Ira Joe Fisher will teach you to speak "fearlessly" at The Ridgefield Playhouse on March 24

Ira Joe Fisher’s Speaking Fearlessly workshop curbs fear of public speaking at The Ridgefield Playhouse beginning Tuesday, March 24

 Does speaking before a group make you totally anxiety ridden?  Whether for business or volunteer work, the ability to speak in public is a valuable life skill that can advance a career and fulfill leadership aspirations. Emmy Award-winning journalist, author and emcee Ira Joe Fisher offers a life-changing program, Speaking Fearlessly, his workshop featuring career-affirmed strategies – not tricks – for effective speech, public speaking presentations and high-stakes conversations, on Tuesdays starting March 24 thru May 12, 7:30 – 9 p.m. This workshop is part of HamletHub’s “A Whole New You” Series.

Ira Joe Fisher’s seminar shows attendees that the ability to communicate effectively – for sales, for professional and family relationships – lies within.  Fisher’s career includes radio and high-profile TV stints including the dual role of weatherman and features reporter for WABC Television in New York City where he divided his day between the Morning Show with Regis Philbin and Kathy Lee Gifford and Channel-7 Eyewitness News. Ira Joe performed the same roles on WNBC a few years later. An essayist and weather reporter, Ira Joe presented video essays on a number of topics and racked up two regional television Emmy awards along the way. Such work landed him the position of co-host on P.M. Magazine.

In addition to all this, Ira is an accomplished thespian. A member of Actors’ Equity, Ira regularly performed in the long-running off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks beginning in 1995, where he acted, sang and danced. In the summer of 2003, he performed the role of “Henry VIII” in the musical The Prince and the Pauper at New York City’s Lambs Theatre. He performed the role of “Monsignor Buckley” in James McLindon’s drama The Garden of Dromore, part of the New York University Play-Reading Festival in the Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Drama. Ira has also appeared in the film California Girls with Robbie Benson and in the ABC daytime drama Loving. For the past three years, Ira has served as co-host (with Morton Dean) of The Ridgefield Playhouse Film Society’s near-monthly presentations of films — The Lost-and-Found Series, Family and Director’s Cut. 

 “My approach to communicating,” Fisher says, “is the same for any large – or small – audience.  My strategy is to invite each member of the audience to feel ‘singled out’ for what I have to say.  That’s the philosophy of history’s great communicators – Lincoln, Roosevelt (Eleanor and Franklin), Martin Luther King, and Biff, the deli manager.”

To sign up ($360 tuition), call the box office at The Ridgefield Playhouse, (203) 438-5795. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a not-for-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT; ridgefieldplayhouse.org.                                           

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Submitted by Darien, CT

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