Jay Dunn & John Leo

actors/creators of Handshake Uppercut

<p>Jay and John met in the spring of 2010, at a Clowns Without Borders meeting (John went to Guatemala, Jay to Haiti). &nbsp;We<span>&nbsp;began as&nbsp;just two guys in a room, committed to digging for raw, risky comedy that made people laugh for unexpected and sometimes unexplainable reasons. &nbsp;By slow cooking our work over 14 months, we ended up with a piece that audiences from our most recent runs described as&nbsp;</span><span>"grotesque, emotional, hilarious, sweet &amp; beautiful."</span></p> <p><br />Handshake Uppercut began as a 15 minute piece at the NYC Clown Festival in September 2010 and gradually grew into a full-length show, most recently finishing a four week development residency and subsequent showings at Dixon Place, NYC in November 2011 and The Tank in May 2012. &nbsp;We are performing in the Chicago Fringe 2012 and the NY Clown Festivl in NYC, 2012.</p> <p><strong>Jay Dunn</strong> is an Actor/Director based in NYC. His recent credits include <br /><em>Flesh&amp;Blood&amp;Fish&amp;Fowl</em> (Edinburgh Fringe First, London Mime Fest,<br />Paris), Chicken (Philadelphia LiveArts &rsquo;10) and <em>Hell Meets Henry Halfway</em> <br />(Pig Iron Theater Company). Regional credits include Arena Stage, Folger <br />Theater and Woolly Mammoth among many others. A member of Clowns Without Borders,&nbsp;Jay has also worked with rainpan43 and has been a part-time Pedagogic Assistant to&nbsp;Dody DiSanto. His next projects include directing a Lecoq-based adaptation<br />of Moliere&rsquo;s <em>Imaginary Invalid</em> in Spring 2012 at Middlebury College and Gold <br />No Trade&rsquo;s new show, <em>The Pinks</em>, in residency again at Dixon Place Spring 2012.<br />Jay is a graduate of Middlebury College and L&rsquo;Ecole Jacques Lecoq.</p> <p><strong>John Leo</strong> is a pediatric Clown Doctor with the Big Apple Circus, and<br />curates/mcs <em>tinyDANGEROUSfun!</em> -a variety show in Brooklyn. He has toured<br />original shows in North America:<em> In-cahoots</em> (Best of SF Fringe: '03), <br /><em>Number's Up!</em> a one-man, one-chihuahua clown show (Gold Medal: NYC Clown <br />Olympics '08),<em> Peg-ass-us</em>, a queer sex-ed burlesque (Best of SF Fringe: '08).<br />Expeditions with Clowns Without Borders include: Mexico '04 &amp; Guatemala '10. <br />He is a graduate of the Dell 'Arte School of Physical Theatre ('99), and Sue <br />Morrison's Clown Through Mask.</p>

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