After a decade, Jeff Raz left his position as Founder and Director of The Clown Conservatory at S.F. Circus Center in 2010.

Highlights of The Clown Conservatory under Jeff’s directorship:

    • Graduates are performing around the world (see below).
    • The Clown Conservatory was the only comprehensive clown training program in North America.
    • Actors, dancers, circus performers, improvizors, musicians and clowns came to The Clown Conservatory from all over the world.
    • A majority of the 130 graduates now work in circuses, theaters and other performing venues around the world, including:
      • Cirque du Soleil
      • Cirque Eloize
      • Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
      • Aga-Boom
      • Winners of the Jose Soledad Aycardo Award (Top honors at the All-Mexico clown festival)
      • The Broadway touring company of “My One and Only”
      • Circus Monti (Switzerland)
      • Circus Kaput
      • Stomp
      • Lunatique Fantastique
      • Splash Circus
      • Marin Shakespeare Festival
      • Covent Garden Buskers, London
      • Cirque Bijou (Brighton)
      • Circus Minimus
      • Prescott Clowns
      • Berkshire Community College Circus Camp
      • Fool Time Circus
      • Children’s Fairyland
      • Earth Circus
      • Velocity Circus
      • Kaotica’s Circus
      • New Conservatory Theatre
      • Encore Theatre
      • Theatre Rhino
      • Unconditional Theatre
      • Lazer Vaudeville and others

    The Clown Conservatory is a program of Circus Center at 755 Frederick St., San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 759.8123.