Atlantic Theater Company Artistic Director & Casting Director to Host 'Director's Lab for the Actor'

Atlantic Theater Company Artistic Director Neil Pepe and Casting Director Todd Thaler will teach a special Director's Lab for the Actor intensive class on Friday, January 23 and Saturday, January 24, 2015 at Atlantic Theater Company's rehearsal studios (76 Ninth Avenue, Suite 537).

Director's Lab for the Actor is a Lab Intensive for the serious working actor with prior training and performance experience who is ready to bring their work to the director's eye.

Friday, January 23, 6:30 - 10:30 PM
Meet and greet table read with Neil Pepe and Todd Thaler
Casting Workshop with Todd Thaler

After being cast in their roles for the weekend's working rehearsal, participants will experience a table read with their director followed by a casting workshop with Casting Director Todd Thaler.

Saturday, January 24, 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Rehearsal and Lab Intensive with Neil Pepe

Day two offers a full day of exploring the creative process, technique and the business of working on plays with Atlantic Theater Company Artistic Director Neil Pepe through a working rehearsal / lab format.

Tuition is $495. The lab intensive will be limited to 12 actors. An audition is required.

Neil Pepe has been the Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992 and is currently represented with the American premiere production of Dying For It, by Moira Buffini, freely adapted from Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide, now playing at Atlantic Theater Company at The Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street).

Neil Pepe has directed David Mamet's A Life In The Theatre on Broadway with Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight. Prior to that, he made his Broadway debut with the acclaimed hit revival of Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. Atlantic productions include Ethan Coen's Almost an Evening and Offices, David Mamet's Keep Your Pantheon and School (also Center Theatre Group LA); David Pittu's What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling; David Mamet's American Buffalo starring William H. Macy (also Donmar Warehouse, London); Harold Pinter's Celebration and The Room; David Mamet's Romance (also Mark Taper Forum, L.A.); Jez Butterworth's Mojo, The Night Heron and Parlour Song; Milos by John Guare; Tom Donaghy's The Beginning of August (also South Coast Rep.); Howard Korder's Sea of Tranquility; Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange; Hilary Bell's Wolf Lullaby; Edwin Sanchez's Clean. Other credits include Frank Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses with Martin Sheen and Frances Conroy; Eric Bogosian's Red Angel (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Jessica Goldberg's Refuge (Playwrights Horizons).

Atlantic has garnered 12 Tony Awards, 12 Lucille Lortel Awards, 15 Obie Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, five Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Drama League Awards. Atlantic also operates The Atlantic Theater Company Acting School, which has an undergraduate program in conjunction with NYU, as well as a two-year professional acting program and a six-week intensive workshop every summer. Atlantic for Kids and the Educational Outreach Program partners with schools and teachers throughout the greater metropolitan area coordinating in-school visits of teaching artists and post-theater talkbacks.

For information on Atlantic Theater Company membership or other inquiries, please contact the Membership Department: 212-645-1242 or membership@atlantictheater.org

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