Wednesday April 17, 2019, 8PM

Les S. Moore (Stephon Walker)

You may have seen Les on the wall at your local post office, or the Las Vegas Casino Commission’s lifetime ban list. He is one of the world’s top stage pickpockets, is widely believed to be the actual D.B. Cooper, and is a compulsive liar.

Rachel Hynes and Francesca Chilcote

Rachel Hynes - Bound by no rules, Rachel devises collaborative, innovative performances and help others develop new works as an educator and consultant. Her own shows include physical and experimental storytelling about scars, zombies and tigers (You Have Made a Story On My Skin, Half Life, a zombie love letter for no one, Tale of a Tiger). From 2006-2011, Rachel was the Co-Artistic Director of avant garde performance group, Helsinki Syndrome, creating in Seattle, Portland, New York and London. Rachel earned her MFA in Lecoq Based Actor Created Theatre from Naropa University at the London International School for the Arts (LISPA). She is a recipient of two DCCAH Artist Fellowships, winner of the Larry Neal Award for Dramatic writing and a proud Producing Playwright with The Welders.

Francesca Chilcote - Francesca is a theatre artist, performer, and teaching artist in Washington DC area. She is also a founding member of Women From Mars, an international female trio of clowns Dory Rebekah Ford Sibley (Tut'Zanni), Echo Sibley Abbate, and Genevieve Durst, whose clown-noir cabaret, Silent Reflections, has toured Italy and the US. She has a B.A. in Theatre from The College of William and Mary and an M.F.A in Physical Theatre from the Accademia dell'Arte from Arezzo, where she studied commedia dell'arte with Maestri Marcello Bartoli and Michele Bottini. As a part of the program, she performed in residence in Torino at the FLIC Circus School, with Familie Floz in Berlin, and with Teatro Continuo on tour in the Czech Republic. Her masters work focuses on feminist performance and the commedia dell'arte. 

Together, Rachel and Francesca are devising LadyM, a physical comedy about witches, powerful women and blood. In brief, it's a clown show about menstruation. Please laugh. 

Dr. Dour and Peach

Dr. Dour (vocals, 10-string touch-guitar) and Peach (cello, banjo, cute) tell the personal stories of lovesick mummies, giant lizards, bargain-hunting zombies, and other hapless creatures of the night in a cabaret cocktail of original songs. The pair (Toby Mulford and Rachel Spicknall Mulford) is based in Washington, DC (there's good monster-watching there), and has appeared at the Capital Fringe Festival, the Clown Cabaret, and other venues.

Toby Mulford is an educator, actor, and playwright specializing in ensemble-created physical theater. He is the Artistic Director of Faction of Fools Theatre Company and the Associate Artistic Director of Traveling Players Ensemble. He holds an MFA in ensemble-based physical theater from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. His plays have been produced at the Dell'Arte Company (California), the Brick Playhouse (Philadelphia), and the Festival of Animated Objects (Calgary, Canada).

Rachel Spicknall Mulford is an actor and teaching artist, and on staff at Faction of Fools Theatre Company here in Washington, DC. She holds a BA in Theater from the University of Maryland, and has studied at the National Theater Institute, the St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy, Gardzienice, and the Center for Movement Theater.

Happenstance Theatre

HAPPENSTANCE THEATER, founded in 2006, is a professional company committed to devising, producing and touring original, performer-created visual, poetic Theatre. Our ensemble has been developing work together since 2012, and has garnered 5 Helen Hayes Awards. We are multi-talented performers who craft all aspects of our pieces from concept to performance. Under the Artistic co-Direction of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, we harvest imagery from the past and re-contextualize it in performances that address eternal themes of life, death, and the ephemeral. With the simplest means - movement, silence, theatrical clown, music, text, physical comedy and beauty - we seek to elevate the moment when the performers and audience meet, to lift the encounter beyond the daily and pedestrian into the realms of dreams, poetry, and art. Meaning is often discovered by happenstance.

https://www.happenstancetheater.com

Marian DeAngelo

Marian DeAngelo with her Jacks are Wild, is a three dog tricks performance. Two of the dogs are Jack Russells, the third is a Jack of All Trades (Border Collie/mini Aussie mix) who joined the pack in January 2018 as an 11 week old pup and has been performing since the summer of 2018. We put our show on for senior centers, libraries, camps, birthday parties and special events. We consider our act entertaining and amusing, and most definitely, always a work in progress.

The Ranga Brothers

The Ranga Brothers are an eccentric comedy duo. The pair of physical theatre artists are Jared Graham and Ryan Musil.

Jared H. Graham is an actor and teaching artist. He has performed with Brave Spirits Theatre: Antonio (The Changeling), 4615 Theatre: Macbeth (Macbeth), Dinner; Olney Theatre Center/National Players Tour 69: Othello (Iago), The Great Gatsby, Alice in Wonderland. MEMPHIS: New Moon Theatre Company: Hamlet (Hamlet), Titus Andronicus; Playhouse on the Square/ Circuit Playhouse: King Charles III (Harry), Peter and the Starcatcher, American Idiot, Billy Elliot, Seminar, Assassins (Proprietor/ Lee Harvey Oswald). His training includes an MFA in Physical Theatre from the Accademia dell' Arte in Arezzo, Italy and BFA in Theatre Performance form University of Memphis.
Ryan Musil is a devised ensemble physical theatre performer with a speciality in mask performance, clown and movement. He has collaborated with dozens of companies in the United States and internationally. He holds an MFA in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from Dell'Arte International. Over the years

Ryan has had the privilege to work with such artists as Commedia dell'Arte master Antonio Fava, renowned Clown and former Dell'Arte International School Director Ronlin Foreman and Roy Hart Theatre Company member Kevin Crawford. Ryan starred in several shows and films as a Dell'Arte Company member, working alongside comedian Ed Asner. He was a founding member of Mothership Ensemble, an international collective of artists and has collaborated with IN'Tents: A Conservation Comedy. Musil also has BFA in Musical Theatre and also trained at the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy.

Sophie Glasser

Sophie Glasser is from Massachusetts and is passing through.

Matthew Pauli, Co-Producer

Matthew Pauli, co-Producer of Clown Cabaret, is a 1991 graduate of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College and has been clowning ever since. He appears regularly at corporate events, street festivals, fairs and picnics and in his stage shows. His work as a clown has taken him around the U.S. and as far as Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since 1999, he has been proud to be part of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Program, performing at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. For 6 years he toured with The Big Apple Circus sharing the role of Grandma with creator and International Clown Hall of Fame inductee Barry Lubin.

www.matthewpauli.net

Karen Beriss, Co-Producer

Karen Beriss, co-producer and emcee of this month's Clown Cabaret has been a professional magician for over 15 years. Performing at trade shows around the world, her magic and dry sense of humor - combined with corporate messaging skills - have captured the eyes of the press including National Public Radio, Market Place and The Wall Street Journal. She is super excited to have just joined the Big Apple Circus Clown Care program performing at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Karen is a regular at The Comedy Zone in Washington DC. She trained in improv and acting with Second City in New York. And she has performed for celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Kirstie Alley, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, the Washington Capitals and Robert Goulet. Most recently she worked with Leon Redbone. Plus, Karen’s mom thinks Karen is funny – so it must be true.

www.swellmagic.com

Rich Potter, Co-Producer

Rich Potter is a co-producer and frequent performer for Clown Cabaret. With Pauli and Beriss, he's co-produced and co-written "Delusions of Grandeur" and "The Heist." He has also written "God! The One-Man Show," which has been well-received in New York, Ottawa, Brattleboro, VT, and will be shown in Winnipeg, MB this July 2019.

His appearances on the David Letterman Show, at the Vice Presidential Mansion, in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and other domestic venues and in dozens of countries have gotten him a laugh or two.

Potter has studied with Ringling Bros, Maine's Celebration Barn Theater, and Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona, Spain, and still hasn't attained his dream of knowing nothing.

RichPotter.NET

Photo Credit: Silly Human Tricks Photography