SHOWS
STAR TROT: NIGHT ON ASS MOUNTAIN (BCC Level 3 Clown Class Show) | ERIS MAINSTAGE | Tues September 2 and Tues September 9 at 7pm
THE PEOPLE’S NOSE (BCC Level 1 Clown Class Show) | ERIS DEEP SPACE | Wed September 3 at 7pm
SAUNA CLOWNS (BCC Level 1 Clown Class Show) | PIG PEN THEATER | Sun September 7 at 7pm
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it every day: our clown students at Brooklyn Comedy Collective put on consistently amazing work. Catch them while you can <3
IDIOTS HOUR | BAKER FALLS NYC | W September 24 at 8pm | When people ask where to see clown in NYC, I say Idiots Hour, because you’ll get a wide spectrum of flying and flops. I wonder which one I’ll do. Playing alongside my collabradoodle Alexey Novikov
CLASSES
CLOWN FOR IMPROVISERS: BK, NY IDIOT MACHINE- Saturday 30 August - 12pm to 4pm | Tallie and Micah have put their demented minds together to craft the workshop to end all workshops. Get ready to explore physicality, vulnerability, and fearlessness to elevate your scenes and unlock stage presence. Perfect for improvisers looking to dip their toes into clowning and ready to take bold risks. To sign up, email micahsterenberg@gmail.com and venmo $75 to @micah-sterenberg
CLOWN DROPPING: HARTFORD, CT SEA TEA IMPROV - Saturday 6 September - 2pm to 5pm | It’s a clown workshop and it’s in Hartford, CT and it’ll be a dang blast
BASICS OF CLOWN: ENDGAMES COMEDY FESTIVAL SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Thursday 11 September - 7pm to 10pm | If I wasn’t teaching I’d be attending my co-teacher Chris Manley’s workshop What’re you gonna do with all that shame? Tell your Bay Area baybays. We’re so excited to be there
CLOWN DROPPING: LOS ANGELES THE CLUBHOUSE LA CA - Tuesday 16 September & Wednesday 17 September - 1pm to 4pm | I’m so looking forward to being back in LA. Tell all the people, let’s pack it out! Wednesday after class, we can all run over to Playspace at the Elysian where I’ll be guest-directing.
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST. BIG EYES, NICE TEACHER. 5’0. NYC
Tallie Medel is an educator, clown and award-winning actor based in New York City. They starred as Joy’s girlfriend Becky in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE and they have big, juicy eyeballs. Born and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, Tallie has taught at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Film Study Center at Harvard University, Emerson College, and the School of Visual Arts. Medel is one-third of alt-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team.
“When Evelyn finally tells Gong Gong who Becky really is, his face alights with wonder, repeating the Chinese word for girlfriend. Becky smiles through tears back at him in a way that could break and heal a heart at the same time. ‘When you’re queer, when you’re trans, I think our families are so concerned about protecting us that they’re the ones who are hurting us,’ Medel says. ‘Being able to live as you are means having to be incredibly vulnerable, but it also means you’re able to meet people at their best.’”
UPCOMING SHOWS
4/10 CRANK THAT CLOWN
9:30pm Pine Box Rock Shop - 12 Grattan Street - Brooklyn, New York
If you get to Pine Box at 7pm, you get a marathon of clown, and I’m very much there for the whole night
4/13 TENURE
7pm Eris Deep Space - 167 Graham Avenue - Brooklyn, New York
TENURE is BCC’s monthly faculty improv show, and I look forward to it every time. The goal is sabotage, improv wild-style, and it ends with a pleasingly equitable student-teacher jam. Did you know I was the co-president of my long-form college improv team? Honey, I’ll prove it to you
4/19 & 4/26 NOW THAT’S ¡BOLERO!
8:30pm Eris MainStage - 167 Graham Avenue - Brooklyn, New York
My advanced level students have an astonishing production for you. It’s a garden of delights just in time for spring
4/27 WELCOME TO CLOWN TOWN CLASS SHOW - link coming later to brooklyncc.com so get ready
7pm Eris Deep Space - 167 Graham Avenue - Brooklyn, New York
Introduction to Clown is what started it all. I’m proud to say I am the biological parent of every single one of these students*
5/23 through 6/07 - The leg.
12 shows, all at 8pm - Mitu580 - 580 Sackett Street Unit A – Brooklyn, NY
A Devised Dance Theater Piece
Conceived by Sophie Amieva & Katerina Marcelja
Directed by Sophie Amieva
This has been wildly fun to devise alongside exquisite performers. Gonna be good. Get tickets, linked above
“Tallie Medel, a diminutive Alaskan actress-dancer with Alita-like eyes, whose special qualities have so far been underutilized by American cinema [...] turns in a marvelous, utterly engaging portrait of an intelligent, caring person slowly stretched to breaking point.”
“With the Oscars expanding its horizons this year, it’ll be interesting to see if anyone gives worthier performances than Tallie Medel as a frustrated teacher’s aid, and Norma Kuhling as her magnetic but unstable childhood friend.”
“Like his last film, Sallitt’s latest features Tallie Medel in the lead, truly one of the most evocative and interesting actresses working in American cinema, one whose huge eyes, moppet haircut, and small stature allow for clownishly expressive behavior akin to Giulietta Masina.”
“As the quiet center of Fourteen, Tallie Medel builds on her previous, already considerable collaboration with Dan Sallitt to produce a performance suffused with the weight of responsibility. Through both her character’s attempts to support her unstable friend, played by a similarly magnificent Norma Kuhling, and her romantic life and young motherhood, Medel undergoes a profound transformation while never losing an essential sense of ambivalence born from care, serving as a brilliant and expressive anchor. ”
“Tallie Medel as Mara pierces you with a simultaneous sense of awe and guardedness as she loves a friend who needs more than she could ever give. ”
Praise for JOY KEVIN (Caleb Johnson, 2014)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE, 2014 Sarasota Film Festival
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE, 2014 NoBudge Awards
“Medel runs the emotional gauntlet in Johnson’s debut, all within a rather short time period; she brilliantly weaves her way through a number of mindstates, always with energy and honesty, segueing from honeymoon stage to artistic expression to self-doubt to creative/existential crisis, and finally to a woman fed-up unleashing pent-up anger while double-fisting tequila and Corona. Perhaps, this year’s best.”
Praise for THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt, 2012)
CRITIC’S PICKS: THE TOP 10 BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCES OF 2013 ACCORDING TO INDIEWIRE’S FILM CRITIC
“Medel is a remarkable young actress who conveys Jackie’s complicated thought processes and emotional responses—both subtle and bold—with fluidity and a total lack of self-consciousness.”
“[A] remarkable showcase for newcomer Tallie Medel […] The wild-eyed Medel suggests a young Christina Ricci, but Jackie exists in a class of her own: Her affluent background allows for a character both wise beyond her years and hopelessly trapped in them. “I’m prematurely old,” she whines — but unlike, say, Juno, she’s not snarky about it. There’s an intensity to Medel’s performance that makes it both creepy and totally authentic at once.”