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The Center For Actor Training
The very heart of Shakespeare & Company is its professional actor training. The Company’s programs are internationally recognized as deeply effective training experiences for artists who aspire to bring their talent, intuition, and spirit to a higher level.
Actor Training Programs
Actors, directors, writers, and teachers from around the world seek to work with Shakespeare & Company’s faculty, to train not only their voices and their bodies with a daily regimen of demanding classes, but also to delve deeply into their own imaginations, intellects, and emotional lives.
Shakespeare & Company’s aesthetic was also created within the Center for Actor Training – and is continuously investigated, redefined, and reinvigorated through its programs by a cadre of expert teachers.
The Center for Actor Training now offers a variety of workshops and classes online, p...
Tuition$5,500
programme DatesMarch 24 2023
The Center for Actor Training offers a variety of specialized workshops throughout th...
Tuition$5,500
programme DatesMarch 24 2023
Designed for professional actors and theater students who seek an introduction to Sha...
Tuition$5,500
programme DatesMarch 24 2023
The Month-long Intensive is Shakespeare & Company’s signature workshop. For six day...
Tuition$5,500
programme DatesMarch 24 2023
The Summer Shakespeare Intensive is geared towards undergraduate theater students, re...
Tuition$5,500
programme DatesMarch 24 2023
How do I apply?
Applicants must submit a completed application form, along with a headshot or recent photo, a resume, and a statement of purpose. This last item is a brief statement of why you are interested in this training at this time. You will also be asked for the names and phone numbers of two references. Depending on an applicant’s references and resume, Month-long Intensive and Summer Shakespeare Intensive (formerly the Summer Training Institute) applicants may be asked to submit an audition video. All programs require a non-refundable $15 (USD) application-processing fee; this fee must accompany the completed application. Incomplete applications cannot be processed. The minimum age requirement for all programs is 18 years old.
Are you eligible for funding?
The Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund was established in 2018 by Company Founder and longtime Director of Training, the late Dennis Krausnick (1942 – 2018).
One of Dennis’s missions at the end of his life was to establish this fund in order to offer scholarships to artists of the global majority wishing to study with Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training.
Gifts to the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund help bring Dennis’s mission to life. In an overwhelming outpouring of love and support, more than 1,000 individual donors have contributed to the DKF Fund in his memory, enabling Shakespeare & Company to grant more than $97,000 in scholarships to 86 artists of the global majority in four years.
Hear from the Alumni
Shakespeare & Company is a very special organization; one that has a long history, and carefully refined training techniques that have evolved and developed over the past 40 years. But it is the people at Shakespeare & Company that make it what it is. The staff and faculty are among the most compassionate, sincere, and knowledgeable an actor will encounter, and their priority is one: to give the actor the tools they need to discover - and wield - the deepest and most whole version of themselves. Until my experience at Shakespeare & Company, I had never experienced such an unconditional and affirming love as I did from the team there, and I left with an equally powerful love for them and for my peers. It was never easy. It was never even simple. And I'm grateful for every moment.
Seth Rue
Actor Training Alumni
All of the vocal and physical training we did enabled me to see how much freedom and availability are possible, which raised my expectations of myself. But for the first time I felt that I had the tools to move forward with those expectations. I can hone, clarify and broaden my Shakespeare monologues (and other pieces, too!), and I gained so much confidence, which is perhaps the most important thing. People have asked me where I ‘got so good at Shakespeare’ and I happily recommend the training programs at S&Co because I honestly think that they are some of the best training available in this country
Jenna Hoff
Actor Training Alumni
I’ve kept busy over the past year, and I have to say that weekend intensive has proven to be very effective! Everyone always asks about it when they see it on my resume and I love waxing poetically about it! Not only that, friendships that I made during my weekend have been long-lasting, I love running into folks at auditions and have coffee with folks in the city and one friend even helped to book me in my first fully compensated theater job! Those three days were successful in so many ways I hadn’t even planned on!
Halima Henderson
Actor Training Alumni
