Center for Actor Training

Shakespeare & Company's Center for Actor Training has for three decades concentrated on heightening actors' abilities to engage, explore and express fearlessly and lucidly to bring language, character and the physical instrument together in such a way as to help actors "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature." Read more...

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Workshops are designed for various levels of experience. On-site housing is always included for workshops in Lenox.

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upcoming events

February 12, 2010 - February 14, 2010
NYC Weekend Intensive

March 12, 2010 - March 14, 2010
Minneapolis Weekend Intensive

March 19, 2010 - March 21, 2010
Richmond, VA Weekend Intensive

March 27, 2010 - March 31, 2010
Clown!

April 12, 2010 - April 17, 2010
Shakespeare's Rhetoric

April 23, 2010 - April 25, 2010
Shakespeare and the Feminine with Tina Packer

April 30, 2010 - May 2, 2010
Los Angeles Weekend Intensive

June 1, 2010 - September 4, 2010
Performance Intern Program

July 13, 2010 - August 14, 2010
Summer Training Institute