The Story Slams Continue!
2025 Slams – 7 PM Saturdays –
Sep 20 Frenemies
Nov 15 Synchronicity
Dec 7 Sun 6 PM Super Slam – Family Matters
UPCOMING EVENTS
Improv Community Jam
When: June 26, 2025 Thursday 7pm
Full Moon Story Slam
Theme: Strange Days
When: July 19, 2025
Saturday 7pm
Quixotic Tour
When: Tuesday July 22, 2025
Saturday 7pm
Free Improv Show
When: July 31, 2025 Thursday 7pm
TAKE A CLASS
Classes currently meeting:
Cold Reading Classes
Wednesday evenings,
Thursday & Friday mornings
Improv with Ethan Jule
PLEASE NOTE NEW DATES
Monday evenings 7pm to 8:30pm
June 16 to July 28, 2025
(no class July 14)
Upcoming Classes
learn about our full selection of classes
A note from our Executive Director
From Creation to Creation
If, as Stephen Hawking told us, time and space are endless, so too is the human odyssey. The longer I live the more convinced I become that every creative act here on earth generates a new frontier to be explored. By taking creative action we are directly engaging with the unlimited field of possibility: our individual consciousness immersed in pure creation consciousness.
The performing arts exemplify this mystic aspect of our human reality, because the experience that is created exists only in the moment that it is happening. When it is over it lives somewhere in the imagination of the audience. Not even the performers possess it. You can’t go back and revisit it as you can with a painting, a sculpture, a building, a church or a piece of furniture. You can go to a second performance, but it will be a new and different experience.
My years in the theater have joyfully opened me to this aspect of our craft. When one is learning to act one is really learning how to be the mystic creature, we are all born to be. We hold the omniscient space that the playwright has structured while playing out the action of our very human natures. The air in the room is charged with a special energy and all are touched by it, actors and audience alike.
We return time and time again to that rarified environment because we must. It is in our nature to come together to explore and celebrate the mystery and miracle of our existence. Beginning with the earliest creation stories to perhaps a politically charged modern drama, we are consistently called to the theater’s ritual celebration of human complexity so that we may be moved by it either to laugh, or cry, or to be outraged. Always we seek to be moved, to feel ourselves in our full capacity to engage with life.
Marc Clopton
Executive Director
The Actors Studio of Newburyport is a 501(c)(3) corporation.
**NEW**
New Works
Call For Submissions
The Actors Studio is collaborating with The Firehouse Center for the Arts to present the 2026 New Works Festival. We will Host the one act plays and the full length. The Ten-minute plays will be presented at the Firehouse. If you are a playwright and wish to submit to the festival, here’s the link for the submission form:
https://firehouse.org/new-works/ For details
All submissions must be received no later than 11:59pm on Saturday, June 21, 2025
Supporter Subscription
The Actors Studio of Newburyport Is now offering
**Exclusive Supporter Subscriptions**
for $500 or $250 per year.
GET INVOLVED
VOLUNTEER
Be a part of THE STUDIO team and gain production experience and/or add your technical and marketing skills to our burgeoning virtual programming. Positions such as box office, usher, running crews, tech, lighting and stage management will be on hold until we are performing live again. For more information contact us at Info@newburyportacting.org.
Be sure to check out our partner:
Newburyport Arts Collective (NAC)
Versatile
Performance Venue
Our 62-seat black box theater is host to established plays, new original works, staged readings, film and musical performances.
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Friendly Learning Environment
The studio hosts a variety of classes & workshops including: cold reading, scene study, character development, voice, monologue, on-camera, improvisation, and musical theater.
New Works
Laboratory
We provide a forum for local playwrights to present their work to live audiences for evaluation and feedback throughout the play development process.
BONS Award 2021
I am so pleased to announce that The Studio has been awarded North of Boston Magazine’s BONS Award for 2021. We won both the Readers’ Choice and Editors’ Choice for Best small live/virtual venue for the whole North Shore. I congratulate all of our teachers, directors, writers, actors, and project producers. You all adapted brilliantly to the circumstances and challenges of 2020 and 2021, bringing a continuous flow of great material to our audiences. This honor is yours!
Marc Clopton
Executive Director