Jump into your body. Open like a little flower. Rediscover your playful spirit, as well as the simple pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance.In this weekend workshop, we pursue the clown together in all of its messy and hilarious beauty. Take bold risks full of audacity; make a big noise; sing your little heart out! We'll welcome the newbies and provoke the old timers simultaneously, with exercises tailored to the folks in the room. Let’s find out what is funny about you!
Saturday, September 13 and Sunday September 14 From 12pm-5pm
in the Skunk Room
About the Instructor:
Annelise Lawson is an actress, director, and co-founder of Christopher Bayes' The Pandemonium Studio. After first studying with Christopher Bayes at the Yale School of Drama, she’s since collaborated with him both in the rehearsal room and out – training with him as a teacher’s apprentice and going on to become a founding member and teacher of The Pandemonium Studio.
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.
Outside of The Pandemonium Studio, Annelise teaches the Étude method at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Annelise has previously taught at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New Studio), American Conservatory Theater, The Yale Summer Conservatory, Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, the Stella Adler Conservatory, and the international LungA Arts Festival in Iceland.
As an actress and maker of collaborative theater, her recent credits include The Postmaster The Inspector (Yale Rep), Helena in Midsummer (Edinburgh Fringe), How to Live on Earth (Director, Yale), One Servant, Two Guvnors (Physical Comedy Coordinator, Weathervane Theatre), Masha in Three Sisters (Two River Theater), Anna in Babes in the Woods (world premier, Signature Theater), and Masha in Dmitry Krymov’s √3 Sisters (International Festival of Arts & Ideas).
She holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama, and certificates in Acting from American Conservatory Theater, the British American Drama Academy, iO Chicago, and the Moscow Art Theater.
Class cancellation policy: Class tuition can be refunded or transfered up to two weeks (14 days) before the first day of class. Within 14 days before the class begins, no refunds or transfers. Booking fees are non-refundable.