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Completely Ridiculous 
​Independent Classes!


In addition to the Completely Ridiculous Conservatory, we are offering a series of
​Independent Evening Classes!
These classes are open to Completely Ridiculous Alumni, or anyone with the teacher's permission.
​*Email completelyridiculousprod@gmail.com with any questions you might have *

GETTING UN-LOST, with Kareem M. Lucas

Sunday nights from 6-9pm EDT, starting September 20th.
6 weeks. $265.
​Open to 6 students.
Just because the theater industry is at a standstill doesn’t mean you have to be. This is the perfect time to reassess your life and career, identify new goals, and design an exciting plan that will take you to your next level. In weekly individual coaching sessions, you will be empowered to take control and massive action toward what you really want, while also providing accountability along the way. And, if you have no idea what you want, then we will dig into that! This class is open to all ages and all levels of experience. You just need to be ready to put in the work that is specific to you and your goals. Being lost doesn’t have to be scary. It can be a wonderful opportunity to discover a new place that you’ve never been before, and who knows, that big personal breakthrough may be closer than you think! By the end of the class, you and Kareem will have created a map and built a compass, so that if you ever get lost again you'll have a strong set of resources and tools to get yourself un-lost. 
Kareem M. Lucas is a Brooklyn-born and Harlem-based Actor/Writer/Producer/Director/Educator. His solo pieces include The Maturation of an Inconvenient Negro (or iNEGRO), From Brooklyn With Love, RATED BLACK: An American Requiem, A Boy & His Bow, A Warm Winter, and Black Is Beautiful, But It Ain’t Always Pretty. He has performed his solo work at The Greene Space, Aaron Davis Hall at City College, The Town Hall, Fire This Time Festival, IRT Theater, The Slipper Room, Teatro Circulo, Judson Arts Wednesdays, Hi-ARTS, AFO Theater, JACK, HERE Arts Center, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, among others. His show “Black Is Beautiful, But It Ain’t Always Pretty” will have it’s World Premiere at The Woolly Mammoth Theatre in their upcoming 2020-2021 season. He is an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a NYTW 2050 Playwriting Fellow. He has taught at the NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, 52nd Street Project, among others; in addition to coaching privately for the last 10 years. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program. For more info you can visit www.KareemMLucas.com or follow him on Instagram @KareemMLucas

MAKE S#!T, with Kate Owens

Monday nights from 7-9.30pm EDT, starting September 21st.
6 weeks. $225
Open to 12 students.
Do you have a funny bit, a weird character, or a silly sketch you want to flesh out? Let’s take your idea and turn it into something so hilarious that by the end of our six weeks together, you’ll be proud to share it with an audience! Whether it be a live show that you present to a socially distanced audience in the park, a quick and professionally shot video for your social media network, or a hilarious new character that you film for a comedy submission, Kate will empower your crazy ideas and give you the tools to create comedic material on your own with a sense of confidence and joy.
Kate Owens is a NYC-based, award-winning comedy actor, writer, and clown known for her commitment to characters and physical comedy style. She can be seen performing her critically-acclaimed character show, “Cooking with Kathryn,” throughout New York (UCB, The PIT, The Tank) as well as the PortFringe Festival (Critics Choice), the FRIGID Festival (Best Physical Comedy, Audience Choice). She has toured comedy shows in the U.K., Prague, and is a professionally trained clown (Cirque du Soleil databank, Ecole Philippe Gaulier). She has taught acting and clown at the Hudson Valley Conservatory and Improvisation and Shakespeare at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
www.kate-owens.com
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BIPOC PLAYS OF 2018-2019: A SCENE STUDY CLASS, with Paul Pryce

Tuesday nights from 7-9.30pm, EDT starting September 22nd
​6 weeks. $295.
Open to 12 students.
This Scene Study class will explore some of the best in theatre from Black n' Brown writers and other writers of color, focusing on plays produced in the 2018-2019 season. We will use these plays to apply best practices in acting while also using them as an entry point to discuss and confront issues of race, anti-blackness and socio-political justice. All actors regardless of race and ethnicity will have the wonderful opportunity to delve into these characters and the worlds of these stories. Some of the plays we will be exploring are: Slave Play, Fairview, Cambodian Rock Band, Ain't No Mo and others.
Paul is on the MFA Acting faculty at Brooklyn College and he is the Director of the Hagen Core Training and the Hagen Summer Intensive. Has taught master classes and workshops at Yale, NYU Tisch, M.I.T. Music & Theatre, Amherst College, New York Film Academy as well as universities and acting studios in Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and South Korea. He is a proud member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers and The Actors Center. He earned an M.F.A in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. As an actor he appeared on recent television shows like Marvel’s Jessica Jones on Netflix, Unforgettable on A+E and on stage playing iconic roles in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Pericles among others. He has performed in numerous plays across the United States and internationally. As writer and producer, Paul’s debut film COME OUT, COME OUT World Premiered at 2017 Cannes Short Film Corner and his sophomore project THE DELIVERER has screened at multiple film festivals around the world. His original television series SERPENTS MOUTH won Best Pitch and the Audience Award at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Paul was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago.

GAMES, with Christopher Tramantana

Wednesday nights from 7-10pm EDT, starting September 23rd. 
6 weeks. $245.
Open to 12 students.
Beginning with the theory that enthusiasm and curiosity are the seeds of creation, this class will investigate how each individual’s unique relationship to play informs the act of collaboration.  Led by the curiosities of the ensemble, we will play, develop, and create games.  Working in small groups to make fun scenes, students will be encouraged to courageously start making a mess right away.  Then together we will use games and a playful spirit to explore how some beautiful and hysterical poetry might develop from that mess. 
Tramantana is an actor, director, and educator. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, he has acted professionally in theatre, film, and television.  He teaches Clown, Games, and Play at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Westminster Choir College at Rider University. He has also taught at The Graduate Acting Program at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, The Funny School of Good Acting, The John DeSotelle Studio in NYC, Queensborough Community College, and more. Some of the masters he has studied with include Jane Nichols, Aitor Basauri, and Jim Calder; head of Movement for The NYU Tisch graduate acting program. But the most life changing experience occurred when he met Christopher Bayes; master teacher of Clown and head of Physical Acting at Yale School of Drama. He trained in Clown and Commedia d’ell Arte extensively with Bayes at The Funny School of Good Acting, before being personally invited to work with him as his teaching apprentice. Tramantana assisted Bayes at Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, and The Funny School of Good Acting, and is one of a small number of teachers Bayes has mentored. Directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Metamorphoses, Our Town, You Can’t Take It With You, Antigone, Sweeney Todd, and Into The Woods. Christopher holds a BA in Performance from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and an MFA in Acting from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  ​
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