What is it?
Rigorous scene study. Refined self-taping.
This is a two-day advanced scene study intensive designed for serious actors ready to work on their feet and in the scene. Participants dive deep into advanced acting technique while gaining a clear, efficient self-tape methodology. Master director and teacher, Dexter Bullard, will show you how to apply the techniques for rehearsing for hours to master a self-tape in minutes. You’ll leave with stronger instinct, sharper choices, and compelling self-tape footage that gets you in the room.
Actors he has worked with include: Michael Shannon, Stephen Colbert, Paul Rudd, Tom Hardy, Tracy Letts, Amanda Plummer, Ed Asner, Keegan Michael Key, Kate Arrington, Joe Keery, Kiki Layne, Christian Stolte, Paul Sparks, and many more.
“I’m not reinventing something. I’m getting a language and a set of tools that can address something you already know naturally as an actor that you love to solve.”
Date: April 11-12, 2026
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: The Arts Society of Kingston
97 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401
Early Bird Pricing: $250
Regular Pricing: $300
Who is it?
The Expert — Dexter Bullard
Dexter has directed throughout Chicago since 1990 at theaters such as Steppenwolf, Goodman, Northlight, Victory Gardens, HOUSE, A Red Orchid, American Blues, Next, Famous Door, and American Theater Co. He returned to American Blues in September 2025 with Things with Friends, a world premiere play by Kristoffer Diaz. He directed the Steppenwolf production of Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista on Broadway with Second Stage at the Hayes Theater in fall 2019, which received two 2020 Tony nominations: Ian Barford for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play and Cora Vander Broek for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play. Also in New York, he directed Grace on Broadway and Bug, Lady, and Mistakes Were Made off-Broadway.
Dexter is an alumni director for Second City, developing original, improvisational devised revues for Detroit and ETC, as well as ongoing projects for Second City Theatricals. In 1995, Dexter founded Plasticene, "a pioneer physical theater company" (Chicago Reader). With the ensemble, he developed more than fourteen critically acclaimed experimental works that appeared at many venues, including the Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theater NYC, Viaduct Theater, Links Hall, the MCA and the Storefront Theater. The Chicago Tribune called Dexter "Chicago's small theater genius" for his work with Plasticene, A Red Orchid Theater, and at Barrow Street in NYC. He has received a Jeff Citation, a Lucille Lortel Award, Jeff Award Nominations, and a Drama Desk Nomination, and was named "Best of Chicago" by Chicago Magazine in 2011.
Dexter studied acting at Northwestern and received his MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dexter is a Full Professor of Acting at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where he has served as a lead teacher for the acting program. He has taught hundreds of workshops and classes at all levels with Plasticene and at University of Illinois Chicago, Columbia College, Roosevelt University, The Actors Studio, The Actors Center, and Second City Training Center.
