Nick Trotter has an MFA (2009) from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. He specializes in Clown, Bouffon, Commedia dell’Arte, and puppetry and is a noted mask and prosthetic designer. He is and adjunct instructor and director in Performing Arts at Community College of Denver, and performs locally as a clown, improviser, puppeteer and comedian. In 2019 he created and performed Idiopathic at the People’s Building, with Saladin Thomas. He has offered classes in mask and movement at The People’s Building since 2018. He has performed nationally and internationally as the clown Ferdinand the Magnificent, including a tour of Chiapas and Tabasco with Clowns Without Borders in 2008. As a member of the comedy duo Third Base! with Jerry Lee Wallace, he produced and performed Myths of the Plastic Age in northern California from 2009-2014. With the theatre/music group Bonejesters, which he co-founded with David Leicht, he performed the original show Bonejesters in 2000 at LaMama ETC in New York, and later that year in Gogol’s The Nose at HERE Arts Center. Their other original repertoire includes Round and Obscurity Knocks.
I don’t know how well I know myself. I don’t even know how I know myself. And after all these years, I’m starting to be OK with that. — Nick