Author: Lara Coutinho

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i Firenzi activities NOV 2025 – FEB 2026

November 8, 2025 – Advanced Improv Acting Skills Class from 3:00 – 5:00pm in Apex, NC: Get details and tickets here! https://www.ifirenzi.com/romni

November 15, 2025 – i Firenzi presents “Be Careful Who You Listen To!”, an original play in the style of 16th century Commedia dell’ Arte at Spring Haven Goat Farm in Chapel Hill, NC: Get tickets here!  https://www.simpletix.com/e/renaissance-faire-at-spring-haven-farm-tickets-228511

November 16, 2025 – i Firenzi presents “Iron Commedia Workshop” where any attendee can learn Commedia and put on a short skit with the troupe! At Spring Haven Goat Farm in Chapel Hill, NC: Get tickets here!  https://www.simpletix.com/e/renaissance-faire-at-spring-haven-farm-tickets-228511

November 22, 2025 – i Firenzi presents “Dungeons & Dragons Commedia Style!” An improvised commedia show where the characters are rolled up into D&D Characters and go on an adventure! Get details and tickets here! https://buckston.windmastershill.org/buckston-birthday-2025/

November 30, 2025 – Advanced Improv Acting Skills Class from 3:00 – 5:00pm in Apex, NC: Get details and tickets here! https://www.ifirenzi.com/romni

December 6, 2025 – Advanced Improv Acting Skills Class from 3:00 – 5:00pm in Apex, NC: Get details and tickets here! https://www.ifirenzi.com/romni

December 14, 2025 – Advanced Improv Acting Skills Class from 2:00 – 4:00pm in Apex, NC: Get details and tickets here! https://www.ifirenzi.com/romni

December 17, 2025 – Advanced Improv Acting Skills Class from 7:00 – 9:00pm in Apex, NC: Get details and tickets here! https://www.ifirenzi.com/romni

January 3, 2025 – Advanced Improv Acting Skills Class from 2:00 – 4:00pm in Apex, NC: Get details and tickets here! https://www.ifirenzi.com/romni

January 10, 2026 – i Firenzi presents a mummers’ play for the Twelfth Night celebration in Trenton, NC: Get details and tickets here! http://www.12thnight.atlantia.sca.org/

February 2026 – International Commedia dell’ Arte Day Celebration, Jam Session, and Networking Festival at Theatre Raleigh sometime in February 2026, details TBD!

 

If you would like to join our i Firenzi Fan Club email list to get email reminders of our shows, classes, and commedia-adjacent activities with other historically informed performers like Shakespeare, singing pirates, museums, and other nerdy performing arts, please email directly to capo AT ifirenzi.com! I’ll add you to the list!

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

Raleigh Fringe Fest hosts i Firenzi Commedia!
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Raleigh Fringe Fest hosts i Firenzi Commedia!

I Firenzi Commedia is performing at the Raleigh Fringe Festival!

TWO shows and a class!

As “busking” performers, you do NOT need a ticket to come see our show! Just show up and enjoy our laughter machine!

If you bring cash and can donate a few dollars to our troupe when we pass the hat at our show, THAT is how we’ll get paid! Then we can produce more commedia!

WHAT: i Firenzi improvised comedy show in the style of Commedia dell’ Arte!

WHEN: i Firenzi shows are on July 12, from 2:00 – 3:00, and from 4:00 – 5:00pm.

From 3:00 – 3:30, we will hold a mini-class/workshop for anyone who wants to try out Commedia characters, masks, and a little improvisation with the troupe!

WHERE: Theatre Raleigh – 6638 Old Wake Forest Rd.; Raleigh, NC 27616

Raleigh Fringe Festival 2025

July 10th-13th |Theatre Raleigh Arts Center

https://raleighfringefestival.squarespace.com/ 

The Raleigh Fringe Festival is a performing arts festival celebrating everything weird and wonderful in the Raleigh region!

This year’s event will feature: 14 ticketed shows in our primary lineup, street performers/buskers throughout the lobby and outside, as well as free community events like a Prop Swap, Fringe on Film, and more.

Get tickets for other amazing shows here: https://www.ticketleap.events/events/raleighfringe