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FALL TRAINING
2024
SHAKESPEARE: SCENE STUDY with Ben Steinfeld
CLOWN, PLAY, AND DEVISING with Zachary Fine
MODERN PLAYS: SCENE STUDY with Devin E. Haqq
Training with Fiasco Theater is back this fall!
Take 1 Class or all 3!
MONDAYS
LEVEL ONE —
FIASCO FUNDAMENTALS
Sep 9 - Oct 7 (5 Weeks)
Mondays 6-9pm
$400
LEVEL TWO —
ADVANCED SCENE STUDY
Oct 21 - Nov 25 (6 Weeks)
Mondays 6-9pm
$500
with Ben Steinfeld
with Zachary Fine
LEVEL ONE
Sep 11 - Oct 9 (5 Weeks)
Wednesdays 6-9pm
$400
LEVEL TWO
Oct 16 - Nov 20 (6 Weeks)
Wednesdays 6-9pm
$500
with Devin E. Haqq
LEVEL ONE —
FIASCO FUNDAMENTALS
Sep 12 - Oct 10 (5 Weeks)
Thursdays 6-9pm
$400
LEVEL TWO —
ADVANCED SCENE STUDY
Oct 17 - Nov 21 (6 Weeks)
Thursdays 6-9pm
$500
All classes will be held at Houghton Hall Arts Community, 22 E. 30th St., NYC
HOW TO APPLY
LEVEL ONE: These classes are open to all.
Please fill out this brief application
for all Level One classes.
LEVEL TWO: These classes are open to students who have previously trained with Fiasco Theater
via FTI, Conservatory,
or LEVEL ONE Fall 2024 classes.
To request registration for LEVEL TWO, please email classes@fiascotheater.com.
If you have not previously trained with Fiasco, but would like permission to enroll in a Level Two class, please email classes@fiascotheater.com.
The deadline to apply for BOTH levels is AUGUST 15TH.
PRICING
Level One (5 weeks), $400.
Level Two (6 Weeks) $500.
If you sign up for MULTIPLE classes, you will receive a discount!
After the first class, every additional class you sign up for costs 10% less!
Example: if you sign up for BOTH levels of a class, it would cost you $850 for 11 weeks of class.
($400 for Level One & $450 for Level Two —
which works out to be $25 per hour of training —
for 33 hours!!)
These two classes will introduce students to Fiasco’s unique approach to unlocking the joy and potential of Shakespeare’s language, giving each actor tools they can use in any context to find meaning, power, and purpose in their relationship to these plays and this playwright.
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Level One: Fiasco Fundamentals
Sep 9 - Oct 7 (Mondays)
6-9pm
5 weeks | $400
Our work in this class will be geared towards introducing all of the major aspects of how Shakespeare’s language operates, and how actors can gain access to the information Shakespeare has embedded in the text that is meant to help, guide, and inspire us. With an emphasis on Fiasco’s modes of ensemble exploration, we will discover how rhythm, sound, sense, and structure reveal essential clues about event, relationship, experience, and pleasure. This class will provide a deep dive into both verse and prose - revealing the key differences between these modes. Students will work on Sonnets and monologues, as well as two-person and group scenes. No previous experience with Shakespeare is necessary; all are welcome.Maximum 12 students
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Level Two: Advanced Scene Study
Oct 21 - Nov 25 (Mondays)
6-9pm
6 weeks | $500This class will give actors who have already studied with Fiasco a chance to continue their journey and take their Shakespeare work to another level. Using two-person and group scenes, each actor in this class will get an opportunity to engage advanced questions related to physical choices, mode shifting, character, voice, interpretation, and world-building. This class is open to those who have taken the Level One Shakespeare class, the Free Training Initiative, completed the 6-week or 9-week Conservatory programs, or with permission from the instructor.
Maximum 12 students
In this two-part series of classes, students will work on the foundations of their unique play and creativity. Exercises will be geared towards expanding your spontaneity and playfulness and widening the scope of your imagination and creativity.
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Level One: Clown, Play, and Devising
Sep 11 - Oct 9 (Wednesdays )
6-9pm5 weeks | $400
The focus of the clowning and playwork in this class is to stretch the muscles of expression, gain confidence and facility with the audience, and discover the world of joy and vitality that the clown offers. We will work in partnerships, trios, and as an ensemble to build the muscles of kinesthetic and psychological/emotional responsiveness to the other. We use the exercises and experiences in each class to form the foundations of our devising work, ultimately helping us discover what we want to make - and then we begin the process of making. You will leave this class with the seed of an idea to develop, if you so choose. This idea may be a solo show, a double-act, or an ensemble-based piece. The goal is to use the clown and play work to guide you toward your unique and exciting idea.
Maximum 14 students
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Level Two: Clown, Play, and Devising
Oct 16 - Nov 20 (Wednesdays)
6-9pm6 weeks | $500
In Clown, Play, and Devising: Level Two we will build off the foundational work we did in the first module to grow and develop your original material. We take the building blocks of clown and play and build routines, short plays, longer plays, scenes, etc. This class is about the process of creation and repetition. We write and we devise on our feet and along the way we discover all the different ways that original material can be created. We focus on building something new and then learning to rehearse and hone the material over time. With permission from the instructor, you do not need to have completed module #1 to take #2. You are welcome to just bring in your original material and workshop it throughout the course.
Maximum 12 students.
These two classes will bring students into a relationship with Fiasco’s unique and transformative approach to rehearsal through working on a wide range of modern and contemporary plays. Actors will learn both introductory and advanced techniques for a robust creative process from table work to fully staged scenes.
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Level One: Fiasco Fundamentals (Modern)
Sep 12 - Oct 10 (Thursdays)
6-9pm5 weeks | $400
This class will introduce actors to the modes of exploration and discovery the Fiasco acting ensemble uses to build its celebrated actor-centered productions. Using group scenes, as well as two-person and solo texts, this class will give actors the tools to allow them to claim their own agency within any process. Through the revelation that any play can be made to happen “at the table”, actors in this class will have the chance to discover how to commit to powerful language, how to make events happen, how to take in the scope of the story, and how to find joy in each step of bringing a play to life. This class is open to all.
Maximum 12 students
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Level Two: Advanced Scene Study (Modern)
Oct 17 - Nov 21 (Thursdays)
6-9pm6 weeks | $500
This class will give actors who have already studied with Fiasco a chance to continue their journey and take their Modern and Contemporary scene work to another level. Using two-person and group scenes, each actor in this class will get an opportunity to engage advanced questions related to physical choices, mode shifting, character, voice, interpretation, and world-building. This class is open to those who have taken the Level One Modern Plays class, the Free Training Initiative, completed the 6-week or 9-week Conservatory programs, or with permission from the instructor.
Maximum 12 students
Meet Your Teachers
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Ben Steinfeld
SHAKESPEARE
Ben Steinfeld (he/him) is an actor, director, teacher, writer, and musician. He is one of Fiasco Theater’s Co-Artistic Directors and founders. For Fiasco: Iachimo/Arviragus/Co-director, Cymbeline; Baker/Co-director, Into the Woods; Lucio/Froth/Co-director, Measure for Measure; Co-director, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Composer and Music Director, Imaginary Invalid: Feste/Co-director, Twelfth Night; Frank, Merrily We Roll Along. Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Cyrano de Bergerac. Off-Broadway: One Thousand Nights and One Day, Bloody Bloody... Regional: Westport, Williamstown, Trinity Rep, McCarter, Old Globe, CTG, Bread Loaf. As a director: Into the Woods national tour, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Folger Theatre. TV/Film: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, Callahan, "Power Book III: Raising Kanan", "The Deuce", "The Good Wife", "Law & Order: Crimimal Intent". Ben is writing the book for the new musical, Diamond Alice (music & lyrics by Alexander Gemignani), and has written book, music and lyrics for an adaptation of the children's book, Twelve Kinds of Ice. Since 2007, Ben has been an adjunct professor and artistic associate at NYU's Gallatin School, where he has twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award and co-directed several productions. Ben lives near a lovely canal in New Jersey with his wife, Kate, and son, Leo.
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Zack Fine
CLOWN, DEVISING, AND PLAY
Zack Fine (he/him) is an actor, director, playwright, and teacher originally from Chicago. As an actor he’s worked on Broadway: China Doll with Al Pacino, Off-Broadway; The Acting Company, Mint Theater Company, Fiasco, Red Bull, TFANA, Pearl, and Bedlam. Regionally; The Alley, Guthrie, McCarter, Folger (Helen Hayes Award), Shakespeare Theater DC, Asolo, Playmakers. TV/FILM; Person of Interest, Blackbox (recurring), New Amsterdam. His work as a writer has been developed by New York Stage and Film, Long Wharf Theatre, Solo Flights Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Public, MCC, Playmakers Rep, The Acting Company, Wheelhouse, Bedlam, Fiasco, Spymonkey, The Guthrie, and Space On Ryder Farm. His play Bewilderness was a Steinberg/Best New American Play nominee. As a teacher, he has held faculty positions at UNC Chapel Hill and NYU is a founding member of the Fiasco Conservatory and holds workshops around the world.
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Devin E. Haqq
MODERN PLAYS
Devin E. Haqq (he/him) is a Brooklyn based theatre artist, arts educator, and award-winning filmmaker. He has performed both Off-Broadway and regionally and his films have screened at numerous film festivals around the world. Devin has directed workshops and staffed as an associate director on productions for such organizations as The Public Theatre, The Folger, Shakespeare’s Globe, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Fiasco, and the National Black Theatre. Regional Theatre: Fiasco Theater's Measure for Measure at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, As You Like It at Arden Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: Fiasco's Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Winning Side (World Premiere), Richard III and Macbeth at Epic Theatre Ensemble; Knives in Hens at 59E59 Theaters (NYT Critic's Pick); Much Ado About Nothing at NYSX; All God's Chillun' Got Wings at JACK. Directing Credits: Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Folger Theatre (associate director), Shakespeare: Call & Response at The Public Theatre (assistant director), Pass Over at Luna Stage Company, The Mark (Best Narrative Short 2021 Atlanta Shortsfest), Ambition’s Debt (Best Narrative Feature at 2017 American Black Film Festival), The Assassin. Additional Credits: M.F.A. from University of Alabama. Devin is a 2022 NY Emmy Award nominee, a recipient of the Paul Robeson Award-Honorable Mention at the 2018 Newark Black Film Festival. He was also nominated for Best Director at the 2017 American Black Film Festival and the 2018 Winter Film Awards.
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Please fill out this form to register.
If accepted, we will reach out with next steps to finalize your registration and pay for class.Please note: your spot is not confirmed Fiasco Theater has received a $100 deposit.
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Students who have previously studied with Fiasco Theater in FTI or Conservatory are eligible for Level Two offerings.
To request registration, please email classes@fiascotheater.com. Admission into the course will on a rolling basis.
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We can accept payment in many forms!
Once accepted, you’ll receive an invoice from Fiasco Theater’s Managing Producer B.J. Evans with instructions on how to pay. -
As many as you’d like! In your application, you can select as many classes as you'd like to take.
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When you receive your invoice from us, we will apply the discount. Once you pay full-price for your first class, you'll receive a 10% discount for each additional class you sign up for.
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At this time, we are unable to offer financial aid for these courses.
However, we do offer payment plans and will work with you to customize a payment plan that fits your situation.
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If we reach capacity, you will be added to the waitlist and notified as soon as a spot becomes available.
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All classes are non-refundable.
However, if we are able to fill your spot in the class from the Waitist, we will issue you a refund, minus any fees for processing payment.
Still have questions?
Email us at classes@fiascotheater.com