Actors Conservatory Theatre

A great big virtual hug and humble thanks to all our supporters throughout our fundraising campaign! You are the heartbeat of ACT and we can’t wait until we are all able to safely return to the theater again! And an extraordinary thanks to our Junior Troupe alumna, Amanda Foto (Strega Mandi), for hosting our Home for the Holidays pasta-making class and variety show this Sunday. Together, we raised over $2,000! Grazie! Grazie! Grazie! We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a happy, healthy New Year!

No #NannyClaus (the North Pole Nanny) this year...but we do have Mandi (the South Pole Strega), hosting a virtual pasta making class this Sunday, December 27th @ 3PM. Tag YOUR fave ACT Alum who you want to see at the classe! To register, Venmo* your donation (suggested $10) to @stregamandi and enter your email address in the "What's it for?" field. 100% of your donations will be matched and go directly to #ActorsConservatoryTheatre. You will receive an email confirmation w...ith the link to the event as well as a list of ingredients you will need in order to make the pasta from home! * Don't have a Venmo account? No problem! You can still make your donation on actshows.org and we will email a confirmation for the class.

Join us Sunday, December 27th for a virtual pasta making class with our very own Junior Troupe alumna, Amanda Foto, as she brings the holiday cheer, all for Actors Conservatory Theatre! To register, Venmo* your donation to @stregamandi and enter your email address in the "What's it for?" field. You will receive an email confirmation with the link to the event as well as a list of ingredients you will need in order to make the pasta from home! ... * Don't have a Venmo account? No problem! You can still make your donation on actshows.org and we will email a confirmation for the class.

Right now, many of us yearn to attend or perform in live, in-person theater productions. And, without the ability to create and perform live productions, several of our fellow long-standing theater companies in Westchester have permanently closed. We are heartbroken for our theater colleagues and friends who have lost their theater home. Those losses will be felt by all of us long after the pandemic ends. ACT is working hard to stay afloat during this prolonged intermiss...ion: we’re keeping the creative juices flowing by preparing virtual events for early 2021, and we are enhancing our organization’s structure and function so we can be ready to bring you top quality live theater when it is safe to do so. On this #GivingTuesday, we hope you can help! Your tax deductible donation to ACT will help us weather this prolonged hiatus. We appreciate gifts of any size, and many gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar thanks to ArtsWestchester’s Art$Challenge grant. (Thank you to everyone who has already sent a donation for the challenge grant.) Donations can be made at: www.actshows.org

Happy #VeteransDay to all who have selflessly served our country. Thank you for your service. And thank you to all of you who have already made a contribution to ACT! Most of the recent gifts we've received this month will have double the impact because they will be matched dollar-for-dollar via the ArtsWestchester Art$W Challenge program. There is still time to give! Visit: actshows.org

ACT needs your help now more than ever! Please consider donating to our fall fundraising campaign as most of the gifts received this month will be matched dollar-for-dollar via the ArtsWestchester Art$W Challenge program. For more information, visit: actshows.org

As we begin our 46th season, ACT celebrates all the memorable theater experiences we have shared with you, and we look forward to presenting future productions when it is safe to do so. Thanks to people like you we have survived and thrived, keeping quality theater close to home. As an affiliate of ArtsWestchester, ACT is eligible for a matching grant from their Art$W Challenge program, which runs from now through December 31. If you have not made a donation to ACT in the past two years, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar. We ask you to please support ACT at this difficult time with any amount comfortable for you to give. To donate, visit our website: www.actshows.org

A great BIG thank you to our audiences, supporters, actors, and volunteers for voting and helping to make us a DOUBLE CATEGORY WINNER in Westchester Magazine's #BestOfWestchester! You are the heartbeat of ACT and we look forward to when we can all be together again!

HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY! While we’re all stuck in quarantine, we’ve been thinking about the times when we didn’t need to practice #socialdistancing. Now more than ever it’s important to know that our theatre community is together in spirit belting and tap dancing! Tag us in some of YOUR favorite ACT memories or share them below! . #communitytheatre #worldtheatreday #theatreday #yonkers #yonkersny #musicaltheatre #nonprofitarts #act #actorslife

THE SENIORS SQUAD!! BRAVO!! #ohtheplacesyoullgo

Thank your lucky star you’ve gotten this far... And tell yourself, HOW LUCKY YOU ARE! #SEUSSICAL

THE BLACK-BOTTOMED EAGLE NAMED.... VLAD VLADIKOFF!

When you can’t color inside the lines and you actually have an opinion... #SEUSSICAL

They landed at last at the town of New York! #SEUSSICAL!

When you’re at ACT, you know you’re family forever. Our 2020 #SEUSSICAL Revival cast meeting 10 of the original 2007 ACT cast members for the first time!

THE ACT’s JUNIOR TROUPE SEUSSICAL 2007 REUNION!!! FEATURING: 2007 Horton- Joseph Riedel 2007 Sour Kangaroo- Amanda Foto... 2007 Mrs. Mayor- Morgan Demartis 2007 General Genghis Kahn Schmitz- Nick Pags 2007 Bird Girls- Jill Paganelli, Olivia Paganelli 2007 Jungle Girl- Mel Olin 2007 Who’s- Angela Fragale, Maggie Lloyd, Steven Demartis See more

Who has the instructions on how to raise a child? Who has all the answers?!? #SEUSSICAL

GEE! IT’S FABULOUS! #SEUSSICAL

ORDER! ORDER! ORDER! THIS IS THE CASE OF THE PEOPLE VERSUS HORTON THE ELEPHANT! Both of today’s performances are scheduled to run! 2pm Matinee / 8pm Evening . #communitytheatre #yonkersny #seussicalthemusical #whoville #jungleofnool #hortonhearsawho

She galloped through the snow in eleven below, for you!! Yes, even though she knew she catching the flu, she did it all for you! #SEUSSICAL OPENS TONIGHT!! . #communitytheatre #yonkersny #seussicalthemusical #whoville #jungleofnool #hortonhearsawho

WE OPEN #SEUSSICAL TONIGHT @ 8PM! The ACT Board and staff have been in discussion for the past week regarding the fate of the show and have been monitoring the #Coronavirus updates continually. We will be opening tonight as planned. ACT is keeping a constant watch on the recommendations of NY State and Westchester Health departments. We understand that no public organization can completely mitigate the risk of COVID-19. As of right now, the recommendations of the Westchester ...Health Department (with our county being the hardest hit by the virus currently) does not currently have in place a requirement to cancel public gatherings, outside of a specific area in New Rochelle. The current New York State guidelines issued by Governor Cuomo yesterday state that gatherings of 500 or more be postponed, which does not apply to our performances. The Westchester County Health Department recommends that the people in the following categories do NOT attend public gatherings: People who are sick and/or have flu like symptoms Older adults People with serious chronic medical conditions like: heart disease, diabetes, lung disease etc... In addition to the professional cleaning service that was hired on Monday to scrub the entire theatre, auditorium and performance spaces, ACT has committed to personally clean the theater with disinfectant before and after each performance. This includes bathrooms, kitchen, every chair, doorknob, railing and communal surface. Our kitchen staff will be wearing gloves during the selling of concessions and antibacterial soaps/hand sanitizer is available for all of our patrons. For any questions and/or concerns, please contact: [email protected] When the news is all bad When you're sour and blue When you start to get mad You should do what I do Tell yourself, how lucky you are! Sincerely, the ACT Board of Directors