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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 Alison Cimmet and current mentorship cohort member Francisco J. González are in Kowalski, the New York premiere of a new play by Gregg Ostrin, directed by Colin Hanlon. The play transports audiences to the pivotal meeting between Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando that changed theatrical history, exploring the tangled relationships and creative tensions as Williams crafts his masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. Set in a 1947 Provincetown beach house, the play unfolds over one sultry night as Williams, director Margo Jones, Pancho Rodriguez, and a young Marlon Brando unravel together. Alison plays Margo Jones and Francisco is a standby for both male leads. Performances run at The Duke on 42nd through February 16.
Company member Cindy Cheung is in The Antiquities, a new play by Jordan Harrison, directed by David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan, and co-produced by Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theatre and the Goodman Theatre. At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison’s new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come. Now in previews, performances run at the Judy Theater through February 23 with an opening night scheduled for February 4. The production will travel to Chicago to the Goodman May 3 through June 1.
Company member Chris Perfetti is in the feature film Twinless from writer, director, and actor James Sweeney, having its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of two young men, who meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance. The bittersweet tale of trauma-bonding friendship is a comedy willing to confront loss, loneliness, and codependency, as these emotionally damaged characters struggle for connection, revealing painful personal truths along the way. Twinless will screen in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah January 23 through February 1. The film can be screened online between January 30 and February 3.
Company member Marjan Neshat is in the Broadway production of English, the Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Sanaz Toossi, directed by Knud Adams. The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say? The play won the Obie Award for Best New Play in 2023 and the ensemble also received a Special Citation Obie Award. Now in previews with an opening night January 23, performances run through March 2 at the Todd Haimes Theatre.
Company members Purva Bedi, Maria-Christina Oliveras, KK Moggie, and Julyana Soelistyo are in Cymbeline, produced by the National Asian American Theatre Company in partnership with Play On Shakespeare. The world premiere modern verse translation by Andrea Thome is directed by Stephen Brown-Fried. In a world shattered by tyranny and poisoned by misogyny, Cymbeline tells the story of a young woman’s flight from despair to heroism as she rediscovers her lost siblings and brings order to a kingdom ruled by chaos. Performed by an ensemble of eleven women, Cymbeline is a story of hope and rebirth in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Performances run at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater through February 15.
Nicole Shalhoub appears on Goosebumps: The Vanishing in Season 2, Episode 3, “The Haunted Car“ on Disney+ and Hulu
Dante Alexander appears on S.W.A.T. in Season 8, Episode 8, “Left of Boom” on CBS/Paramount+
Company member Angel Desai performs A Day In The (Inner) Life, a solo cabaret show at 54 Below on Tuesday, February 4. We all have inner voices telling us what to do and what to avoid… but what would happen if they came to life? And provided a soundtrack? The show takes the audience along on Angel’s existential question and answers fantasia with songs by herself, Matt Castle, Jason Robert Brown, Kristin Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Paul Simon, Gian Carlo Menotti, and more.
Company member Maggie Bofill is in the world premiere of December: A Love Years in the Making, a new play by Marisela Treviño Orta, directed by Marcela Lorca at the Alley Theatre. Follow the friendship between a creative writing professor and her former student as it blossoms into romance over two decades of exchanged letters, writings, and beloved poems. Let the lyrical dialogue and touching moments transport you through the years, as you witness the power of connection and the beauty of love that endures against all odds. Performances run through February 2 in Houston, TX.
Company member Rafael Jordan is in Two Trains Running, directed by Gilbert McCauley at Hartford Stage. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson brings us the world inhabited by the staff and regulars at Memphis Lee’s diner in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1969. Through these complex and big-hearted characters, the play explores the economic and racial turbulence that marked the Civil Rights Era. Faced with declining business at his restaurant and a rapidly changing neighborhood, Memphis and those around him fight for what they believe they deserve—a fair price for the restaurant, lottery winnings, and a job. Performances run through February 16 in Hartford, CT.
Company member Heather Alicia Simms is in Eden, written by Steve Carter and directed by Brandon J. Dirden. It’s 1927, San Juan Hill, a six-block stretch of Manhattan where tensions run deep between its populations of Black Americans and Caribbean immigrants. Eustace, recently transplanted from the South, falls in love with the girl next door, Annetta. But her ironfisted father, Joseph, an ardent Garveyite, has arranged for her to marry another man from the West Indies to protect his bloodline. In this blistering saga, clashing ideologies and youthful passions threaten dangerous consequences for two families and their community. Performances run through February 8 in New Haven, CT.
Company member Rachel Leslie is in the world premiere of Wights, a biting social satire written by Liz Appel and directed by Chris Abraham at Crow’s Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. It’s Halloween 2024, one week before the U.S. election. Anita Knight, a brilliant and ambitious Yale academic, has gathered her closest friends to help her prepare for the job interview of a lifetime. Her husband arrives, late to the party, setting off a chain of events no one sees coming. As their carefully constructed stories unravel, dark forces threaten friendships, marriages, and perhaps even the fate of humanity itself. Just imagine if Edward Albee and Jordan Peele had a baby—and that baby had a dinner party. Performances run through February 9.
Company member Willa Fitzgerald is in the feature film Alarum, directed by Michael Polish and written by Alexander Vesha, starring Sylvester Stallone. After the CIA discovers the whereabouts of two rogue spies, who have not only gone off-grid, but have become husband and wife, all hell is unleashed on their winter honeymoon cabin resort in the woods by a consortium of international spy organizations who are after a ‘flight pill’, aka a hard drive, and all of whom suspect the two may have joined a network of rogue spies known as the Alarum. The film is in theaters nationwide, as well as available to stream on demand. Watch the Trailer