ROBYN HAMBROOK
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  • PROJECTS
    • Sealine Confidential
    • Clown Congress
    • Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy
    • The Trickster Laboratory
    • Sexual Health Circus
    • Street Art Porfolio
    • Rebel Clowns
    • Canary
    • Arthur's Odyssey
    • The Vampire Rabbit
    • Interactive Theatre
    • Youth & Social Circus
    • The Online Clown Academy
  • COURSES
    • Fool Power Residency
    • Clown Soup
    • The Activist Clown Toolkit
    • Clown Devising Weekend
    • The Laboratory of the Un-Beautiful Online
    • Clown Experiments
    • Bouffon Weekend Intensive
  • Training
  • Clowning & Activism Blog
    • Tools of the Activist Clown
ROBYN HAMBROOK

PRODUCTION, PROJECT & EVENT MANAGEMENT

I have a good understanding of all aspects of event management as well extensive experience in a variety of roles including:
Stage Management * Production Management * Programming * Artist Liaison * Front of House * Box Office * PR & Marketing

I am also proficient in a variety of skills that help to bring a production to life. These include:
Costume & Mask Making * Make up / Face & Body Painting * Prop making * Set Dressing

Some projects include:

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PRODUCTION DESIGNER
​for Playing House, involved creating an interactive set that audiences could explore after the performance

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PRODUCER for the Still Festival of Human Sculpture at Alnwick Garden, commissioning and programming six days of roaming and static performances, 2012
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COMMUNITY ARTIST for the Gilmerton Annual Lantern Parade, creating lanterns with community and creating a shadow puppet show of a traditional story, 2011
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PRODUCTION MANAGER for the installation of artist Jane Frere’s prolific work, Return of the Soul, hanging over 3000 wax figures with community volunteers, 2008
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PRODUCER for Beltane Fire Festival, helping the community to safely realise of their artistic vision and creative ideas for this world-famous fire festival, 2005

Other festivals, events & clients include:

Circus in a Field, 2015 & 2016
2.8 Hours, UK 2013 - 14
STILL, UK 2012
Hartlepool Diamond Festival, UK 2012
Impact Arts, Scotland 2011 - 2012 
Wave Theatre, Scotland 2011
Underbelly, Scotland 2010
Big Tent Festival, Scotland 2009
‘Cycles’, Scotland, 2008
‘The Nakbah Project’, Scotland, 2008
Edinburgh Mela, Scotland, 2007 – 2008
The Famous Spiegeltent, Scotland, 2008
Beltane Fire Society, Scotland 2005 - 2009
​Healesville Queens Baton Relay, Australia 2006

Melbourne Comedy Festival, Australia, 2006
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland 2001For Edge Creative for clients which include:
Vodafone
Cadbury
Les Mills

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ABOUT ROBYN

Robyn is a Bristol-based director, teacher and performer. 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.
Over the past five years she has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and a deep desire to address the injustices in the world. This specialism has developed through her Masters Research ‘Small Circus Acts of Resistance’, on the streets and in protests with the Bristol Rebel Clowns and in research residencies with The Trickster Laboratory.
Robyn’s Activist Clown research has led to collaborations with Jay Jordan (Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, France), Clown Me In (Beirut), LM Bogad (US), Hilary Ramsden (Greece) and international Tricksters; ‘The Yes Men’ (US).
During the pandemic in 2020, Robyn set up The Online Clown Academy with Holly Stoppit and developed a series of Zoom Clown Courses. Robyn’s research, started during her Masters, has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and activism, online, in the real world and with international collaborators. With this drive to explore political edges of her work she has also dived back into the world of the Bouffon; training with Jaime Mears, Bim Mason, Nathaniel Justiniano, Eric Davis, Tim Licata, Al Seed and the grand master Bouffon-himself; Philippe Gaulier.
Keen to explore the intersection of clowning and politics, 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 and strengthen partnerships for future work. Some of her most 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 (annual gathering of clowns, activists & academics collectively exploring what it means to be a clown in this current era)
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