With twenty years experience facilitating, teaching and directing projects across the world Robyn can provide a variety of services including:

Directing & One-to-one Act Creation

Robyn can help you realise your artistic and creative vision and bring an act to life. With a wealth of experience Robyn uses a variety of tools including clowning, audience interaction, improvisation, creating devised set pieces, physical comedy, circus skills, character creation though the body, object animation, incorporating skills, exploring voice and creative writing

Teaching & Facilitation

Clowning including Zoom Clown with The Online Clown Academy, Clowning for Engineers, Playful Presenting, Rebel Clowning and Bouffon
Physical Theatre including ensemble training, butoh, puppetry, slapstick and improvisation
Social Circus including skills in stilt-walking, fire spinning, juggling and hula hoop
Creative Activism exploring the principles and tactics to design and deliver of beautiful, effective creative and political actions
Science Communication 
Games for grown ups
Art workshops including mask and costume, textiles, shadow puppetry and lantern making

Some past teaching projects:

Circus Central BTEC Diploma in Circus 2016 -18
​I have been teaching on the newly developed professional training programmes for Circus Central. I have taught modules on Physical Theatre, Site Specific work and Making performance as well as directing shows with students in 2016 & 2017
Clowning Around Ghent 2015   
​10-day Clown Training Project and youth exchange in Belgium. I taught workshops in Clown to young people from Italy, Belgium, Scotland, Germany, Estonia & Sweden and directed them in outdoor performances for the Ghent Arts Festival
Street Arts Kickstarter 2014
 I developed and delivered a comprehensive training programme in street theatre skills and performance for emerging artists from the North East. Together we devised 5 'walk-about' acts for Let’s Circus
Swallows Foundation Remix Project 2013
​Teaching Social Circus to over 30 'change makers' from across South Africa, to introduce them to circus skills and to collectively work towards the National Arts Festival Parade in Grahamstown
Diamond Festival Street Theatre Project 2012 
​I developed a training programme for young people across the NE, giving learners performance and circus skills and acts to present as part of the Queens Jubilee celebrations in Hartlepool

Past clients include:

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, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma and Deanna Fleysha.
Robyn has collaborated with companies including Let’s Circus, The Sexual Health Circus and Whispering Wood Folk and performed with acclaimed physical theatre companies including, Derevo, Akhe, Oceanallover, and Gappad as well as her own award-winning company, Fun in the Oven Theatre.
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. She has also set up the Laboratory of the Un-beautiful; a collaboration with Deborah Antoinette Bard, exploring the bouffon & grotesque with womxn theatre makers.