The phrase "actors shift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing changes in performance, roles, or dynamics among actors in a play, film, or other performance settings.
Example: "During the rehearsal, the actors shift their positions to better convey the emotional intensity of the scene."
Alternatives: "performers change" or "cast transitions".
Designed by Jonathan Wentz, the central scenic unit consists of half a curved wall mounted on a turntable that the actors shift to reveal an austere throne room for the story's occasional scenes at court.
State and non-state actors shift lawmaking initiatives from one international regime to another for many reasons.
Competing groups of states and non-state actors shift horizontally and vertically among these forums in an effort to develop competing legal rules over the propriety of granting intellectual property (IP) protection to newly developed life-saving drugs.
The actors shift increasingly modern Rae Smith-designed buildings around like so many toy blocks.
It is a multidimensional battlefield that requires a quantum computer to sort out the myriad number of actors, shifting alliances and lines of conflict.
An excellent cast of five professional actors, shifting roles in a tour de force of quick changes, are joined by eight gifted children.
We are becoming deeply involved in a sectarian conflict that spans from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, with multiple fronts, multiple actors, shifting alliances, and horrific violence on all sides.
After a musical turn opposite the young Doris Day in Gordon Douglas's entertaining but unremarkable Young At Heart (1954), Sinatra the actor shifted into bleak, non-singing territory in Otto Preminger's then ground-breaking portrayal of drug addiction: The Man With The Golden Arm (1955).
"Bad art, bad sex, mediocre actors, then shift it around".
The directors, John Caird and Trevor Nunn, had the idea that the actors would shift effortlessly from narrating the story to commenting on their character to playing it.
Since these actors have demonstrated that series TV can be a way out of the career doldrums, and since such shows are no longer regarded with contempt, it's become easier for actors to shift from one medium to the other.
