January 14, 2013

Drew Richardson

Drew Richardson (aka Drew the Dramatic Fool) is best known as the first person in the 21st century to have new short silent movies shown before major motion pictures. Besides being a silent film star in the wrong century, Drew has been creating solo stage shows for the past twenty five years, which he has performed from Austin to Austria. He first studied visual comedy theatre with John Towsen at Ohio University, and later with Jacques Lecoq in Paris. As a guest-teaching artist, Drew has taught for many universities, festivals, and theatre companies including Point Park Conservatory for Performing Arts, University of Michigan, MotionFest, QuestFest, and 500 Clown. Drew is currently an artist-in-residence at the Baltimore Theatre Project, where his new show, “What The Fool?!?” premieres in June.For more information, go to his website / his blog at:

www.DramaticFool.com
www.ThinkFoolishly.com

Buster Britches

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Buster is the sideshow/boylesque performer for the Slomski Cabaret. A graduate of Boom Boom Basics in Richmond Virginia he has performed with The Accidental Circus, Gilded Lilly Burlesque, and Freaksheaux to Geaux and is the producer of Buster's Haunted Stage Shows. He is excited to be back at the Fringe for another Clown Cabaret. 

Moira Lee

Moira Lee is a DC-area circus artist and variety performer.

www.circuspixie.com

Michael Rosman

Comedy Juggler Michael Rosman loves to perform. His smart, original and clean humor has provided 20 years of laughs on more than 25 cruise ships, at more than 125 colleges, a few Las Vegas and Atlantic City Casinos and for more than 1000 corporate and festival events around the world.

MichaelRosman.com

Rachel Hynes

Rachel has been making up clown acts since she was 24. She done it in Seattle, London and Washington DC. Sometimes she puts on a big head and bosses people around like a Bossy Fat Sack of Shit. Sometimes she puts on a red nose and dances. Will it be a dramatic reading from The Babysitters Club (fave book is #8, Boy Crazy Stacey) or will she puppeteer a dog that humps everything and also happens to be a professor of German Literature? You'll have to come and find out. Rachel has been properly trained at the London International School of Performing Arts, and Thank God.

http://about.me/RachelHynes

Matthew Pauli

Matthew Pauli, co-Producer of Clown Cabaret, is a 1991 graduate of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College and has been clowning ever since. He appears regularly at corporate events, street festivals, fairs and picnics and in his stage shows. His work as a clown has taken him around the U.S. and as far as Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since 1999, he has been proud to be part of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Program, performing at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. For 6 years he toured with The Big Apple Circus sharing the role of Grandma with creator and International Clown Hall of Fame inductee Barry Lubin.

www.matthewpauli.net

Karen Beriss

Karen Beriss, co-producer and emcee of this month's Clown Cabaret has been a professional magician for over 15 years. Performing at trade shows around the world, her magic and dry sense of humor - combined with corporate messaging skills - have captured the eyes of the press including National Public Radio, Market Place and The Wall Street Journal. She is super excited to have just joined the Big Apple Circus Clown Care program performing at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Karen is a regular at The Comedy Zone in Washington DC. She trained in improv and acting with Second City in New York. And she has performed for celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Kirstie Alley, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, the Washington Capitals and Robert Goulet. Most recently she worked with Leon Redbone. Plus, Karen’s mom thinks Karen is funny – so it must be true.

www.swellmagic.com

Rich Potter

Rich Potter is a co-producer and frequent performer for Clown Cabaret. He's studied with Ringling Bros, Maine's Celebration Barn Theater, and Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona, Spain, and still hasn't attained his dream of knowing nothing.

His appearances on the David Letterman Show, at the Vice Presidential Mansion, in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and other venues domestically and in dozens of other countries have gotten him a laugh or two.

RichPotter.NET

Photo Credit: Silly Human Tricks Photography