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Actors Bridge Ensemble

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Actors Bridge Ensemble is a training program for new and seasoned actors & professional non-profit theatre company located in Nashville, TN. It is an incubator for new theatrical works and is a theatre company dedicated to progressive, provocative productions. The person you see on stage in one show you will likely see behind the light board in the next.Since 1996, Actors Bridge has produced 50 plays including 30 Nashville premieres and 8 world premieres of new theatrical works. We have trained over 2,000 actors in the Meisner Technique. Their students have appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and film, as well as on every stage in Nashville.

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    Actors Bridge Ensemble

    1312 Adams Street
    Nashville, TN 37208

    Phone: (615)341-0300   |   Email   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    06/05/12- 06/21/12	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Level One Intensive Meisner Classes Neuhoff Building Actors Bridge Ensemble: Level One Intensive Meisner Classes Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Neuhoff Building June 5-June 21, 2012 Whether you are a new or returning student, The Meisner Technique is waiting to get you out of your head and into the moment. At Actors Bridge, we take students through a step-by-step approach to the Meisner Technique giving them a strong foundation in being an emotionally available, truthfully responsive actor. Whether you are an actor interested in deepening your craft or someone looking for greater confidence, spontaneity, imagination and intuition in your everyday life, the Meisner...
    06/06/12- 06/27/12	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Voice and Movement Intensive with Brent Maddox Neuhoff Building Actors Bridge Ensemble: Voice and Movement Intensive with Brent Maddox Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Neuhoff Building June 6-June 27, 2012 Brent Maddox currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Belmont University, where he teaches voice and movement in the BFA Performance program. He is a graduate of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance (the professional training program of Gainesville State College and Brenau University in Gainesville, GA), and he received his MFA in Acting from the University of Alabama in 2003. In the years since receiving his M.F.A., Brent furthered his actor training in New York at the Actors...
    06/14/12- 06/17/12	Boom by Peter Sinn Nachtreib Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex Boom by Peter Sinn Nachtreib Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex June 14-June 17, 2012 Directed By Mitch Massaro; Featuring the SIDESHOW Ensemble Jules, a grad student in marine biology, and Jo, a journalism student, meet one Saturday night in Jules’s small underground laboratory on a university campus, after Jo answers Jules’s online personal ad offering an encounter that promises “to change the course of the world.” During his research on a deserted tropical island, Jules discovered patterns among the behavior of fish that seemed to portend a...
    06/26/12- 07/31/12	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Classes Level Two Scene Study Neuhoff Building Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Classes Level Two Scene Study Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Neuhoff Building June 26-July 31, 2012 BOUT THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE: Created by Sanford Meisner of New York’s influential Group Theatre, the Meisner Technique creates truthful, emotionally-connected actors. Meisner trained a long list of great actors including Steve McQueen, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton. The Meisner Technique gets you out of your head and into the moment. At Actors Bridge, we take students through a step-by-step approach to the Meisner Technique giving them a strong foundation in being an...
    07/27/12- 08/05/12	Outside Paradise: A New Play by the members of the Actors Bridge Ensemble Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex Outside Paradise: A New Play by the members of the Actors Bridge Ensemble Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex July 27-August 5, 2012 Following the life of literary legends F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald through the jazz age and into infamy. Funded by a Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission Creation Grant, this new work examines the volatile passion, deep commitment and remarkable work of this iconic pair and their closest confidants.

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  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    06/05/12- 06/21/12	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Level One Intensive Meisner Classes Neuhoff Building Actors Bridge Ensemble: Level One Intensive Meisner Classes Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Neuhoff Building June 5-June 21, 2012 Whether you are a new or returning student, The Meisner Technique is waiting to get you out of your head and into the moment. At Actors Bridge, we take students through a step-by-step approach to the Meisner Technique giving them a strong foundation in being an emotionally available, truthfully responsive actor. Whether you are an actor interested in deepening your craft or someone looking for greater confidence, spontaneity, imagination and intuition in your everyday life, the Meisner...
    06/06/12- 06/27/12	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Voice and Movement Intensive with Brent Maddox Neuhoff Building Actors Bridge Ensemble: Voice and Movement Intensive with Brent Maddox Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Neuhoff Building June 6-June 27, 2012 Brent Maddox currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Belmont University, where he teaches voice and movement in the BFA Performance program. He is a graduate of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance (the professional training program of Gainesville State College and Brenau University in Gainesville, GA), and he received his MFA in Acting from the University of Alabama in 2003. In the years since receiving his M.F.A., Brent furthered his actor training in New York at the Actors...
    06/14/12- 06/17/12	Boom by Peter Sinn Nachtreib Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex Boom by Peter Sinn Nachtreib Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex June 14-June 17, 2012 Directed By Mitch Massaro; Featuring the SIDESHOW Ensemble Jules, a grad student in marine biology, and Jo, a journalism student, meet one Saturday night in Jules’s small underground laboratory on a university campus, after Jo answers Jules’s online personal ad offering an encounter that promises “to change the course of the world.” During his research on a deserted tropical island, Jules discovered patterns among the behavior of fish that seemed to portend a...
    06/26/12- 07/31/12	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Classes Level Two Scene Study Neuhoff Building Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Classes Level Two Scene Study Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Neuhoff Building June 26-July 31, 2012 BOUT THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE: Created by Sanford Meisner of New York’s influential Group Theatre, the Meisner Technique creates truthful, emotionally-connected actors. Meisner trained a long list of great actors including Steve McQueen, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton. The Meisner Technique gets you out of your head and into the moment. At Actors Bridge, we take students through a step-by-step approach to the Meisner Technique giving them a strong foundation in being an...
    07/27/12- 08/05/12	Outside Paradise: A New Play by the members of the Actors Bridge Ensemble Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex Outside Paradise: A New Play by the members of the Actors Bridge Ensemble Presented by Actors Bridge Ensemble at Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex July 27-August 5, 2012 Following the life of literary legends F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald through the jazz age and into infamy. Funded by a Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission Creation Grant, this new work examines the volatile passion, deep commitment and remarkable work of this iconic pair and their closest confidants.

• Past
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  • Past Events

    05/11/12- 05/20/12	Time Stands Still By Donald Margulies Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    03/21/12- 04/25/12	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Level One Meisner Classes Neuhoff Building
    02/17/12- 02/26/12	The House of Bernarda Alba Belmont University - Troutt Theater
    12/08/11- 12/11/11	The Flu Season by Will Eno Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    09/29/11- 10/02/11	Sideshow Fringe Festival: Music City's Progressive Performing Arts Festival Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    07/29/11- 08/07/11	Becky's New Car Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    07/12/11- 08/25/11	Meisner Technique - Level 1 Neuhoff Building
    06/30/11- 07/01/11	Act Like a GRRRL 2011 Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    06/16/11- 06/18/11	Vocal Intensive Workshop with Brent Maddox Neuhoff Building
    06/03/11- 06/12/11	Sailor's Song Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    05/07/11	SIDESHOW: An Immersion Training Program for Emerging Professional Theatre Artists Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    02/18/11- 02/27/11	Eurydice Belmont University - Troutt Theater
    02/16/11- 03/23/11	Acting Classes: Basic Improv Neuhoff Building
    01/20/11- 02/24/11	Acting Classes: Meisner Technique Level One Neuhoff Building
    01/11/11- 02/15/11	Acting Classes: Meisner Technique Level One *SOLD OUT* Neuhoff Building
    01/01/11	Act Like a Big Grrrl 2011 Neuhoff Building
    12/03/10- 12/12/10	The Piper Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    10/08/10- 10/09/10	Actors Bridge Ensemble New Works Lab 2010 Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    09/16/10- 10/21/10	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level Two Classes Neuhoff Building
    09/15/10- 10/20/10	Acting Classes: Meisner Technique Level Three Neuhoff Building
    09/14/10- 10/19/10	Acting Classes: Meisner Technique Level One Neuhoff Building
    09/13/10- 10/18/10	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Advanced Acting Classes Neuhoff Building
    07/23/10- 08/01/10	Reckless Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    07/12/10- 08/16/10	Acting Classes: Meisner Technique Level Four Neuhoff Building
    07/06/10- 08/07/10	Act Like a GRRRL 2010 Public Performances Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    07/01/10- 07/02/10	Act Like a GRRRL 2010 Public Performances Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    06/07/10- 08/06/10	Act Like a GRRRL 2010 Neuhoff Building
    05/17/10- 06/21/10	Acting Classes: Meisner Technique Level Three Neuhoff Building
    05/14/10- 05/23/10	Vincent in Brixton Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    05/12/10- 06/16/10	Acting Classes: Meisner Technique Level One Neuhoff Building
    03/03/10- 04/07/10	Acting Classes: Level One Meisner Technique Neuhoff Building
    02/18/10- 02/28/10	All My Sons Belmont University - Troutt Theater
    02/05/10- 02/14/10	Judevine
    01/19/10- 02/23/10	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level One Classes Neuhoff Building
    01/19/10- 02/23/10	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level Two Classes Neuhoff Building
    01/11/10- 02/15/10	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Advanced Acting Classes Neuhoff Building
    11/14/09	A Conversation with DJ Qualls Belmont University - Troutt Theater
    11/02/09- 12/07/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Advanced Acting Neuhoff Building
    10/27/09- 12/01/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level One Classes Neuhoff Building
    10/12/09	The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later W.O. Smith Nashville Community Music School
    10/02/09- 10/10/09	My First Time Darkhorse Theater
    09/15/09- 10/20/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level Two Classes Neuhoff Building
    09/15/09- 10/20/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level One Classes Neuhoff Building
    09/14/09- 10/19/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level Three Classes Neuhoff Building
    07/30/09- 08/01/09	Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl (Nashville Premiere) Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    07/02/09- 07/03/09	Act Like a GRRRL 2009 Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    06/08/09- 07/20/09	The Play's The Thing Neuhoff Building
    06/08/09- 07/03/09	Act Like a GRRRL (ALAG) Neuhoff Building
    05/26/09- 06/30/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level One Class Neuhoff Building
    05/15/09- 05/24/09	Simpatico by Sam Shephard Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex
    04/25/09	April Salon Saturday Neuhoff Building
    04/13/09- 05/18/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level One Classes Neuhoff Building
    04/04/09- 04/05/09	Del Shores Audition Workshop: Auditioning and Getting the Job Neuhoff Building
    02/26/09- 04/02/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level One Classes Neuhoff Building
    02/23/09- 03/30/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Advanced Acting Neuhoff Building
    02/23/09- 03/30/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Level Two Classes Neuhoff Building
    02/20/09- 08/01/09	Actors Bridge Ensemble: Theatre Junkies Neuhoff Building
    02/20/09- 03/01/09	The Book of Liz by Amy and David Sedaris (Nashville Premiere) Belmont University - Black Box Theatre in Troutt Theatre Complex

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    • Event Name: Actors Bridge Ensemble: Meisner Advanced Acting Classes
      "If you want to act - you need this training!"
      Review posted by: Jenna from Nashville, TN, Mar 22, 2011
      

      This is the absolute finest in actor training.

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      This is the absolute finest in actor training.

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    • Event Name: Act Like a GRRRL 2009
      "Don't miss!"
      Review posted by: todd hidebrand from Nashville, Jun 27, 2009
      

      I've seen this show the last two years and every time I walk away amazed! These girls bare their souls. This is the most "real" show I have probably ever seen! Seriously, these girls will touch... Expand

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      I've seen this show the last two years and every time I walk away amazed! These girls bare their souls. This is the most "real" show I have probably ever seen! Seriously, these girls will touch your soul! Forever! Don't miss it!!! Collapse

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