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FALL TRAINING
2025
DYNAMIC ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL PROJECT with Ben Steinfeld
SHAKESPEARE with Devin E. Haqq
CLOWN, PLAY, AND DEVISING with Andy Grotelueschen
Training with Fiasco Theater is back this fall!
Take 1 Class or all 3!
with Ben Steinfeld
Sep 8 - Nov 24 (11 Weeks)
*Oct 13 is off
Mondays 6-9pm
$1000
with Devin E. Haqq
WEDNESDAYS
LEVEL ONE
FIASCO FUNDAMENTALS
Sep 10 - Oct 8 (5 Weeks)
Wednesdays 6-9pm
$450
LEVEL TWO
ADVANCED SCENE STUDY
Oct 15 - Nov 19 (6 Weeks)
Thursdays 6-9pm
$550
with Andy Grotelueschen
LEVEL ONE
Sep 11 - Oct 9 (5 Weeks)
Thursdays 6-9pm
$450
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 & DYNAMIC ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL PROJECT:
These classes are open to students who have previously trained with Fiasco Theater.
To request registration for LEVEL TWO or DYNAMIC ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL PROJECT, please email classes@fiascotheater.com.
The deadline to apply for all classes is AUGUST 15TH.
PRICING
Level One (5 weeks), $450.
Level Two (6 Weeks) $550.
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 $900 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!!)
DYNAMIC ENSEMBLE
REHEARSAL PROJECT
Taught by Fiasco Co-Artistic Director
& Conservatory Faculty member
Ben Steinfeld
This 11-week class will allow advanced students to apply their understanding of Fiasco’s dynamic ensemble rehearsal to a single project. From table work to full staging, this ensemble experience will be oriented around a culminating presentation of selections from one play or curated texts.
Prior training with Fiasco Theater is required.
To request registration, please email classes@fiascotheater.com.
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DYNAMIC ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL
Sep 8 - Nov 27 (10 Weeks)
*Oct 13 is off
Mondays 6-9pm
$950Maximum 12 students
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 10 - Oct 8 (Wednesdays)
6-9pm
5 weeks | $450
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 15 - Nov 19 (Wednesdays)
6-9pm
6 weeks | $550This 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
CLOWN AND PLAY
Taught by Fiasco Conservatory Faculty member
Andy Grotelueschen
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 and Play
Sep 11 - Oct 9 (Thursdays)
6-9pm5 weeks | $450
Yahoy the Fiasco!
Come for the Triumphs, stay for the Disasters! Learn how to cook the Funny with all your wonderful, stupid, innocent, pleasure-seeking, fun-loving, cry-baby, vulnerable dumb ideas about big C Comedy! Release your foolish body parts and smack your joy and despair around most vigorously gentle!
This is an Introduction to Clown and Play. Appropriate for newbies and oldies alike! Focus is on discovering what's funny about YOU and about US. We play games, we sing songs, we might hit each other a little, we laugh. It's joy and wonder and surfing the moment. Come on over, it's a lovely time!Maximum 20 students
Meet Your Teachers
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Devin E. Haqq
SHAKESPEARE
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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Andy Grotelueschen
CLOWN, DEVISING, AND PLAY
Andy Grotelueschen (he/him) is a Fiasco Theater company member. For Fiasco: Pericles, Cymbeline/Cloten, Cymbeline, Prince/Stepsister/Milky White, Into the Woods (Lortel nom), the Duke, Measure for Measure, Launce/Duke, Two Gentlemen of Verona (St. Clair Bayfield Award), Argan, Imaginary Invalid, Toby Belch, Twelfth Night; Broadway: Tootsie: the Musical (Tony nomination), Cyrano de Bergerac; Off-Broadway: Assassins (CSC), Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb), Taming of the Shrew (TFANA), The Odyssey (Public Works/Delacorte), Monstrosity (13P); Regional: Willamstown, McCarter, The Guthrie, Old Globe, Trinity Rep, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Folger, Shakespeare DC, American Repertory Theater. TV: The Gilded Age, Lincoln Rhyme:Hunt for the Bone Collector, Elementary, The Good Wife, The Good Cop, The Knick. Film: Musica, Here Today, Coin Heist, Geezer, Still on the Road, Tumorhead.
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Ben Steinfeld
DYNMAIC ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL PROJECT
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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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