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
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COMPANY COLABS Embracing Your Third Act Monday Evening Dates & Times Monday, March 9, 2026 – 7:00pm-8:30pm on Zoom Co-Facilitated by Bob Ari and Jodie Lynne McClintock Launch Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89773787278?pwd=KbO57GdW4FRZI4UTqxqxyHpPoAw12d.1 About the CoLab From Co-Facilitator Jodie Lynne McClintock: “Aging means discovering that beauty was never in our skin … but in the story we carry inside us.” This CoLab offers an exploration of the challenges and the gifts that come to actors as we age. As member Bob Ari noted at our last full company meeting, many of our current membership are over half a century old in an industry where youth is always at the fore. How do we, as artists, continue to create and thrive when the opportunities and auditions are dwindling? Similar to an in-person meeting in 2019 that resulted in the Plays For Us initiative and our ongoing Community Space, we are hosting a Zoom meeting to gauge interest, voice our concerns, pool resources, discover our strengths, explore advocacy, and support each other as we navigate this process. This CoLab is open to members of all ages as we all get older each day; and with differing perspectives, we may find hope and fresh answers to our common human dilemma. As the saying goes, “We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.” 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 |
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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 |
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Company Workshop John Douglas Thompson: Shakespeare Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times This workshop was originally scheduled for March 13-15, but has been rescheduled due to John's availability. Revised dates are: Friday, May 8, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, May 9, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, May 10, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Fri/Sat at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street Sun at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, Studios A & B This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of the workshop. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson returns to The Actors Center for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. Working through voice, body, and language, participants will investigate how Shakespeare’s heightened writing becomes playable, immediate, and personal in performance. Actors are invited to bring a monologue or soliloquy of their choice and will work twice over the three days. The workshop emphasizes clarity of thought, physical engagement, and truthful connection to text—treating Shakespeare not as a set of rules to master, but as a dynamic score that invites intelligence, imagination, and presence. Open to actors at all stages of their relationship with Shakespeare. Sessions run 12:00pm–4:00pm, 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, hailed by The New York Times “as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.” John most recently appeared as Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Carousel, and Julius Caesar. He also starred in Endgame at Irish Rep; Hamlet and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare In The Park; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Huntington Theatre Company’s Man in the Ring (Elliot Norton Award) and in the titular role of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Hamlet. John's other credits include Troilus & Cressida and King Lear at The Public Theater; The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, and Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Theatre for a New Audience; The Iceman Cometh (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the NAACP Theatre Awards) at Westside Theater, ACT, Annenberg Center For... |
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Company Workshop John Douglas Thompson: Shakespeare Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times This workshop was originally scheduled for March 13-15, but has been rescheduled due to John's availability. Revised dates are: Friday, May 8, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, May 9, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, May 10, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Fri/Sat at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street Sun at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, Studios A & B This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of the workshop. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson returns to The Actors Center for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. Working through voice, body, and language, participants will investigate how Shakespeare’s heightened writing becomes playable, immediate, and personal in performance. Actors are invited to bring a monologue or soliloquy of their choice and will work twice over the three days. The workshop emphasizes clarity of thought, physical engagement, and truthful connection to text—treating Shakespeare not as a set of rules to master, but as a dynamic score that invites intelligence, imagination, and presence. Open to actors at all stages of their relationship with Shakespeare. Sessions run 12:00pm–4:00pm, 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, hailed by The New York Times “as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.” John most recently appeared as Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Carousel, and Julius Caesar. He also starred in Endgame at Irish Rep; Hamlet and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare In The Park; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Huntington Theatre Company’s Man in the Ring (Elliot Norton Award) and in the titular role of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Hamlet. John's other credits include Troilus & Cressida and King Lear at The Public Theater; The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, and Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Theatre for a New Audience; The Iceman Cometh (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the NAACP Theatre Awards) at Westside Theater, ACT, Annenberg Center For... |
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Company Workshop John Douglas Thompson: Shakespeare Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Afternoon Dates & Times This workshop was originally scheduled for March 13-15, but has been rescheduled due to John's availability. Revised dates are: Friday, May 8, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Saturday, May 9, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Sunday, May 10, 2026 – 12:00pm-4:00pm Fri/Sat at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th Street Sun at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, 18 Bleecker Street, Studios A & B This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of the workshop. About the Workshop Acclaimed actor and teacher John Douglas Thompson returns to The Actors Center for a three-day Shakespeare workshop. Working through voice, body, and language, participants will investigate how Shakespeare’s heightened writing becomes playable, immediate, and personal in performance. Actors are invited to bring a monologue or soliloquy of their choice and will work twice over the three days. The workshop emphasizes clarity of thought, physical engagement, and truthful connection to text—treating Shakespeare not as a set of rules to master, but as a dynamic score that invites intelligence, imagination, and presence. Open to actors at all stages of their relationship with Shakespeare. Sessions run 12:00pm–4:00pm, 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, hailed by The New York Times “as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.” John most recently appeared as Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Carousel, and Julius Caesar. He also starred in Endgame at Irish Rep; Hamlet and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare In The Park; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Huntington Theatre Company’s Man in the Ring (Elliot Norton Award) and in the titular role of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Hamlet. John's other credits include Troilus & Cressida and King Lear at The Public Theater; The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, and Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Theatre for a New Audience; The Iceman Cometh (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the NAACP Theatre Awards) at Westside Theater, ACT, Annenberg Center For... |
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Company Workshop Judy Kuhn: Acting the Song Monday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, March 16, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 19, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, March 23, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 26, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Bruce Mitchell Room Open to observers, all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, singer, and company member Judy Kuhn returns to The Actors Center to lead a two-week Acting the Song workshop this March. Designed for the actor who sings or the actor curious about singing, this workshop explores how thought, intention, and impulse are expressed through song. Participants will work individually on material of their choice, investigating song interpretation through improvisation, personalization, close attention to text, and how to “speak” a song. The focus is not on vocal polish, but on storytelling: clarity of intention, relationship to scene partner and audience, and the courage to let a song reveal something immediate and human. About Judy Kuhn Judy Kuhn is a multiple Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in such shows as Fun Home, She Loves Me, Chess, and Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, the Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical Rags, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Recent credits include The Baker's Wife and I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Classic Stage Company (OCC Award), Becoming Eve at New York Theatre Workshop, and Unknown Soldier at Arena Stage. She played Sara Jane Moore in John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at Classic Stage Company (OCC & Drama Desk Noms). Other Off-Broadway credits include Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Award), Eli’s Comin’ at Vineyard Theatre (Obie Award), Fosca in Passion (Drama League Award Nom) In 2019 she starred in Trevor Nunn’s Olivier Award winning production of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for which she received her 2nd Olivier Award Nomination. Film & TV includes: Dear Edward, Tick Tick Boom, Disney’s Pocahontas; Enchanted; Law & Order. Judy has appeared on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall. She has recorded four solo albums. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries |
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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 |
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Company Workshop Judy Kuhn: Acting the Song Monday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, March 16, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 19, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, March 23, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 26, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Bruce Mitchell Room Open to observers, all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, singer, and company member Judy Kuhn returns to The Actors Center to lead a two-week Acting the Song workshop this March. Designed for the actor who sings or the actor curious about singing, this workshop explores how thought, intention, and impulse are expressed through song. Participants will work individually on material of their choice, investigating song interpretation through improvisation, personalization, close attention to text, and how to “speak” a song. The focus is not on vocal polish, but on storytelling: clarity of intention, relationship to scene partner and audience, and the courage to let a song reveal something immediate and human. About Judy Kuhn Judy Kuhn is a multiple Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in such shows as Fun Home, She Loves Me, Chess, and Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, the Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical Rags, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Recent credits include The Baker's Wife and I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Classic Stage Company (OCC Award), Becoming Eve at New York Theatre Workshop, and Unknown Soldier at Arena Stage. She played Sara Jane Moore in John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at Classic Stage Company (OCC & Drama Desk Noms). Other Off-Broadway credits include Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Award), Eli’s Comin’ at Vineyard Theatre (Obie Award), Fosca in Passion (Drama League Award Nom) In 2019 she starred in Trevor Nunn’s Olivier Award winning production of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for which she received her 2nd Olivier Award Nomination. Film & TV includes: Dear Edward, Tick Tick Boom, Disney’s Pocahontas; Enchanted; Law & Order. Judy has appeared on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall. She has recorded four solo albums. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries |
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Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by... |
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Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by... |
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Company Workshop Judy Kuhn: Acting the Song Monday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, March 16, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 19, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, March 23, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 26, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Bruce Mitchell Room Open to observers, all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, singer, and company member Judy Kuhn returns to The Actors Center to lead a two-week Acting the Song workshop this March. Designed for the actor who sings or the actor curious about singing, this workshop explores how thought, intention, and impulse are expressed through song. Participants will work individually on material of their choice, investigating song interpretation through improvisation, personalization, close attention to text, and how to “speak” a song. The focus is not on vocal polish, but on storytelling: clarity of intention, relationship to scene partner and audience, and the courage to let a song reveal something immediate and human. About Judy Kuhn Judy Kuhn is a multiple Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in such shows as Fun Home, She Loves Me, Chess, and Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, the Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical Rags, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Recent credits include The Baker's Wife and I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Classic Stage Company (OCC Award), Becoming Eve at New York Theatre Workshop, and Unknown Soldier at Arena Stage. She played Sara Jane Moore in John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at Classic Stage Company (OCC & Drama Desk Noms). Other Off-Broadway credits include Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Award), Eli’s Comin’ at Vineyard Theatre (Obie Award), Fosca in Passion (Drama League Award Nom) In 2019 she starred in Trevor Nunn’s Olivier Award winning production of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for which she received her 2nd Olivier Award Nomination. Film & TV includes: Dear Edward, Tick Tick Boom, Disney’s Pocahontas; Enchanted; Law & Order. Judy has appeared on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall. She has recorded four solo albums. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries |
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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 |
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Company Workshop Judy Kuhn: Acting the Song Monday & Thursday Mornings Dates & Times Monday, March 16, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 19, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Monday, March 23, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Thursday, March 26, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Bruce Mitchell Room Open to observers, all company members are invited to attend. About the Workshop Actor, singer, and company member Judy Kuhn returns to The Actors Center to lead a two-week Acting the Song workshop this March. Designed for the actor who sings or the actor curious about singing, this workshop explores how thought, intention, and impulse are expressed through song. Participants will work individually on material of their choice, investigating song interpretation through improvisation, personalization, close attention to text, and how to “speak” a song. The focus is not on vocal polish, but on storytelling: clarity of intention, relationship to scene partner and audience, and the courage to let a song reveal something immediate and human. About Judy Kuhn Judy Kuhn is a multiple Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in such shows as Fun Home, She Loves Me, Chess, and Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, the Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical Rags, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Recent credits include The Baker's Wife and I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Classic Stage Company (OCC Award), Becoming Eve at New York Theatre Workshop, and Unknown Soldier at Arena Stage. She played Sara Jane Moore in John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at Classic Stage Company (OCC & Drama Desk Noms). Other Off-Broadway credits include Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Award), Eli’s Comin’ at Vineyard Theatre (Obie Award), Fosca in Passion (Drama League Award Nom) In 2019 she starred in Trevor Nunn’s Olivier Award winning production of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for which she received her 2nd Olivier Award Nomination. Film & TV includes: Dear Edward, Tick Tick Boom, Disney’s Pocahontas; Enchanted; Law & Order. Judy has appeared on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall. She has recorded four solo albums. Register Now Participants Enrollment limited to 14 actors. Limited conflicts can be accommodated. Comments/Queries |
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Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by... |
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Company Workshop Peter Jay Fernandez: Scene Study Two Weekends Dates & Times Saturday, March 21, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 22, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday, March 28, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm Sunday, March 29, 2026 – 10:30am-1:30pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor This workshop is open to observers and all company members are invited to attend. Observers may attend for any portion of each session. About the Workshop Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for four days of scene study this spring. Peter Jay will work with company members on scenes of their choice from any 20th- or 21st-century play. Participants are encouraged to bring in new material that intrigues and challenges them, with an emphasis on practicing process as opposed to performance. Sessions meet 10:30am-1:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays over two weekends. Peter Jay will work on up to three scenes each day. You can sign up either together with a scene partner or as an individual and you will be paired with another individual. When registering, you may indicate your availability. If desired, you may bring your scene in twice over the four days. You should be well rehearsed with your material for this workshop. If your schedule does not permit sufficient time to prepare, please sign up for a future workshop instead. If you are looking for a scene partner, you may post in the comments thread, or you can also find contact information for all members in the member directory. About Peter Jay Fernandez Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others. Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. He originated the role of Caesar in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theater, the role of Curtis Lowe in the premiere of Ben Bettenbender’s Bliss at the Rattlestick Theatre Company, and the role of ‘the Oldest Old Man’ in Father Comes Home from the Wars, by... |
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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 |
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Company Workshop Emmanuelle Delpech: Neutral Mask Weekend Workshop Dates & Times Saturday, April 4, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm Sunday, April 5, 2026 – 10:00am-5:00pm ART/New York, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Studio E This workshop is only open to participants. We are unable to accommodate observers. About the Workshop Physical theatre artist, director, and teacher Emmanuelle Delpech joins The Actors Center for the first time for a weekend workshop devoted to Neutral Mask. The mask of calm and balance, it is a pedagogical tool that challenges the actor to use their entire body to discover presence through experiencing and understanding the ‘neutral state’—a state without personal stories, where there is no past nor future. Through emphasizing presence, the actor works toward an economy of movement, and thus, uncovers their unique, personal rhythms and habits. By letting go of those habits, the actor can create a blank slate from which characters can be built and acting can begin. About Emmanuelle Delpech Emmanuelle Delpech is a French physical theater artist and teacher living in the United States. She was classically trained in France at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de la Ville de Paris and then studied physical theater at l’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where she now serves on the faculty. Emmanuelle was a member of The Pig Iron Theatre Company for 8 years as an actor/creator and now teaches at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Training. She has an MFA in Directing from Temple University, where she currently serves on faculty as well. As an independent artist, Emmanuelle directs new creations for other artists, she also creates and performs in her own pieces or directs for regional theaters. She created and performed Spinning Immigrant, and in Madame Douce-Amere produced by 1812 Productions. Her collaboration with Jen Child continued for her project The Woman and Comedy Project: It’s my party! Emmanuelle also directed Oedipus at FDR, FRONTIN’ with James Ijames on the tradition of Blackface performances and the identity of the black performers in America, Charlotte Ford’s BANG, her clown adaptation of Marivaux’s La Dispute, and for her thesis Moliere’s Tartuffe as an urban clown feast. As a teacher, Emmanuelle has taught semester-long courses at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College and University of the Arts. She has also taught workshops for the Volcano Institute in Toronto and the Movement Theater Studio in NYC (where she is a regular on the... |