LATEST PROJECT
FAREWELL
MY FOOL
Part fable, part manifesto, and part love letter to New York City’s working performers, Farewell My Fool follows JoyBoy da Clown as they spiral through an embarrassing audition that leads them to question their integrity and self esteem.
Based on true events, Farewell My Fool is a physical theater performance that utilizes clowning, humor, and audience participation to interrogate the legacy of exploitation in performance, the failures of ambition, respectability politics, and the power of self-realization.
World premiere on June 12-14, 2025 at Triskleion Arts, this project was made possible by Triskelion Artist In Residence Program and the Foundation For Contemporary Arts.
Created, written, choreographed and performed by JOYBOY
Directed by Christian Warner
Lighting by Connor Sale
Production Direction by Anna Wotring
Voice Acting by Owen Laheen
Original Music by Cleo Reed
Costumes by Atelier Abene
Costume Supervision by Emily Harmse
Photography by Caitlyn Gaurano
Videography by Alice Chacon
WORK IN PROCESS…
Inspired by a trip to the ancient Californian Redwoods and held by the understanding that the state of Earth’s health is intrinsically connected to the state of human life, Imaginitive Futures (working title) is a solo and ongoing project that honors humans connection to nature; creating a container to combat the white supremacist patriarchal belief that natural resources are available for extraction and exploitation rather than humans serving as stewards of said resources. This piece would operate as a manifestation or manifesto of sorts for myself that asks the audience members to question what they dream for the future. Collaborating with climate scientists, athropologists, and movement practionioners, the question is presented: Is there dance and pleasure in connection to our Earth in the future? This piece wants to argue that there is. And it feels really good.
Inspiration also includes the work of artists and scientists such as : Alisa B Wormsley’s “There Are Black People In The Future” (2017), musicians like Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, and Laaraji, and Rob Hopkins “the time traveling enviromentalist”, and anthropologist and evolutionary biologist Ella Al-Shamahi.
This piece is made in support of Brooklyn Arts Exchanges 2025 Space Grant.