Kenny Yun is Christopher Bayes trained clown teacher and apprentice.
Clown to the depths. Devise your way up. Make your show!
Kenny Yun is an award winning solo theater maker and director. He was one of the three long term instructors at The Marsh, a nationally recognized solo performance theater and school. He is also the first Asian American to teach solo theater in San Francisco, and one of the longest serving solo performance teachers and directors in the Bay Area.
Kenny
After physical theater training on the East Coast with Pig Iron theater and maestro teachers such as Chris Bayes and Budi Miller, he is also a devisor for Lecoq based clown, performance art, and solo / ensemble theater in New York and San Francisco.
– Returning to acting in plays. My first New York play reading is in April!
2025
– I completed the Pandemonium Studio clown teacher training program with Chris Bayes, head of physical acting at the Yale School of Drama.
– As part of the Stanford Humanities Fellowship Program 2025, I mentored a Bay Area MD in playwriting on his first script that was about anesthesia induced dreams.
– With brilliant Bay Area solo theater teacher Joyful Raven of Berkeley Rep, we taught solo performance at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference and then with Mark Kenward at the AWP Los Angeles Writer’s Conference.
I collaborate with solo performers to transform their shows into embodied, theatricalized plays using craft from established theatrical lineages and experimental devising techniques.
I devise with solo performers, clowns, performance artists, and theater makers to create new material or further develop shows.
The book I remember most from childhood is D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. Reading mythology led me to major in English Literature at UC Berkeley.
I am fortunate to have studied with professors in the Pacific Graduate Institute’s Mythological Studies department and at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies.
