Clown to the depths. Devise your way up. Make your show!

Create personal shows with a transformational process of devising and embodiment. Make them raw and vulnerable, unhinged comedy, transcendent drama, performance art with poetic text and physicality, interdisciplinary with media and music, or sacred ritual acts.

We’ll use Chris Bayes physical theater clown impulse work and other devising methods to access truths in the body hidden by social masks.

We’ll structure that material with established narrative forms or discover your own. Mash or blow them up.

We’ll embody the work using physical acting methods from rigorous lineages such as Lecoq.

I’ll be your charon ferryman and threshold crossing mercury like guide through impulse based devising:

– Katabasis: symbolic Persephone and Orpheus descent into the Underworld to access truths in our bodies and its impulses hidden by social masks.

– Sparagamos: Dionysian dis-armoring and disorganization of social masks.

For the spiritually inclined interested in making ritualistic performance, I’ll support you with my own seeker background.

– One of few non-Jewish graduates of the national chevra kadisha institute Kavod v’Nichum with rabbinic approval to teach kavod (honoring the dead) and nichum (care for the mourner). 

– Multi year non-degreed study at CDSP, the Episcopal seminary in the Bay Area.

– Former student of Zen teacher Michael Wenger ordained by Mel Weitsman who received dharma transmission from Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.

– Ovate level of UK based OBOD Order of Bards Ovates & Druids.

– Shamanic practitioner (vs claiming to be a shaman). My S. Korean lineage has ancient indigenous shamans called mudangs. 

– Hermetic traditions.