This workshop is Friday evening through Sunday evening with two of our featured instructors. This is a terrific opportunity for people new to clowning to see what it's all about, and for more experienced clowns to get their creative juices flowing. Currently held annually in New York and Dallas.
This one week intensive in the art of clowning and physical comedy focuses on character development. This year, for the first time, we will offer this course through the Theater Dept. at University of North Texas. This is open to the public. Tuition only: $350 Tuition with room and board: $700. UNT Students can attend at a reduced rate. Please contact us for details.
This one week intensive in the art of clowning and physical comedy focuses on character development. the finest staff is brought into the Flea Theater in NYC to impart to a new group of clowns their expertise. Each faculty member helps guide the students toward their clown characters. Tuition: $800
Once a year, we host an act development weekend with two clown directors, who will help you polish your routines, and really find the laughs. This can serve as the perfect way to bridge your new material from workshop setting to performance. Annually in NYC.
When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College closed its doors in 1998, there was suddenly no place in the country to study the art of physical comedy and clowning. Having been part of the amazing process of finding talent and guiding young people toward a career in clowning and the circus, Dick Monday & Tiffany Riley felt it was important to develop a new training ground for clowns. Hence, the NY Goofs Clown School was born in 1999 in New York City.
In the past twelve years, we have had hundreds of students train with the New York Goofs, and many of them have gone on to perform with Ringling Bros., The Big Apple Circus, Cirque du Soleil, and in theatrical companies around the country. Our students have included professional clowns, actors, doctors, nurses, stock brokers, lawyers, and even members of the clergy!
Clowning is our passion, and it is our mission to help ensure that physical comedy will live long and prosper through continuous training of new talent.
