The world sure could use more clowns. More professionally trained, experienced artists willing to share laughter in places where suffering is at its worst. Interested in raising the bar in your clown game?
In this two day workshop, Josh Matthews (Medical Clown Project) & Dan Griffiths offer skills to help adapt your work for these unique environments. Content will include: experiential exercises, skills training, and discourse to share the complexities of clown performances in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, elder care settings, refugee camps, war zones, and child friendly schools/spaces. Not only will we play and devise clown routines specific to care settings, but we’ll also take deep dives through conversation into the challenges of working in non-traditional settings.
Taking this workshop will not qualify you to become a healthcare or humanitarian clown, but the curriculum will inform what specific next steps you, as an individual, would want to consider in continuing your practice towards social/ humanitarian clowning.
Be ready to explore physically, improvise, share skills and discuss.
Humanitarian Clown: A deep dive into techniques and methodology
Facilitated by Josh Matthews (Medical Clown Project) & Tim Cunningham (Clowns Without Borders North America)
September 20 and 21
12:30pm - 4:30pm both days
Josh Matthews (They/He) is a teacher, actor, and clown/circus performer. He has traveled around the world with his theater company, Under the Table, performing original physical comedies. Josh Has performed at The Lincoln Center (NYC), The Big Apple Circus (NYC) and Third Rail Projects (NYC) to name a few companies. Josh has been a teaching artist and guest lecturer for the past 25 years, some of the organizations Josh has worked with have been the New Victory Theater, Word For Word theater company, American Conservatory Theater, Occidental College, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University. Currently Josh serves as a lead clown and artistic program director for Medical Clown Project (
https://medicalclownproject.org).
Dan Griffiths is an award winning theatre maker, director, teacher, and the founder of ClownZero, KAPOOT Clown Theatre, and Church of Clown. He has created and performed original theatrical works in over 45 states and 25 countries since 1988. Dan has performed with the Clown troupe Die Hanswurste, with Chicago’s 500 Clown, and internationally for The Department of Defense Overseas Shows. Dan has served as faculty for the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Clown Conservatory San Francisco, The School for Mime Theater, Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, Indiana University Northwest and Academy of Art University.
Dan has taught Clowning at The Wu Qiao International Circus Festival in Shijiazhuang, China. He has worked as a clown doctor and trainer for The Big Apple Circus and was the Director of CLOWNZERO a Medical Clowning unit in residence at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dan has studied with Marcel Marceau, Gregg Goldston, Moni Yakim, David Shiner, and Stefan Niedzialkowski. He attended The School for Mime Theatre and The Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater. Dan holds an M.A. in Experimental Performance from New College of California and an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Art from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Most recently Dan founded Church of Clown, a 501c3 performance and training center in San Francisco dedicated to physical theater.
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