“★★★★★
Anne is a master of her craft and a hilarious joy to watch.”
“★★★★★
Exceptional and moving.”
“★★★★★
It was like you crawled into my brain. I was left sobbing and laughing.”
“★★★★★
So funny, so absurd, so completely relatable.”
“★★★★★
Funny, brilliant, and surprisingly emotional.”
“★★★★★
I’m not a mother, and that didn’t matter. It’s a really beautiful show that moved me.”
“★★★★★
Some of the best clowning I’ve ever seen. Highly recommend.”
“One harrowing year after giving birth to premature twins, I did the only thing I knew to do: I clowned about it. I sobbed it all up from the depths of my gut to the surface of my soft, stretched belly, and I made this silly, serious show; this medicine; this gift to the universe and to you.”
Anne Zander (she/her/hers) is a Portland-based “master of physical comedy,”* a real-life mother of twins, and a clown on a mission to bring people out of the dark corners of isolation into the cathartic light of shared laughter.
A “completely ridiculous… completely vulnerable”* queer, neurodivergent parent, actor, clown, and solo-character creator, she is profoundly influenced by her training in ensemble-based, physical, devised theatre (MA Theatre Lab, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). Zander’s deep interest in rites of passage has led to solo works that capture the body horror, desire/repulsion and tender recognizability of these irreversible life transitions.