Below is a highlight selection of our videos. Our complete library is on our Youtube page.
Please note that the videos of The Acting Conservatory are taken directly from Acting Masterclasses with award-winning Actor and Director Thurman E. Scott. While some of the videos are in an older format, the content is timeless.
Develop foundational theater principles that will serve you on the stage, screen, and in everyday life.
Learn how to structure your life as an actor to support a sustainable and healthy career.
Understand the responsibility and commitment, to oneself and the craft, that an actor’s journey requires.
Harness the truth within your unique talent through a foundation of technique.
Move through moments of self-doubt and feelings of “failure” with curiosity and compassion.
Learn to trust your imagination and let it guide you through new characters, ideas, and material.
Watch this video of children who return to ATW 10 years later expressing how their studies at ATW profoundly changed their lives. Although this video is old, the work continues today and the empowerment of at-risk youth through creativity and self-expression continues.
Learn more about a program that, for over 25 years, has taught over 2,500 at-risk children. Hear directly from the children themselves. While this video is old, the work continues to transform opportunities for young people.
The Builders of the New World is an after-school theatre, education, and community building program for homeless children. Watch as the students celebrate the end of the program and graduate. While this video is old, it still reflects the work happening today at the Actors Theatre Workshop.
Watch Sandra Bookman interview Thurman E. Scott about the transformative work happening at the Actors Theatre Workshop and its Builders of the New World program.
Read the full NY1 article here
The Actors Theatre Workshop guides and teaches some of our most vulnerable young New Yorkers through our award-winning Builders of the New World program, created especially for children dealing with the tremendous instability of living in temporary housing facilities.
Volunteer for the Builders of the New World program at the Actors Theatre Workshop. Learn what it’s like to dedicate your time and make an impact in the lives of young New Yorkers with so much potential.
Thurman E. Scott teaches us that theatre reveals the commonality of our struggles.
When we see this universal essence we’re able to have compassion for ourselves and our fellow human beings.
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