the online clown academy
Robyn is a Bristol-based director, teacher and performer. With over 20 years
experience she is a passionate practitioner of clowning, physical theatre,
circus and street arts. She has a MA in Circus Directing, a Diploma of Physical
Theatre Practice and trained with a long line of inspiring teachers including
Holly Stoppit, Peta Lily, Giovanni Fusetti, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma and Deanna
Fleysha. Robyn has collaborated with companies including Let’s Circus, The
Sexual Health Circus and Whispering Wood Folk and performed with acclaimed
physical theatre companies including, Derevo, Akhe, Oceanallover, and Gappad as
well as her own award-winning company, Fun in the Oven Theatre. During the
pandemic in 2020, Robyn set up The Online Clown Academy with Holly Stoppit and
developed a series of Zoom Clown Courses. Robyn’s research, started during her
Masters, has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and activism, online,
in the real world and with international collaborators. With this drive to
explore political edges of her work she has also dived back into the world of
the Bouffon; training with Jaime Mears, Bim Mason, Nathaniel Justiniano, Eric
Davis, Tim Licata, Al Seed and the grand master Bouffon-himself; Philippe
Gaulier. She has also set up the Laboratory of the Un-beautiful; a collaboration
with Deborah Antoinette Bard, exploring the bouffon & grotesque with womxn
theatre makers.
