Actor, teacher, and founder of The Moving Frame, Welker White, will join the Resident Company this winter for an artist development workshop focusing on screen acting and relationship with the camera.
Welker White is an actor and educator with deep roots in theater, film and television. Her company, The Moving Frame, is a process-oriented exploration of screen acting designed to offer actors an immersion into the world of cinematic storytelling. Welker has worked with director Martin Scorsese multiple times and can be seen currently in his film, Killers of the Flower Moon, as well as in a leading role in the independent film Crookedfinger. Other select film credits include The 40-Year Old Version, Bad Education, Goodfellas, Eat Pray Love, Dead Poet’s Society, and The Irishman, opposite Al Pacino. She has performed on and off-Broadway, as well as regionally.
Welker has conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including: The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, Syracuse University/ Tepper, SMU MFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory/Atlantic NYU, Dallas Theater Center acting company, Factory Acting Studio Brisbane, 16th Street Actors Studio in Australia. Additionally, Welker has served on the faculty for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers’ Teacher Development Program. Welker has several published pieces on using the camera in acting training and has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist designation. She is on the MFA Acting faculty at Brooklyn College.
