RocHaha Clown Festival

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RocHaha Clown Festival 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 theatre, 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.

And that’s a wrap on RocHaha 2026! 32 clowns graced our stage. They made us laugh, made us cry, sang, spoke, provoked us...
10/12/2026

And that’s a wrap on RocHaha 2026!

32 clowns graced our stage. They made us laugh, made us cry, sang, spoke, provoked us and made us think. A clown can shine a light on the world and help us laugh at it.

We’ve had an amazing time bringing this festival to Rochester. To our artists, audiences, volunteers and everyone who helped make it happen: thank you for joining us on this ridiculous, beautiful journey.

And how do we finish a week of laughter, vulnerability and community???

By throwing a pie in a producer’s face. Obviously.

Here’s your loser… or your winner… of PIE THE PRODUCERS 2026. The distinction feels a little slippery.

More photos to come! Keep and eye out

With love and pies!
Until next time
RocHaha

Photography: Stage & Event Photography by Kat Kuo

IT’S TIME - IT’S TONIGHTTHEY ARE ON THEIR WAY8 clowns from the stages, basements, streets and bodega stores of NYC are d...
10/10/2026

IT’S TIME - IT’S TONIGHT
THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY

8 clowns from the stages, basements, streets and bodega stores of NYC are descending onto Rochester for one night only.

It’s tonight.

A showcase of the best modern clown acts with
appearances from regulars of UCB, Second City, Idiots Hour and Edinburgh Fringe.

Expect a racy, raucous, adults-only collision of clown, comedy, chaos, and questionable decisions. A rotating lineup of NYC performers brings their weirdest and wildest material to RocHaha for one night of after-hours mayhem.

Line-up includes
Aurora O
Hannah Marias
Eddie Tarr
Mike McFadden
Kento Morita
Jess Westman
Travis Nichols
Nikke Denton

DO NOT MISS THIS

Shows $10–$30
Tickets → link in bio
Part of RocHaha 2026 • October 3-11

10/09/2026

Meet Travis Nichols!
Another Clown to be invading Rochester from the dark climates of New York City…

Travis Nichols is a writer and Illustrator and if you want to know more.. you’re gonna have to come on down to the RocHaha Late Night Show

THE NYC CLOWN INVASION
9.30pm
The MuCCC
ASL Interpreted

A showcase of the best modern clown acts from the stages and streets of NYC.
Appearances from regulars of UCB, Second City, Idiots Hour and Edinburgh Fringe.

Expect a racy, raucous, adults-only collision of clown, comedy, chaos, and questionable decisions. A rotating lineup of NYC performers brings their weirdest, wildest material to RocHaha for one night of after-hours mayhem.

Shows $10–$30
Tickets → link in bio
Part of RocHaha 2026 • October 3–11

PUSH Physical Theatre’s Generic Male is kicking off our Saturday evening performance program!The Rochester based touring...
10/09/2026

PUSH Physical Theatre’s Generic Male is kicking off our Saturday evening performance program!

The Rochester based touring theatre company was founded in 2000s by Husband and Wife duo Darren and Heather Stevenson.

Generic Male: Just What We Need Another Show About Men is their off-broadway multi-award winning show, devised in collaboration with Ashley Jones!
(who also just so happens to be our festival producer)

The show has toured all around the US, the UK and has played on your favorite stages in Rochester ever since 2021! They’ve been at Geva, JCC, the Little and now the Generic Males are taking on the MuCCC for RocHaha.

If you haven’t seen it yet, then you’ve got it! and if you have…bring someone who hasn’t!

Join these “clowns” as they attempt to tear down the patriarchy while dancing merrily on the rubble.

Generic Male: Just What We Need Another Show About Men
6pm
MuCCC

LIMITED TICKETS LEFT - Don’t Wait!

Shows $10–$30
Tickets → link in bio
Part of RocHaha 2026 • October 3–11

10/08/2026

POUR QUOI?!
We don’t know, Eddie.
We genuinely don’t know.

Meet EDDIE TARR - one of the clowns invading Rochester for NYC CLOWN INVASION: Late Night at RocHaha.

He’s coming up from NYC.
He’s bringing clown.
He’s bringing questions … in French.

NYC Clown Invasion is a late-night showcase of some of the best modern clown acts crawling out of the stages, streets, basements and questionable back rooms of New York City - featuring Eddie and other regulars from UCB, Second City, Idiots Hour and Edinburgh Fringe.

Will things get out of hand?
Oui.

NYC CLOWN INVASION
MuCCC
Saturday, October 10
9:30PM

It’s gonna get wild.

10/08/2026

RED BASTARD OPENS TONIGHT!

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS YET!?

Dangerous. Seductive. Hilarious. And completely UNPREDICTABLE.

The one and only RED BASTARD is descending on Rochester for TWO NIGHTS ONLY, and trust us, you do NOT want to miss this.

OCTOBER 8 + 9 | 8:30 PM
MuCCC, Rochester, NY

THERE’S STILL TIME! Grab your tickets at the link in our bio.

Part of RocHaha Clown Festival 2026
Tickets $10-$30

Our second workshop of RocHaha 2026!Train with the joyful Victoria Watson Sepejak!CREATING & DESTROYING!!Saturday Octobe...
10/07/2026

Our second workshop of RocHaha 2026!
Train with the joyful Victoria Watson Sepejak!

CREATING & DESTROYING!!
Saturday October 10 at 10am-2pm

DUMB FUN! WITH KENDALL SAVAGE
Saturday, October 10
2-5PM
The Auguste Roost, Rochester

Three hours dedicated to the serious business of being very, very stupid.

Learn the principles of play with Kendall Savage. This three hour workshop will connect you with the joys of engaging in ridiculous play, anarchistic freedom, and good old dumb clown fun.
No experience necessary.
Show up with an open mind and an open heart.

Kendall Savage is a multi award winning clown, founder and former Artistic Director of MTL Clown Festival who has dedicated her life to the pursuit of clowning for over 20 years.

Savage has studied with the greatest clown masters in the world, including Mike Kennard and John Turner (Mump and Smoot), Jan Henderson, Aitor Basauri (Spy Monkey), Jon Davison, and Philippe Gaulier to name a few. Currently she is in pre-production of her show Night Shift, set to be showcased in Las Vegas 2027.

You can see her on Season 2 of Working Moms, and KITH Season 6.

Workshops - $40-$80 sliding scale
Tickets → link in bio
Part of RocHaha 2026 • October 3-11

Workshops - $40-$80 sliding scale
Tickets → link in bio
Part of RocHaha 2026 • October 3-11

10/07/2026

DON’T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT.
Or Victoria’s, for that matter.

Some previous RocHaha festival favorites have weighed in on exactly why you should grab tickets for Victoria Watson Sepejak’s POEMS FOR GOD at RocHaha 2026.

This Friday at 7PM
This Saturday at 7:30PM

Come see what all the fuss is about.

Tickets in bio. Or head to rochaha.com

So how exactly to do you create as a clown.. Victoria has all the answers!So join them at RocHaha 2026 to CREATE IT. DE...
10/06/2026

So how exactly to do you create as a clown.. Victoria has all the answers!

So join them at RocHaha 2026 to CREATE IT. DESTROY IT. MAKE IT AGAIN.

Victoria Watson Sepejak’s workshop - CREATING & DESTROYING !!

A clown / performance / writing / moving / laughing / loving workshop all about making work quickly, trusting your instincts, and refusing to get precious about your ideas.

Play. Devise. Present. Rework.
You’ll create bits in record time, get into your body, follow your own unique sense of play and the once you’ve made something you like… you BLOW IT ALL UP and try again.

Get in your head… and THEN get the heck outta it.

All levels welcome. Come ready to copy, distort, commit and play.

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142 Atlantic Ave
Rochester, NY
14607

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