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.