Company Workshop Fay Simpson: High-Stakes Scene Work 5 Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 17, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm -- No Session November 24 -- Monday, December 1, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 8, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 15, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Founder of the Lucid Body, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Head of Movement at NYU Grad Acting, Fay Simpson, returns to The Actors Center for a five week workshop focusing on building high stakes scenes respectfully and deeply utilizing her physical approach. The first two weeks will delve into advanced tools for active listening and somatic sensitivity needed when approaching scenes involving close relationships. Over the subsequent three weeks, a scene partner and scene will be chosen and explored using exercises to help build physical history, affection, and the bile that may occur as an aftermath. Whether you are new to Lucid Body or not, this workshop will offer tools for embodying the conflicting layers present inside a character, as well as between characters, on a blood and bone level. About Fay Simpson Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express human complexity and passion with safety and skill. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). She is an IPA-certified Intimacy Coordinator and has been a physical acting director and somatic acting coach for more than twenty years. Fay has also taught at The Yale School of Drama, the New School’s Eugene Lang, Michael Howard Studios, The Studio/NY, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center. Fay was awarded a Fox Foundation Fellowship to intern with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater in London in 2000. Re-balancing the nervous system and energetic body of each actor and between actors after every rehearsal is a priority and the reason she became an intimacy coordinator. She has choreographed intimacy for numerous plays, ballets, and screen projects, with credits that include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Classical Theater of...

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 Fay Simpson: High-Stakes Scene Work 5 Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 17, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm -- No Session November 24 -- Monday, December 1, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 8, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 15, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Founder of the Lucid Body, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Head of Movement at NYU Grad Acting, Fay Simpson, returns to The Actors Center for a five week workshop focusing on building high stakes scenes respectfully and deeply utilizing her physical approach. The first two weeks will delve into advanced tools for active listening and somatic sensitivity needed when approaching scenes involving close relationships. Over the subsequent three weeks, a scene partner and scene will be chosen and explored using exercises to help build physical history, affection, and the bile that may occur as an aftermath. Whether you are new to Lucid Body or not, this workshop will offer tools for embodying the conflicting layers present inside a character, as well as between characters, on a blood and bone level. About Fay Simpson Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express human complexity and passion with safety and skill. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). She is an IPA-certified Intimacy Coordinator and has been a physical acting director and somatic acting coach for more than twenty years. Fay has also taught at The Yale School of Drama, the New School’s Eugene Lang, Michael Howard Studios, The Studio/NY, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center. Fay was awarded a Fox Foundation Fellowship to intern with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater in London in 2000. Re-balancing the nervous system and energetic body of each actor and between actors after every rehearsal is a priority and the reason she became an intimacy coordinator. She has choreographed intimacy for numerous plays, ballets, and screen projects, with credits that include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Classical Theater of...

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 Beth McGuire: Approach To Learning Dialects Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, December 12, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Saturday, December 13, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, December 14, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm 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 Voice and dialect coach and former Yale faculty member Beth McGuire returns to The Actors Center in December for a three day workshop on approaching dialects. A dialect is not a believable one, unless it is fully embodied. This process depends on the individual actor’s access to their instrument. Beth will guide participants in exploring melody, rhythm, pace, oral posture, phonemic changes, source and path of the resonance, and focus of articulation. “This may sound technical,” says Beth, “but inevitably, aspects surface as pathways for the actor to weave the accent into the matrix of transformation. The modality that the actor chooses in their approach can change as one moves from one accent to another, but there are landmarks that can help the actor embody any accent.” We'll start by working with multicultural Parisian accents, branching outward across the globe exploring a French accent of your choice. About Beth McGuire Beth has worked as a vocal/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for 40 years. She was a Professor in the Practice of Acting and served as the Director of Speech and Dialects at Yale School of Drama for 23 years. She is currently freelancing, teaching and coaching film, television and theatre, and occasionally still gets on the boards. With colleague Jane Guyer Fujita, she teaches a series of teacher training workshops covering Phonology, Text, Dialects, and production coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors (Routledge press, November 2015), is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre. Most recent dialect coaching projects include Lady in the Lake with Natalie Portman, Lupita N'yongo in The Wild Robot, Ryan Coogler's SINNERS with Michael B Jordan, the Marvel action film, Black Panther, and Jordan Peel’s sociopolitical horror flick US. Selected work in theater includes: African Voices Now: 3 One Acts, Almasi Collaborative Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe; He Brought Her Home in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy at Theatre for a New Audience and KISS by Guillermo Calderón at the Yale Repertory Theatre both directed Evan...

Company Workshop Beth McGuire: Approach To Learning Dialects Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, December 12, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Saturday, December 13, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, December 14, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm 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 Voice and dialect coach and former Yale faculty member Beth McGuire returns to The Actors Center in December for a three day workshop on approaching dialects. A dialect is not a believable one, unless it is fully embodied. This process depends on the individual actor’s access to their instrument. Beth will guide participants in exploring melody, rhythm, pace, oral posture, phonemic changes, source and path of the resonance, and focus of articulation. “This may sound technical,” says Beth, “but inevitably, aspects surface as pathways for the actor to weave the accent into the matrix of transformation. The modality that the actor chooses in their approach can change as one moves from one accent to another, but there are landmarks that can help the actor embody any accent.” We'll start by working with multicultural Parisian accents, branching outward across the globe exploring a French accent of your choice. About Beth McGuire Beth has worked as a vocal/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for 40 years. She was a Professor in the Practice of Acting and served as the Director of Speech and Dialects at Yale School of Drama for 23 years. She is currently freelancing, teaching and coaching film, television and theatre, and occasionally still gets on the boards. With colleague Jane Guyer Fujita, she teaches a series of teacher training workshops covering Phonology, Text, Dialects, and production coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors (Routledge press, November 2015), is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre. Most recent dialect coaching projects include Lady in the Lake with Natalie Portman, Lupita N'yongo in The Wild Robot, Ryan Coogler's SINNERS with Michael B Jordan, the Marvel action film, Black Panther, and Jordan Peel’s sociopolitical horror flick US. Selected work in theater includes: African Voices Now: 3 One Acts, Almasi Collaborative Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe; He Brought Her Home in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy at Theatre for a New Audience and KISS by Guillermo Calderón at the Yale Repertory Theatre both directed Evan...

Company Workshop Beth McGuire: Approach To Learning Dialects Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times Friday, December 12, 2025 – 1:00pm-5:00pm Saturday, December 13, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, December 14, 2025 – 12:00pm-4:00pm 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 Voice and dialect coach and former Yale faculty member Beth McGuire returns to The Actors Center in December for a three day workshop on approaching dialects. A dialect is not a believable one, unless it is fully embodied. This process depends on the individual actor’s access to their instrument. Beth will guide participants in exploring melody, rhythm, pace, oral posture, phonemic changes, source and path of the resonance, and focus of articulation. “This may sound technical,” says Beth, “but inevitably, aspects surface as pathways for the actor to weave the accent into the matrix of transformation. The modality that the actor chooses in their approach can change as one moves from one accent to another, but there are landmarks that can help the actor embody any accent.” We'll start by working with multicultural Parisian accents, branching outward across the globe exploring a French accent of your choice. About Beth McGuire Beth has worked as a vocal/dialect coach both on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in film and television for 40 years. She was a Professor in the Practice of Acting and served as the Director of Speech and Dialects at Yale School of Drama for 23 years. She is currently freelancing, teaching and coaching film, television and theatre, and occasionally still gets on the boards. With colleague Jane Guyer Fujita, she teaches a series of teacher training workshops covering Phonology, Text, Dialects, and production coaching. Her book, African Accents: A Workbook for Actors (Routledge press, November 2015), is the first practical comprehensive analysis of the genre. Most recent dialect coaching projects include Lady in the Lake with Natalie Portman, Lupita N'yongo in The Wild Robot, Ryan Coogler's SINNERS with Michael B Jordan, the Marvel action film, Black Panther, and Jordan Peel’s sociopolitical horror flick US. Selected work in theater includes: African Voices Now: 3 One Acts, Almasi Collaborative Arts, Harare, Zimbabwe; He Brought Her Home in a Box by Adrienne Kennedy at Theatre for a New Audience and KISS by Guillermo Calderón at the Yale Repertory Theatre both directed Evan...

Company Workshop Fay Simpson: High-Stakes Scene Work 5 Monday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, November 10, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, November 17, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm -- No Session November 24 -- Monday, December 1, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 8, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Monday, December 15, 2025 – 10:00am-1:00pm Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street, 2nd Floor Jefferson Studio This workshop is only open to participants, we cannot accommodate observers. About the Workshop Founder of the Lucid Body, an Intimacy Coordinator, and Head of Movement at NYU Grad Acting, Fay Simpson, returns to The Actors Center for a five week workshop focusing on building high stakes scenes respectfully and deeply utilizing her physical approach. The first two weeks will delve into advanced tools for active listening and somatic sensitivity needed when approaching scenes involving close relationships. Over the subsequent three weeks, a scene partner and scene will be chosen and explored using exercises to help build physical history, affection, and the bile that may occur as an aftermath. Whether you are new to Lucid Body or not, this workshop will offer tools for embodying the conflicting layers present inside a character, as well as between characters, on a blood and bone level. About Fay Simpson Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge that empowers actors and dancers to express human complexity and passion with safety and skill. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). She is an IPA-certified Intimacy Coordinator and has been a physical acting director and somatic acting coach for more than twenty years. Fay has also taught at The Yale School of Drama, the New School’s Eugene Lang, Michael Howard Studios, The Studio/NY, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center. Fay was awarded a Fox Foundation Fellowship to intern with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theater in London in 2000. Re-balancing the nervous system and energetic body of each actor and between actors after every rehearsal is a priority and the reason she became an intimacy coordinator. She has choreographed intimacy for numerous plays, ballets, and screen projects, with credits that include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Classical Theater of...

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