Periodically during the year and for four weeks in the summer, the Actors’ Workshop at the Bergen County YJCC offers serious New York-style training, along with serious fun.

Artistic director Geoffrey Cantor is joined by other professional actors and performing artists who share their expertise with students, grades four and up. Students develop a unique approach to acting, along with fostering personal skills that transcend the stage, all in a safe, nurturing environment.

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Actors’ Workshop Summer Camp
Daily instruction in acting, voice, dance/choreography, plus trips to Broadway/Off Broadway productions, meetings with theatrical agents and backstage visits with working actors fill the days in the Actors’ Workshop 4-week summer program. Campers work on scenes, monologues, songs and routines, culminating in a showcase of their work. This year’s session runs from June 28 through July 23. Click here for a camp flyer or click here for complete information and an application.

Geoffrey Cantor, Artistic Director, Actors’ Workshop
Geoffrey is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College with a degree in theater. He attended the National Theater Institute (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) and continued his training at the Central School in London, England.

Geoffrey had his New York directorial debut last December with James Mclure’s 1959 Pink Thunderbird. Other directing credits include Winterglass (an original piece), Cowboys II by Sam Shepard and Swampland by Craig Sabin. He is currently the Artistic Director at the Bergen County YJCC. He spent three years as the Artistic Director and Artist-in-Residence for the JCC Association's Maccabi Artsfest.

As an actor, his film work includes Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, The Notorious Bettie Page, One Last Thing, Suburban Girl, and Heavy Petting. In 2010, he can be seen in Doug Liman’s Fair Game, and Disney’s When in Rome. On stage, his work includes Side Man (Broadway), Dinner With Friends, Death of A Salesman with Judd Hirsch and Julie Taymor's Titus Andronicus. On television, Geoffrey was a cast member in Spike TV’s original miniseries, The Kill Point, and has been a guest star or recurring character on shows such as The Sopranos, Bored to Death, Mercy, Brotherhood, Life on Mars, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Ed and Third Watch, and the soap operas All My Children and The Guiding Light.

Geof has also been featured in over 200 television and radio commercials, most notably as “The Good Listener” in the Kleenex Tissue “Let It Out” campaign.