Chance Marmalade
02-26-2007, 05:29 PM
I'm a vaudeville style clown performer living in Seattle WA. I've always loved the old silent movies with Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin etc and in 1999 I caught the Broadway show Fool Moon with David Shiner and Bill Irwin. It was amazing. I've been an actor in Seattle since 1992 but that performance sparked a tremendous change in my career goals. I am just now finally getting around to pursuing this art.
Most of my "training" has come from watching the old silent masters and a few of the new ones. I've bought several books on mime, clowning and juggling. I'm writing a two person play in which two vaudeville clowns are late to their own show and I am planning on street performing at every fair I can this year to start my trial by fire.
I have two clown types that I really enjoy playing. One is an old timey stagey Stan Laurel type of character in which I wear baggy pants, over sized dress shirt, suspenders, small clip on tie and a bowler cap. (He does a lot of old vaudeville stage tricks like some hat juggling, magic tricks etc.) And the other is a Shiner inspired clown who is wordless. He speaks only in descriptive whistle. He lends himself excellently to wandering around and general buffonery. With him I wear an ill fitting suit jacket, flooding baggy pants (cut off at just above my ankle) and red Converse which are several sizes to big for me.
I am considering applying to the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco later this year.
Most of my "training" has come from watching the old silent masters and a few of the new ones. I've bought several books on mime, clowning and juggling. I'm writing a two person play in which two vaudeville clowns are late to their own show and I am planning on street performing at every fair I can this year to start my trial by fire.
I have two clown types that I really enjoy playing. One is an old timey stagey Stan Laurel type of character in which I wear baggy pants, over sized dress shirt, suspenders, small clip on tie and a bowler cap. (He does a lot of old vaudeville stage tricks like some hat juggling, magic tricks etc.) And the other is a Shiner inspired clown who is wordless. He speaks only in descriptive whistle. He lends himself excellently to wandering around and general buffonery. With him I wear an ill fitting suit jacket, flooding baggy pants (cut off at just above my ankle) and red Converse which are several sizes to big for me.
I am considering applying to the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco later this year.