About

 

Maggie is a South West-based clown and comedian, actor, stage director and qualified drama teacher with 35 years in the creative industry. She co-owned theatre company, Eros, for ten years, in Exeter, in the 1980s alongside studying for a Licentiate Acting Diploma with LAMDA and The Guildhall, before eventually going to Plymouth University, as a mature student to undertake a BA in theatre and Performance, prior to becoming a qualified drama teacher.

Introduced to clowning in the first year of her BA degree, she set off to perform and research female clowning. Over the past eighteen years, she has facilitated, directed, and researched comedy and performance and is the first woman in the world to gain an Arts & Humanities Research Council funded, Practice as Research PhD on the process of becoming a female clown. Her research and performance work took her to the Edinburgh Festival and London’s Tate Modern, London, as avant-garde artist Baroness Elsa, the Queen of Dada. 

Her passion for performance, writing comedy, stand up, and clowning saw her lecture and deliver teaching modules and workshops at Theatre Royal, TRP, Plymouth, Winchester University, Plymouth University and Marjon University. She is the first woman to deliver an online feminist clown course to women+ living in Europe, UK, Canada and the USA and to professional business women in the South-West.

Maggie’s clients range from medical professionals from The Royal College of General Practitioners, GP trainers, nurses, university lecturers and students, business people, professionals such as lawyers, solicitors and teachers, writers, comedians, burlesque artists and stand up comedians, including Miss Ivy Paige and poet Robert Garnham.

Her popular and energetic style of teaching has been welcomed at Port Eliot, Stratford-upon-Avon, Penzance and Budleigh Salterton Literary Festivals, since 2018.

Maggie especially enjoys sharing her knowledge and passion for clowning and stand up – particularly feminist clowning by bringing key elements of ‘un-boxing’ and ‘becoming free’ into her workshops.

She is currently editing and developing her PhD thesis: ‘Toward a Female Clown Practice: Transgression, Archetype and Myth’ for publication.

"Loved the whole course. I feel it’s an embryo to something unique, repeatable and fabulous!”

"Loved the techniques. Maggie was lovely, relaxed and inspiring."

"Fast-paced and encouraging."