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Professional Training

I teach bouffons and physical comedy to students of all ages, and all stages, individually and with partners including Clown Gym, The Clown School, the Examining Clown Lab and Brooklyn Comedy Collective. In these courses, I offer high-intensity, play-focused sessions that provide students with the tools to dig into the self, develop greater presence and availability on stage, and sharpen their impulses as performers. My courses combine collaborative exercises, experimentation, and emotional exchanges in order to develop keen performance instincts, body awareness, and intelligence. I also offer one-on-one coaching sessions.

Colleges and Higher Education

I have taught physical comedy, clown, bouffon, and mask at higher education institutions including Playwrights Horizons Theater School, the Terry Knickerbocker Studio, and the Movement Theater Studio. Between 2005-2020, I was an Adjunct Professor at the Experiemental Threatre Wing, a studio at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where I taught bouffon and clowning to hundreds of undergraduate students. My higher education practice combines techniques from my own diverse practice, and presents actors and theatremakers with an expansive toolkit for performance and creation.

Young Artist Education
​In 2006, I co-founded and co-directed Brooklyn Beanstalk, a French and Spanish immersion program for children that uses clowning and theater as a tool for language acquisition. For over a decade, I oversaw an arts­-driven educational program offering specialized language immersion classes and creative enrichment programs through arts and performances to children aged 16 months throughout elementary grades. These classes took place in collaboration with childcare centers, playgroups, the Brooklyn Public Librairies and schools across New York, and worked to foster critical thinking of young students by creating a fun, interactive learning environment.