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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

International Commedia dell’ Arte Day 2024!

In support of International Commedia dell’ Arte Day 2024, i Firenzi is presenting TWO CELEBRATIONS!

  1. Saturday, February 24, CLASS!
    1. A workshop in Commedia called “Iron Commedia!” where we will gather all enthusiastic participants at 12:00noon at the SCA Event called “Ymir”, teach a short intro class to Commedia, then write a scenario, rehearse it, and present it! Participants will get to pick which character they want to play and then play it!
    2. Find the location and admission info here: https://ymir.windmastershill.org
  2. Sunday, February 25, SHOW!
    1. FREE SHOW of our latest original commedia scenario presented at the Cary Arts Center in downtown Cary, NC!
    2. 4:00pm show! Free admission – just show up at the Cary Arts Center ( 101 Dry Avenue
      Cary, NC 27511       (919) 469-4069) and enjoy Commedia dell’ Arte Day!

 

International Commedia dell’ Arte Day is a celebration of Italian culture under the patronage of UNESCO. The official holiday is February 25 and commedia shows, classes, and other activities accepted by the organization are shared on their website here: https://www.commediadellarteday.org/default.asp?lin=eng

I Firenzi has been an approved part of this celebration for the past 10 years! This year’s activities are the show and workshop below:

FREE show: https://www.commediadellarteday.org/eventiDetail.asp?id=32&lin=eng
Workshop: https://www.commediadellarteday.org/eventiDetail.asp?id=33&lin=eng

See the whole events list here: https://www.commediadellarteday.org/eventi.asp?lin=eng

For specific questions, email capo@ifirenzi DOT com