Month: October 2025

Advanced Improv Classes with Romni Rossi!

Our favorite improv instructor is teaching some special classes!

In partnership with i Firenzi Commedia and the Scrap Paper Shakespeare Company, the magnificent Romni Rossi is teaching Advanced Adult Improv classes with a special focus on advanced skills!

Romni Rossi is one of the Triangle’s few full time Improv instructors with over 30 years of experience teaching all ages and experience levels. Teaching professionally at North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theater, Raleigh, Little Theater, and Wake Tech Community College, Romni’s classes are proven effective at helping actors improve.  Her focus on improvisation skills makes her a rare gem in the Triangle’s community of instructors. This unique advanced class series will help students heighten skills in areas rarely covered as deeply in other improv classes:

  • Listening
  • Sharing Focus
  • Building on Scene Partners
  • Developing Characters
  • Teamwork

Join in this class series to hone skills that will help you in rehearsals, character development, and of course bringing the laughs!

Dates & Times:

  1. Sat. Nov 8th 2025, 3:00 pm – 5:00pm
  2. Sun. Nov 30th 2025, 3:00 pm – 5:00pm
  3. Sat. Dec 6th 2025, 3:00 pm – 5:00pm
  4. Sun. Dec 14th 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00pm
  5. Wed. Dec 17th 2025, 7:00 pm – 9:00pm
  6. Sat. Jan 3rd, 2:00 pm – 4:00pm

Location:  Scrap Paper Shakespeare Rehearsal Studio at
101 E Chatham St, Apex, NC 27502

Cost: $10 per person per class. $50 to buy the 6 class package up front. Buy tickets here:  https://our.show/spsimprovclass

Students can attend any and all classes.  Attending classes in sequential order is not necessary.

Cancellation policy:

Three days before class, evaluation will happen to see if enough students have signed up. If fewer than 8 students have signed up, we will consider if the class needs to be cancelled. Students will receive a cancellation notice via email no later than 24 hours before start of class.

Direct questions to Lara Coutinho-Dean, Director of i Firenzi Commedia via email  capo AT ifirenzi.com

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Commedia at WoW 2025

Commedia dell’ Arte activities at Atlantia’s War of the Wings event – October 17 & 18, 2025

Since 2012, i Firenzi has brought the art of Commedia dell’ Arte to Atlantia’s biggest event, War of the Wings! https://warofthewings.atlantia.sca.org/
This year, two opportunities to enjoy commedia are happening at WoW:

  1. Annual Naughty Show – Friday at 9:00pm Casa Firenzi camp (BRING CHAIRS!)
  2. Iron Commedia workshop for all comers – Saturday from 11:00am – 1:00pm with student graduation show at 1:00 – 1:30pm at Casa Firenzi camp

Casa Firenzi Camp is in block D – Bronze Trojan. Look for the bright orange flags.

Annual Naughty Show – Friday

The i Firenzi Annual Naughty Show is for adults only. If you would like to see the show and you’re under 18 years old, please have a serious conversation with the Director, Dame Sophia the Orange, before the show. Non adults are allowed to watch if they and their parent or guardian has made an informed decision to attend. Please email Sophia at orangesophie@gmail.com . The content of this show is for adults, but not overly raunchy. No one gets nekked, but we do refer to enemas, swear words, sex, and private body parts. The purpose of this adult-content show is to incorporate content from period commedia which is historically accurate but not family friendly.

For example, this show uses an enema prop inspired by this etching by Jacques Callot circa 1615-1635 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Commedia_dell%27arte_street_entertainers_using_a_clyster_a_Wellcome_V0011652.jpg

File:Two Commedia dell’arte street entertainers using a clyster a Wellcome V0011652.jpg. (2020, September 26). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved October 5, 2025, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Two_Commedia_dell%27arte_street_entertainers_using_a_clyster_a_Wellcome_V0011652.jpg&oldid=472446433.

Iron Commedia Workshop -Saturday

The Iron Commedia workshop is a class for any level of Commedia actor from beginner to advanced. Students gather at 11:00am to learn the basics of Commedia history and performance, then as a group we create a new commedia scenario based on the characters students want to play. We rehearse a little and perform the show at 1:00pm. Anyone is welcome to join in the workshop as an actor. Anyone is welcome to watch the student graduation performance at 1:00!

See you at Casa Firenzi at War of the Wings!