Clown and Move Around

Spend a few days with some Master Teachers from The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale (formerly The Yale School of Drama)!

Work with Christopher Bayes (Clown and what not), Erica Fae (Soft Flow, or Can You Feel Your Toenails Growing?) and Annie Piper (Body, Breath, Heart: Energy Practice for Actors) over October 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th at NACL.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided onsite every day, including dinner on the evening of the 6th. Accommodation options include single or shared rooms at NACL, or local housing. If you are local or would prefer to find local housing and/or your own accommodations outside of NACL, tuition covers food class fees only.

Schedule:

Friday: Arrival and welcome dinner

Saturday & Sunday: Breakfast at 8am, Classes 9am-6pm, with an hour-long lunch break and dinner at 7pm

Monday: Breakfast, morning classes, and departure

​Tuition Options:

Private room, Meals and Classes: $1000

Shared room, Meals and Classes: $875

Meals and Classes. No Housing: $700

Workshop Leaders

Christopher Bayes (Founder of The Pandemonium Studio) began his theater career with the internationally acclaimed Theatre de la Jeune Lune where he worked for five years as an actor, director, composer, designer and artistic associate. In 1989 he joined the acting company of the Guthrie Theater where he appeared in over twenty productions. His roles included Caliban inThe Tempest, Edgar in King Lear, The Herald in Marat/Sade and Harlequin in Triumph of Love. In 1993, commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming based on Heinrich Boll’s novel The Clown.

Erica Fae is a theatre/filmmaker, actor, and teacher at The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her first feature film as writer/director/producer/actor, To Keep the Light, was awarded the Fipresci Prize (International Critics’ Prize/Mannheim), Best Director (Berlin Indepedent Film Festival), Best of Show (Bendfilm), Best Emerging Director, two Best Narrative Feature Awards, and two Best Cinematography Awards at festivals, and is currently available on Amazon Prime.

Annie Piper 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 the New York area.