COMPANIES: Acme Clown Company: Using Popular Theatrical Techniques to Amaze, Educate, and Entertain Audiences of All Ages - http://www.acmeclown.com Bambouk - A clown theatre extravaganza, preserving the history and traditions of European clowning - www.bambouk.com Bindlestiff Family Cirkus - presenting a unique blend of circus, sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque throughout NYC and the nation - www.bindlestiff.org Black Moon Theatre Company - multi-media mask and movement company - www.blackmoontheatrecompany.org Bluemouth inc - an interdisciplinary site-specific theatre company - www.bluemouthinc.com Bond Street Theatre - a physical theatre company with a social consciousness, a global view, and a sense of humor - www.bondst.org The Butoh Rockettes - a satirical yet existential butoh group based in NYC under direction of Celeste Hastings, with a bent towards social/political/spiritual commentary - www.home.earthlink.net/~butohrockettes/ and www.butohrockettes.com upcoming Cirque Boom - a Brooklyn-based troupe creating content-driven circus theater: circus that matters/theater that amazes - www.cirqueboom.org The Combustibles - an ensemble-based physical theater company - www.thecombustibles.com Corporeal Arts - a physical theatre company dedicated to representing moods and feelings through the body - www.corporealarts.org Cosmic Bicycle Theatre - creating original theatre works which feature actors and objects, puppets, masks, and music - www.cosmicbicycle.com Dharma Road - an international and multi-ethnic alliance of dance, theatre, video, and puppetry artists - www.dharmaroad.com Drama of Works - creating theatrical works utilizing physical theatre, puppetry, text, and visuals - www.dramaofworks.com Dzieci - an international experimental theatre ensemble - www.dziecitheatre.org East River Commedia - an international ensemble-based theatre company - www.eastriver.org
Fist In The Pocket - a theater company developing and
producing plays that are fierce, funny, visceral, and immediate.
Utilizing a mixture of the traditional and the bizarre, we explore
passionate examinations of entertaining misfits through the intimacy of
performance and arresting design -
www.fistinthepocket.org
The Glass Contraption - training artists, creating new works and
developing communities through lovingly handcrafted clown theatre - www.glasscontraption.org
Hotel Obligado Physical Theatre - a Philadelphia-based physical theatre company - www.hotelobligado.org
LightBox - an ensemble-based physical theatre company led by Ellen Beckerman - www.lightboxtheatre.org Lone Wolf Tribe - a puppet theatre company led by Kevin Augustine - www.lonewolftribe.com Mad Dog - a New York experimental theatre company directed by Phil Soltanoff - http://home.earthlink.net/~ps2maddog/ Margolis Method Center - a training center founded by Kari Margolis teaching classes that merge physical and vocal expression - www.margolismethod.org
Messenger Theatre Co. - integrating actor-based performances with mask, puppetry, movement, live music, and visual arts - www.messengertheatreco.org Tiffany Mills Company - merges movement, music and visuals, investigating collaboration across mediums. Through set and improvised pieces the company tests the boundaries of the senses - www.tiffanymillscompany.org Mook Productions, LLC. - Multimedia company producing live theatre, video shorts, radio programming, animation, comics and games influenced and insipred by old school slapstick and physical comedy - www.mook-productions.com New York Downtown Clown - info on clown in NYC and the NY Downtown Clown Monthly Revue - www.newyorkdowntownclown.com New York Goofs - celebrating their 10th year as a Clown education and performance company linking classic traditions with contemporary thinking - www.nygoofs.com Parallel Exit - physical comedy inspired by the films of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin - www.parallelexit.net Pig Iron - an Obie award-winning physical theatre company based in Philadelphia - www.pigiron.org Sabooge - a physical theatre ensemble - www.sabooge.org Six Characters - a silent physical comedy ensemble - www.sixcharacters.com SITI Company - an ensemble-based theater company led by Anne Bogart - www.siti.org The Stolen Chair Theatre Company - dedicated to the collective creation of imaginative new work and original adaptations of classical texts - www.stolenchair.org The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf - a multi-media theatre company - www.twoheadedcalf.org Tiny Ninja Theater - presents Shakespeare plays performed by inch-high ninjas and assorted dime-store figures. Dedicated to the principle that "there are no small parts, only small actors," it was founded by company director Dov Weinstein. "I had noticed that there were these tiny plastic ninjas in vending machines all across the city," said Weinstein, "but no one was using them to perform classical theater. Something had to be done." - www.tinyninjatheater.com, info@tinyninjatheater.com Under The Table - a physical theatre ensemble - www.underthetabletheatre.org Urban Research Theater - expeditions & experiments in song-based physical performance - www.urbanresearchtheater.com The Vertical Company - creating works of original theatre - www.theverticalcompany.org Workhorse - a physical theatre company based in Providence, R.I. - www.workhorsetheatre.org
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS: Tricia Brouk - dance and choreography you can chew on - www.TriciaBrouk.com Telfair Cardaci - professional actor, comedian, lasso artist, whip artist, improvisor, stunt artist, circus performer, vaudevillian, physical comedian, clown, writer, and cigar roller. - www.WildWestEntertainment.net Jessica Cerullo - performer, writer, teacher - www.jessicacerullo.com Maggie Cino - performer and writer Michael Chamberlin - a stage director crafting & humorous portraits of outcasts and misfits in sublime situations of hilarity and heartache. Through passionate acting and intimate performance, Chamberlin strives to 'create action and events onstage that are so important, so vital- that we cannot live without them.' - www.michaelchamberlin.net
Hilary Chaplain - actress, physical comedienne, teacher, creator and performer of A Life In Her Day - www.hilarychaplain.com Courtney Cunningham - clown/physical comedienne - www.courtneycunningham.com Celeste Hastings - independent choreographer/physical performer, costume/set/soundscape designer - www./home.earthlink.net/~celestehastings/ Ray Hesselink - director, choreographer, writer, specializing in comedic storytelling - www.rayhesselink.com
Ryan Kasprzak - performer, dancer, choreographer, teacher - www.ryankasprzak.com Kali Quinn - actor, writer, director, and teacher - www.gutworks.org
Kristin Marting - Executive Director, HERE - www.here.org Brent McCoy - performer and clown - www.brentmccoy.com Gautham Prasad - performer and clown - www.gauthamprasad.com Red Bastard/Eric Davis - Bouffon/Clown/Director - www.redbastard.com Lucas Caleb Rooney - actor, writer, clown, teacher - creator and star of Creation (a clown show) - www.creationclownshow.com Derek Scott - actor, comedian, director - currently appearing in Slava's Snowshow - www.derekscott.ca Wendy Seyb - freelance choreographer and creator of original comedic dance narratives - www.wendyseyb.com Bronwyn Sims - an actor, acrobat and aerialist she works regularly in film, tv, theatre and circus. She is also a teacher and is available for workshops and private lessons in aerial acrobatics, gymnastics, yoga, and hand balancing - www.bronwynsims.com
Deven Sisler - actor, clown, mask maker, and yoga teacher - www.devensisler.com Eric Wright - puppeteer - http://web.mac.com/misterwright/iWeb/MisterWrightOnline/Welcome.html Anna Zastrow, actor and clown - www.lokamaer.org |