Carol Sirugo

CAROL LEE SIRUGO (AEA, SAG/AFTRA) is an actor, clown, writer, director, teacher and 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 (Brick Theater), Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival (Emerging Artists Theatre) and The NY Downtown Clown Revue (Kraine Theater). Off and Off-Off Broadway acting credits include: High Priest of California (29th St. Rep); Pip’s Island (original workshop production at 3- Legged Dog); Clown Play (FringeNYC); Dick Whittington (Dixon Place); Rat Bastards (Dixon Place); Metro (Bushwick Starr). She is the founding member of the theater company Found in New York Productions (www.FoundinNewYorkProductions.com).She has toured the Canadian International Fringe Festival Circuit extensively with her new works, including: Fear Forest, Carry’s Nation, This Town (MEDIA CHOICE AWARD, Saskatoon Fringe) and The Hysteric (BEST OF FEST Winner, Winnipeg Fringe). Directing credits include: Voice of Authority (59E59, Kraine Theater, Edinburgh Fringe); How to Suffer Better (Edinburgh Fringe, Edmonton Fringe, FringeNYC, SOLOCOM); My Little Friend (Artistic New Directions); Killing it! (Amazon Prime).

 
A native New Yorker and graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Carol received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She attended the National Theater Institute Program at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She has studied clown with David Shiner, Jango Edwards, Kenny Raskin, Aitor Basauri (Spymonkey) and the New York Goofs, She has taught clown workshops to high school students through theater programs such as Amas Musical Theatre and Opening Act, circus artists at the Muse Brooklyn and puppeteers at the Puppet Showplace Theater in the Boston area. She currently teaches clown workshops at Comic Gold NYC. For more info and to view student quotes, please visit: www.ComicGoldNYC.com