Date: March 8, 2026. 2pm-4pm

Location: Midtown/Hell’s Kitchen, NYC (Address/details will be sent to confirmed participants) 

Participants will be required to submit proof of a negative COVID test to attend this training.

Facilitators: amani meliyah & Ania Upstill 

Tickets (support TONYC's ongoing programs!): $35-80 Sliding Scale
Training fees paid to TONYC are non-refundable during the 7 days before the training, and may not be credited to a future training. Exceptions will only be considered at TONYC's discretion.

Calling all generative artists, devisers, collaborative makers, and movement artists! Image Theatre for Devisers is an Image Theatre workshop for artists who want to center equity in their creative process. This workshop invites participants to explore how tableaus and gesture can reveal power, relationships, and unspoken dynamics within an ensemble. Together we’ll use Image Theatre as both a rehearsal tool and a socially engaged creative practice.  How can we use images to unlearn harmful patterns, strengthen our ensembles, and build more just and intentional creative spaces? This workshop is for artists who are curious, collaborative, and ready to imagine new ways of making theater.  No Theater of the Oppressed experience necessary.

About the Facilitators: 

amani meliyah (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based theatre artist, filmmaker, and arts administrator originally from South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee Corridor. They have been a facilitator with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC since 2022 and currently serve as Programs Manager. Their artistic practice is rooted in ensemble-based work and the development of experimental plays and films that explore the subconscious, spirituality, and the experiences of black femmes and queer folk. amani is the National Black Theatre SOUL LAB Directing Resident and an alum of the Roundabout Directors Group.

Ania Upstill (they/them) is a queer and trans performer, theatre maker, educator and clown. A graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, much of their work is transdisciplinary, including the forms of theater, clown, circus and music under their company Butch Mermaid Productions. Ania has performed at NYC venues including Dixon Place, Lincoln Center, BAM and House of Yes. Transhumance, Ania’s solo clown show about the experience of being transgender, which was performed at the Kennedy Center in June 2024 for Pride Month (RIP). Ania holds a Masters degree in Applied Theater from the City University of New York and teaches for a range of theater organizations, including being a Clown Professor at Montclair University and Jokering for Theater of the Oppressed NYC.

COVID Policy: In order to keep our community safe, we require attendees to wear masks, unless they have received a negative COVID test result within 24 hours of the event. Please bring a photo of your negative test result or a test will be provided onsite.