Wolfe Bowart
Wolfe Bowart (born May 28, 1962) is a modern-day physical comedian, actor and playwright. Wolfe Bowart is the son of counterculturalist Walter Bowart and Linda Dugmore, daughter of abstract expressionist Edward Dugmore.
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[edit] Letter's End
Bowart’s production Letter's End is a take on the lost-letter office. Letter's End made its U.S. premiere in January 2009 in Tucson, Arizona.[1] Bowart's company SpoonTree Productions was awarded a grant from the Australian government to tour Letter's End nationally in 2009. The tour spanned five and a half months and incorporated 43 venues and 91 performances (hear review[2]). In August 2010, Letter's End was nominated for a Helpmann Award in the category of Best Touring Production.[3]
[edit] LaLaLuna
In 2006, Bowart presented LaLaLuna, a surreal tale about the night the light went out in the moon, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre during the production’s first Australian tour. Critic Fergus Shiel of The Age proclaimed the show “luminously inventive and magically silly” and Ari Sharp of The Program wrote “Bowart is the ultimate physical performer. He has a breathtaking awareness of his own body, and glides effortlessly across the stage with balletic skill. His sleight-of-hand is magnificent and fits in so neatly that you sometimes barely notice that it’s there, which allows the audience to be swept away in the dreamy mystique that Bowart seeks to create.”[4]
In 2007, LaLaLuna made its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the London International Mime Festival (see review[5]). Bowart also undertook a 40-performance national tour of Australia, and presented LaLaLuna at the Volos International Festival in Greece.[6] In 2008, Bowart performed LaLaLuna in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Greece and Brazil[7] and returned to Australia for seasons in Sydney (see review[8]), Hobart and in Melbourne at the Melbourne Arts Centre. Bowart’s 2009 UK tour included performances at the Theatre Royal, Bath, where LaLaLuna headlined the inaugural Family Theatre Festival. In 2010, Bowart premiered LaLaLuna in New Zealand and Austria, and returned to the UK, where the production was part of the Brighton Festival (curated that year by Brian Eno), and the Salisbury International Arts Festival.[citation needed]
[edit] The Shneedles
As artistic director and co-creator of The Shneedles, Bowart, together with fellow clown Bill Robison, have performed in Japan, Singapore, Australia (see review[9]), Germany, Austria, Spain, Iceland and the U.S. The Shneedles most recently completed a 6-month season in Germany in 2007 for GOP-Varieté Theaters.[citation needed]
[edit] Collaborations
Bowart has co-written several motion picture and television screenplays on assignment, including “eye-see-you.com,” the season finale episode of the television series The Net for the USA Network, which aired in March 1999.[10]
[edit] Actor/Director/Artist
As an actor in the U.S., Bowart has guest-starred on TV programs on ABC, CNBC, the Disney Channel and PBS. On the stage, he has performed in such productions as Moon Over Madness[11] at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood, and in The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite[12] at the Mark Taper Forum.
[edit] References
- ^ Rogelio Olivas, "Letter's End delivers physical theatre to Tucson", Tucson Citizen, January 21, 2009
- ^ Wendy Brazil, "Theatre Review - Letter's End", ArtSound FM, May 1, 2009
- ^ “Nominations for 2010 Helpmann Awards Announced”, Australian Stage, August 3, 2010
- ^ Ari Sharp, “Melbourne International Comedy Festival: LaLaLuna”, The Program, April 24, 2006
- ^ Liz Aratoon, “LaLaLuna”, The Stage, January 29, 2007
- ^ Sandra Voulari, “International Volos Festival makes Comeback”, Kathimerini, December 7, 2007
- ^ Miguel Arcanjo Prado, "Norte-americano diverte crianças e adultos com "LaLaLuna" no FIT-BH", Folha Online, July 6, 2008
- ^ Brett Casben, "LaLaLuna", Australian Stage, April 16, 2008
- ^ Alison Cotes, “Luggage, The Shneedles”, Stage Diary, June 22, 2005
- ^ "The Net" (1998)
- ^ Christopher Meeks, “Moon Over Madness”, Variety, June 20, 1994
- ^ Julio Martinez, “New Theatre for Now”, Variety, May 9, 1997
