About the artists

Katie Cohn and Michayla Robertson-Pine are 2 clowns in The Wilbury’s Booboisie ensemble. Together, they explore the electric intersection of storytelling, pleasure, and play and get so silly that they bust up against the real truth of things. Katie was born in Providence, and grew up in the All Children’s Theater Ensemble. She then studied performance at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts at Balliol College, and Naropa College in Boulder, CO. Michayla Robertson-Pine received her BA in Theater from Wesleyan University and now teaches Drama to high schoolers in Providence. She has devised over 15 original immersive works with collaborators ages 6-75.

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Katie Cohn and Michayla Robertson-pine

CATEGORY:
​Theater, Clown

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DESCRIPTION OF PIECE:

You’re invited to the sleepover! Join Stacey and Ruth in celebrating Stacey’s 12th birthday – there will be party hats, party games, and party secrets. But be careful, you might just fall through time and space to discover the hidden meaning of the birthday cake, and experience the exquisite and mortifying truth of prepubescence. Incubated in Wilbury’s own Embodied Action class and Booboisie Ensemble, this show is steeped in Providence’s home grown clown culture – chock full of audience participation, dance, improv, and many tiny cakes.

Our story begins at a sleepover, but soon explodes into a surrealist dream when two washed up fairy godmothers arrive to help the friends grow up….