CAROL LEE SIRUGO (AEA, SAG-AFTRA) is an actor, clown/physical comedienne, writer, director, teacher and coach. Her directing credits include: Voice of Authority (Frigid Fringe Festival, East to Edinburgh Festival at 59E59 and Edinburgh Fringe); How to Suffer Better (Edinburgh Fringe, Edmonton Fringe, FringeNYC, SOLOCOM at the PIT); My Little Friend (Eclectic Evening of Shorts at Artistic New Directions); Killing it! (Amazon Prime); Take Away with Max Roche (upcoming web series).

Off and Off-Off Broadway acting credits include: High Priest of California (29th St. Rep.); Pip’s Island (original workshop production @ 3-Legged Dog); Clown Play (FringeNYC); Dick Whittington (Dixon Place); Rat Bastards (Dixon Place); Metro (Bushwick Starr). She has toured the Canadian International Fringe Festival Circuit many times with her new work, including: This Town (MEDIA CHOICE AWARD, Saskatoon Fringe); The Hysteric (BEST OF FEST Winner, Winnipeg Fringe), Carry’s Nation, Girls on Top, Nice Guy!

As a theatrical clown, she has performed duo and solo work at various festivals and venues across NYC including: SOLOCOM at the PIT, Comedy in Dance Festival at Triskelion Arts, Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Night at Dixon Place, Move It Festival at HERE Arts Center, The Int’l Clown Festival at The Brick Theater, Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival at Emerging Artists Theatre and The NY Downtown Clown Revue at the Kraine Theater.

Film and Web Series acting credits include: Creating Karma (co-writer, Best Feature Comedy Winner, Broad Humor Film Festival), The Ridiculous Romantic (Best Silent Film, Coney Island Film Festival), Fairy Tales Investigated and We Don’t Have Gays in Ghana.

Carol is the founding member of the touring company Found in New York Productions. A native New Yorker and graduate of LaGuardia High School of the Arts, she received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She attended the National Theater Institute Program at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center as well as their overseas program at the Guildhall School in London and Trinity College in Dublin.

She teaches Comic Gold Clown Workshops in NYC and has taught these workshops to high school students through theater programs such as Amas Musical Theatre and Opening Act. She has been a guest teacher to conservatory students at the Atlantic Acting School, circus artists at the Muse Brooklyn and puppeteers at the Puppet Showplace Theater in the Boston area.

Carol is also a private coach and comedy consultant. She has recently been interviewed for Behind the Nose, an upcoming book on clown teachers from around the world. She is currently writing and directing The Honest Fraud: a Clown Tragedy.