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.
The evening will feature excerpts from plays by Anton Chekhov, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ava Pickett, and Adam Rapp, alongside poetry, musical numbers, and original work by cohort members Ciara Van Buren and Madeline Grace Barbush. Come join us!
Performer and director Eric Davis (aka Red Bastard) and director, actor, and educator Timothy Douglas will join The Actors Center Resident Company this June for workshops devoted to Bouffon and deepening awareness, presence, and authentic expression through spoken text.
John Douglas Thompson, acclaimed actor and teacher, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this May for a development workshop exploring William Shakespeare.
Bethany Caputo, acting teacher, coach, and Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC, and Jessica Daniels, casting director for film and television, join The Actors Center for teaching residencies exploring Michael Chekhov and on-camera audition technique.
The Actors Center hosts Resonance Room, Edition No. 5 —the second sharing of works in process by the 2025-26 Mentorship Cohort. The evening will feature original work by cohort members Saige Larmer, Carson S. Davis, Alyssa James, Madeline Grace Barbush, and Rebecca Salzhauer, alongside scenes, poetry and musical numbers. Come join us!
Jane Guyer Fujita, Head of Voice and Speech at NYU Grad Acting and voice and dialect coach , and Steven Epp, actor, writer, director, and Co-Artistic Director of The Moving Company, join The Actors Center for teaching residencies exploring voice, movement, and creation, and Molière.
Actors, teachers, and founders of The Moving Frame, Welker White and Damian Young, return to The Actors Center for a teaching residency, exploring key principles in cinematic storytelling.
Actor and Columbia faculty member Peter Jay Fernandez returns to The Actors Center for a teaching residency, exploring scene study with members of the Resident Company.
Judy Kuhn, actor, singer and company member, and Emmanuelle Delpech, physical theatre artist, director, and teacher, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this spring for development workshops exploring acting through song and Neutral Mask.
The Actors Center hosts an evening of short films written by, directed by, or featuring work from members of our Resident Company on Tuesday, March 24th at 7:00pm at Macaulay Honors College. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required.
The Actors Center hosts Resonance Room, Edition No. 4—the first sharing of works in process by the 2025-26 Mentorship Cohort. The evening will feature original work by Carson S. Davis, Alyssa James, Rebecca Salzhauer, alongside excerpts from plays by Gracie Gardner and Neil Simon, poetry, and multiple musical numbers. Come join us!
The Actors Center hosts a screening of the feature film Brooklyn, Minnesota, written and directed by company member Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank on Monday, February 9th at 7:00pm at Macaulay Honors College. The event is free and open to the public.
The Actors Center is pleased to announced that the Mentorship Program for Emerging Artists is now supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council.
Bill Irwin, celebrated actor, director, writer, and clown, and Will Davis, director, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this winter for development workshops exploring clown, Samuel Beckett, and the world of Sarah Ruhl’s Late: A Cowboy Song.
The Actors Center is thrilled to introduce our 2025-26 Mentorship Cohort—featuring sixteen early-career actors selected for our eight-month Mentorship Program, now entering its second year.
The Actors Center is thrilled to welcome 32 new members of our Resident Company—a one-of-a-kind, ongoing, creative residency program for a diverse collective of 300 actors and theater artists, leaders in the field who work regularly throughout theatre, film, and television.
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 Andréa Burns in A Walk on the Moon, written by Pamela Gray, with music and lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo, and directed by Sheryl Kaller Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theater. It’s the Summer of 1969. Pearl Kantrowitz, a Brooklyn mother and housewife, takes the annual trip north to a Catskills bungalow colony just as the world begins to shift beneath her feet. The country is reaching for the moon. A new spirit of freedom is sweeping the nation. And an unexpected encounter leads her to a musical festival happening just around the corner. As the countercultural revolution begins, and music starts to change the world, Pearl awakens to a life beyond the one she’s always known. Performances run through August 22.
Company member Ato Blankson-Wood is in Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare, directed by company member Vivienne Benesch at The Old Globe. Justice and desire collide in Shakespeare’s timeless tale of power and hypocrisy. When Vienna’s Duke suddenly disappears, his morally rigid deputy Angelo takes control—determined to rid the city of vice. But when he condemns a young man to death and then propositions the man’s sister, his actions reveal the cracks in his facade of authority. Filled with rich characters, surprising twists, and a comic group of seedy grifters on the make, this classic explores who holds power, who gets punished, and what it truly means to be virtuous. Performances run through July 22 in San Diego, CA.
The Actors Center is thrilled to open applications for its 2026-27 Mentorship Program for Emerging Artists. This innovative 8-month initiative is designed specifically to support artists who are in the early stages of their acting careers.
The program offers a cohort of 16 participants a unique opportunity to help bridge the crucial gap between their training and a sustainable, fulfilling career by providing artistic development and mentorship from an unparalleled network of seasoned professionals from our esteemed Resident Company.
Company member Molly Bernard is in Birthright, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Teddy Bergman at MCC Theater. What begins as a reunion among six young friends after a Birthright trip to Israel in 2006 becomes, over the span of 18 years, an exploration of identity, fracturing communities, and the struggle to stay connected across difference. Against a backdrop of political upheaval, the influence of social media on discourse, and profound generational change, their relationships become a battleground for competing histories, beliefs, and uncomfortable emotional truths. Performances run through July 26.
Company member Colby Minifie is in the world premiere of Camping, written by Victoria Lynne Barclay and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, at HERE Arts Center. Three decades. One tent. A million things left unsaid. Brit and Ari collide over and over again, reaching for each other across firsts, fistfuls of hair, and the fractures that are born of time and distance. A story of desperately falling in and out of love with your best friend inside a camping tent while everything outside rages. Performances run through July 11.
Company member Ethan Dubin is in The Family Dog, written by Bailey Williams and directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, presented as part of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks. In which Whiney returns to her childhood home to say goodbye to the pet who replaced her. Miracles abound, some in meatball form. Performances run through June 30 at The Wild Project.
Company member Neil Tyrone Pritchard is in Fear & Wonder, written by Jason Tseng and directed by Emily Hartford, presented by Flux Theatre Ensemble. Forced to share a room at a conservative Christian summer camp, picture-perfect Ryan and cynical rebel Jabez expect nothing but a week of forced prayers. Instead, their late-night debates spark a magnetic, dangerous attraction that threatens everything they know. When the real world crashes in, will the fear of losing it all tear them apart, or will they risk everything to make something wonderful? Performances run through June 27 at ART/NY Theaters.
Company member Natalie Gold is in the feature film Welcome to the Fishbowl, written by Sheryl Glubok and Donald Rae and directed by Sheryl Glubok. With 40 receding in the rearview mirror, Elizabeth Ford, a Denver mother of two and an aspiring writer, gets a sudden career-making opportunity. All she has to do is chaperone a narcissistic, literary legend by the name of Storm Grandquist across the Rocky Mountains to an awards ceremony in Telluride. What could possibly go wrong? The film had its world premiere earlier this month at the Bentonville Film Festival in Bentonville, AR.
Company member Jess Gabor is in the short film Four Itchy Boys, written and directed by Andrew Hebert. Four young men quarantined for an unexplainable, unrelenting itch prepare for a live-stream press event to prove they’re not the monsters the world believes them to be. But behind the scenes, a ruthless producer is plotting a more grotesque spectacle that’ll shock and awe her captive audience. The short premiered earlier this month at Raindance Film Festival in London.
Company members James Cusati-Moyer and Philippa Soo are in the short film I’m Gonna Kill You, written and directed by Andrew Chappelle. Set in the distant future, the short takes place inside an all gay colony, and follows the journey of Cal and Spector — two paired lovers fighting an internal battle while remaining colony members pay the price for their twisted games. The film has had screenings at Palm Springs International ShortFest, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, and Provincetown International Film Festival.
Company member Chris McLinden co-produces and stars in the short film Precious Light, directed by Nickon C. Hemati. In a quiet, post-collapse world, a couple’s peaceful routine is disrupted by the sudden appearance of a mysterious beam of light in their cabin—what begins as a curiosity soon becomes an obsession that threatens to unravel their relationship. The film premiered earlier this month at Lighthouse International Film Festival in New Jersey and will have its West Coast premiere at Dances With Films on June 26. Watch trailer here.
Company member Julyana Soelistyo is in Henry VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Stephen Brown-Fried at The Public Theater, presented in collaboration with NAATCO. Condensed into two parts and performed in rep, experience this saga of a nation spinning wildly out of control. Part 1: Foreign Wars kicks off with the funeral of King Henry V, leaving his infant son on the throne and sending the country into decades of spiraling chaos both abroad and at home. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later, as nascent domestic feuds rapidly metastasize into the full-blown civil war known as the War of the Roses. Performances run through July 19.