Workshops for performing artists
with free, onsite, arts-based childcare

About Play|Ground 

Adults deserve the opportunity to play as much as children, and play is integral to our growth and sustenance as humans! We know how difficult it can be, especially for caregivers, to find the time and resources to prioritize play as part of an artistic practice. Enter Play|Ground! Taught by members of Fiasco’s Faculty, Play|Ground workshops will be rooted in play, embodied practice, and community.

Free childcare is available (with advance sign up) for children ages 3 months to 12 years, facilitated by Broadway Babysitters. Each workshop will include refreshments, a community gathering, and resources from the Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL).

This workshop series will center artists who are caregivers of all kinds, but registration is open to all!

Play|Ground
May & June 2024

  • Your Freedom to Be: Discovering Truth through Breath

    Saturday, May 4
    Childcare drop-off starts at 10:30 AM

    It takes practice and courage to allow oneself to exist truthfully under imaginary circumstances. We must first get out of our own way and allow our impulses to shine bright. That means inhaling the given circumstances of the world and allowing your response to ride on the exhale. In this workshop, we’ll move through a series of exercises designed to bring awareness to the breath and begin the journey of releasing unhelpful habits that intrude upon our personal and artistic lives. We will learn how breathing is not only necessary but required to exist truthfully on stage, screen, and everywhere in between.

    Instructor: Kristin Fulton

    Location: BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange (421 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn)

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  • Your Body Moves in Marvelous Ways: A Movement Experience and Generative Workshop

    Sunday, May 19

    Let's explore the limitless potential for expression through each unique body, together! Through guided physical explorations and games, we'll discover a full range of movement and how we can let the body be our guide in expressing ourselves, creating delightful chaos, and telling stories together! Come in comfy clothes and ready to move.

    Instructor: Navarra Novy-Williams

    Location: A.R.T./NY (520 Eighth Ave, Manhattan)

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  • Your Bounty is as Boundless as the Sea: A Shakespeare Monologue Workshop

    Saturday, June 1

    Bring what you got, it’s enough. In this 90 minute workshop we will explore tools for bringing all of your authentic self to Shakespeare’s text, efficiently and joyfully. We’ll explore how the practice of embodied communication becomes a generative cycle for both artist and audience. This workshop will offer you tools for investigation, reinvestigation and spark joy in curiosity. Don’t be ready, don’t be prepared; come curious and prove to yourself you already have everything you need.

    Instructor: Jessie Austrian

    Location: Houghton Hall Arts Commons (22 East 30th Street, Manhattan)

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Your Freedom to Be:
Discovering Truth through Breath

Saturday, May 4

Your Body Moves in Marvelous Ways: A Movement Experience and Generative Workshop

Sunday, May 19

Your Bounty is as Boundless as the Sea: A Shakespeare Monologue Workshop

Saturday, June 1

Each Play|Ground Workshop will include: 

  • 10:30-11:00am Arrival & Childcare Drop Off

  • 11:00-12:30pm Workshop for Adults / Childcare with Broadway Babysitters 

  • 12:30-1:00pm Community Gathering (light refreshments provided) 

  • 1:00-1:30pm Childcare Pick Up

Registration

Registration will take place via EventBrite. As part of registration, please indicate if you have children who will be attending with you and you will receive a separate link to register your children for the free childcare. As part of our commitment to accessibility for this program, which has been subsidized in part by DCLA, participants will get to choose from the following registration options:  

  • Registration - $45 per adult (includes free onsite childcare if needed)

  • Pay-It-Forward Registration - $75 per adult (includes free onsite childcare if needed)

  • Need-Based Discounted Registration - $5-25 per adult (includes free onsite childcare if needed)

FAQs

  • Description text goes hereAs part of our commitment to accessibility, participants can choose from the following registration options. All options include free childcare! Pay It Forward Registration: $75 per adult; General Registration: $45 per adult; Need Based Discounted Registration by Donation: Suggested $5-25 per adult

  • FREE onsite childcare is included with your registration for children ages 3 months to 12 years. Once you the adult register, you will be sent a link to fill out a waiver through Broadway Babysitters. Childcare spots are not confirmed until this waiver is sent in and you receive a confirmation.

  • The Broadway Babysitters are professional, CPR certified, covid-Boosted babysitters who will care for children during the adult workshop. During the child care time a Broadway Babysitters teaching artist will facilitate an arts workshop for the kids as well!

  • Email Ashley Thaxton-Stevenson, Fiasco's Community Engagement Coordinator! ashley@fiascotheater.com