Don your glitter, eyeliner, and facepaint for an evening to remember- clowns teasing your deepest primal desires with belly-aching laughs and magnetic sensuality. Bon-apetit!

Clown I: Presence, Play, and the Generous Spirit

In this 10-week introduction to Clown, students explore the essential elements of performing for a live audience.

Core Concepts: Character • Presence • Connection • Discovery • Delight • Generosity of Spirit

Instructor

Dan Griffiths 

Clown II: Physical Comedy and the Architecture of Laughter

This 10-week intermediate course deepens the performer’s understanding of Clown through the language of the body. Students will refine their sense of timing, physicality, and spatial awareness, exploring how physical design and movement create comic rhythm and dramatic tension. We will construct bits, play with objects, and investigate the visual structure of comedy. Through physical improvisation and rehearsal, students will build skills in comedic form, movement precision, and ensemble play.

Instructor

Dan Griffiths 

In this advanced 10-week course, Clown steps beyond the nose into the realms of satire, ritual, and ensemble creation. Students will explore clown as social commentary — using humor, absurdity, and vulnerability to reveal deeper human and cultural truths.

Instructor

Dan Griffiths

This class will focus on the rigorous art of storytelling through mime. Using techniques from Lecoq, Decroux, Donlon, and more, students will craft a balance of tension and relaxation while growing a physical, mimetic vocabulary that captivates an audience with a magnetic presence. 

Instructor

Jamin Jollo

Clowning teaches many great skills.  Improv teaches many great skills.  Both have a lot of overlap.  This 4-week course takes a deep dive into the skills taught by improvisation that aren’t typically covered in clown courses.  

Calling all visual artists! Join us at Church of clown for drawing sessions with live clown models! Bring your own materials.

Every third Sunday of the month

Got a show coming up and want feedback? Craving an audience? Have a new idea you want to test? Want to develop something but don't know where to start?

Bring it to Clown Jam—a space for physical theater makers to express and develop ideas, characters, and bits in front of others. No idea yet? Even better. Come ready to play and see what emerges.

This 3 hour masterclass explores the physics of play—the nuts and bolts of physical presence, attention, and playfulness - and how to use it to create aliveness in a room. Rooted in the principles of clown and physical comedy, you'll learn the foundational mechanics of comedy: physical authenticity, beginning comedic timing, structures for stage-play, and how the clown's relational awareness—connecting to scene partner, audience, space, and self—generates authentic comedy and compelling performance.

Two explorers crash their submarine at the bottom of the ocean and embark on an epic, madcap journey from the ocean floor to the sky and back — conjuring a vivid world of flora and fauna from absolutely nothing. Nonstop, breathless, and gloriously absurd, this is physical comedy at its most fearless: not a word is spoken, and no two shows are ever the same. Award-winning and world-touring since 2009, The Submarine Show has claimed "Best of Fringe" at San Francisco, NYC, and Kansas City Fringe Festivals and a "Hot Pick" from the Edinburgh Scotsman.

Two explorers crash their submarine at the bottom of the ocean and embark on an epic, madcap journey from the ocean floor to the sky and back — conjuring a vivid world of flora and fauna from absolutely nothing. Nonstop, breathless, and gloriously absurd, this is physical comedy at its most fearless: not a word is spoken, and no two shows are ever the same. Award-winning and world-touring since 2009, The Submarine Show has claimed "Best of Fringe" at San Francisco, NYC, and Kansas City Fringe Festivals and a "Hot Pick" from the Edinburgh Scotsman.

What does it mean to be human?

Gra is a little worm-like creature living somewhere inside Carmen, trying to figure out how to be free, how to be loved, and how to live a big, creative, alive, funny, poetic life. Through clown, mime, physical theater, and a healthy disregard for the rules, Gra tumbles through the contradictions of being human: wanting and needing, freedom and belonging, power and fragility, shame and pleasure.

Mexico’s most famous sitcom star presents his Día de Muertos Especial: he sings, he dances, he crawls across the desert & into your heart.

Mexico’s most famous sitcom star presents his Día de Muertos Especial: he sings, he dances, he crawls across the desert & into your heart.

Slürt isla manashkiî kleinanta estlika ma prrrritla. Slürt dreams in a language only she can speak. Born completely alone in Antarctica, she feels the pull for human connection and begins a very long journey across the icy pond. Join her dreamlike adventure into the beauty and absurdity of the human heart. THIS PLAY IS WRITTEN IN GIBBERISH.

What does it mean to be human?

Gra is a little worm-like creature living somewhere inside Carmen, trying to figure out how to be free, how to be loved, and how to live a big, creative, alive, funny, poetic life. Through clown, mime, physical theater, and a healthy disregard for the rules, Gra tumbles through the contradictions of being human: wanting and needing, freedom and belonging, power and fragility, shame and pleasure.

Slürt isla manashkiî kleinanta estlika ma prrrritla. Slürt dreams in a language only she can speak. Born completely alone in Antarctica, she feels the pull for human connection and begins a very long journey across the icy pond. Join her dreamlike adventure into the beauty and absurdity of the human heart. THIS PLAY IS WRITTEN IN GIBBERISH.

Renowned Clown and Mime artist Dean Evans presents a series of darkly comedic characters. Whether it’s an Edgar Allen Poe-esque horror writer, a retired showgirl from Branson, or a being simply known as Slime Rat, Evans takes us on a tour of their shadow selves.

What does it mean to lead, to worship, or to seek perfection — especially when the mirror keeps changing shape?

In Take Me to Your Leader: The Seoul of a Clown, Corean-born, Pacific Northwest–based performance artist Monel dives headfirst into a kaleidoscopic exploration of beauty, power, and the absurd rituals of becoming.

Falsettos and Sunsets is the story of Richard Begaldix and George Lamps, a pair of cartoony cool guys who fall in love and stumble through the world of polyamory with outrageous physical comedy, startling emotional honesty, and slapstick existential confusion. 

Renowned Clown and Mime artist Dean Evans presents a series of darkly comedic characters. Whether it’s an Edgar Allen Poe-esque horror writer, a retired showgirl from Branson, or a being simply known as Slime Rat, Evans takes us on a tour of their shadow selves.

Falsettos and Sunsets is the story of Richard Begaldix and George Lamps, a pair of cartoony cool guys who fall in love and stumble through the world of polyamory with outrageous physical comedy, startling emotional honesty, and slapstick existential confusion. 

What does it mean to lead, to worship, or to seek perfection — especially when the mirror keeps changing shape?

In Take Me to Your Leader: The Seoul of a Clown, Corean-born, Pacific Northwest–based performance artist Monel dives headfirst into a kaleidoscopic exploration of beauty, power, and the absurd rituals of becoming.