SPECIAL WEEKEND WORKSHOP: TRAGIC CLOWN

Class Type Open
Dates March 7-8, 2026
Times 12-5pm, Saturday and Sunday
Location TBA
Instructor Cleo DeOrio
Cost $329

Travel through time with Professor Cleo DeOrio of Dell’Arte International to discuss cabaret acts from the Vaudeville era to today. In this lab-style workshop, learn what it means to build an act, why some acts work and some don’t, and the importance of knowing your audience. This workshop is rooted in devising and will require that students devise an act in solo or small groups, or come prepared with an act to workshop. Time will be allotted for creation, feedback and discussion. Each act will receive individual coaching from Cleo.

Cleo DeOrio (she/her) is a Physical Theatre and Dance artist-teacher from Cleveland, Ohio. Cleo received a BA at Baldwin Wallace University, where she focused her studies in Directing and Choreography and an MFA from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, where she developed works such as Citizens of Nowhere and Visions of a Crying Girl. Cleo specializes in storytelling through movement, physical character development, emotional embodiment, and devising. Cleo is currently teaching faculty at Dell'Arte International and The Sitka Fine Arts Camp. 

Ages 18 and older.