Clown Gym is NYC's home for affordable clown training, experimental performances, and joyful community building. Check out clowngym.com/classes for details.
We're back this season with a limited series of weekend workshops. Clown Gym started in 2014 as a collaborative member-sourced experiment in play. Over the years it has grown into New York City’s home for clown and physical comedy. Clown Gym’s mission is to build community, spread joy, and support artists as they embrace their humor, beauty, frailty, skill, intelligence, passion, and dreams. We do
04/13/2026
There are a few spots left in our spring workshops!
🥳 A Clown Gym workshop on Tuesday, May 12, 7-9pm $30.
👸 Funny Girl: a clown workshop for women on Saturday, May 16, 10am-5pm $125.
Join us in northern Manhattan in May!
Learn more and register here: https://www.clowngym.com/classes/
03/30/2026
Join some of the Clown Gym community at CLOWNVERGENCE: an online gathering of clowns from around the world April 9-12 featuring workshops, panels and more! CLOWNVERGENCE is hosted and produced by Clown Spirit.
Keep an eye out for Clown Gym members and teachers Michelle N. Matlock, Omari Soulfinger, Lex Alston, Carolyn Ratteray, Tiffany Riley, Julia Proctor, Jon Davison, Dick Monday, Shannan Calcutt, Hilary Chaplain, Geoff Sobelle, Amy Gibson, Emmanuelle Delpech, and Meredith Gordon.
All offerings are Pay What You Can.
Full lineup and registration is here: https://www.clown-spirit.com/clownvergence2026
See you online!
01/12/2026
Bravo to the beautiful clowns in our Shape and Sharpen devising intensive at ! These folks dove into playing, developed hysterical new work and deepened community. They were so good in the showcase that they even adopted an audience member (thanks, Sean!)
Go cheer them on at a show near you. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for hosting, , and for leading a dynamic, joyful and successful workshop !
01/07/2026
We kicked off the New Year with an Uptown Clown Gym workshop and had such a blast with these beautiful humans. The theme was partnership with the goal of making your friends look good and these folks delivered! 😍
May we all continue actively listening to and supporting each other to help make this year more kind and bright. ✨
12/09/2025
🥳 We’re thrilled to be returning to Phys Fest NYC and honored to be offering the festival’s first ever extended workshop!
Shape and Sharpen: Generating and Honing New Material with Clown Gym’s Julia Proctor on Saturday January 10th & Sunday January 11 from 10am-5pm
Join Julia Proctor – Broadway clown coach, NYU Tisch professor, and Founding Director of Clown Gym – in this advanced weekend workshop designed for performers with clown training who are new to developing their own work or need support bringing material to the next level.
We’ll use tools of theatrical clown to quickly create and edit specific and surprising material. Julia’s approach will help you clearly define and execute your artistic vision, and help make you a more resilient, adaptable, playful, and brave creator.
You’re welcome to generate new material during the workshop and/or bring something you’re working on.
Limited to 12 participants. You can work as a duo, although both folks need to register as individuals.
Learn more and register here: https://www.clowngym.com/classes/ 💪
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10/06/2025
In our classic Clown Gym workshop this weekend we investigated PLAY inside the GAME and darn did these clowns find the fun!
Thanks to the returning members for helping hold the spirit of Clown Gym and to the new folks for jumping in so generously! ❤️
Three cheers to our leader Julia Proctor for an awesome weekend of workshops! 🙌🏻🥳
10/05/2025
First family photo in a while and it feels so good!
These beautiful souls played through the red nose with generosity, curiosity, pleasure, and joy and we’re all better for it. Keep digging into the joyful vulnerable messy stuff, friends, and we’ll keep each other lifted up.