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Kendall Cornell, Creator and Director. |
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Amanda Barron Off-Broadway: Mindgame with Keith Carradine and directed by Ken Russell. Helen of Troy in The Beauty Project (LMCC), Lady M in Macbeth (HERE Soho), Einstein's Dreams, The Changeling (The Culture Project), Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Rover (Lincoln Ctr. Clark Theater), Writing To Vermeer (Lincoln Center), Gloria, Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (Theatre of the New City), Living London/Hellmouth (NY Int. Fringe Fest.), Putzi's Progress (Abingdon Theater), Terminal (Vital Theater), A Silent Exchange (Greenwich St. Theatre), Medeamaterial, Destroy She Said (Schapiro Theater). Film & T.V.: One Fall, The Demon Lady, The Good Shepherd, Apparition, The Insect God, Tea Before Honour, Bloom, The Lovers, Law & Order: CI, and Still Life. You can see more of Amanda at www.amanda-barron.com | |||||||||
| Christine Bodwitch has been choreographing, teaching and performing dance for over 15 years. Recently she was a company member with Julia Ritter Performance Group and performed with her in Germany, Czech Republic and Canada as well as many New York and New Jersey venues. She has presented her own choreography in many venues including Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, the World Trade Center and Dixon Place as well as in Germany. In 1999, she founded Rhombus Dance, a company that explores connections between science, architecture, visual art and dance and held a 3 year dance residency at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ. She is currently a Master teaching artist for Young Audiences of New Jersey and Arts Horizon, studying clown with Kendall and learning the art of mothering with her daughter Loie. |  |
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Melinda Ferraraccio - Training includes a BFA in Theatre from Niagara University, intensives with the School of Physical Theatre in London, and The New York Goofs Ultimate Clown School. Performance work includes Nat’l Tours: Peter Pan (Wendy) with Theatreworks USA, The Miser (Marianne), and The Three Musketeers (Constance) with National Theatre of the Performing Arts. NYC and Regional Credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot), The Rover (AGT), Much Ado About Nothing (NYRF) In the Belly of the Beast With Two Backs (Here! Arts Center), Not Just for Shock Value: a Femmes Clown Assemblage (Six Figures Artists of Tomorrow Festival) and Clowns By Dead Reckoning (La Mama). Melinda teaches yoga to both children and adults and holds a Master’s Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School in Switzerland. | |||||||||
| Kathie Horejsi: Kathie Horejsi was a featured clown in Oranda Za at Nagasaki Holland Village, Japan. Her solo shows are Valuable Job Skills, Let Go Go On and Nailing Jello to a Tree (with puppeteer Lorraine Gilman.) As member of Seattle's Annex Theatre Company she appeared in: Eric Ehn's Little Rootie Tootie and Brian Faker and Bliss Kolb's Yellow Kid. Regional credits include: 42nd Street (Anytime Annie), Trafford Tanzi (Tanzi), Raggedy Ann and Andy (Raggedy Ann), Wizard of Oz (Wicked Witch),Phantom Tollbooth (Tock). She studied clown with Ctibor Turba in Czechoslovakia and with Sigfrido Aguilar in Mexico. After growing up with the Missoula Children's Theatre she graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. Her blog is www.clownmommy.com |  |
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Emily James has been living in Austin, Texas where she performs theater installation pieces in traffic jams with half human animals (www.scottmelcer.com/furrydebs) and searches for her Dear Uncle Johann with her cousin Heidi. (www.youtube.com/dsprtlyseekingjohann & www.unclejohann.blogspot.com). She has been clowning and making short films for years and at long last will soon be back in NY to join the troupe. |
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| Ishah Janssen-Faith was most recently seen in Turning Tables, an ensemble show that she and her theatre co., Coffee Cup, wrote and produced. She trained for two years with Philippe Gaulier in London and has had the good fortune of working with Michael Barnfather, Linda Kerr-Scott, Annabel Arden and John Wright. She has co-devised and performed in numerous shows, including a clown show about the live organ trade called A Pig Behind Their Eyes with her previous theatre co., Bouillabaisse, and Napoleon In Exile with Sounding Noise Theatre Co., both of which toured the London Fringe. Strictly as an actor, she has most enjoyed playing Olivia in Twelfth Night and Margherita in Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay! You can see more of Ishah at www.coffeecuptheatre.org. |  |
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Mona Le Royis a dancer and a clown that prefers a humorous approach to creativity. By opting for falls, crashes and contortions as well as pivots and arabesques, she is finding humorous ways to express her grace and wit. Mona has performed at the American Museum of Natural History, Rakkasah East, the World Culture Open Diversity Festival at Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop, and The Snug Harbor Cultural Center and at many more venues well known and private. She teaches traditional Brazilian and Middle Eastern Dance as well as off beat choreographies from cult films and music videos. Dance companies: PURE, Mystical Motion, Carribean Rose. Collaborative projects: The Department of Correctional Dance, Dueling Banjos, Grass Widow, The Return of the Great Blue Heron, and Clowns Ex Machina. | |||||||||
| Judi Lewis Ockler is an actress, stunt performer and vaudevillian. NYC credits: The Jaded Assassin (Ohio Theatre), Carmen (NYC Opera), Barefoot in the Park (Amateur Comedy Club). She is an associate artist of the NYC theater companies’ Lady Cavalier Theatre Co and Flying Fig Theatre Co, and has performed/choreographed in oodles of their productions. Regional credits: title roles in Peter Pan, Sylvia; As You Like it (Phoebe), The Three Musketeers (Constance). Stunt credits include the feature films Across the Universe, Enchanted, andThe Nanny Diaries, and TV shows 30 Rock, Kings, Law and Order: CI. Judi is also co-creator of The Pirate Circus, a children’s show playing throughout the tri-state area (www.thepiratecircus.com). She now teaches stage combat at AMDA and The School for Film & TV, NYC. |  |
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Julie Plumettaz has been doing some form of theatre since the age of twelve. She performed Pantomime for 2 years with Creative Arts Theatre Co, and was a member of the improvisational group Wingnuts. Favorite traditional stage roles include the Bacchae, Eric Ehns' Swedish Tales of Woe (H.E.R.E., Ohio Theatre) and East West (Fringe 2003). She has also directed for TSI's Playtime Series and did a short improvised film for Raw Impressions. She performed an original clown piece at The New York Clown Theatre Festival (2006). | |||||||||
Gina Samardge worked with VOICETheatre, performing roles in works including "Legacy," and Hanoch Levin's "Murder", as well as other stage and film roles and has recently clowned and played accordion for Cirque Voila! As a musician, Gina performed a combination of her arrangements and original music on accordion, banjo and percussion for Red Metal Mailbox's production of "Old Tricks". Her song, Dance With Me, was used in the short film, "The Creation," and she has played accordion with indie band Devotchka at the Bowery Ballroom. Currently, she plays and sings with the Maestrosities, a clown band which performed last fall at the KimTom Clown Festival in Shanghai, China and the New York Clown Theatre Festival in Brooklyn. Gina is on faculty at the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory Of Music where she directs their Children's Chorus. She has also created her own early childhood music classes and sing-a-longs in Brooklyn and was just selected as a Top Choice in Time Out NY Kids Birthday issue for entertainment. www.ginasing.com |
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Maria Smushkovich graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts and worked as a director in repertoire theaters in Russia. In the US she directed a few plays in the NYC, including Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams in TSI, and her own one act comedy New Eliza Doolitle. Maria was thrilled to join clowning workshops with Kendall Cornell's Soon-To-Be-World-Famous Clown Troupe. With this troupe Maria clowned at A Clown Pageant for the Six Figures Theatre Company, Cirque du Soleil Opening night party, NY Clown Theater Festival, and Fashion District Arts Festival 2006. | |||||||||
| Virginia Venk: performed this March in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska and Shel Silverstein's No Dogs Allowed at TAI. Other New York credits include Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson, Mario Fratti's Lovers, and Samuel Becket's Rockaby. |  |
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