WORKSHOP: The Essential Shapes in Space

Find invisible objects a little hard to grasp? Know a thing or two about mime, but need little help honing your skill? Learn some basic mime foundations for improving your artistic toolkit, and leave a little more elevated. This class is perfect for: Dancers, Actors, Clowns, Improvisors, Stand-ups, Poets, Mocap, cartoonists, jugglers, magicians and Screwballs.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Michael Hays is an actor, writer, cartoonist, mime, clown & general oddball. Hailing from a damp little corner in Portland, Oregon he graduated with a BFA in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University then studied Mime, Clown, and Physical Theatre for several years under the mentorship of James Donlon at the Flying Actors Studio in Ashland, Oregon.

Michael co-founded, wrote, performed, and taught with the theatre company "A Muse Zoo". In 2017 they performed their slapstick comedy The Truth* around North America at the Oregon Fringe, Toronto Fringe, Indy Fringe, and Capital Fringe in Washington D.C. Michael also debuted his one man show Life’s a Gas at the Oregon Fringe Festival in 2018.

Over the past several years Michael has worked as an actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, performed in Protomartyr’s music video for “Polacrilex Kid”, and has presented multiple solo pieces for the Ashland Lunacy Festival. This past year he wrote, produced and performed a live sit-com titled the “The Four Witches” at the Broadwater Theatre. He has also brought his clown character The Leech to venues like El Cid and Little Joy to host several of Los Angeles’s grumpiest punk bands. Michael is currently living in Los Angeles- if you can call that living.

SPECIAL OFFER: Register for more than one LA Mime Festival workshop and get a Bundle Discount! When you complete your registration for your first workshop at full price, you'll receive a special promo code good for $20.00 OFF each additional workshop. That's only $10.00 for any additional workshop! (Offer valid only for participants registering for multiple workshops.)

LACC STUDENTS: Students with a valid LACC Student ID access workshops for free!

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