• A one-of-a-kind guide to the acting craft of clowning• A guide composed from the teachings of Christopher Bayes from the clown school he founded: The Funny School of Good Acting • Bayes has received numerous awards and grants including a Jerome Foundation Travel/Study Grant, a General Mills Foundation Artist Assistance Grant, and both a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant. He is a 1999/2000 Fox Fellow.• He has taught classes and workshops nationally and internationally at Cirque Du Soliel, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Big Apple Circus, Interlochen Arts Center, Vassar College, Stella Adler Conservatory, National Shakespeare Conservatory, the Guthrie Theater, and several others.• He is currently Professor and Head of Physical Acting at the Yale School of Drama. He has served on the faculty of the Juilliard Drama School, the Actor's Center (founding faculty & master teacher of physical comedy/clown), the Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab, the Academy of Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theater, New York University's Graduate Acting Program, Brown University, and Tisch School of the Arts. • Virginia Scott has taught Clown at the Actor’s Center, the Michael Howard Studios, CAP 21 and the Glass Contraption Clown Theatre Company. She also directed
