About Queens, Clowns, and Fools

From Shakespeare to Noh to vaudeville to Taylor Mac to Drag Race, we can't stop playing with gender.

Queens, Clowns, and Fools is an introduction to subverting, honouring, parodying, and loving your gender expression in performance, as taught by multi-award winning drag clown Pearle Harbour (aka Justin Miller).

Using tenets of Pochinko clown, bouffon, direct address, cabaret, butoh, and contemporary drag, participants will tap into a presentational form that is both utterly ancient and entirely in the moment.

This course is geared to drag queens, drag kings, and drag things, clowns, comedians, storytellers, solo- and -interdisciplinary performers, trans-, non-binary, and cis-creators of all ages and stripes; anyone who has the courage to stand in front another person and entertain with their wit, their heart, and their gender at play.