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most recently premiered her original solo show In The Boudoir along side Cirque Du Soleil veteran, John Gilkey. And now, after performing another brand new original clown show with April Wagner, PANTS! The Best Show Ever, to sold out houses in San Francisco, April 2008 she will be taking the show to the New York Clown Theater Festival. Summer first premiered her solo material along side Cirque Du Soleil all-stars John Gilkey and Your New Best Friends at the Climate Theater in November and December of 2007 and performed original works with John Gilkey at The Marsh, SF in June, 2007. Summer Shapiro starred along side April Wagner in Angry Gods and Lost Marbles, a trapeze clown play directed by Paoli Lacy, showing at the Magic Theater, Oct. 2007. She was one of the core company performers in The Medea Project: Theatre For Incarcerated Women, My Life In The Concrete Jungle, directed by Rhodessa Jones inside County Jail #8 and performing at the Lorraine Hansbury Theatre in San Francisco, October 2006. Concurrently, she understudied Ariel/Miranda in San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest, directed by Ken Kelleher. She has performed original solo work at Tell It On Tuesday, Julia Morgan Center For The Arts. Played the Clown in The Bartered Bride, directed by Christopher Walker, San Francisco Legion of Honor & The Napa Valley Opera House. Junebug (clown) in The Mums circus, directed by Roy Johns at the Golden Eagle Awards, Los Angeles. Assunta in The Rose Tattoo, directed by Mel Shapiro. Completed training at The Clown Conservatory June 2006. Graduated from UCLA’s The School of Theatre June 2005. And studied drama at The Samuel Beckett Center in Dublin, Ireland 2003/2004. |
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