About the Company!


Jennifer Miller, Founder and Artistic Director


[0]Becca Blackwell
Becca Blackwell has been performing in New York City for 14 years, including five seasons with the fabulous Circus Amok. She was most recently seen in Portland’s JAW Festival in Sally Oswald’s “Pony.” She has worked on a variety of shows with Six Figures and Blessed Unrest theater companies, including a tour in Kosavo and the Fringe Festival. In 2006-2007, Becca worked with her bandmates from Inner princess and Michelle Matlock of the Mammy Project to develop an original musical that was staged at Dixon Place. This fall you can see Becca in her reoccurring role as Dire Owens in Two-Headed Calf’s “Room for Cream” at LaMama.


Cindy Greenberg


[0]Michelle Matlock
Michelle Matlock is a graduate of the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York City. She is often on tour with her solo show "The Mammy Project," seen at P.S. 122, Dixon Place, The Harbourfront Centre’s Toronto Black Culture Festival, and at universities across the country. She has worked as an actress for The New Acting Company, Moonwork Inc. and Fay Simpson’s Impact Theater, and as a physical comedienne in The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and The Daredevil Opera Company‘s "Circus Inferno." Michelle is also a professional clown for The Big Apple's Circus Clown Care in NY hospitals. You can find her at The Mammy Project [1].


[1]Victor Vauban, Jr.
Victor Vauban Jr. is a circus performer, actor and dancer, who began his performing career in Brazil after enrolling in the National Circus School (Escola Nacional de Circo) in Rio de Janeiro. Victor had worked with such companies as Gran-Bartholo Circus, Gran Circo Norte Americano, Beto Carrero Show, UniversalSoul Circus and Tv Globo, appearing in many of its programs. He settled in New York City in 2003, has recently performed in “Jackie N’ The Beanstalk” at The Point and teaches acrobatics to children around the city.


[1]Fernando Noguiera Wanderley
Fernando Nogueira Wanderley is a clown and actor from São Paulo, Brazil. Fore more than sixteen years he has worked as a professional in circus and theater, working in many countries making many different works. Fernando is a graduate of Sao Judas Tadeu, and joined Circus Amok in 2006.


[1]Carlton Ward
Carlton Cyrus Ward is a dancer, circus performer and actor from the woods of northern Vermont. He will soon be celebrating ten years in New York City. He currently works with Christopher Williams, Jody Oberfelder, El Gato Teatro and Freefall. In the past he has worked with Proto-type Theater Inc., Ateh Theater Company, Alex Bag, Maureen Fleming, Prospect Theater Company, and Gary Indiana. Carlton works and teaches at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has been known to build sets, hang lights, paint and make mosaics.

Roustabouts!


[1]Lee Houck
Lee Houck was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and now lives in Queens, NY. His writing appears in several journals and queer anthologies, and in Collection [2], a book of his own essays and excerpts. His other work includes original pieces for theater seen in Vermont, Tennessee and in New York City, art installations for the Musee de Monoian, and poetry in the Magnetic Poetry Calendar. He has worked with Circus AMOK! for many, many seasons. www.leehouck.com [3]


[3]Jessie Proia
Jesse Proia is a visual artist originally from the North East Kingdom of Vermont. He is a graduate of The Pratt Institute, where he first was introduced to Circus Amok. His art work involves video, installation and site specific public works. Jesse has been living and making work in Brooklyn for five years. This is his first year with the Circus and prior to joining he worked with FoureyedMonster; Grass Roots Film production, R.W. Darling Fine Art Studio and in collaboration with Rachel Steinberg.


[3]Sam Wilson
Sam Wilson is a painter, puppeteer, puppet maker and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. She has worked with World War 3 Arts in Action (an anti-war street art group,) The Bread and Puppet Theater, Great Small Works, and All The Saints Theater Company, and is currently working with Amy Trompetter on a series of handpuppet shows based on Howard Zinn's book "A People's History of the United States." More recently, she worked with Jenny Romaine on the Sukkus Mob, Blue Mime Happenings and on Toy Theater Workshops in NYC public high schools which led up to Great Small Works' 8th International Toy Theater Festival and Temporary Toy Theater Museum at St. Anne's Warehouse in May 2008.