Circus Center San Francisco

Join us for another weekend workshop at The Clown Conservatory! In this workshop, we'll work on timing and rhythm in movement and speech. Then we'll jump into rehearsing revue sketches from the 1950's and 60's which were produced on Broadway, written by the likes of W.C. Fields, George Kaufman and Mel Brooks, and starring such luminaries as Fanny Brice and Bert Lahr. Participants will be given scripts before the workshop begins, and be asked to memorize lines. Join us for a week-end of laughs.

JOAN MANKIN has been a Bay Area actress, director and teacher for thirty five years. She has performed at A.C.T.,the Ahmanson Theater in L.A., San Diego Repertory Theater, the Dell'Arte Players, The S.F. Mime Troupe, Theaterworks, Marin Theater Company, The Magic Theater, the Traveling Jewish Theater, and is an associate Artist at the California Shakespeare Theater. She worked as a clown with the Pickle Family Circus and make-A-Circus and as a juggler with the Bay City Reds. She has directed for the S.F. Shakespeare Festival, Bricks and Earth Circus in Calgary, Canada, Theaterworks in Colorado, and Make-A-Circus. She has an MA in theater and has taught at the A.C.T. Conservatory, Berkeley Repertory Theater School, U.C. Santa Cruz, San Francisco State university, and the Clown Conservatory.

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"Comic Acting" with Joan Mankin is part of the Monthly Weekend Clown Workshop Series for 2008-2009 at The Clown Conservatory of Circus Center San Francisco. In this unique series, resident and guest Conservatory instructors instruct on a wide range of topics. The Series is appropriate for students new to the field of clowning as well as those with more experience.

For more information on The Clown Conservatory and The Weekend Clown Workshop Series, please visit our website at www.clownconservatory.org.

$150 + $20 insurance for each weekend workshop – Discounts available for 3 or more workshops and for Circus Center students. Saturdays: 11:30 am – 6:30 pm; Sundays: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm (except for Ronlin Forman’s workshop)
Contact Chris Weiland @ 415.759.8123
All classes at Circus Center, 755 Frederick St. San Francisco, CA 94117

www.circuscenter.org