MAKING MISCHIEF, MAYHEM & MADCAPPERY: hoaxes, hijinks, & hullaballoo – hooray!

an advanced clowning workshop with Pig Iron School Director Quinn Bauriedel

Explore theatrical surprises, jolts of consciousness, and thwarted expectations! Influenced by artists from the past who innovated, who dared to go beyond the status quo, and who playfully questioned the norms of society, this Advanced Clown intensive will leave behind the red nose and instead dive into currents of absurdity and practices of wild ideation. Participants will stretch their performance muscles and jostle one another while devising new works that leave audiences gasping for air, peeing in their seats*, and saying “I didn’t know you could do that!” The workshop culminates in an open showing of short studies of clown illogic and idiot life lessons.

*speaking metaphorically, here

This workshop is open to actors, comics, and devisors - students and professionals are both welcome. While you should have some comic performance practice, previous experience in clowning is not required.

 

About Quinn Bauriedel

Quinn Bauriedel has directed, designed, and performed with Pig Iron since its inception in 1995, co-creating many of the company's 30+ original works of theater and touring them to venues and festivals around the world. Quinn is Pig Iron’s Co-Artistic Director and Program Director of the Pig Iron School, a physical theater school in Philadelphia rooted in Lecoq pedagogy and ensemble theater practice that offers MFA and certificate programs in Devised Performance, as well as workshops, residencies, and other training opportunities. Additionally, he has been on the faculty of Swarthmore College and the Headlong Performance Institute and has taught courses at Princeton University, as well as leading professional theater training workshops in Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco for the past 25 years.