Just Sage
Helping to heal humanity with humor and integrity.
Helping to heal humanity with humor and integrity.
All About Me
"In Life, I do not sweat the piety things, I just pet the sweaty things." is a Petting Zoo Players motto, for the world is our stage and it can be quite a sweaty job when one is on it.
"In Life, I do not sweat the piety things, I just pet the sweaty things." is a Petting Zoo Players motto, for the world is our stage and it can be quite a sweaty job when one is on it.
"The need to make sure I have stimulation in my life makes me feel open to innovating ideas and experiences that help to truly inspire my creativity. Unconsciously, my curiosity presses me to learn more, experience more, and get the most out of life on a daily basis allowing me to entertain as a professional mummer, physical clown, stilt walker, and character actor at State fairs, festivals, museums, theaters, art galleries, live music venues, and many charitable events, all of which continues to educate me in exciting, worthwhile, and extreme experiences."
* EXPERIENCE *
"I guess I have been performing for people all my Life, or so says my Mother"
Directly correlating with clients visions and ideas with a
professional understanding of the inner workings of a client to client
relationship, and directly conveying such applied ideas to the
performer/ artist/ agent. Trouble shooting locations and possible
liabilities for performers and clients to provide safety for all
involved in a artistic performance or piece.
Creative Director (Performing Arts industry)
Taking a 1 or 2 dimensional ideas and transforming it into a 3 dimensional live performance piece, show, or tableau in the most professional manner possible. 20 years of working in the live entertainment industry gives me a in depth knowledge of sound, lighting, and many other technical aspects needed to produce successful shows. I have a keen eye for detail with a great gift for stage blocking, and clear communication skills allow me the ability to transform dreams and visions into complete productions.
Fabricator (Performing Arts industry )
Utilizing years of experience with a variety of mediums helps provide a way to heal the world through humor and integrity and enable me to do what I do best. Having 20 years of knowledge in costume design, mask and mold fabrication, make up artistry and application as well as prosthetic production, and if I can not make it....I know someone who will.
Excellent developed crowd enticement abilities, with strong
adaptable improvisational skills based upon audience interactions,
calls and response. This allows me the privilege to work with intimate
as well as large troupes and groups with a prolific sense of following,
receiving, and directing through creative concepts and performances.
Positive adult and child clown development, arrangement, and
interpretation direction with a firm ability in performance blocking
and skit creation is a field I am well educated with. I have taught and
assisted in personal clown development, physical manipulations,
conceptual character creation, mask, costume, and make-up application,
and lectured various workshops in these fields. I have been a Artist in
Residency for 5 years at Stevens Elementary public school, with my role
varying as circus educator, coordinator, musical arrangement assistant,
prop builder, technical adviser, production consultant, and yes...even
a ringmaster! This experience proved very rewarding for my soul and
quite a educational learning process that has enable much growth for
the way I personally approach performance/performing as a whole.
My curiosity burns with an almost physical need to know and do more. It's only through new experiences that I feel a greater understanding of myself or the world — which ultimately is the greatest way for me to feel satisfied. Creative curiosity is a continuous process that pushes me into new studies in light and sound, positive/ negative space, manipulation, prestidigitation, physical and pliable structure, fabrics, techniques, and improvisation, taking each element and combining them into viable produced shows.
• Since 1999 I have continued an active role as a Actor, Casting Director, Costume Designer, Make-up / Cosmetics, Performance Artist, Prop Master, Theater Director, Wardrobe / Costume Designer, Writer, Interactive Theatrical Ambiance, Stilt walking, Stilt Fabrication and Modification, Magic, and Talent Wrangling.
2000-2005 Mask and costume creation with Wendy Oberling -Pacific North West Ballet
2003-2004 Physical Movement/ Meyer hold bio-mechanics with George Lewis- Freehold Theater Lab Studio
2002 Modern clown with David Godsey (founding member of UMO)-Fremont Active Space
2002 Acro-movement with Rianna Reichner- Open Field
2002 Leather Mask with Josh Okrent-Pratt Arts
2000-2001 Mask and Stilt Fabrication with George Long
1990-1991 Associate of Applied Arts in Visual Communication-The Art Institute of Seattle
1989-1990 Fine Art Major/ English Minor- Paier College of Art and Design / Albertus Magnus College
1987 Visual Arts Major- Creative Center for the Youth / Wesleyan University
Creative Director (Performing Arts industry)
Taking a 1 or 2 dimensional ideas and transforming it into a 3 dimensional live performance piece, show, or tableau in the most professional manner possible. 20 years of working in the live entertainment industry gives me a in depth knowledge of sound, lighting, and many other technical aspects needed to produce successful shows. I have a keen eye for detail with a great gift for stage blocking, and clear communication skills allow me the ability to transform dreams and visions into complete productions.
Fabricator (Performing Arts industry )
Utilizing years of experience with a variety of mediums helps provide a way to heal the world through humor and integrity and enable me to do what I do best. Having 20 years of knowledge in costume design, mask and mold fabrication, make up artistry and application as well as prosthetic production, and if I can not make it....I know someone who will.
* SKILLS *
* EDUCATION *
My curiosity burns with an almost physical need to know and do more. It's only through new experiences that I feel a greater understanding of myself or the world — which ultimately is the greatest way for me to feel satisfied. Creative curiosity is a continuous process that pushes me into new studies in light and sound, positive/ negative space, manipulation, prestidigitation, physical and pliable structure, fabrics, techniques, and improvisation, taking each element and combining them into viable produced shows.
• Since 1999 I have continued an active role as a Actor, Casting Director, Costume Designer, Make-up / Cosmetics, Performance Artist, Prop Master, Theater Director, Wardrobe / Costume Designer, Writer, Interactive Theatrical Ambiance, Stilt walking, Stilt Fabrication and Modification, Magic, and Talent Wrangling.
2000-2005 Mask and costume creation with Wendy Oberling -Pacific North West Ballet
2003-2004 Physical Movement/ Meyer hold bio-mechanics with George Lewis- Freehold Theater Lab Studio
2002 Modern clown with David Godsey (founding member of UMO)-Fremont Active Space
2002 Acro-movement with Rianna Reichner- Open Field
2002 Leather Mask with Josh Okrent-Pratt Arts
2000-2001 Mask and Stilt Fabrication with George Long
1990-1991 Associate of Applied Arts in Visual Communication-The Art Institute of Seattle
1989-1990 Fine Art Major/ English Minor- Paier College of Art and Design / Albertus Magnus College
1987 Visual Arts Major- Creative Center for the Youth / Wesleyan University
* PAST & PRESENT CLIENTS SINCE AUGUST 1999-PRESENT *
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum,
Seattle Aquarium, The 5th Avenue, the 7th Street theater, Henry Art
Museum, Act Theater, Empty Space Theater, Center of Contemporary Art,
Con Works, Pacific Place, Vital 5 Studios, Woodland Park Zoo, Safeco
Insurance, SIBS-Siblings of Children With Disabilities, DIFFA, Child
Haven, Seattle Aquarium, Home Alive, 911 Media Arts Center, Stevens
Elementary, Spruce Street Elementary, Pike Place Market Child Care
& Senior Center, Recovery Cafe, Robinswood Point Retirement
Community, Urban Arts Development, 2008 Safeco Gay Pride & 2007
Heart walk, The Adventure School, Clowns Unlimited, Tacoma First
Nights, Applaudville, Farm Aid, Oregon Country Fair, King County Fair,
Microsoft, ZAAZ Corporate Christmas, Arlington Garlic Festival,
Bumbershoot, NW Folklife Festival, Cirque de Broadway, University
Street Fair, Fremont Street Fair, Capitol Hill Block Party, West
Seattle Jazz Festival, West Seattle Summerfest, International District
Street Fair, Emerald City Erotica, Seattle Weekly's Artopia, and many
other events such as burlesque, cabarets, raves, weddings, birthday
parties, and bar mitzvahs.* CONTACTS NUMBERS PROVIDED UPON REQUEST*
•{ HOT VIDEO LINKS }•
Click this link for a variety sampling of MY TALENTS hard at work, in 2004 this video awarded me the opportunity to audition for physical clown with Cirque Du Soleil, I was one of 5 selected from Seattle out of a total of 15.
A taste of my comedic brand of MAGIC that I prefer to call "Edutainment" performed for the popular event Seattle Cold Readers.
And this is a directors cut of the music video by Jason Reid for musician Tim Seely, the song is called TRUCKERS LULLABY and I portray all the other "characters" in this production.
Here is a Mighty Bubble Films quick edit of my attempt to cross the Golden Gate Bridge on BIO MECHANICAL STILTS in honor of Florentine Calegari, the first woman to ever cross this bridge on stilts!
Meet Gogle the Nose, a retired wrestler who is a bit confused as to why he has chosen to become the NEMISIS of the musician/ wrestler Jimmy Flame.
