Club Clown
A Stupid, Sexy Party Invented by Will Thomas McFadden
JUNE 2026
in the Hollywood Fringe
Sat, 6/6 @ 9:30pm (Preview)
Fri, 6/12 @
11:30pm
Sun, 6/14 @ 4pm
Wed, 6/17 @ 7pm
Sat, 6/20 @ 5pm
Wed, 6/24 @ 8:30pm
Sat, 6/27 @ 11:30pm
Tickets: $15 | Buy Tickets Now (This link takes you to the Hollywood Fringe site.)
Masking policy below.
WORLD PREMIERE! Club Clown is the hottest, most exclusive nightclub in town - full of the funniest, sexiest people at Fringe! Shhh... don't tell anyone.
Sacred Fools Theater Company is thrilled to present this live directed clown experience, hosted by Will McFadden, which will feature new award-winning fringe performers each show! Who knows who might make an appearance. Kim K? Chalamet? Steven Segal? Probably not, but anything is possible at Club Clown. Because in the clerb, we all clowns.
Digital Program
"RECOMMENDED. It's a total spontaneous, psychedelic lit, screwball, costumed character, dance party, sing along, celebrity attended, love fest. Anything can happen and does... CLUB CLOWN is incomprehensible, frivolous fun." -Gia On The Move
"...consistently funny, impressively constructed, and completely committed to its own joyful sense of nonsense... If you are curious about how you can participate in joy as an act of rebellion against the world around us, Club Clown is a must-see." -Mike-Check
Performing on the Broadwater Mainstage (Entrance at 1076 Lillian Way)
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MASKING POLICY
THE USE OF MASKS IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. THE BOX OFFICE WILL BE ABLE TO OFFER SOME MASKS FOR FREE BUT PLEASE COME PREPARED.
STAY HOME IF YOU ARE ILL: If you or someone in your group doesn't feel well, has exhibited symptoms of COVID-19 or has been in contact with someone with COVID-19 in the previous 10 days, we ask that you make alternate arrangements to attend at a later date. Contact us via the Fringe site to change your reservation.
Cast & crew are tested before all rehearsals and performances. The Broadwater's performance spaces have been upgraded to MERV filtration to comply with clean air standards.
Cast
Recurring Club Crew:
Byron Coolie
Sidney Edwards
Julia Finch
Ali Grusell
Scott Leggett
Alan Linic
Will Thomas McFadden
Zander Raphael
Molly Sharpe
Riley Smith
Mark Vigeant
Plus special Guest Stars:
George Aivaliotis
Serena Anis
Max Charbonneau
Meg Cheng
Geri
Courtney-Austein
Charlie Day
Nora Dell
Alex Derderian [Alexandra
Derderian]
Aidan Flynn
Kristen Hansen
Bonnie He
Molly Koch
Kathleen Leary
Marisa Llamas
Michael Lyons
Natasha Mercado
Katie Oliver
Emma
Irene Olson
Sophie Power
Trevor Reece
Irene Serrano
Anděl Sudik
Tom Szymanski
Tozy
Jill Young
Crew
Produced for Sacred Fools by Sidney Edwards & Scott Leggett
Stage Manager - Matthew Steward
Original Music - Scott Simons
Key Art - Michelle
Hanzelova
Key Art Photography - Will Thomas McFadden
Audience Raves
"The preview felt like what I'd hope a final show to be. They crushed it! So fun!! Just a joy fest!"
"Great idea! So much fun! ...love the creativity, sense of play, and generosity! Highlight of the week!"
"Club clown was SO MUCH FUN! Loved every minute of it. Will as the host is uproariously funny, SEXY and endearing. And the club clowns are all equally hysterical. If you want to let loose, and have some fun - this is your show."
"I really enjoyed how there was a structure to the show but also clearly a lot of improvising and unpredictability. The audience was totally engaged. I laughed really hard and had a great time."
Reviews
Gia On The Move
"RECOMMENDED. Hosted by the utterly-fabulous-from-curtain up Will McFadden... It's a total spontaneous, psychedelic lit, screwball, costumed character, dance party, sing along, celebrity attended, love fest. Anything can happen and does... CLUB CLOWN is incomprehensible, frivolous fun."
--Tracey Paleo
Ⓒ 2026 Gia On The Move
FULL REVIEW
Mike-Check
We Must Risk Delight: A Review of Club Clown
Club Clown is less a traditional show and more of an experience: a surreal, wildly interactive celebration of laughter, music, improvisation, and the simple joy of allowing yourself to be ridiculous with a room full of strangers.
"We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not
delight. Not enjoyment."
Jack Gilbert, "A Brief for the Defense"
When you walk into Club Clown, you are handed a neon glowing wand, your magic tool for interacting with the show and its performers, and greeted with a warm welcome to what is billed as the most exclusive nightclub in Los Angeles. At least, that is the premise of Sacred Fools Theater Company's latest offering at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival.
What happens next is harder to describe, mostly because this is the kind of show you should experience with an open mind and a willingness to get caught up in its delightful absurdity. Will Thomas McFadden created, directs, and hosts the production, a surreal and highly interactive clown experience featuring a rotating cast of some of Los Angeles's most talented improvisers and Fringe performers.
Produced by Sidney Edwards and Scott Leggett, the show promises a different lineup each night, meaning no two performances will ever be exactly alike. McFadden serves as the master of ceremonies and the audience's guide through the chaos. A masterful raconteur, he has the difficult task of making an increasingly unpredictable evening remain cohesive. He keeps the room engaged from the moment the audience arrives, confidently steering the night through more than an hour of comedy, music, audience interaction, and wonderfully strange characters.
I am hesitant to reveal too much because discovering the world of Club Clown is part of the fun. The less you know going in, the more rewarding it will be to surrender yourself to the experience. What I can say is that the show is consistently funny, impressively constructed, and completely committed to its own joyful sense of nonsense.
Less a traditional show and more of an effervescent, slightly fever-dream-like experience, that is to say, this doesn't still have all the makings of a great production. The rotating cast is excellent. The direction is confident. The technical cues are timed well and keep the evening moving smoothly, while the superb music keeps the vibe intact. Even when the show seems to be gleefully spiraling out of control, it never feels off the rails. The performers make great use of the Broadwater Main Stage, and the audience becomes an essential part of the performance rather than a group of passive observers.
To my delight, I found it exceedingly wholesome and almost healing to be in a room full of strangers who had collectively agreed to wave glowing wands, laugh loudly, embrace the ridiculous, and fully participate in the experience together. The phrase "joy is an act of resistance" has not left my mind since seeing the show. For about an hour and a half, the production allows you to push back against the terrors of the world outside the theatre through laughter, music, play, and the simple act of being present with the people around you.
We are living through a moment when many of our neighbors are afraid to walk outside their doors because of ICE enforcement. Trans people and the broader LGBTQ+ community are being targeted by a government increasingly comfortable using fear, exclusion, and Christian nationalist rhetoric as tools of control. The world gives us no shortage of reasons to feel exhausted, angry, and overwhelmed. In that context, Club Clown feels like balm for the soul. I left the theatre feeling renewed and in a much better mood than when I arrived.
By the end of the show, the separation between the performers and the audience disappears. The room begins to hum in unison, feeling almost like an impromptu congregation. Not an act of worship per se, but something certainly adjacent to it: a group of strangers briefly gathered together in celebration of the strange, the silly, and the deeply human need to experience joy together.
If this message resonates with you and you are curious about how you can participate in joy as an act of rebellion against the world around us, Club Clown is a must-see. Each performance features a different rotating cast of Fringe performers, making it worth visiting more than once for a fresh, unique experience.
For anyone interested in exploring these ideas more deeply, I also recommend the NPR podcast Code Switch episode "Is Joy an Act of Resistance?" hosted by Leah Donnella and B.A. Parker. The episode thoughtfully explores what it means to treat joy as a tool for social change, especially when joy itself can feel increasingly difficult to access. I also enjoyed diving into adrienne maree brown's Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, a thoughtful exploration of pleasure, joy, and liberation.
--Michael Reyes
Ⓒ 2026
Mike-Check
