The How Classes
Taught digitally by our collaborators!
We are extremely excited to bring you The How Classes. A series of online classes for actors taught by our collaborators! Everything from Articulation, Theater Movement, Audition Technique, Relaxation Techniques, Digital Workshops and so much more.
Our Teachers
Rand Faris
Rand Faris is an Actress from the Middle East. After completing her studies in Drama and Psychology at Kingston university in London, she moved to New York and has been there for over 5 years. Upon arrival Rand attended Stella Adler, Anthony Meindl, and is currently sharpening her acting technique at The Folster Studio. She has both stage and on camera acting experience and continues to audition for both. She has been working as a reader/coach at a self tape studio in Brooklyn as well as online at weaudition.com. In her free time she writes and aspires to make her own films. Rand is an ensemble member and Executive Operations Manager at FacetoFace films. During quarantine FacetoFace has had an ongoing reading series via zoom where they put on virtual shows of published work as well as original work. Find out more here https://www.facetofacefilms.net/randfaris
More about what she does:
https://bkactorsselftape.com/staff/
Weronika Helena Wozniak
Weronika Helena Wozniak /veronika helena vozniak/ is an actor and mover from Poland based in NYC.
She started dancing at the age of 5 at Rytmix Studio and danced professionally until her teenage years with established dance groups in Poland, achieving awards like 8th place in IDO Hip-Hop and Electric Boogie World Championship in Kalisz, Poland. She moved to NYC to study and pursue a career in acting. She graduated Conservatory at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and soon after graduation worked Off-Broadway on immersive stage-combat show The Video Games, where she met Zelda Gay, a sensei at Ken Wa Kan Dojo in Manhattan.
She joined the dojo in 2017 and is currently green belt in Kyokushin full-contact (with Oyama Kata) style. Around that year, she also found The How theatre company – where she found new ways of expressing incorporating her distinct life-long journey with movement, and now also acting.
She has taken classes at Alvin Ailey Extension, Steps On Broadway, Joffrey Ballet School, and Broadway Dance Center. With her eclectic experience taken from dance studios and martial arts, she wants to create an inclusive creative environment for those who want to cleanse their minds without meditation, move beautifully without a difficult dance class and get fit without the gym.
More about Weronika and her current projects: www.weronikahelena.com
Polina Ionina
Polina Ionina is an innovative movement theater maker, director, and actor. Visceral, simple and theatrical, her work is characterized by the unique methodology she employs with her dancer/actors. Polina is a founder of The How.
Polina’s influences come from spending time at the Grotowski Institut in Poland, studying movement with Przemek Blaschak; in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan studying movement, meditation, and Sufi Whirling; studying improvisation with master clown and improviser, Jeff Wirth, and working with Theater Group Dzieci in NYC.
Polina’s focus is working with the body: to release tension, to connect to intuition, to create magic, to express oneself fully.
Through improvisation, movement releasing techniques, and breath work, she will guide you to build a strong connection and relationship with the body.