Meet the team behind Clown Cabaret Scratch Night.
Tim, Saras and Melanie are all theatre professionals based in Scotland.
Melanie Jordan
Melanie is an award-winning physical theatre maker and performer, creating work which is visually driven, physically dynamic and exposes our shared humanity with curiosity and humour. Her solo show Sanitise (Jordan & Skinner) was awarded a Scotsman Fringe First Award and nominated for Arches Brick Award in 2014. Melanie has created national and international touring theatre with Organic Theatre, Faux Theatre and Plutôt La Vie. Jordan & Skinner's new production At A Stretch will premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 before touring nationally. www.jordanandskinner.com
Recent performing credits include Selkie by Kay Singh (David MacLennan Award winner), Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, Macbeth in Silence by Ludens Ensemble and Fraxi Queen of the Forest, Asylon Theatre. Melanie is also co-founder of collaborative performance platform Scrapyard and is Physical Theatre Practitioner with Surge, Glasgow.
www.melanie-jordan.weebly.com
Recent performing credits include Selkie by Kay Singh (David MacLennan Award winner), Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, Macbeth in Silence by Ludens Ensemble and Fraxi Queen of the Forest, Asylon Theatre. Melanie is also co-founder of collaborative performance platform Scrapyard and is Physical Theatre Practitioner with Surge, Glasgow.
www.melanie-jordan.weebly.com
Tim Licata
Tim is a performer, director and teacher. He has worked with companies such as: Theatre Sans Frontieres, benchtours, Vienna International Theatre, House of Candles (New York), and Shakespeare Company Berlin. Tim trained as a performer with Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux in Paris and the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago. From 1998 – 2000 Tim led Clowning workshops and directed a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s play ‘Man is Man’ with Muslim and Serbian youth theatre groups in Bosnis-Hercegovina. Tim also works for Hearts&Minds, an Edinburgh based arts-in-health organisation providing the Clowndoctors and Elderflowers programmes to health care units across Scotland. He is also a Feldenkrais Practitioner and teaches Awareness Through Movement at Dance Base in Edinburgh.
Saras Feijoo
Saras is an international multidisciplinary artist, theatre maker, performer, curator and creative advisor. She specialises in theatre clown, physical theatre, visual storytelling and metaphysical figurative paintings. Her works is usually described as poignant, honest and full of heart.
She has devised and performed as part of solo, duets and group clown shows performing in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, England, Ireland, USA, Poland, Scotland and Germany.
She is both the founder and artistic director of CloWnStePPinG - a hub dedicated to further the understanding, promotion and development of theatre clown as an art. It has attracted artists and collaborated with clowns from all over the world
For more information visit, www.clownstepping.com and www.sarasfeijoo.com
She has devised and performed as part of solo, duets and group clown shows performing in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, England, Ireland, USA, Poland, Scotland and Germany.
She is both the founder and artistic director of CloWnStePPinG - a hub dedicated to further the understanding, promotion and development of theatre clown as an art. It has attracted artists and collaborated with clowns from all over the world
For more information visit, www.clownstepping.com and www.sarasfeijoo.com