shelter-in-place offerings

** VOICE FOR PERFORMANCE: On the Stage and in Daily Life ONLINE

with the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre

Wednesdays  ·  12-2PM PST (3PM EST) ·  4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14

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In addition to the regular curriculum, we will investigate:

· how to approach better clarity in voice and speech when your voice is your primary tool

· how to stay grounded and feel your voice when talking to a screen

· how to maintain connection and eye contact even digitally

· how to combat “Zoom fatigue”

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**  LIVESTREAM YOGA with the Ojas Virtual Studio

a grounding and centering practice right to your home mat!

Monday 10AM PST (1PM EST) · Wednesday 10:30AM PST (1:30PM EST)

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(zoom link will be emailed)

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Drop in starts at $8. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Please buy full price if you are able to give ❤️

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CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OJAS VIRTUAL STUDIO

news & updates

"The remarkable Ani is perfection in the crucial role of Catherine... this is really Ani's show."

- San Jose Mercury News

"Miriam Ani delivers an incredible performance as Catherine Sloper."

- Broadway World

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"Miriam Nehama Ani as Catherine Sloper will literally blow you away... As the play unfolds, we see a transformation unlike any I have ever seen. Multifaceted, and layered in attitude, tone, psychology, Ani's whole being takes us, the audience, on a very personal, and at times painful, journey... I have never been taken that close to a character's soul."

- Peter Bliznick, Executive Director, Palo Alto Players

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* Happy NEW! Sharpen your craft for 2020~ sign up now to join me for the Winter Session at the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre! Offerings include:

• Beginning/Intermediate Acting (Adults) 1/29- 3/4

• Voice for Performance: On the Stage and in Daily Life (Adults) 2/26- 3/25

• Improvisation (teens) 2/18- 3/17

* What a delight to serve as a voice and text coach for African-American Shakespeare Company's upcoming production of Othello, opening October 12, 2019!

* It's a busy summer at Berkeley Rep teaching the High School Summer Theatre Intensive and Adult Acting (sign up here!).

* Delighted to join the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre with the world premiere of The Urban Retreat, March 22- April 6, 2019. Read more here.

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* On tour with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's The Comedy of Errors playing through April 2019.

* Understudying Margaret d'Anjou/ Queen Margaret for Cal Shakes' War of the Roses from William Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy and Richard III, running August 23- Sept 15 2018. 

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* Miriam directs the critically acclaimed Crucible May- June 2018 at Pacifica Spindrift Players:

"Miriam Ani's presentation of [The Crucible] is a seat for our times at the thoughtful brink of a cliff."

© Bella Tapia

"...director Miriam Ani has [... ] a real understanding of how to shake an audience up with a story that we think we know..."

 "...deeply well done..."

                                           -The Pacifica Tribune

* Joined the Westons as Karen in August: Osage County with Novato Theater Company which ran May 18th- June 4th, 2017. TBA Recommended Production.

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* 2016 was a very villainous summer of Shakespeare... First off as Sébastienne in Livermore Shakespeare Festival's The Tempest, and then as Lady Macbeth with Half Moon Bay Shakespeare!

* Directed The Hallelujah Girls for North Bay Stage Company March- April 2016. Press release.

* Summer 2015 visited STAGEStheatre in LA originating the lead in the West Coast Premiere of Jim Knable's marvelous new play Green Man.

* Played Irina in Three Sisters  at Douglas Morrison Theatre in Hayward Feb- March 2015.

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* Makes her Bay Area theatre debut as Catherine Sloper in The Heiress at Palo Alto Players, Jan- Feb 2014.