100% Chance of Wayne!

We’re teaming up with improv legend Wayne Brady and experiential learning company, Speechless, to bring improv to audiences around the world. Learn about how our new venture, FLS+, is changing lives at work, at home, and on stage.

It’s Tricky to Rock a Rhyme. So we’re taking time to refine.

Soon, you’ll get brand new learning experiences from members of the award-winning Broadway hit Freestyle Love Supreme. Scholarships available!

Help your team WERK IT.

We believe there’s a better way to help teams perform at their best, battle burnout, and build more empathetic business practices. Our award-winning crew leverages unique skills to inspire your team and support their growth.

☚ Yep, that’s Wayne Brady.

*Fiercely* inclusive.
FLS Academy was founded in 2018 with the mission of fostering diverse creative voices using improvisation and freestyle rap. FLS Academy is deeply committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
We believe that a space with different viewpoints, opinions, ages, and colors is a space vital to creativity. If the cost of registration is a hardship, click to learn about our robust scholarship opportunities!

Learn More

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

Meet the Team

Chris Sullivan

“Shockwave” has appeared on The Electric Company, The Daily Show, The Real Housewives of NYC, SportsNation, The Hamilton Mixtape and various programming for MTV and College Humor. He has trained and performed with The UCB Theatre, The PIT, Annoyance Theatre, Beatboxer Entertainment, has been with Freestyle Love Supreme for over 15 years and is a co-creator of the FLS Academy.
Aneesa Folds

“Young Nees” is grateful. Off-Broadway/NYC: Sistas The Musical. Regional: North Shore Music Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Arrow Rock L yceum. National tour: Ragtime. Much love to family and friends and of course shout out to the entire FLS squad for this wild opportunity!
Ashley Perez Flanagan

“Reigna Fire” has been on Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme, Ars Nova; In The Green, LCT3; The Lucky Ones, Ars Nova; Hadestown, NYTW; Orpheus and Eurydice Are…In Love, Ars Nova; In Love With Jobim. Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below. Film: The Kitchen. Ashley is a member of the indie folk hop trio @moondrunkband.
Andrew Bancroft

“Jelly Donut” made his Broadway debut with Freestyle Love Supreme in 2019. Bancroft is a co-founder of FLS Academy, a member of the band Moondrunk, and is currently writing his fifth musical. As rapper Jelly Donut, he has been featured on MTV’s TRL and in Rolling Stone and Time. Bancroft is an award-winning ad writer/creative director. He loves whales. He tweets.
James Monroe Iglehart

James Monroe Iglehart has been seen on Broadway as Genie in Aladdin (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Bobby in Memphis and Mitch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. TV: Coriolanus Burt on Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Fox's Gotham, Lance Strongbow on Disney's Tangled. Film: Upcoming Three Christs opposite Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage. Solo show: How the Heck Did I Get Here?
Tarik Davis

“Tardis Hardaway” is an actor and writer with a long history of performing on both the comedic and theatrical stage and screen. Tarik made his Broadway debut with Freestyle Love Supreme and regularly performed with Baby Wants Candy, The Baldwins and Comedy Peoples Time in New York City. Appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and the Netflix series The Iliza Shlesinger Show. Tarik strives to cross-pollinate performance styles and audiences in all his work.
Anthony Veneziale

“TwoTouch” is conceiver and co-creator of Freestyle Love Supreme and the FLS Academy. He has used improv techniques to create endeavors with Thomas Kail & Lin-Manuel Miranda, numerous networks/companies and co-founded speechlessinc.com, an improv thinking company that helps humans create, collaborate and amplify their authentic voice. He is a past main stage speaker at TED where he did an entirely improvised TED talk based off an audience suggestion of "Stumbling Towards Intimacy".