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RocHaha Clown Festival is an annual 5-day festival presenting theatrical clowning workshops and performances.

RocHaha also runs The Auguste Roost, a vibrant community movement studio located in downtown Rochester, NY hosting clown classes and more. RocHaha Clown Festival is a newly formed, annual 5-day festival presenting contemporary theatrical clowning workshops and performances. Our program embraces clowning in all its forms; multi-disciplinary, wordless, circus-theatre, puppetry/animation, object thea

tre, mime, live art, and physical theatre. RocHaha Clown Fest was founded by Katherine Marino and Ashley Jones in 2024 to combine the talents of Rochester’s own burgeoning clown community with award-winning world-renowned clowns and physical theatre makers from across the globe. We are excited to present our explosively inventive program of subversive, silly visual performance to tempt artists and audiences alike out of their comfort zones and become the home of contemporary theatrical clown in Western New York.

10/25/2025

Missing RocHaha Clown Fest? You're in luck!
🎪🤡 UPCOMING WORKSHOPS — JOIN THE FUN at The Auguste Roost!

✨ Play The Fool- Intro Clown Workshop
📅 Sunday, October 26th, 2025
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
💸 $25 | Sliding scale options available

Clowning begins with PLAY! Dive into games and exercises inspired by L’École Gaulier and Accademia Dimitri as we explore curiosity, vulnerability, and the joy of spectacular failure. Expect laughter, surprises, and discovery.
👉 Perfect for beginners — no experience needed!
🎯 Ages 18+

🔥 Flop Shop
📅 Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
🕕 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
💸 $30 | Sliding scale options available

Got a piece you’re itching to try? A spark of an idea waiting for an audience? Bring your material (at any stage), share, experiment, and flop gloriously! Guided by Ashley Jones and Katherine Marino, you’ll get encouraging, constructive feedback to help your act grow.

Add $5 if you can help support fellow artists
– Take $5 off if money is tight (no questions asked)

🎟️ Register now!
Play the Fool: https://rochaharoost.as.me/?appointmentType=84046696
Flop Shop: https://rochaharoost.as.me/?appointmentType=75828739

Let’s play, flop, and celebrate clown together! 🎉🤡✨

09/27/2025

ITS PIE TIME
RocHaha’s annual tradition “Pie The Producers” has been going swimmingly (if you’re a certain producer)
Every day, we’re collecting donations to keep the festival rolling, and the producer with the MOST money gets pied in the face TOMORROW during Hairy Business! 🥧😂

Head to the LAST TWO shows Knight Knight and Winning : Winning TONIGHT to cast your deciding vote, then grab your ticket to Hairy Business and watch the chaos unfold!

Ticket Link in Bio!

If you can’t make it in person you can still play! Head to our website and donate there - make sure you tell us who you want Pied!

09/26/2025

Its Tonight! 8.30pm at the MuCCC.
An Evening of Eccentric Comedy - and here’s your eccentric line up

Get ready for a night of laughter, stupidity and idiocy! Featuring the incredible talents of Avner The Eccentric, Avi Pryntz-Nadworny, Isaac Kessler, and Funmi Adejobi, get your tickets now!!

Sliding scale tickets: $10–30
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09/25/2025

🤡🎉 FULL HOUSE for Itchy Clowns Cabaret — the clowns absolutely killed it opening night of RocHaha 2025!
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And this was just night one — 5 more days of clown chaos, workshops, and world-class foolishness ahead. Don’t miss it!
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09/22/2025

It’s close! RocHaha Clown Festival starts tomorrow!
Grab your tickets at rochaha.com and come on down for a week of idiocy, stupidity and urm.. frivolity! sure - that works!
We’re celebrating the subversive, the silly and all things clown!

in the picture!? oh that’s Eno Okung from “A Cosmic Picnic” at last years fest

AND you can see them this year! oh yes, in a double act with Dan Holman fresh from their Rochester Fringe debut in tomorrow nights Itchy Clown Cabaret.

tickets at rochaha.com !Get Them Now!

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09/14/2025

The Itchy Clowns Cabaret is back!

Back by popular demand, the audience favorite of 2024 returns! Come help the clowns scratch that itch in the most important role of all: Audience Member!

This opening-night extravaganza features brand-new, short, experimental works by local & regional artists. Expect genre-bending performances that mix clown, dance, circus, drag, magic and physical theatre.
Hosted by Rochester’s award-winning favorite, Katherine Marino

Tuesday, September 23 at 7PM (ASL interpreted)�
MuCCC – 142 Atlantic Ave, Rochester, NY 14607�
Tickets: Sliding scale $10–$30
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www.rochaha.com/shows

09/12/2025

RocHaha Clown Festival Presents “Hairy Business: An All-Ages Clown Show”! One day only! Sun Sept 28 | 12:30–1:30 PM (ASL Interpreted) MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave, Rochester NY

Root for Rochester favorites Avi Pryntz-Nadworny, Katherine Marino, and Ashley Jones as they weave together this all-ages variety show that includes hat juggling, slapstick comedy, acobatics, mime, fruit, hair, and more!
Perfect for ages 4 to 104, this is the festival’s big family hit.
Tickets at www.rochaha.com/shows

Photos by Avi Pryntz-Nadworny

09/03/2025

Madeleine Rowe is coming to RocHaha Clown Festival! They’re not just bringing their hit show Knight, Knight, they’re also teaching a clown workshop!

Clown To Go Workshop
Sat Sept 27 | 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
At The Auguste RoostPlay games, flop gloriously, and discover your own beautiful stupidity with Madeleine (Gaulier-trained clown, local Medieval knight, and all-around comedy wizard). Open to all levels!
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✨ Knight, Knight ✨
Fri Sept 26 | 7 PM
Sat Sept 27 | 7 PM (ASL interpreted)
MuCCC 142 Atlantic Ave, Rochester NY
Fresh from a sold-out run in NYC and a smash-hit at Edinburgh Fringe, Knight, Knight gallops into RocHaHa! It’s a one-person Medieval romp of courage, grief, brotherhood, and… a suspicious number of horses.

*****NextUP Biggest Award in Comedy Nominee 2024 (UK)*****
*****Artist Pick of the Fringe – Cincy Fringe 2024 (US)*****

Tickets on sale now www.rochaha.com

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142 Atlantic Ave
Rochester, NY
14607

Website

http://www.rochaha.com/

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