BE THE CHANGE BLOCK TWO: SESSION THREE GUEST FACILITATOR - ROBYN HAMBROOK

Delighted to have the brilliant @robynonfire13 working with us again this week at #bethechange

Robyn is a Bristol-based director, teacher, performer and founder of the Bristol Clown School. 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, Bim Mason, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma, Lucy Hopkins and John Wright.

She has performed with internationally acclaimed theatre companies including Derevo, Oceanallover and Akhe and with her own company Fun in the Oven Theatre. She has directed shows for Whispering Woods, The Sexual Health Circus, Boo to a Goose and was one of the co-founders of The Lost Cabaret Bristol, a night for alternative comedy and clowning.

Robyn has run workshops in corporate, community, education and humanitarian settings for companies including Let's Circus, Impact Arts, Islington People's Theatre, Active Inquiry and in tertiary education for the University of Bristol, UWE, Circomedia and Circus Central.

Robyn is driven to create collaborative, research spaces, testing and pushing the limits of the artform to create new knowledge and methodologies for her industry. Recent collaborations and teaching projects have included the Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy (5-day Activist Clown Training), The Laboratory of the Un-beautiful (Feminist Grotesque Bouffon Training for Womxn Theatre Makers) and the Clown Congress (regular gathering of clowns, activists & academics collectively exploring what it means to be a clown in this current era).

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