ACTING classes

Welcome to the ESPA ACTING Department!

“If you’re looking for an excellent, comprehensive, and nurturing place to work at your craft, with people who are as passionate as you are about their work, come to ESPA. Every time I teach, I feel more excited about the theater because I am so moved and inspired by the students.”

- ESPA Acting Department Faculty Member

SPRING 2025 Acting classes will be both in person and online

CLASSES

We offer the following in-person classes in the Spring of 2025:

  • Instructor: Lisa Donadio (Casting Director, Playwrights Horizons)
    Thursdays from 6:30pm –9:30pm ET
    at ARTNY Studios Midtown (520 8th Avenue)
    Starting February 27

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  • Instructor: Amelia Campbell (Actor, Coal Country at The Public, Our Country’s Good on Broadway (Tony Nomination), The Chair Company) and Anthony Arkin (Actor and Filmmaker, “The Americans,” I’m Not Rappaport on Broadway)
    Wednesdays from 6:30pm –9:30pm ET
    at ARTNY Studios Midtown (520 8th Avenue)
    Starting March 5

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  • Instructor: Iraisa Ann Reilly (Writer and Actor, Good Cuban Girls, The Jersey Devil is a Papi Chulo; Faculty, NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing Program)
    Wednesdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
    at ARTNY Studios Midtown (520 8th Avenue)
    Starting February 19

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We offer the following online classes in the Spring of 2025:

  • Instructor: AriDy Nox (Writer, Librettist, Multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller, Black Girl in Paris, A Walless Church)
    Tuesdays from 2:00pm – 5:00pm ET
    Zoom
    Starting February 25

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  • John Gould Rubin (Director, Turn Me Loose Off-Broadway; former Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company)
    Mondays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
    Zoom
    Starting February 24

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  • Instructor: Erin Daley (Artistic Director, Primary Stages)
    Thursday, March 20 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET
    Zoom
    Includes a ticket to our upcoming show, Amerikin by Chisa Hutchinson

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