How I became a clown & a fool

Posted on By BG

Wise woman Franki Anderson was my original fool teacher – I attended a 5-Day School for Fools at Fooltime with her back in the 1980s.

I also spent a lot of time with circus folk and Fooltime people back then, learning to juggle and unicycle and facepaint.

I re-found fooling and Franki when I started working with Holly Stoppit and attended various clowning and fooling workshops with her. Holly has studied with Franki for many years.

Here are some of the courses I’ve either attended or assisted on with Holly:

  • Introduction to clowning weekend
  • Fool School 5-days
  • Clown intensive 5-days
  • Deep Clown 5-days
  • Clown to Performance 10-weeks
  • Comic Storytelling 5-days
  • Assembling Your Inner Cast advanced fooling 5-days
  • Fool to Performance 6-weeks
  • April Fools weekend/3 days/performance
  • Fools Retreat 5-days
  • Going Feral day wth Mel McCree
  • Utility Room 6-weeks with Amy Rose
  • Clown Workouts online
  • Mindful Play 6 weeks
  • Inner Voice, Outer Voice weekend