The Expressive Clown: A Weekend of Clown & Mime
Scene & Heard Studio4 October, 2025 - 5 October, 2025, 9:30 - 16:30
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
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Prepare to discover your full power as a performer onstage...your inner clown is the key!
Join multi award winning performer and theatre maker Katie Tranter (The Great Divinator, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, The Magician's Table) for an intensive two day...
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Prepare to discover your full power as a performer onstage...your inner clown is the key!
Join multi award winning performer and theatre maker Katie Tranter (The Great Divinator, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, The Magician's Table) for an intensive two day deep dive into the theatrical realms of clown and mime.Katie is a second generation student of Marcel Marceau.
This workshop covers a broad range of materials and techniques to support you in developing and honing your performance skills including:
★ How to be fully present onstage
★ How to connect to any audience
★ Turning problems and interruptions into comedy gold
★ Physical storytelling
★ Precision and expression through the body
Please wear comfortable clothes, bring a bottle of water and be ready to be physically active.Who is this workshop for?It is for actors, clowns, puppeteers, magicians, cabaret performers, improvisers, writers, directors, circus artists, physical performers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, street performers, storytellers, and anyone who would like to engage and channel their full power as a performer onstage.All exercises will be tailored to the participants' needs and everyone will have to opportunity to work both individually and in groups with allocated time for reflection and feedback.This workshop is guaranteed to supercharge your creative practice!
Bursary place:
There is a a free place available for one artist whose practice would benefit from participating in the workshop for whom the cost of the workshop is a barrier. Please contact Katie Tranter at katherine.tranter@hotmail.co.uk for further information and to apply.
Discounts for returning students: Contact me for details if you've attended a workshop with me before - this can be puppetry, clown or mime.
Previous Participant Feedback:
★'It's really spurred me on to keep up my creativity and put myself out there as a soloist... thank you for encouraging me to be myself.'
★'Playful, intense, eye-opening.'
★ 'Joyous, free flowing, liberating'
★' Brilliantly facilitated' Rachael Walsh - Director & Dramaturg
★ 'Inspirational, joyous, challenging!'
★ 'Enlightening and emboldening!'
About the Facilitator:Katie Tranter is an award-winning actor, musician, puppeteer, clown and magician. Her recent credits include Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Paramount), Doctor Who (BBC) and Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage).She is a member of the Magic Circle and currently appears in multiple roles in The Magician's Table (West End).
Her solo show The Great Divinator: Touched by Spirits has won several awards and accolades including:
★ SPOOKIE Award for Best Cabaret Show - Edinburgh Horror Festival 2025
★ Highly Recommended Show - Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe 2025
★ Best Variety Show - Leicester Comedy Festival 2025
★ Reviewer's Choice - Newcastle Fringe Festival 2025
'mind blown...one to watch' Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe
'an exceptional evening' NE Bylines
'an incredible experience' World Magic Review
Katie has taught clown and mime for Funny Women South West, Bristol Clown School, Circus Central, Play Festival and Exeter University as well as her own independent workshops for the last 12 years.
Katie trained at Exeter University, National Youth Theatre and Escuela Nouveau Colombier specialising in mime.
She has also trained with Philippe Gaulier, Phillip Zarrilli, Denise Perdikidis (Tantztheater Wuppertal), Avner Eisenberg, John Wright, Alex Coehlo, Nola Rae, Peta Lily, Jose Piris, Arturo Bernal and Diana Bernedo.
PRESS ABOUT KATIE
'jaw-droppingly funny' Everything Theatre
'good fun' The Guardian
'regularly stole the show...eminently watchable and very, very funny' London Theatre 1
‘a genius for comedy, and an ability to really get the audience on her side’ Spy in the Stalls
'really fun!' Jim Carrey
