BIPOC Workshop: Voicing Your Opinion!

BIPOC workshops are an open and supportive creative space for BIPOC performers of all ages and skill levels.

Let's have some fun creating characters that the audience cares about. In this workshop, you will learn how to be silly, have fun and be grounded in the created reality in a way that strengthens your characters, your confidence and your entire performance.

What to expect:

• Getting more comfortable playing characters on stage
• Knowing that what their character says is important and carries weight
• Fun!

Nursery/Maydays Sunday Classes

We work hard to provide a welcoming environment for all improvisers. In order to give space to different experiences and identities, the Nursery and the Maydays have worked to provide opportunities for specific groups to meet, connect, and improvise with one another. Each workshop will cover different topics depending on the instructor. Sometimes sessions will be aimed at particular skills, issues and questions, and other times they will simply be a place for people to come together and play.

The Nursery and the Maydays are constantly working to create programming based on the needs of our current students and the global improv community. If there is an underrepresented group that you would like to see have a workshop, send an email to classes@thenurserytheatre.com

Michelle Gilliam is a voice-over actor, as well as the Owner and Artistic Director of Improv MKE, an improv comedy school and theater based online and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently serving the world.

Michelle has been involved in improv comedy for over 24 years, through studying, performing, coaching, teaching, directing, as well as leading corporate teams to success through helping them to harness the power of improv as a tool and resource for creativity and empowerment.

This Intermediate workshop runs Sunday 19th September, 5 - 7.30 pm BST.

Intermediate (3months+) These classes will be opportunities to add tools to your growing toolbox. Normally these classes will expect players to be confident playing scenes. These classes will provide practice and specific new skills.

Whatever the level of ability required, all of our classes are safe, supportive environments led by our experienced teachers. Please email us if you are unsure whether a class is suitable for you. If you sign up for a class inappropriate to your level the Nursery/Maydays reserved the right to remove you from the class without refund.

Scholarships and Bursaries:

We offer full and partial scholarships for all online courses in order to make sure that the fun and community of improvisation is available to as many people as possible across the globe.

You are encouraged to apply if you would not normally be able to:

• Afford these courses
• Be unlikely to attend a course for any other reason

No set criteria

Apply HERE for any course that is live on the Maydays or Nursery website

Closed captioning is available in all of our classes and courses. If you need any information on how to access this in Zoom, please contact classes@thenurserytheatre.com

The Nursery does not tolerate harassment of any kind, be it in our virtual or live spaces, or on our social media. People who engage in this kind of behaviour at The Nursery, or at any other organization, will not be allowed to participate in our community, in any capacity, online or in person.