Explore the fundamentals of clown: physicality and fun. This four hour workshop takes you out of your head and into your body. Throw everything you think out the window and get back to nonsense. Push the boundaries of ridiculousness further than is applesauce until it all makes dollars and sense again. Find out how to direct the audiences focus and attention so they follow you into childlike curiosity and laughter. And learn how to listen to them in relational comedy.

Teacher Bio

 

Karen Hall is an internationally award winning performer and creator. Her solo show, Delusions and Grandeur, a solo cello recital meets a clown show in the world of the jester, has performed to audience and critical acclaim. Winning a 2025 Outstanding Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a Best Solo Performance in Los Angeles Theatre 2025, her quick wit and genre-blurring production continues to tour and impress. She followed it up with her sophomore creation, "Pandora's Boombox" a nonverbal clown duo anchored in slapstick and traditional physical theater. Broadway World called it "A master class in how little we need words to tell an entertaining, vibrant, richly nuanced story."

As a cellist, Karen has graced the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl and been found in studios for Emmy-winning television scores. Most notably, Karen spent four seasons as the Cellist on the TV show, Glee. She works as a Teaching Artist in Residency for both the prestigious Music Center Los Angeles and Segerstrom Center for the Arts and as a multi-instrumental educator with Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, the flagship youth orchestra of the LA Philharmonic.

 

Praise for Karen as a teacher: "Karen provides a safe, supportive space and dishes out hilarious nudges to take the class out of our adulting mindset and into the heart centered playful vulnerability of clown." - HC, Bellingham

Refund Policy: The buyer understands that Seattle Comedy LLC does not offer refunds. Purchases are final and refunds/partial refunds are not issued. With advance notice, the buyer may transfer their class registrations to a different course, provided the alternate course is not already sold-out. With advance notice, the buyer may also transfer the value of their registration to a gift card, redeemable for anything else available to purchase on seattlecomedytheater.com.