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.
Join us in this next chapter of The Actors Center’s growth, as we broaden our impact and ensure the legacy of our craft by paying it forward to the next generation. With a a gift to The Actors Center, you can help us build a bridge between generations of artists.
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 Ken Barnett is in Jerome, written by John J. Caswell, Jr. and directed by Dustin Wills at Playwrights Horizons. Jerome, a ghost town in the secluded Arizona backcountry, is home to Con and Doane, an aging gay couple who’ve built a quiet life far from the chaos of cities and other people—until a stranger arrives, fleeing his damaged past, and falls into their arms. Set at the height of the AIDS epidemic, John J. Caswell, Jr.’s new play is an unexpectedly funny, delicately wrought story of survival, even in the harshest of deserts. The cast includes Stephen Spinella and Jeorge Bennett Watson. Performances run through June 21.
Tina Chilip and Dee Pelletier are in A Woman Among Women, written by Julia May Jonas and directed by Sarah Cameron Hughes at Lincoln Center Theater. It’s a summer day in Northampton, Massachusetts and Cleo, founder of the local women’s wellness center, holds court in her backyard. As friends, family and neighbors pass through, the air hums with a tension that may destroy the community she’s worked so hard to build. Performances run through June 28.
Company members Jennifer Ferrin, Brandon Flynn, and Pamela Dunlap are in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, a dark comedy series created by David J. Rosen and starring Tatiana Maslany. Newly divorced mom Paula falls down a rabbit hole of blackmail, murder and youth soccer; convinced she witnessed a crime, while struggling through a custody battle and an identity crisis, Paula begins her own investigation. New episodes air Wednesdays through July 15 on Apple TV. Watch trailer here.
Company members Celia Keenan-Bolger, Maureen Sebastian, Andrea Syglowski are in The Terror: Devil in Silver, the new limited series from executive producer Ridley Scott. The series follows Pepper, a man from Queens, wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital. He faces secretive doctors, dangerous patients, grim secrets, and maybe the Devil himself. Freedom means facing what thrives on New Hyde’s pain-but are the worst demons inside him? New episodes air Thursdays through June 11 on AMC+.
Company member Rachel Ticotin is in the feature film Diamond, written, directed, and starring Andy Garcia, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19. A contemporary Noir with period sensibilities set in Los Angeles. Our Protagonist, Joe Diamond, is a man out of time, an urban legend with an emotional traumatic past. He has the uncanny ability to solve crimes, that even the LAPD cannot. Armed only with the savvy and dry humor reminiscent of the gumshoe detectives of that genre. Diamond is a love letter to Los Angeles and a homage to the great noir films of past. The cast includes Brendan Fraser, Dustin Hoffman, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Vicki Krieps, and Bill Murray.
Company members Nathan Darrow, Joe Tippett, and Monica Wyche are in the feature film Happy Hours, written, directed, and starring Katie Holmes. Freshly divorced, photographer Liz finds herself surrounded by happy couples. Walking past a bookstore advertising a talk with travel writer Andrew McCloud, Liz freezes up in recognition of her high school boyfriend. Through a serendipitous gig, Liz photographs Andrew, and the pair of former lovers pick back up where they left off, rekindling their spark, confiding in one another and working through old wounds. As the fantasy of a life with Andrew becomes closer to reality, Liz must decide whether she’s ready to let herself love again. The cast also includes Joshua Jackson, Mary-Louise Parker and Constance Wu. The film will premiere June 6-13 at Tribeca Film Festival.
Company member John Rothman is in the feature film The Accompanist, written and directed by Zach Woods and starring Aubrey Plaza and Susan Sarandon. Emily, a young child who lives with her loving grandfather in New Jersey, is starting to be affected by the advancement of her caretaker’s dementia. When a novice child welfare agent comes to assess the situation, she extracts Emily from her home in a panic and places her in the care of Sylvia, a kind but mischievous old woman. As the two spend more time together, their bond grows deeper, but the mysteries of Sylvia’s past threaten to unravel their future. The film will premiere June 4-12 at Tribeca Film Festival.
Company member Nancy Lemenager is in Eureka Day, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Margot Bordelon, at The Huntington. The satire asks if parents at a progressive, welcoming private school can uphold their harmonious shared values when Eureka Day faces an outbreak of the mumps. This sharp comedy explores in surprising turns what happens when facts become subjective, when inclusivity turns performative, and a “community activated conversation” turns into an all-out brawl. Performances run May 28-June 28 in Boston, MA.
David Dean Bottrell appears on Widow’s Bay in Season 1, Episode 6, “Our History” on Apple TV.
Bob Ari appears on Your Friends and Neighbors in Season 2, Episode 6, “For Everything Else, There Was Bowling” on Apple TV.
Barbara Tirrell appears on Your Friends and Neighbors in Season 2, Episode 6, “For Everything Else, There Was Bowling” on Apple TV.
Becca Lish appears on Your Friends and Neighbors in Season 2, Episode 6, “For Everything Else, There Was Bowling” on Apple TV.
Company member Mark H. Dold is in Eureka Day, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Stuart Meltzer at Gable Stage. At the Eureka Day School in Berkeley, scones and militant inclusivity rule the weekly board meeting, and four self-consciously woke parents—led be a Rumi-reciting headmaster—can only act through strict consensus. But when a mumps outbreak forces the community to reconsider the school’s liberal vaccine policy, the board faces its worst nightmare: making a decision that won’t please absolutely everybody. Performances run through June 14 in Coral Gables, FL.
Company member Stacey Sargeant wrote, directed, and stars in the short film Stand Clear ‘ the Closing Doors. When a woman makes a simple request of a fellow NYC subway passenger, an everyday moment turns into a bizarre battle for space, peace, and dignity. The short will have its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on June 6.
Company member Annie Henk is in Club Kid, a feature film written, directed, and starring Jordan Firstman. The film follows Peter, a washed-up underground party promoter whose life takes an unexpected turn when he is forced to care for Arlo, a 10-year old son he never knew he had. The film had its world premiere on May 15 in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. It was eligible for the Caméra d’Or and was nominated for the Queer Palm.