This weekend will help you seduce your personal muse so that they may be readily available as you enter into the creative process hand in hand. We will work to devise clown and comedic material for the stage all the while exploring what individually inspires us to create and play. This workshop is for folks who are ready to face their fears, to learn what they're made of and how to put their dreams and sense of humor on stage in a bigger way.
CLASS:
Saturday 11/11 from 10 AM - 3 PM
Sunday 11/12 from 10 AM - 3 PM
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Gemma Soldati is an American performing and teaching artist. Her most recent touring show was the Award Winning The Living Room--a devised clown show with Amrita Dhaliwal. She has taught in Los Angeles, New England, and Toronto for both adults and children.
Gemma’s focus is clown inspired work developed in front of live audiences. Her projects playfully dive deep into the heart of vital themes probing audiences with questions and meaning making - Grief, Ritual, Sleep, Dreams, and beyond. Her current project, The Adventures of Sleepyhead, a family show about the loss of one’s dreams, was developed at the New Hampshire Theatre Project and presented digitally at the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Assembly. Sleepyhead has also been adapted as a short video series for NHPBS with support from the New Hampshire Humanities.
She was an artist in Residence at Het Domijn artist Cooperative in Weesp, Netherlands for the Fall of 2021 where she developed her new show The Poor Rich.
Gemma was an ensemble member of The Murge, which LA Weekly described as, "Spontaneous Theater of the absurd...Lascivious, blasphemous and potentially dangerous." Additionally, she was ensemble and co-deviser in The Invention of Language and The Simple Simples —featured in The Neo-Futurists Kitchen Festival in 2016.
She has devised and produced several shows in Los Angeles including, The Cobbler, The Sleepover Show, The Living Room and Amateur Burlesque—featured in Comedy Bureau’s 2018 “100 Best Things in Comedy"
Gemma has studied with Betty Grumble, Paola Coletto, Deanna Fleysher, John Gilkey, Philippe Gaulier, Aitor Basauri, and Mick Barnfather.