New Leadership
Christina Day
Christina Day
Christina Day
Producer
Christina began her professional clowning career with All About Fun Entertainment in Richmond, VA. Walking globe, juggling, aerial silks, balloon animals, puppetry, fire breathing, and stage combat are just a few of the skills she has dazzled and dabbled in. She also performed in the IAAPA award-winning juggling show Ed-Zoo-Cation Team for two seasons at Hersheypark.
Christina's a proud clown with a passion for physical comedy, honed by legendary instructors Dody DiSanto, Avner Eisenberg, Big Apple Circus, VCU Theatre, and the Stella Adler Acting Conservatory, among others.
Jim McGrath
Christina Day
Christina Day
Co-Host
Jim, aka Crickett, clowned with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for half a decade but you may have seen him around with Laboum Brunch, Cox farms as a stilt walker and fire performer, or in Shows by Crickett or Block Party Bubbles.
A familiar face on and off the stage at Clown Cabaret, Jim "Crickett” McGrath was introduced to fellow Ringling Bros. clown, Rich Potter, through a mutual acquaintance who was selling a rubber chicken to Rich.
Founders
Matthew Pauli
Matthew Pauli
Matthew Pauli
Matthew clowns regularly in hospitals and at events around town. He also performs stage shows at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and at any theater in the area that will have him.
Karen Beriss
Matthew Pauli
Matthew Pauli
Karen has been a professional magician for most of her adult life, performing around the world. She has performed for a range of celebrities and politicians, including her own favorite RBG. Karen has clowned in hospitals for the past 15 years with Healthy Humor. Most recently she pivoted and got her Masters in Social Work, but is confident she will never stop performing because it is the "funnest thing ever."
Rich Potter
Chantal Martineau
Chantal Martineau
Rich co-created (w/Matthew and Karen) “Delusions of Grandeur” and “The Heist. He also created “God! The One-Man Show.” Other credits include “Late Show with David Letterman,” Kennedy Center, Wolftrap, and the Vice Presidential Mansion. He worked as a Big Apple Circus pediatric hospital clown.
Since 2019, Rich has resided in NYC, appearing on Fallon’s “Tonight Show” in Macy’s Parade, and he teaches for National Circus Project where he brings circus skills to a new generation. During COVID, he published a book of his circus artwork. He recently published his book, 64 [Nikola] Teslas and hopes to have a few for sale at the show on May 19. www.richpotter.com
Chantal Martineau
Chantal Martineau
Chantal Martineau
Past Co-Producer
Chantal has clowned with Borealis Theatre, Clowns Without Borders, Occupy Circus, the Baltimore Physical Comedy Colloquium, and in a burlesque adaptation of a surrealist French opera by Appollinaire; and has also performed Commedia dell’ Arte with Faction of Fools. Other performance experiences include being a member of an imaginary theatre collective, a robot in a live-action video game, short- and longform comedy improv, and even straight theatre. Chantal has also taught improv to kids, stage-managed, and produced the one-man show Hysterical Blindness.