Freestyle Love Supreme (FLS+)

From award-winning Broadway stars and TED Talkers, to coaches trusted by the world’s leading companies, Freestyle Love Supreme (FLS+) delivers groundbreaking mental fitness tactics to unlock your team’s potential. Eight-three percent of people said they felt “more connected to their work and coworkers” after attending an FLS+ performance or workshop. The group believes everyone should be empowered to build resilience in their minds, confidence in their voice, and communities where they feel seen. 

An improvisational hip-hop (also known as freestyle rap) comedy musical group started by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale in 2004 and directed by Thomas Kail, the group strives to entertain, train and transform people through the power of play and self-expression, furthering the art form of improvisation, following the neuroscience of creativity, and forging interactive technologies to amplify all voices. 

FLS+ began as Speechless Inc. and FLS Academy: two entities with a common mission to build authenticity and confidence through improvisation. In 2013, Anthony Veneziale and Sammy Wegent founded Speechless Inc. to show people how to be themselves and be heard through science-backed improv games. In 2018, Anthony Veneziale, Chris Sullivan, and Andrew Bancroft (all members of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning Broadway show, Freestyle Love Supreme) founded FLS Academy to foster diverse creative voices using improvised freestyle rap.

Then, the weight of the world got a whole lot heavier. The US Surgeon General declared a national mental health crisis, and a global pandemic brought long-simmering feelings of disconnection, loneliness, and burnout to a boiling point. Speechless and FLSA saw an opportunity to make connection, confidence, creativity, and mental fitness a part of people’s daily lives—at a time when the world needed a little levity, and our brains needed a little love. So, the two merged their talents to create FLS+: a team with deep industry experience, and an even deeper roster of talent.

Today, FLS+ works to bring mental fitness to the world through improvisation and musicality. And, we’re backed by an all-star team of investors and coaches who are as serious about play as we are.

Our team has won a Tony Award, delivered learning experiences on 6 continents to Fortune 500 clients like Google, Apple, and Disney, and performed the first improvised Ted Talk on a global stage. (Okay, enough horn-tooting.)

And, we’re not stopping there. Because, no matter how many trophies we have in our trophy case, when it comes to our mission to strengthen minds and amplify non-centered voices, our work is never done.