Completely Ridiculous Winter Workshops

Completely Ridiculous
Winter Workshops!

In addition to the Completely Ridiculous Conservatory, we are offering a series of
Winter Workshops!

$25 off for each additional class you sign up for.
Scholarships available!
All classes are taking place over Zoom.
MORE WORKSHOPS COMING SOON!
*Email completelyridiculousprod@gmail.com with any questions you might have *

Russian Études with Annelise Lawson

Tuesday nights from 6-8pm EST, starting February 2nd.
6 weeks. $295.
Open to 12 students.

Études are a rehearsal tool developed from Stanislavski’s final experiments. This course seeks to foster a dynamic interaction between actor and text. Through a series of exploratory improvisations called études, actors unpack and personalize the given circumstances — following their own impulses to achieve profound and thrillingly original interpretations. The course focuses on how to activate “bookwork” through imagination, awareness, and sense of spontaneous play. The method gives students practical tools to pull even the most intimidating texts off their pedestals and make them their own. Students will gain confidence in the legitimacy of their own impulses, having followed their interpretations of text and character to the furthest possible point.

Annelise Lawson (she/her/hers) is a New York-based actress and theatre-maker. Recent credits include Anna in Babes in the Woods (world premier, Signature Theater), Edmund in King Lear (Here Arts Center), Helena in MIDSUMMER (The Araca Project), and Masha in Dmitry Krymov’s √3 Sisters (International Festival of Arts & Ideas). Other theatre credits include Arcadia (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Last Act (world premier, Israeli Stage); I Should Have a Party for the Thoughts I Didn’t Say (Source Material Collective); The Oresteia, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Troublesome Reign of King John, The Tempest, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Yale School of Drama); Middletown (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Secretaries, (Yale Cabaret); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio). Film: Close-Up (NY Indie Theater Film Festival Winner). Annelise holds certificates in acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School & the British American Drama Academy, and is a graduate of the iO training program in Chicago. As a teacher, Annelise’s work focuses on developing technique and style through students’ personal sense of fun. Her areas of expertise include Clown, Commedia dell’arte, and the Russian Étude method – an improvisatorial rehearsal tool designed unleash an actor’s imagination into the world of the text. She teaches Chekhov at the Yale School of Drama, The New School for Drama, and the Stella Adler Studio. She has also taught at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, The Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, and The Pandemonium Studio.

Comedians Make the Best Actors with Ralf Jean-Pierre

Sunday nights from 6-8pm, EDT starting February 7th.
6 weeks. $295.
Open to 10 students.

This workshop is designed to demonstrate to comedians of all kinds how their wayward point-of-view can help make them uniquely dynamic as actors. The workshop will also demonstrate to acting students how cultivating a comedy skill-set adds delight and ease to their process, and provides a pathway to more personal and electric performances in all genres and mediums.

While this class is geared towards comics who are auditioning; working on a specific project; getting into writing for the screen or stage; or simply want to become all-around bolder, more sensitive and dynamic performers - all are welcome.

Ralf Jean-Pierre (he/him/his) is a first generation Haitian-American performance-artist born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He earned a BFA in Performing Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and is currently teaching Clown at Brooklyn College

Ralf completed the improv program at People’s Improv Theater, studying with teachers like Chris Griggs and Ali Farahnakian, the legendary Centralia. He also apprenticed for two years with world-renowned master clown, Eric Davis, and studied clown with Christopher Bayes and Virginia Scott, formerly of The Funny School of Good Acting.

Ralf spent most of 2012 riding his bicycle around the United States performing his solo repertoire of Street Shakespeare scenes in which he played all the characters. The show was developed with his collaborator Jolie Tong. In 2017 Ralf debuted a one-man show, called WHAT SHOULD BE THE FEAR, that chronicled this tour, co-written and directed by Jolie, and produced by Ralf and BK Wildlife.

Ralf has also performs music as Precious Gorgeous. He is part of a NY based artists’ collective known as the #BlackGodPantheon. In 2019-2020 he released three albums, Tryna Get My Live Together, Everyone Dies From a Bullet vol 1, and TRIP, all of which Ralf wrote and produced.

Ralf has most recently sat in with acclaimed NYC hip-hop improv teams OffTop and North Coast as a featured player, and coached PIT house-team, At the Diner.
www.preciousgorgeousralf.com

MORE WORKSHOPS COMING SOON!

Email completelyridiculousprod@gmail.com for more information