CLOWN TRAINING INDIVIDUAL & SMALL COHORTS

Physical theater clown training available for writers and storytellers for embodied performance.

• We’ll develop presence and inner life access using the clown pedagogy of Christopher Bayes, the head of physical acting at the Yale School of Drama. His clown training is transformational for actors in the Yale MFA acting program. This clown work is a different genre than circus clown.
• We’ll build characters using Lecoq physical theater techniques.
• We’ll create audience connection based on The Marsh solo theater pedagogy.

San Francisco dates TBD.

Fee: tbd income based scale.
Private sessions available.



SOLO THEATER DEVISING

Join a small group of actors, clowns, and comedians to create a 10-15 minute solo theater piece. 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 clown and The Marsh solo theater pedagogies along with physical theater devising methods.
• 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 theater methods.

Solo performers repeat the workshop to build the 10-15min pieces into a full length show.

Fee: tbd income based scale.

Bio:

Kenny Yun is a physical theater clown and personal narrative solo theater devisor in New York and San Francisco. He is an apprentice of Chris Bayes, head of physical acting at Yale School of Drama.

He completed the Chris Bayes clown teacher training in 2026, and trained in clown with Bayes, Julia Proctor, Karen Light, and Tallie Medel at Brooklyn Comedy Collective. He learned Lecoq physical theater based devising with Pig Iron and Ryan Pater, and Balinese mask physical theater with Budi Miller.

He has been teaching solo performance for sixteen years including a decade at The Marsh in San Francisco with Charlie Varon, and was the director in residence at StageWerx. He was a playwright mentor through the Stanford Humanities Fellowship program.

The San Francisco Chronicle described his solo work as “Supreme laughs.” He has an English Lit degree, with a concentration in critical literary analysis, from UC Berkeley.