TRAINING
2021 Bouffon with Eric Davis (US)
2021 Dark Clown with Peta Lily (UK)
2021 Bouffon with Philippe Gaulier (FR)
2021 Clowning & Ritual with Zuma Puma (UK/CAN)
2021 Feminist Clowning with Maggie Irving (UK)
2021 Bouffon with Jaime Mears (AUS/PT)
2020 Devising Clown with Jon Davison (UK) 
2020 Trickster Academy with The Yes Men (USA)
2019  Naked Comedy with Deanna Fleysher (USA)
2019  Devising with the Red Nose with Igne Barkauskaite (Slovakia)
2019  Intro to Clowning with Holly Stoppit (UK)
2018  Integrating Clowning and Circus Disciplines with Jon Davison (UK)
2017  Acting the Puppet with Gavin Glover (UK)
2016  Moving in and out of Contact with Janis Claxton (UK)
2016  Clown and the Comic Universes with Andrea Jimenez (Spain)
2016  Animating the Inanimate with Julian Crouch (UK)
2015  Games Exchange with ENCI (Belgium)
2014  How to Teach Clowning with Joe May (UK)
2014  Show in a Bag with Pablo Volo, Karen Bell & Dafe Bullock (UK & France)
2014  Theatre in Pictures, Clown Chorus with Jose Piris (Spain)
2013  Devising Forum Theatre with Active Inquiry (UK)
2013  Facing the Artist, performance art with Pablo Volo (France)
2013  Mentor your Show, Improve your Character with Loco Brusca (ARG & Hungary)
2012  Embodied Theatre with Al Seed & Alex Rigg (UK)
2012  Social Circus with Theatre Modo (UK)
2012  Freestyle Theatre with Arek, Let's Circus (UK)
2012  Making Worlds with Francis Gallop, Scenehouse (UK)
2011  Sign Mime & Bouffon with Ramesh Meyyapan and Al Seed (Singapore & UK)
2010  Bouffon with Tim Licata (UK)
2010  Ensemble training with Ewan Downie from Song of the Goat (Poland & UK)
2010  Characters in Transition, Sign Mime with Ramesh Meyyappan (Singapore)
2009  Conflux teacher training (UK)
2009  Physical Performance & Space Engineering with Derevo & Akhe (Russia)
2009  Neutral Mask to Red Nose with Giovanni Fusetti (France)
2007, 09  & 10  Clown training with Tim Licata (UK)
2008  Event Safety Passport
2008-09  Butoh with Lindsay John (UK)
2007-10 Contact Improvisation with Janis Claxton (UK)
2007  Fool Workshop with Jonathan Kay (UK)
2007  Clown Retreat with Alan Clay (NZ)
2005  Commedia dell’Arte (NZ)

EDUCATION
 2017 - 2018  Circomedia, Masters in Directing Circus, (UK)
2008 - 2009 Adam Smith College, Diploma of Physical Theatre Practice (Scotland)
1994 - 1996 Auckland Institute of Technology, BA in Communication Studies - Major in Film and Television (New Zealand)

FURTHER TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
Acro-balance, Butoh, Capoeira, Contemporary Dance, Fire spinning, Hip Hop, Hoola Hoop, Reiki, Stilt-walking, Theatre Sports, Yoga
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.