Completely Ridiculous Classes and Workshops

Completely Ridiculous
Classes and Workshops!

Upcoming Classes

Now Sing it the Funny Way! a Master Class with Anne Tofflemire

Saturday, March 13th from 1-4pm EST on Zoom.
$195
Open to 6 students.

The path to comedy in song is through the truth of the circumstances, the stakes of the moment, and the playful risk-taking of the actor. In this masterclass, Anne Tofflemire, who teaches singing at the Yale School of Drama, will encourage each student to change with the changes, connecting to their appetite for character, their innate musicality, and the power of the lyrics. Find freedom and play within musical structure and unleash your funny bone. This class includes a group warm-up and individual coaching sessions that will leave you more confident in your singing and comedic ability.

Anne Tofflemire (she/her/hers) was raised in Northern California, where she starred in the long running San Francisco productions of Side by Side by Sondheim and Rap Master Ronnie; there she was discovered by the Academy Award winning lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom she toured nationally and internationally in his Sammy Cahn: Words and Music. Her other theater credits include Peter Pan opposite Cathy Rigby, Maria in West Side Story, A Little Night Music, and Mama Rose in Gypsy. A winner of the Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist, Anne has appeared in New York at Birdland, Firebird Café, Delmonico’s, the Cabaret Convention at Town Hall, and Eighty Eights, at the Plush Room in San Francisco, and at the Gardenia in Los Angeles. Her CD, Let’s Face the Music, was released by Harbinger Records. She teaches at the National Theater Institute, Neighborhood Music School, and Yale School of Drama as well as privately.

Wellness Practice with Annie Piper

Fridays from 11am-12pm, EST on Zoom.
4 class bundle for $90
8 class bundle for $170
12 class bundle for $245
Drop in $25
*Please email us if you require financial assistance. Our goal is to make this practice accessible to everyone.

A qigong and yoga based movement practice that helps each individual to unpack habituated patterns of tension. Cathartic, compassionate and immediate, this practice will put you into a flow state, down-regulate your nervous system, quiet your mind and open your heart.

Annie Piper (she/her/hers) teaches at Kula Yoga in Tribeca, The Shala and Prema Yoga in Brooklyn. She is on the movement faculty at NYU's Tisch School of Graduate Acting and The Yale School of Drama. She is the co- teacher of 'The Open Voice' with Jessie Austrian at NYU's Gallatin School. She is certified to teach trauma-sensitive yoga by both the Trauma Center in Boston and with the national organization Warriors at Ease, and continues to bring yoga to veterans throughout NYC. She has served on the faculty at the Brown University / Trinity Rep Consortium as well as undergraduate Theater Studies at NYU. Formerly an actor and director, She received an MFA in Acting from The University of Minnesota and a BA in Theater from Oberlin College. She certified to teach in 1997 at OM yoga, and studies Qi Gong with Thomas Droge.

Upcoming Workshops

The Language of the Body with Ato Blankson-Wood

Thursday nights from 6-9pm EST, starting March 4th on Zoom.
6 weeks. $445.
Open to 8 students.

Using the work of Jerzy Grotowski as a launching pad, this class will provide an opportunity to move with and through whatever is going on for you in this ongoing moment of upheaval. Based in mindfulness practice we’ll explore how emotions and experiences live in the body and investigate how they can be released via physical forms and language.

Ato Blankson-Wood (he/him/his) is an actor, theatre-maker, and educator based in Los Angeles.

Broadway: Slave Play (Tony Award nomination), Hair and Lysistrata Jones. Off-Broadway: The Rolling Stone at Lincoln Center Theater (Drama League Award nomination), Slave Play at NYTW (Lortel Award nomination), The Total Bent at The Public (Drama League and Lortel Award nominations), The Public Works’ Twelfth Night and As You Like It, Transfers at MCC, Antigone in Ferguson at the Harlem Stage, The Foundry Theatre’s O, Earth, and Iphigenia in Aulis at ‪CSC. Film/TV: Worth, BlacKkKlansman, ‪The Kindergarten Teacher, Detroit, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, “When They See Us” (Netflix), “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon), “She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix), and “The Good Fight” (CBS).

Ato is on the faculty of the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, a member of The Actors Center, and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama.

Scenes from BIPOC Playwrights with Zenzi Williams

Wednesday nights from 5-8pm, EST starting in May on Zoom.
6 weeks. $445.
Open to 12 students.

In this class, we will take a deep dive into the work of BIPOC playwrights who have paved the way, as well as those who are currently making their mark in our community. We will explore this work with a sense play, and openness and most importantly gratitude. You will leave this course with new techniques in pursuing your objective, playing to win while daring to fail big - as well as tips on self-taping in order to prepare you for the future of our industry.

Zenzi Williams (she/her/hers) received her MFA from Yale School of Drama, has a BA in theater from Temple University and studied at the British American Dramatic Academy at Oxford.

Zenzi is currently a Course Facilitator in Executive Presence at Cornell University and owns Zen Taping Space, a self taping business for actors in New York City.

Her credits include Broadway: The Crucible. Off-Broadway: runboyrun (NYTW), Lockdown (Rattlestick), School Girls (MCC Theater), Henry V (The Public), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company), Mother Courage and Her Children (Classic Stage Company). Regional: Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Repertory Theatre). Film&TV: “Chicago Fire,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Fight,” “The Defenders,” “Daredevil,” “Black Panther,” "The Mess He Made".

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