Dean is faculty at Columbia College, The Celebration Barn, the Second City Training Center, Aloft circus arts, and the Actor's Gymnasium. They have taught as a guest artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, UIC, Oberlin College, LACC, the Ohio State University, Lake Forest College, Brooklyn Art Haus, The Neo-futurists and more.
June 30th 2025
Monday 7PM - 10PM
This freaky fun Clown workshop centers around using the dark side of play and our shadowy parts to build characters and clown personas that are shocking and challenge the status quo. We'll imbue exercises of presence and play with secrets and desires in order to heighten our impulses and get into some good trouble. We'll awaken our unrelenting lust for play, and invite the audience to see our most pleasantly twisted parts. Explore the deliciousness of the outskirts of laughter.
$60
July 13 - July 19, 2025 at The Celebration Barn
Expand your range of movement and learn to embody your creative expression with exacting precision. Mime is essential for the modern theater creator’s toolbox, and in this class you’ll learn the techniques of Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Stefan Niedzialkovski, and the unique style of American Mime. With just your body, you’ll learn to create rich environments, nuanced characters, and tap into limitless worlds of play for storytelling and improvisation. Through a disciplined and playful approach that includes floor and barre work, and performance exercises, you’ll build skills to develop and perform innovative new works of theater and to move with joy and confidence. In this workshop you will use the writing structures and visual poetry of mime to create original compositions to find your own artistic voice.
Last Wednesday of every month 6PM PST
Mime Online has seen hundreds students from all over the world. Join us for this monthly online Mime class. This class is for all levels including beginners to advanced. We'll go over the basics in the poetic art of Mime including isolations, movement, and composition. This class in also paired with a wine. Be prepared to move. This class is offered on a sliding scale.