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 members Sepideh Moafi and Jeff Hiller were nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards. Sepideh was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi on the critically acclaimed HBO series The Pitt. Jeff was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his guest role on Pluribus on Apple TV. Both The Pitt and Pluribus were recognized across all categories—The Pitt received 25 total nominations, and Pluribus received 18 nominations.
In addition, several company members were part of the ensemble casts for shows nominated for this year’s Emmy Awards. Shows nominated for Outstanding Drama Series were The Gilded Age, featuring Louisa Jacobson and Celia Keenan-Bolger; Your Friends & Neighbors, featuring Stephanie Kurtzuba, Matthew Rauch, and Bre Blair; and The Pitt, featuring Sepideh Moafi and Kristin Villanueva. Shows nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series were Abbott Elementary, featuring Chris Perfetti, and Widow’s Bay, featuring Jeff Hiller. Shows nominated for Outstanding Limited Series were DTF St. Louis, featuring Chris Perfetti, and Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, featuring Sydney Lemmon. The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards will be presented on September 14 on NBC.
Company member James Udom is in Othello, written by William Shakespeare and directed by Carl Cofield, presented by Classical Theatre of Harlem. This free Uptown Shakespeare in the Park production brings this searing tragedy of love, jealousy, power, race, and betrayal to Marcus Garvey park. As manipulation takes root and trust begins to fracture, Othello examines how a single lie can ignite a world of suspicion, desire, and destruction. Othello continues the company’s celebrated tradition of bold, accessible, world-class theatre for New Yorkers and visitors alike. Performances are free and open to the public, and RSVP is encouraged. Performances run through July 26.
Company members Irene Sofia Lucio, Jason Ralph, and Joe Tippett are in Disruption, written by Andrew Stein and directed by Hersh Ellis, Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. After tremendous Silicon Valley success and a big exit, tech entrepreneur Nick presents his three best friends with his next big idea: an algorithm that is more complex than the human brain and promises to guide them through big life decisions better and more effectively than they can guide themselves. In an era where every aspect of human life has been documented with data and disrupted by technology, do computers know us better than we know ourselves? And even if they do, should we listen? The cast also includes John David Washington and Conrad Ricamora. Performances run July 22-September 13.
Company member Jeb Brown is in Fireflies, written by Matthew Barber and directed by Daniela Varon, presented by Shakespeare & Company. Retired schoolteacher Eleanor Bannister lives alone in tiny Groverdell, Texas, settled into her routines and secure in her standing as the town’s most respected woman. When a hole in her roof brings Abel Brown—a charming, smooth-talking drifter—onto her doorstep, he offers to repair the house and quietly begins to upend her carefully ordered life. As an unexpected late-life romance flickers to life, gossip spreads and doubts surface. Can Abel be trusted, or is he not quite who he seems? Either way, the whole town is watching. Performances run through July 19 in Lenox, MA.
Company member Gillian Glasco is in the world premiere of Estate Sale, written by Keelay Gipson and directed by Steph Paul at Barrington Stage. A grieving son confronts the pain of his loss and the impossible task of clearing his deceased parents’ home. The semi-autobiographical story reveals how the objects of our lives inform, reveal, and preserve our personal mythologies. Performances run through July 25 in Pittsfield, MA.
Company member Megan Loomis is in Music City, with music by JT Harding, book by Peter Zinn and directed by Eric Tucker, presented Off-Broadway at St. Luke’s Theatre. Follow two young singer-songwriters into the Wicked Tickle, an East Nashville bar that serves up cheap beer, open mics, and dreams of big breaks. The bar regulars bravely pursue love and music in the face of addiction, poverty, and haunting pasts. But in Nashville, heartbreak is the only thing they hand out for free. Performances run through October 31.
Tala Ashe appears on Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed in Season 1, Episode 8 “Hallidays“ and Season 1, Episode 9 “Erroneous“ on Apple TV.
Maury Ginsberg appears on Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed in Season 1, Episode 5 “Scamboy“ and Season 1, Episode 6 “Rosebuds“ on Apple TV.
Geneva Carr appears on Cape Fear in Season 1, Episode 1, “Fingers & Toes” on Apple TV.
Jill Larson appears on Cape Fear in Season 1, Episode 7 “Mongrel” on Apple TV.
Company member Dede Lovejoy writes and stars in solo show Shamaniac, directed by Joy Donze, at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A series of mysterious debilitating seizures and a freak elevator accident send Dede on an off-road scavenger hunt for healing. From sound baths to bean diets, this deeply personal solo play traces one woman’s unconventional recovery, as she flips the bird to western medicine and swan dives into otherworldly remedies to reintegrate body, mind and soul. A mystical post-traumatic-stress-fantasia featuring bad choices, safety tips, spirit guides and shamanism– with cameos by polyamory and The Patriarchy. Performances run August 7–29 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dede is also in The Misfortunes of a Spy and Her Mystic, written and directed by Joy Donze at 59E59 Theaters and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In this modern-day, queer-coded witch hunt, Eve, a woman working on the fringe of the mental health system blurs the line between hired advocate and spy. On a rollercoaster of grey areas and spiritual awakening, her alluringly witchy, enigmatic client challenges Eve’s sense of ethics, truth and perception, leaving her questioning who gets to judge and ultimately shape reality. Performances run through July 26 at 59E59 Theaters in NYC, and August 7–29 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Company members Purva Bedi and Becca Lish are in Men on Boats, written by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Carson Joenk at Nantucket Performing Arts Center. The play follows ten explorers charting the Colorado River in 1869, armed with questionable maps, oversized egos, and absolutely no idea what they’re doing. Inspired by John Wesley Powell’s journals, the play skewers the myth of American heroism and the idea of “discovery” itself. Performances run through July 29 in Nantucket, MA.
Company member Maggie Bofill is in ¡VOS! by Christina Pumariega, directed by Kimberly Senior at Contemporary American Theater Festival. Annie returns to her estranged birthplace of Buenos Aires to undergo IVF treatments from the famed Dr. Cossi. But her motherhood journey brings to light the lives of two women lost to the Dirty War decades ago. This play is an exhilarating hunt for home, family, and the Disappeared, inspired by Las Madres—past, present and hopeful. A heart-pounding, hilarious, heartbreaking tour de force told by two Latinas spinning as fast as they can. Performances run through August 2 in Shepherdstown, WV.
Company member Vivia Font is in The Smoker, written by Lisa D’Amour and directed by Shelley Butler at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. What makes community? For this unlikely gathering of under-employed, under-insured dreamers on a New York street corner, it’s the communal need for a cigarette. They are as different as different can be–in gender and sexual orientation and relationship status, in their aspirations, vocations and avocations. But in this warm-hearted premiere, these characters come together to consume the chemicals that unite them: nicotine and the endorphins produced by friendship. Performances run through August 2 in Shepherdstown, WV.
Company member Joan MacIntosh is in Small Triumph, a short film written and directed by Antonia Grilikhes Lasky. The short follows the journey of a painter who struggles with the toughest model she’s ever had: her daughter. The film is an official selection of the Indy Shorts International Film Festival, and will screen online July 21-26 and in-person on July 23 in Indianapolis, IN.