from. Let’s take a pass.” Sessions run Saturday and Sunday from 12:00pm to 4:30pm. About Peter Francis James Peter Francis James recently appeared on Broadway as Flo Ziegfeld in Funny Girl. Other Broadway credits include Barack in Hillary and Clinton, Present Laughter, The Merchant of Venice, On Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, and Judgment at Nuremberg. His many Shakespeare credits include: the title role in Othello (Baltimore Center Stage), Oberon in Sir Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ahmanson), Coriolanus (McCarter), Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park) and Cymbeline (Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre for a New Audience), among others. His film and television credits include The Humbling, Song One, The Losers, The Rebound, The Messenger, Bull, Godfather of Harlem, The Code, Boardwalk Empire, The Mysteries of Laura, Oz, Royal Pains, Gossip Girl, Kings, The Rosa Parks Story, Simple Justice, The Ruby Bridges Story, and all three Law & Order series. Peter taught Shakespeare at the Yale School of Drama for 20 years. He has also taught at BADA at Oxford, The Actors Center, The Public Shakespeare Lab, Fordham University, and Barnard. He has presented master classes at both Peking U, and Shanghai Theater Institute. He is a graduate, and an associate, of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 12 actors. Participants...

In-Person Workshop PETER FRANCIS JAMES: Shakespeare Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, February 10, 2024 – 12:00pm-4:30pm Sunday, February 11, 2024 – 12:00pm-4:30pm 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 Actor and educator Peter Francis James returns to The Actors Center for a weekend Shakespeare workshop, February 10 and 11. Over two afternoons, Peter will guide participants through exploration of text and language, discovering what can be found on the page and how it can be used by the actor. From Peter: “For 30 years, I’ve been trying to find the best way to assist actors and directors (and myself) in understanding, approaching, and delivering Shakespeare as Performance. The core of what I propose, centers on the idea of Tools, Not Rules. We'll look at several ideas that seem to consistently yield useful results: geography, the iambic, taking a pass, and planting versus plowing. I have been heavily influenced by John Barton, and the students it has been my privilege to learn from. Let’s take a pass.” Sessions run Saturday and Sunday from 12:00pm to 4:30pm. About Peter Francis James Peter Francis James recently appeared on Broadway as Flo Ziegfeld in Funny Girl. Other Broadway credits include Barack in Hillary and Clinton, Present Laughter, The Merchant of Venice, On Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, and Judgment at Nuremberg. His many Shakespeare credits include: the title role in Othello (Baltimore Center Stage), Oberon in Sir Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ahmanson), Coriolanus (McCarter), Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park) and Cymbeline (Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre for a New Audience), among others. His film and television credits include The Humbling, Song One, The Losers, The Rebound, The Messenger, Bull, Godfather of Harlem, The Code, Boardwalk Empire, The Mysteries of Laura, Oz, Royal Pains, Gossip Girl, Kings, The Rosa Parks Story, Simple Justice, The Ruby Bridges Story, and all three Law & Order series. Peter taught Shakespeare at the Yale School of Drama for 20 years. He has also taught at BADA at Oxford, The Actors Center, The Public Shakespeare Lab, Fordham University, and Barnard. He has presented master classes at both Peking U, and Shanghai Theater Institute. He is a graduate, and an associate, of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 12 actors. Participants...

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

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

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

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 JESSICA WOLF: The Breathing Costume Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, February 24, 2024 – 11:00am-3:00pm Sunday, February 25, 2024 – 11:00am-3:00pm Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Studio Y 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Alexander technique and Breath teacher, and longtime Yale faculty member, Jessica Wolf, returns to The Actors Center for a weekend workshop in February. Actors understand that no character is alike in form or quality. Character transformation often occurs through the actor’s attention to their body, movement, and voice. In this workshop, actors will learn to develop character through their breath. Jessica Wolf’s Breathing Costume is a technique with which actors try on different breathing patterns to shape and transform into character from the inside out. This process empowers actors to personalize and individualize their roles in a way that is subtle and organic, leading to a more nuanced performance. Actors are invited to bring in roles they would like to explore with this workshop. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 11:00am-3:00pm. About Jessica Wolf Jessica Wolf has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 45 years and is a Professor in the Practice of Acting at Yale School of Drama, where she established the first Alexander Training curriculum in 1998. She is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst. Jessica is the founder of Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing, a certification program for Alexander Technique teachers based in her own technique, which integrates principles and procedures developed from her work in respiratory science and education. In 2013, Jessica published the Art of Breathing: Collected Articles and created the first three‐dimensional animated film of the respiratory system, which has since been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and German. She is currently in development of her next book. Jessica coaches performing artists who appear on‐ and off‐Broadway, and in films and television. Her work is recognized internationally and she travels giving workshops to performers, teachers, and healthcare providers. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Participants are expected to attend both sessions in full. Comments/Queries

In-Person Workshop JESSICA WOLF: The Breathing Costume Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, February 24, 2024 – 11:00am-3:00pm Sunday, February 25, 2024 – 11:00am-3:00pm Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Studio Y 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate observers for this workshop. About the Workshop Alexander technique and Breath teacher, and longtime Yale faculty member, Jessica Wolf, returns to The Actors Center for a weekend workshop in February. Actors understand that no character is alike in form or quality. Character transformation often occurs through the actor’s attention to their body, movement, and voice. In this workshop, actors will learn to develop character through their breath. Jessica Wolf’s Breathing Costume is a technique with which actors try on different breathing patterns to shape and transform into character from the inside out. This process empowers actors to personalize and individualize their roles in a way that is subtle and organic, leading to a more nuanced performance. Actors are invited to bring in roles they would like to explore with this workshop. Sessions run Saturday and Sunday, 11:00am-3:00pm. About Jessica Wolf Jessica Wolf has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 45 years and is a Professor in the Practice of Acting at Yale School of Drama, where she established the first Alexander Training curriculum in 1998. She is also a certified Laban Movement Analyst. Jessica is the founder of Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing, a certification program for Alexander Technique teachers based in her own technique, which integrates principles and procedures developed from her work in respiratory science and education. In 2013, Jessica published the Art of Breathing: Collected Articles and created the first three‐dimensional animated film of the respiratory system, which has since been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and German. She is currently in development of her next book. Jessica coaches performing artists who appear on‐ and off‐Broadway, and in films and television. Her work is recognized internationally and she travels giving workshops to performers, teachers, and healthcare providers. Register Now Participants Enrollment is limited to 14 actors. Participants are expected to attend both sessions in 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

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

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