Member Since: 2021
What has been your favorite role?
Being a puppeteer on Fraggle Rock, Back to the Rock was definitely the highlight of my career. It’s such an amazing show to be a part of, so much love by everyone working on the production, and the opportunity to work with so many different directors was incredible!
What do you do when you are not performing?
I am the founder and artistic director of Green Fools Theatre, a non-profit charity here in Calgary that’s been performing, creating shows, and teaching physical theatre and circus across Canada and the world since 1991. I design and build puppets for Green Fools, theatres, zoos, aquariums across North America. I have several clown personas (Gustavo the Impossiblist, Teddy, Ivan) who perform at events and festivals around the globe, and I worked as a clown for Cirque du Soleil and a teacher for Cirque do Monde.
What activity are you involved with or passionate about that people would find interesting?
Green Fools is the organization that I am most involved with. One of the most rewarding aspects of the work we do at Green Fools is our free Social Circus work. We have taught tens of thousands of indigenous, new immigrant, and vulnerable youth circus skills across Canada and as far away as Lesotho in South Africa.
What Director would you like to work with?
I think working with Taika Waititi would be awesome, I love his comedic sensibility and the projects he chooses to work on. Smart, witty, ridiculous, but also heartwarming and poignant. And he’s an indigenous actor and director!
What is your favorite movie and/or TV show?
The Jim Henson company The Dark Crystal, the original and the new season on Netflix. Epic puppet movies, epic stories, and amazing sets, with that many great characters, what more could you ask for?!
As a Performer, what is one thing you wish you would have known sooner?
How much fun doing television is. I was primarily a theatre and circus guy, I should have got into the industry much earlier in my career. I would have probably had many more opportunities.
Social Media:
Instagram – @deanfool
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Website – www.greenfools.com