Brian Foley is a Director, Instructor, and Performer of Theatre, Variété, and Circus. As a director, he has directed classics, musicals, new works, and devised theatre pieces nationally.
He has taught university courses in Acting, Directing, and Clown, and workshops to students of all ages in Circus Skills, Clown, Commedia dell’Arte, and Physical Theatre.
Brian is a company member of Bond Street Theater, an Associate Artistic Director of the World Clown Festival in China, and has performed on multiple episodes of Sesame Street. He holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
A co-founder of Bambouk Clown Theatre and New York Statues, Brian has created original work for festivals, corporate events, cruise ships, and New York City theatre since 1990. He is currently based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is a collaborator with Mesa Encore Theatre and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. He is an adjunct professor of theatre at Arizona State University, a researcher for the Fédération Mondiale du Cirque, and a freelance theatre artist and instructor.
He has taught university courses in Acting, Directing, and Clown, and workshops to students of all ages in Circus Skills, Clown, Commedia dell’Arte, and Physical Theatre.
Brian is a company member of Bond Street Theater, an Associate Artistic Director of the World Clown Festival in China, and has performed on multiple episodes of Sesame Street. He holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
A co-founder of Bambouk Clown Theatre and New York Statues, Brian has created original work for festivals, corporate events, cruise ships, and New York City theatre since 1990. He is currently based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is a collaborator with Mesa Encore Theatre and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. He is an adjunct professor of theatre at Arizona State University, a researcher for the Fédération Mondiale du Cirque, and a freelance theatre artist and instructor.