Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, will join the Resident Company this winter for an artist development workshop focusing on cinematic storytelling and relationship with the camera.
A film screening and immersive discussion of Heather Raffo’s new film, Nine Parts. Torn by her father’s death and a divided nation, an Iraqi American woman attempts to grieve at the site of the oldest Iraqi Church in North America.
The Actors Center hosts Resonance Room, Edition No. 1, a sharing of works in process by the 2024-25 Mentorship Cohort. The evening will feature excerpts of original works by Antonyio Artis, Victoria Lino, and Laura Scott Cary, as well as additional pieces. Join us!
Award-winning actress, filmmaker, and teacher Tonya Pinkins will join the Resident Company this winter for an artist development workshop, Radical Authenticity in Your Life and Art.
Actor and comedian Jeff Hiller and acting teacher Kenneth Noel Mitchell will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company for the first time this winter for a series of artist development workshops focused on improvisation and scene work.
Actor and educator Crystal Dickinson and actor, director, and NYU faculty member Brandon Dirden, are in residence this February, leading creative development workshops with The Actors Center's Resident Company focusing on the work of August Wilson.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 John Doman is in Long Bright River, a new limited series written and produced by Nikki Toscano, based on the book by Liz Moore, starring Amanda Seyfried and Nicholas Pinnock. Long Bright River tells the story of Mickey, a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case. All episodes are available for streaming on Peacock. Watch the Trailer
Company members Tobias Segal and Andrea Syglowski are in Amerikin, written by Chisa Hutchinson and directed by Jade King Carroll at Primary Stages. In small-town Maryland, Jeff Browning resolves to give his newborn son every possible advantage—by joining a local white supremacist group. When his attempt to join is thwarted by some surprising ancestry test results, the line between “us” and “them” gets incredibly blurry. Jeff scrambles to maintain appearances, but his sanitized story starts to unravel when a prominent Black journalist and his daughter start asking questions. Amerikin explores the lengths we go to protect our own, the lies we tell ourselves, and the cost of division on us all. Performances run through April 13 at 59E59 Theaters.
Company member Neal Bledsoe is in Othello on Broadway, starring Denzel Washington in the title role and Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago. The production is directed by Kenny Leon. Othello, a general in the Venetian army, sees his happy marriage to the beautiful Desdemona destroyed when his seemingly trustworthy ensign, Iago, suggests to him that she may be unfaithful, in William Shakespeare’s tragedy of revenge, jealousy and intrigue. Performances run through June 8 at the Barrymore Theatre.
Company members John Evans Reese and Elizabeth Stahlmann are in Nikolai Gogol’s The Inspector, newly adapted and directed by Yura Kordonsky at Yale Repertory Theatre. An entire town is plunged into chaos as it frantically hides its grift and incompetence from the prying eyes of an undercover inspector. But the cons are about to get conned: the mysterious stranger accepting every bauble, coin, and advance thrown his way is not who he seems to be. Everyone is on the take—or the make—in this outrageously anarchic comedy of errors. The story is a drama of a community desperate for a better life and a farce exposing the absurd lengths to which they go in its pursuit. Performances run through March 29 in New Haven, CT.
Company members Stephen McKinley Henderson and Benjamin Thys are in the feature film, The Dutchman, written and directed by Andre Gaines, based on the play by Amiri Baraka. The film had its world premiere earlier this month at SXSW Film Festival. Clay, a successful but troubled black businessman, attends therapy sessions with his wife, Kaya, in an attempt to salvage their marriage. But their mysterious therapist is not all that he seems and begins to unexpectedly appear to Clay outside of their sessions. On a New York subway train, Clay encounters Lula, a seductive but sinister white stranger, who slowly begins to unravel his life. Clay must discover the truth behind this encounter to get back to his wife, heal his fractured soul, and survive the night. In this modern adaptation of the 1964 award-winning play, The Dutchman brings a contemporary edge to the original, exploring themes of race and identity in America.
Company member Maggie Bofill is in Laughs in Spanish written by Alexis Scheer and directed by Lisa Portes at Hartford Stage. It’s the eve of Art Basel—the major art event in Miami—and gallery director Mari is freaking out. The art has vanished, the phones are ringing off the hook, and her assistant Caro is acting suspicious. Just when she thought things couldn’t get any worse, her famous, often-absent mother Estella arrives in town… baggage in tow. Mother-daughter relationships and questions about art and success are all on the table in this vibrant collage of chaos and cultura. Performances run through March 30 in Hartford, CT.
Company member Daniel K. Isaac is in the feature film Outerlands written and directed by Elena Oxman. The film had its world premiere earlier this month at SXSW Film Festival. Cass juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server, and party drug dealer in order to make ends meet and pay for their tiny San Francisco apartment. After a one night stand with Kalli, a co-worker they have a crush on, Cass agrees to watch her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word from Kalli, Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood and the pain they’ve been running from.
Company member David Manis is in the cast of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts at Lincoln Center Theater as an understudy. Ghosts is a devastating moral thriller in which ideas of love, duty and family are mercilessly put to the test. This new version, written by one of Ireland’s leading playwrights, Mark O’Rowe and directed by Jack O’Brien, stars Lily Rabe, Billy Crudup, Hamish Linklater, and Levon Hawke. After several years abroad, Helena Alving’s son, Oswald, has returned home from Paris, carrying with him an untold burden. As Helena works to build an orphanage in honor of her late husband, whose disreputable past has cast a long shadow over the family, she and Oswald become entangled with Pastor Manders, housemaid Regina, and Regina’s father Engstrand, each guarding their own private deceptions. Performances run through April 26.
Company members Trish Lindström and Benjamin Thys are in the National Tour of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, now playing the Hollywood Pantages in Los Angeles through June 22. Trish plays the role of Ginny Potter and Ben plays Draco Malfoy. Directed by John Tiffany, and based on the original story by J.K. Rowling, the story follows Albus, the son of Harry Potter, as he navigates his first years at Hogwarts and becomes friends with Scorpius Malfoy, the son of his father’s rival, Draco. The tour, which began with an extended run in Chicago, will move to Washington, DC in July.
Heather Alicia Simms appears on The Equalizer in Season 5, Episode 11 “Taken” on CBS/Paramount+
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Maggie Siff appears on Law & Order in Season 24, Episode 15 “Crossing Lines” on NBC/Peacock
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Company member Elizabeth Stahlmann is in the feature film, The Snare, written and directed by Merlin Camozzi, which had its world premiere at Cinequest in San Jose, CA this month. When a high school student is arrested with a small amount of drugs, the police pressure her to become an informant, forcing her to choose between the people she most loves and the future she’s worked so hard to create. Watch the Trailer.
Company members Pun Bandhu and Julienne Hanzelka Kim, who serve on the steering committee of the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, co-authored the Visibility Report, examining racial representation on NYC stages for the 2021-22 season. It is the only publicly available report of its kind that covers all of Broadway and the 18 largest non-profit theatre companies in the city. The coalition also recently released the AAPAC Theater Practices Toolkit, a reference guide for theatrical institutions for creating an inclusive environment for AAPI/Asian artists.