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WORKSHOPS

I teach multi-week classes, weekend intensives, and offer coaching for individuals and groups. My clown workshops in Denver often fill up quickly, so sign up soon to get a spot. Each class pulls from different pedagogies, and I enjoy blending several styles and disciplines together.

Here’s a few things I’m offering soon and things I usually teach!

Clown

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Improv

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Characters

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Physicality

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Theatre Fundamentals

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Clown ✳︎ Improv ✳︎ Characters ✳︎ Physicality ✳︎ Theatre Fundamentals ✳︎

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Clown

Physical Poetry, Presence, & Play

This class will introduce Clown through both physical and emotional exercises to allow actors to become more present, and how to use their playfulness as a stage tool to invite audiences in. Tune in to the audience, and find how playing your own vulnerability becomes the funniest thing.

Making Failure Funny

This class focuses on taking bold risks to find and deconstruct our instincts on stage: what do we do when the audience doesn’t like us? How do we win them back? We will fail big, fail small, fail messily, and fail like there’s no tomorrow to discover that failure is not the end, but a beautiful beginning.

Two women wearing clown noses and Muppet-like glasses on stage, laughing and looking at each other, with black curtains in the background.

Red Nose Clown

The red nose is the “smallest mask in the world” (Jacques Lecoq). Rooted in physical theater technique and mask work, this version of clown heightens the actor’s naivete to discover the unique shape, rhythms, of your Clown.

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Bouffon

Mocking, Flocking, and Games

Dive into the world of satire and mockery! We will work with finding play through children's games, group devising, flocking, the perspective of the Bouffon, creating grotesque characters, and more.

Devising Material Through Ensemble

Now that you’ve got the basics down, let’s create. Build on ensemble devising technique to simultaneously flip between performer, writer, and director. Learn how to use worldly and political topics in ways that provoke audiences.

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character

Creating Dynamic Characters

There are characters inside you! Ah! Don’t worry—learn how to access the wide array of characters through body, voice, and movement to expand what you bring to the stage. For all kinds of performers, but especially improvisers looking to be more dynamic with character work on stage.

If you're interested in working with me, send a message! I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.