FALL WORKSHOPS
All workshops will take place in Washington Heights off the 181st A and 1 train stops. The exact address will be shared with participants in an email one week before each workshop.
A Clown Gym Workshop
Tuesdays September 8th, October 13th, and November 10th. $35.
Reunite with old friends and make new ones in a classic Clown Gym workshop! We’ll warm up, play games, collaborate in small groups and have solo time in front of an audience.
All experience levels are welcome in this two-hour workshop. You’ll be encouraged, challenged, and have fun. Wear movement clothes, because we get sweaty.
Registration opens for each Tuesday night workshop the day after the previous one takes place. Grab your spot now for the September 8th workshop. Registration for October 13th will open on September 9th, and November 10th will open on October 14th.
Gender Games: the intersection of Clown and Drag with Ania Upstill
Saturday October 24th from 10am-5pm, with a one-hour lunch break.
Join award-winning clown and drag performer Ania Upstill to learn tools and techniques to explore gender in performance. Bringing their own insights from devising clown work about gender, and from performing as a drag king, Ania will use the tools of drag to expand your expressive palette, and the tools of clown to enhance audience connection and to play expansively in the realm of gender. Through games and exercises you will learn how to create colorful, exaggerated characters; how to explore and poke fun at stereotypes and archetypes; and how to connect, and play, with your audience.
Ru Paul famously said, “we’re all born naked, and the rest is drag”: let’s add to your wardrobe!
Ania Upstill (they/them) is an award-winning clown, educator, and theatre maker. Ania trained in the Le Coq physical theater and clown tradition at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater and holds a Masters degree in Applied Theater from the City University of New York. Ania teaches Clown at Montclair University, Gender Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and works as a Teaching Artist at a range of theaters in New York City, including at Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop and New Victory Theater. Ania has toured and taught internationally, including in New Zealand and Australia, Sri Lanka, with Clowns without Borders in Palestine, and to London and Edinburgh. As an artist, Ania has performed at venues including Lincoln Center, BAM and the previously named Kennedy Center.
The Joy of Clowning: an introductory red nose workshop with Julia Proctor
Sunday November 15th from 12-5pm
Jump into your joy with Julia Proctor by exploring the red nose, the smallest mask in the world. Uncover your authentic self and share more of the messy, joyful, courageous and funny parts of your artistry with an audience.
Through a series of games and group and solo exercises, we aim to give joy and pleasure more value in your work, match the scale of your physical, emotional and imaginative impulses to intention, play with less stress and self-criticism, befriend the audience, and surprise yourself as a performer.
This introductory workshop is great for folks who want to learn new skills, connect to their bodies, laugh a lot, shake out some big feelings and share all of that with an audience.
Julia Proctor (she/her) is a theatre maker, educator, community builder, mother, and a widely respected Theatrical Clown specialist who has taught, devised, performed, directed, produced, coached, and mentored in the field. She is the Founding Director of Clown Gym and a Co-Founding Producer of PhysFestNYC. With the Clown Gym Ensemble she has devised three original plays and directed two. Her training includes Middlebury College (BA), Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy (MFA), Ecole Philippe Gaulier, The PIT, and a pedagogical apprenticeship with Christopher Bayes. Julia is a member of Actors Equity and has performed at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Synetic Theatre, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, among others. Julia is on faculty at NYU Tisch Drama and Collaborative Arts specializing in Games, Clown, Shakespeare, and Devising. She was Beanie Feldstein’s personal Clown Coach for the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.
Winter workshops will be announced later this year.
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You must be 18 years or older to attend a Clown Gym workshop.
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