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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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