The Last Acting Studio presents Racism and the Actor: A Conversation with Nicole M. Brewer

The Last Acting Studio presents

Racism and the Actor:

A Conversation with Nicole M. Brewer

How Racism Shapes Your Body and Your Work

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A free live conversation about how racism registers in the actor’s body, attention and artistic choices.

For actors from marginalized communities, there is often an unnamed force in the rooms where we learn and work. Even when no one names it, the body does. Racialized stress can constrict the breath, tense the muscles, and consume attention—shaping not only how an actor feels in the room, but the creative choices available to them.

​In this free Zoom conversation, Nicole M. Brewer, author of the new book The Antiracist Theatre: Crafting Theatrical Collaboration, and LAS founder Desean K. Terry will explore how racism moves through our classrooms, rehearsal rooms, and sets; how it registers in the actor’s body and work; and how antiracist practices can create the conditions for greater artistic freedom.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: NICOLE M. BREWER

​Nicole Brewer is a theatre director whose work has been seen at theatres such as Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, and Folger Theatre. She is an educator with more than 18 years of teaching experience. Brewer is notably known as the originator of the internationally recognized Antiracist Theatre (ART) model. A leading voice in the movement to transform theater culture through accountability, care, and liberation-centered practices, Brewer serves as acting faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

In her debut book, The Antiracist Theatre, Nicole Brewer invites readers to consider the cost of business as usual and reclaim their power to challenge and shift extractive, exclusionary, and exploitative processes. Brewer creates space for readers to reimagine how creative spaces can function in healthier, more humane, and accountable ways. The book offers practical tools for building healthier creative environments where everyone can thrive.

For more than sixteen years, Brewer has developed and facilitated anti-racist and anti-oppressive training methodologies that challenge harmful industry norms and reimagine what collaborative artistic processes can be. Her work has been featured at conferences and institutions across the United States, Canada, and the UK, including workshops with Shakespeare’s Globe and the University of Cambridge.

A dynamic speaker known for blending rigor, humor, honesty, and deep compassion, Brewer has taught at Howard University, her alma mater, the National Theater Institute, and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, among others.