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CAROL LEE SIRUGO is a clown, actor, writer, director, teacher and acting coach. As a theatrical clown, she has performed duo and solo work at various festivals and venues across NYC including: SOLOCOM (the PIT), Comedy in Dance Festival (Triskelion Arts), Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Night (Dixon Place), Move It Festival (HERE Arts Center), The Int’l Clown Festival (The Brick Theater), Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival (Emerging Artists Theatre) and the NY Downtown Clown Revue (Under St. Marks, Galapagos and the Kraine Theater). She is the founding member of the theatre company Found in New York Productions. She has toured the Canadian International Fringe Festival Circuit with her new work, including: This Town (MEDIA CHOICE AWARD, Saskatoon Fringe); The Hysteric (BEST OF FEST Winner, Winnipeg Fringe), Carry’s Nation, Girls on Top and Nice Guy. Off and Off-Off Broadway acting credits include: High Priest of California (29th St. Rep.); Pip’s Island (original workshop production @ 3-Legged Dog); Clown Play (FringeNYC); Dick Whittington (Dixon Place); Rat Bastards (Dixon Place); Metro (Bushwick Starr). Her directing credits include: Voice of Authority (Frigid Fringe Festival, East to Edinburgh Festival at 59E59 and Edinburgh Fringe); How to Suffer Better (Edinburgh Fringe, Edmonton Fringe, FringeNYC, SOLOCOM at the PIT); My Little Friend (Eclectic Evening of Shorts at Artistic New Directions); Killing it! (Amazon Prime); Take Away with Max Roche (co-director, web series pilot). Carol has trained in clown with David Shiner, Kenny Raskin, Spymonkey, the NY Goofs, Jango Edwards, etc. Improv training: IN Studios and 10,000 hours at the PIT. Mime with Greg Goldston and Commedia dell ‘arte with Maestro Antonio Fava. A native New Yorker and graduate of LaGuardia High School of the Arts, Carol received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She attended the National Theater Institute Program at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center as well as their overseas program at the Guildhall School in London and Trinity College in Dublin. She has been teaching Comic Gold Clown Workshops in NYC since 2014 and has taught these workshops to high school students through theater programs such as Amas Musical Theatre and Opening Act. She has been a guest teacher to conservatory students at the Atlantic Acting School, circus artists at the Muse Brooklyn and puppeteers at the Puppet Showplace Theater (Boston).
Comic Gold NYC
Comic Gold NYC
CAROL LEE SIRUGO is a clown, actor, writer, director, teacher and acting coach. As a theatrical clown, she has performed duo and solo work at various festivals and venues across NYC including: SOLOCOM (the PIT), Comedy in Dance Festival (Triskelion Arts), Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Night (Dixon Place), Move It Festival (HERE Arts Center), The Int’l Clown Festival (The Brick Theater), Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival (Emerging Artists Theatre) and the NY Downtown Clown Revue (Under St. Marks, Galapagos and the Kraine Theater). She is the founding member of the theatre company Found in New York Productions. She has toured the Canadian International Fringe Festival Circuit with her new work, including: This Town (MEDIA CHOICE AWARD, Saskatoon Fringe); The Hysteric (BEST OF FEST Winner, Winnipeg Fringe), Carry’s Nation, Girls on Top and Nice Guy. Off and Off-Off Broadway acting credits include: High Priest of California (29th St. Rep.); Pip’s Island (original workshop production @ 3-Legged Dog); Clown Play (FringeNYC); Dick Whittington (Dixon Place); Rat Bastards (Dixon Place); Metro (Bushwick Starr). Her directing credits include: Voice of Authority (Frigid Fringe Festival, East to Edinburgh Festival at 59E59 and Edinburgh Fringe); How to Suffer Better (Edinburgh Fringe, Edmonton Fringe, FringeNYC, SOLOCOM at the PIT); My Little Friend (Eclectic Evening of Shorts at Artistic New Directions); Killing it! (Amazon Prime); Take Away with Max Roche (co-director, web series pilot). Carol has trained in clown with David Shiner, Kenny Raskin, Spymonkey, the NY Goofs, Jango Edwards, etc. Improv training: IN Studios and 10,000 hours at the PIT. Mime with Greg Goldston and Commedia dell ‘arte with Maestro Antonio Fava. A native New Yorker and graduate of LaGuardia High School of the Arts, Carol received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She attended the National Theater Institute Program at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center as well as their overseas program at the Guildhall School in London and Trinity College in Dublin. She has been teaching Comic Gold Clown Workshops in NYC since 2014 and has taught these workshops to high school students through theater programs such as Amas Musical Theatre and Opening Act. She has been a guest teacher to conservatory students at the Atlantic Acting School, circus artists at the Muse Brooklyn and puppeteers at the Puppet Showplace Theater (Boston).