You are invited to attend a playful four hour performance-oriented workshop with award-winning touring performer, Amica Hunter (they/them). Whether you want to elevate and refine an existing act, or just get comfortable with the idea of creating concepts and presenting yourself onstage, this workshop offers an array of tools and jumping off points that you can use to approach your creative process. Group games, fundamental clown exercises, storytelling techniques, and structured feedback will form the foundation of the workshop. Core concepts will include tapping into a deep sense of play, creating an honest, comfortable, and engaging stage presence, partnering with the audience, identifying the ingredients of compelling work, and using props, costumes, and other external prompts to begin world-building and material creation.

This workshop is open to all experience levels, and invites both fledgling performers and seasoned professionals alike to plunge into the daunting-yet-delightfully-rewarding wormhole of creating and performing as a solo artist. If you’ve been looking for a fun way to dip your toes into performing, if you are curious about independent solo theater-making, devising, and show building, or if you want to delve into developing your own unique personal performance style and voice, you belong in this workshop! By starting from a mutually arrived upon sense of play, participants in this workshop will get to know each other as a small collaborative group, creating resilience, trust, and buoyancy as the communal foundation before focusing on individual stage work and material proposals. Solo devising will be based on structured exploration of your interests, personal history, voice, and physicality.

Amica Hunter has a background in clowning (graduated the San Francisco Circus Center’s Clown Conservatory Program in 2013), and a decade of building and touring original physical comedy shows on the Fringe Festival circuit and beyond. As co-founder of award-winning physical comedy duo, A Little Bit Off, Amica is able to draw from their extensive experience of partnered performance to contrast and illuminate the unique joys and difficulties of solo work. Amica uses their unique gender-bending and genre-blending lens to encourage and guide participants in the art of creating authentic, original, and captivating performance. Amica's dynamic and inclusive approach to teaching is rooted in fostering a playful, collaborative and supportive environment that encourages participants to trust themselves and each other, as they boldly explore their creative voices, and strengthen their innate sense of curiosity into something palpable that can be shared with an audience of any size.

Spots are limited. Participants should wear active clothing and expect to move in this workshop. Physical activity is a component of much of this work, and while it will not be extremely vigorous, you are encouraged to know your limits and are welcome to modify or abstain from activities as you see fit to protect yourself. If you have questions or require specific accommodations, please reach out to Amica when registering.