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 Workshop YURA KORDONSKY: Chekhov Three Weekdays Dates & Times Monday, September 15, 2025 – 11:00am-6:00pm Tuesday, September 16, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Wednesday, September 17, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm We'll take an hour long lunch break each day. Mon/Wed: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Ballroom 2nd Floor Tue: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, educator, and Yale faculty member Yura Kordonsky joins The Actors Center for the first-time for a 3-day workshop devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Through practical scene work, participants will examine acting as the art of active listening—to text and subtext, to a partner on stage, and to the physical world of the play. Together with Yura, participants will explore characters’ given circumstances, objectives, and dramatic conflicts in the creation of an actor’s path that leads to a truthful, authentic, and multi-layered life on stage. In particular, Yura draws on Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions, an approach to rehearsal that he developed in the final years of his life but did not complete for publication before his death. At the core of this method lies the exploration of a play through the life of the human body, building the character’s complex emotions out of responses to the simple, specific physical reality of the stage world. Participants may choose any 2- or 3-person scene from any of Chekhov's plays. Yura has shared a list of possible scenes, but participants may select others if desired. Yura has provided a copy of the Laurence Senelick translation of Chekhov's plays, but any translation can be used. You can sign up either together with partner(s) or as an individual and you will be paired with other individual(s). Each scene will work every day. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for partner(s), you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Yura Kordonsky Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura received his MFA degrees in Acting and Directing from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, under the direction of Lev Dodin. He has taught, performed, and directed internationally since 1989. He was previously a resident actor and director at the renowned Maly Drama Theatre–Theatre of Europe in St. Petersburg. His directing credits...

Company Workshop YURA KORDONSKY: Chekhov Three Weekdays Dates & Times Monday, September 15, 2025 – 11:00am-6:00pm Tuesday, September 16, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Wednesday, September 17, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm We'll take an hour long lunch break each day. Mon/Wed: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Ballroom 2nd Floor Tue: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, educator, and Yale faculty member Yura Kordonsky joins The Actors Center for the first-time for a 3-day workshop devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Through practical scene work, participants will examine acting as the art of active listening—to text and subtext, to a partner on stage, and to the physical world of the play. Together with Yura, participants will explore characters’ given circumstances, objectives, and dramatic conflicts in the creation of an actor’s path that leads to a truthful, authentic, and multi-layered life on stage. In particular, Yura draws on Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions, an approach to rehearsal that he developed in the final years of his life but did not complete for publication before his death. At the core of this method lies the exploration of a play through the life of the human body, building the character’s complex emotions out of responses to the simple, specific physical reality of the stage world. Participants may choose any 2- or 3-person scene from any of Chekhov's plays. Yura has shared a list of possible scenes, but participants may select others if desired. Yura has provided a copy of the Laurence Senelick translation of Chekhov's plays, but any translation can be used. You can sign up either together with partner(s) or as an individual and you will be paired with other individual(s). Each scene will work every day. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for partner(s), you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Yura Kordonsky Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura received his MFA degrees in Acting and Directing from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, under the direction of Lev Dodin. He has taught, performed, and directed internationally since 1989. He was previously a resident actor and director at the renowned Maly Drama Theatre–Theatre of Europe in St. Petersburg. His directing credits...

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

Company Workshop YURA KORDONSKY: Chekhov Three Weekdays Dates & Times Monday, September 15, 2025 – 11:00am-6:00pm Tuesday, September 16, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm Wednesday, September 17, 2025 – 10:00am-5:00pm We'll take an hour long lunch break each day. Mon/Wed: Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, Ballroom 2nd Floor Tue: Vineyard Theatre Rehearsal Studio, 101 East 15th Street, 4th Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Director, educator, and Yale faculty member Yura Kordonsky joins The Actors Center for the first-time for a 3-day workshop devoted to the plays of Anton Chekhov. Through practical scene work, participants will examine acting as the art of active listening—to text and subtext, to a partner on stage, and to the physical world of the play. Together with Yura, participants will explore characters’ given circumstances, objectives, and dramatic conflicts in the creation of an actor’s path that leads to a truthful, authentic, and multi-layered life on stage. In particular, Yura draws on Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions, an approach to rehearsal that he developed in the final years of his life but did not complete for publication before his death. At the core of this method lies the exploration of a play through the life of the human body, building the character’s complex emotions out of responses to the simple, specific physical reality of the stage world. Participants may choose any 2- or 3-person scene from any of Chekhov's plays. Yura has shared a list of possible scenes, but participants may select others if desired. Yura has provided a copy of the Laurence Senelick translation of Chekhov's plays, but any translation can be used. You can sign up either together with partner(s) or as an individual and you will be paired with other individual(s). Each scene will work every day. Slight conflicts can be accommodated. If you are looking for partner(s), you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Yura Kordonsky Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura received his MFA degrees in Acting and Directing from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, under the direction of Lev Dodin. He has taught, performed, and directed internationally since 1989. He was previously a resident actor and director at the renowned Maly Drama Theatre–Theatre of Europe in St. Petersburg. His directing credits...

Company Workshop Fabio Tavares: Alexander Technique Four Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, September 26, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 3, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist and teacher Fabio Tavares returns to The Actors Center for four sessions devoted to exploring the principles of the Alexander Technique in action. The technique has been described as a psycho-physical re-education system, or simply a body mind system that looks to clarify a certain relationship between the head, the neck, and the body. When the neck is free, the head will tend to go "forward and up" and when the head goes forward and up the body will tend to "lengthen and widen". But how exactly do we do that? It turns out we need a process—one that feels safe, simple, and fun enough so that it doesn't become yet another thing on our to-do list. A process through which we can play, be curious, and kind to ourselves. Over four sessions, Fabio will guide participants through exercises that help us clarify this process for ourselves. In the latter part of each session, participants are invited to bring in sides or text to work from, exploring one-on-one adjustments in the work. Sessions run Fridays from 10am-1pm. About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. He has also danced with Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme-Action company for 14 years, and was the company's Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010. Fabio...

Company Workshop ERICA FAE: Body As Source Six Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, September 23, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, September 30, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm —No Meeting October 14— Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 28, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, November 4, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Gibney Dance 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street (9/23, 9/30, 10/7) Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor (10/21, 10/28, 11/4) This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Teacher, director, performer, and writer Erica Fae returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on emotional and physical integration. Over six weeks, participants will investigate the body as a vehicle for deep transformation, a container of emotional experience, and an elegant tool in articulation. Erica will begin with physical training practices based on the early work of Jerzy Grotowski to awaken and deepen an already-innate connection to mind, heart, and body. Erica will guide participants in expanding their emotional life through full-body training, working with image as a source and tool, and unpacking innate patterns or habits in the body. We will parse out experience, observations, and judgements within the work, and work with how the body can be a roadmap towards specific acting choices. About Erica Fae Writer, director, performer, and teacher Erica Fae brings radical stories from history to stage and screen. Her first feature film To Keep the Light won the Fipresci Prize, among other festival awards, and is currently on Amazon Prime. Her original plays include A Girl Joan, Saved Again and by Him, and Take What Is Yours with Jill A. Samuels. Erica currently teaches Physical Acting at Yale's David Geffen School of Drama. She first trained in Grotowski-based work at age 15 and studied at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing where she later taught. She has also taught at The New School for Drama, Columbia’s M.F.A. Film Program, The Actors Center, and in private workshops and retreats. As actor, she’s been on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix's Partner Track, Random Acts of Flyness and Doll & Em, and in feature films First Reformed, Synecdoche New York, The Savages, Little Children, Please Give. She’s also worked with, among others, Martha Clarke, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time, and Ping Chong; and has performed at The New Victory, The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theater, American Conservatory Theater, the Walker Arts Center, Performing Arts Chicago, the McCarter Theatre and the Power...

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 Workshop Fabio Tavares: Alexander Technique Four Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, September 26, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 3, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist and teacher Fabio Tavares returns to The Actors Center for four sessions devoted to exploring the principles of the Alexander Technique in action. The technique has been described as a psycho-physical re-education system, or simply a body mind system that looks to clarify a certain relationship between the head, the neck, and the body. When the neck is free, the head will tend to go "forward and up" and when the head goes forward and up the body will tend to "lengthen and widen". But how exactly do we do that? It turns out we need a process—one that feels safe, simple, and fun enough so that it doesn't become yet another thing on our to-do list. A process through which we can play, be curious, and kind to ourselves. Over four sessions, Fabio will guide participants through exercises that help us clarify this process for ourselves. In the latter part of each session, participants are invited to bring in sides or text to work from, exploring one-on-one adjustments in the work. Sessions run Fridays from 10am-1pm. About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. He has also danced with Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme-Action company for 14 years, and was the company's Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010. Fabio...

Company Workshop ERICA FAE: Body As Source Six Tuesday Mornings Dates & Times Tuesday, September 23, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, September 30, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 7, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm —No Meeting October 14— Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, October 28, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Tuesday, November 4, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Gibney Dance 280 Broadway, Enter at 53A Chambers Street (9/23, 9/30, 10/7) Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor (10/21, 10/28, 11/4) This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Teacher, director, performer, and writer Erica Fae returns to The Actors Center for a workshop focusing on emotional and physical integration. Over six weeks, participants will investigate the body as a vehicle for deep transformation, a container of emotional experience, and an elegant tool in articulation. Erica will begin with physical training practices based on the early work of Jerzy Grotowski to awaken and deepen an already-innate connection to mind, heart, and body. Erica will guide participants in expanding their emotional life through full-body training, working with image as a source and tool, and unpacking innate patterns or habits in the body. We will parse out experience, observations, and judgements within the work, and work with how the body can be a roadmap towards specific acting choices. About Erica Fae Writer, director, performer, and teacher Erica Fae brings radical stories from history to stage and screen. Her first feature film To Keep the Light won the Fipresci Prize, among other festival awards, and is currently on Amazon Prime. Her original plays include A Girl Joan, Saved Again and by Him, and Take What Is Yours with Jill A. Samuels. Erica currently teaches Physical Acting at Yale's David Geffen School of Drama. She first trained in Grotowski-based work at age 15 and studied at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing where she later taught. She has also taught at The New School for Drama, Columbia’s M.F.A. Film Program, The Actors Center, and in private workshops and retreats. As actor, she’s been on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix's Partner Track, Random Acts of Flyness and Doll & Em, and in feature films First Reformed, Synecdoche New York, The Savages, Little Children, Please Give. She’s also worked with, among others, Martha Clarke, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time, and Ping Chong; and has performed at The New Victory, The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theater, American Conservatory Theater, the Walker Arts Center, Performing Arts Chicago, the McCarter Theatre and the Power...

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 Workshop Fabio Tavares: Alexander Technique Four Friday Mornings Dates & Times Friday, September 19, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, September 26, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 3, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Friday, October 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Amanda Selwyn Dance Studio, 412 Broadway (at Canal Street), 2nd Floor This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Interdisciplinary artist and teacher Fabio Tavares returns to The Actors Center for four sessions devoted to exploring the principles of the Alexander Technique in action. The technique has been described as a psycho-physical re-education system, or simply a body mind system that looks to clarify a certain relationship between the head, the neck, and the body. When the neck is free, the head will tend to go "forward and up" and when the head goes forward and up the body will tend to "lengthen and widen". But how exactly do we do that? It turns out we need a process—one that feels safe, simple, and fun enough so that it doesn't become yet another thing on our to-do list. A process through which we can play, be curious, and kind to ourselves. Over four sessions, Fabio will guide participants through exercises that help us clarify this process for ourselves. In the latter part of each session, participants are invited to bring in sides or text to work from, exploring one-on-one adjustments in the work. Sessions run Fridays from 10am-1pm. About Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since. He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. He has also danced with Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme-Action company for 14 years, and was the company's Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010. Fabio...