July Workshop
Devise Your Mime!
Thursdays 2:00PM - 5:00PM
July 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30
$200
A month long workshop devoted to crafting new mime pieces, along with honing your arsenal of creativity. This Workshop is perfect for those who already have some mime or movement experience and would like to start creating pieces/ create more pieces/ want help with the pieces they already have! In the five weeks, participants will be introduced to exercises that sharpen their mime technique, creative tools aimed at making it easier to create mime pieces, hands on feedback and coaching from professional Mimes, and studio time for crafting new works. This workshop is lead by Mikey Hays and includes Guest artists such as Daniel Stein Studio Professor at UCSB, Sharon Diskin of The Chameleons Mime Theatre, and Steven Banks the creative genius behind Billy the Mime!
The Hollywood Dance Center
817 Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Mikey Hays
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. He 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 also 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.
