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.
Welker White and Damian Young are co-founders of The Moving Frame, a process-oriented exploration of screen acting that offers actors an immersion into the language of cinematic storytelling. They have conducted screen acting intensives in some of the most respected universities and training programs across the U.S. and abroad, including The Actors Center, NYU Grad Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA, Columbia MFA Acting, ACT, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, U of Iowa MFA Acting, SMU MFA/BFA Acting, Bowdoin College, The Freeman Studio, Montclair State, Emerson MFA Film, Wesleyan University, The Atlantic Conservatory, and private studios in South Korea, Melbourne and Brisbane Australia, and Berlin.
As an actor, Welker White has worked with Martin Scorsese on several projects, including The Irishman (Josephine Hoffa opposite Al Pacino) and Goodfellas. Additional select film credits include the Sundance award-winning The 40-Year Old Version, Emmy award-winning HBO’s Bad Education, Eat Pray Love, Dead Poet’s Society, and the upcoming film Outcome directed by Jonah Hill starring Keanu Reeves. Onstage Welker has originated roles in New York premieres on and off Broadway and in noted U.S. theaters by leading American playwrights Lisa Kron, Craig Lucas, Sam Shepard, John Patrick Shanley, Mac Wellman, David Ives, and many others. Welker attended NYU Tisch BFA Acting Program, and holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College. She served on the Acting faculty for over 15 years at Brooklyn College. Welker has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist designation for her teaching.
As an actor, Damian Young has over 100 credited roles in film and tv. He is often recognized for his early work in the films of Hal Hartley (Amateur, Simple Men, No Such Thing) and cult favorite Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete and Pete. His many television credits include recurring and series regular roles on: Ozark, Shrill, House of Cards, Damages, The War Next Door, Californication, The Comeback, The Good Wife, Blacklist, White Collar, Person Of Interest, Numb3rs, Elementary, Third Watch, CSI: Miami, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Law and Order. His many film roles include Catfight, We Only Know So Much, Ocean’s 8, The Greatest Showman, Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, and Alejandro Inarritu’s Birdman. Theater credits include the Broadway productions of Sacrilege with Ellen Burstyn and All My Sons with Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow. Other theatre includes work on many new plays off-Broadway in New York and at noted regional theaters across the U.S.
