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Acclaimed director, educator, and founder and co-artistic director of SITI Company, Anne Bogart, joins actor and teacher Gian-Murray Gianino for an evening of conversation about her life and influences, her three decades leading SITI Company, exploring her creative process and training philosophy, and the unique relationship between actor and director.
The Actors Center is thrilled to introduce sixteen early career actors who are part of our inaugural 2024-25 Mentorship Cohort. The program offers an opportunity to help bridge the crucial gap between training and a sustainable, fulfilling career with mentorship from our esteemed Resident Company, alongside workshops with leading teachers and artists.
Voice, speech and dialect coach and educator, Deborah Hecht, and voice teacher and longtime former A.C.T. faculty member, Jeff Crockett, join The Actors Center's Resident Company in December for a series of artist development workshops focusing on accents, dialects, and embodied presence.
Acclaimed acting teacher, and former Yale, NYU, and Columbia faculty member Ron Van Lieu returns to The Actors Center in November for a teaching residency, exploring the plays of Tennessee Williams with members of the Resident Company.
Sarah Victoria, master instructor of PEM, joins actress and teacher Welker White on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 7:00pm for an evening of conversation exploring our understanding of authentic emotion, reframing its role in acting and actor training, and supporting the emotional intelligence and wellbeing of actors.
Raja Feather Kelly, choreographer, director, and movement director, and Seret Scott, actor, director and playwright, are in residence this fall, leading creative development workshops with The Actors Center's Resident Company focusing on the nuances of human behavior and writing personal narratives.
Award-winning choreographer and director, Raja Feather Kelly, joins Ato Blankson-Wood on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:00pm for an intimate conversation exploring Raja's creative process, his unique devised danced-theatre approach from his company, the feath3r theory, the connection between physicality and emotion, and the power of movement in storytelling.
Acclaimed acting coach, Ted Sluberski, multi-disciplinary artist Budi Miller, and dramaturg Taylor Barfield join our Resident Company for the first time this fall for a series of artist development workshops focused on performance on-camera and embodying imagination through mask.
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, actor and director, Stephen Adly Guirgis, joins Andrea Syglowski and members of The Actors Center's Resident Company on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 7:00pm for an intimate evening of conversation about his writing process and what it means to be a multi-hyphenate artist—how his acting informs his writing and how his writing informs his acting.
Leigh Kilton-Smith, teacher and acting coach, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in October 2024 for an artist development workshop. She will also lead a Scene Study workshop open to any professional actor to attend by application.
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, director, and author, Theresa Rebeck, joins Mary Bacon and members of The Actors Center's Resident Company for an intimate evening of conversation about her creative process and her relationship with actors—exploring the unique collaboration between writer and performer and how she incorporates actors in the development of new work.
Patrick Page, acclaimed Tony-nominated actor and teacher, and Kathleen McNenny, actor, teacher, and Juilliard faculty member, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in September for a pair of artist development workshops devoted to the work of Shakespeare and Physical Acting using the tool of the Mask.
Teachers and Yale faculty members Jessica Wolf and Grace Zandarski return to The Actors Center to open the 2024-25 season. The pair of faculty are in residence leading a workshop devoted to body, breath, and voice.
This innovative 8-month initiative is designed specifically to support artists who are in the early stages of their acting careers, helping them bridge the crucial gap between training and a sustainable, fulfilling career. Learn more about the program.
Distinguished actor and Professor and Chair of Performance at USC School of Dramatic Arts, Michele Shay, joins the Resident Company this spring for an exploration on the artist’s role and responsibility for empathy building amid the current fractured global landscape.
Interdisciplinary artist and Alexander Technique teacher Fabio Tavares was recently in residence working with actors in our Resident Company. Executive Director Alex Birnie sat down with Fabio to chat about his artistic background, his development as a teacher, and the interconnectedness of everything in the body.
Evan Yionoulis, award-winning director, acclaimed acting teacher, and the Richard Rodgers director of the drama division of the Juilliard School, will be in residence with The Actors Center in June to lead a workshop focusing on the late plays of Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen.
Tony nominee Ato Blankson-Wood speaks about the importance of the Resident Company at The Actors Center: “I think in a lot of spaces where actors commune there's a sense of the business. But what The Actors Center community offers is: How can I deepen my craft? How can I be a better human? How can...
Twenty-five years ago, our founder Michael Miller invited the incomparable Olympia Dukakis to give an inaugural address at The Actors Center's first annual symposium. Listen to Olympia's speech.
Company member June Ballinger is in Touch, an intergenerational comedy written by Lori Goodman and directed by Janice L Goldberg at The Tank. Now in Florida, Betty, a widow, is having a difficult time adjusting to life without her husband. She’s driving her son crazy as she dips her toe into online dating. Bob, a widower, also a Florida transplant, gets a call from his recently divorced daughter: she’s coming to visit. They are too much alike to help each other. With poignancy, pathos, and humor, a cast of seven travel the vicissitudes of navigating life after loss, reaching across the generational divide, getting older, and just being human. Performances run February 20 through March 16.
Company member Adinah Alexander is in the short film Deathless from director by Stacey Maltin and written by M. Rowan Meyer. Ten years after people have stopped dying, Florian, a self destructive porn star, tries desperately to understand the point of life after his twin sister announces her pregnancy. Deathless will have its New York premiere on February 20 and 22 at Look Cinemas as part of the 13th Winter Film Festival in New York City.
Company member Caitlin Nasema Cassidy was interviewed in December about We Hear You—A Climate Archive, a global performance project launched in 2022 exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency. We Hear You, which Caitlin co-created, is at its core, a storytelling series. It is also one of today’s most comprehensive attempts to record and amplify the ways young people today are experiencing climate change “These days, I want people to walk away with awe,” says Caitlin. “Questions, never answers. And a keen sense of the ways that everything is interconnected.” Read the interview.
Company member Wayne Duvall, who starred in last fall’s Broadway production of Swept Away, now appears on the recently released cast album. Featuring songs by folk-rock group The Avett Brothers and inspired by their 2004 album Mignonette, Swept Away finished its run at the Longacre Theatre December 29. The musical, which features a book by John Logan and choreography by David Newmann, was directed by Michael Mayer, with a cast including John Gallagher Jr., Stark Sands, and Adrian Blake Enscoe.
Joanne Kelly appears on S.W.A.T. in Season 8, Episode 11, “AMBER” on CBS/Paramount+
Andrea Syglowski appears on Will Trent in Season 3, Episode 5, “Breathe with Me” on ABC/Hulu
Nicole Shalhoub appears on FBI in Season 7, Episode 11, “Shelter” on CBS/Paramount+
Joshua David Robinson appears on Law & Order: SVU in Season 26, Episode 12, “Calculated” on NBC/Peacock
Company member Ellen Adair is in Womb, a horror film directed by Bridget Smith and written by Mike Walsh, now available to stream on multiple platforms including Amazon and Apple TV. 22-year-old Hailey, beautiful, pregnant, and recovering from addiction, embarks on a peaceful weekend at a remote cabin to bond with her soon-to-be sister-in-law. But tranquility turns into a nightmare when she becomes the target of a deranged hunter fixated on abducting her unborn child. Watch the Trailer.
Company member Irene Sofia Lucio is in Liberation, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White, presented by Roundabout Theatre Company. It’s 1970 in Ohio. Lizzie gathers a small group of women to talk. But talking quickly becomes a necessary and bracingly funny attempt to change their own lives and the world. Fifty years later, her daughter is shocked to find herself asking the very same questions her mother did, and goes on a search through the past for answers. A play about what really goes on when women meet behind closed doors, performances run through March 30 at the Laura Pels Theatre.
Company member Patrice Johnson Chevannes is in Mfoniso Udofia’s The Grove, directed by Awoye Timpo at The Huntington in Boston. The Grove tells the story of a family homecoming, asking how we draw on the wisdom and beauty of our ancestors when the bonds of family are stretched to the limit. Abasiama’s eldest daughter Adiaha believes that becoming a writer can make her family proud, but at her graduation party, she has to choose whether to fulfill her parents’ desires or stay true to her own dreams. The production is the second in Boston’s city-wide Ufot Family Cycle—an unprecedented two-year collaboration among the city’s arts organizations to produce Mfoniso Udofia’s cycle of nine plays. The production runs through March 9.
Company member Emma Ramos is in the indie drama, In the Summers, written and directed by Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio, now available to stream on Hulu. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and Directing award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Company member Johnny Sánchez also served as an acting coach on the film. On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Watch the trailer
Company member Caroline Aaron stars as Maria in Conversations with Mother, a new comedy written by Matthew Lombardo and directed by Noah Himmelstein, now running Off-Broadway. Company member Antoinette LaVecchia is the understudy for Maria. Lombardo’s semi-autobiographical comedy traces the relationship between Italian matriarch Maria Collavechio and her gay son spanning the course of five decades. As they continue to test their lifelong bond, the play depicts the outrageously funny and sometimes completely infuriating dynamic between a conventional mother and her free-spirited son. Performances run through May 11 at Theater 555.
Company members Jeff Hiller and Myra Lucretia Taylor are in the musical Urinetown, directed by Teddy Bergman, with a score by Mark Holmann and lyrics by Holman and Greg Kotis, playing February 5-16 as part of New York City Center’s Encores! series. A young hero leads his community in a fight against oppression. Set in a dystopian world where water is scarce and hope is even scarcer, all citizens must now pay a fee for the privilege to pee at one of the public facilities controlled by a selfish tycoon and monitored by authorities. But the citizens can only hold it in so much longer, and soon the poorest, filthiest of these facilities, run by the formidable Penelope Pennywise, becomes a number one site for major change.
Company member Arturo Luíz Soria has been named a MacDowell Fellow and is spending the next month working on a new play at the residency program’s historic campus in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The prestigious artist residency previously announced 147 fellowships for artists working in a variety of artistic disciplines from 27 states and 11 countries for the fall and winter season.