Don Colliver is a comedian, improviser, director, writer, and clown. He has toured internationally as clown emcee of Speigelworld’s Empire, performed with Blue Man Group, and is a Cirque du Soleil performer database member.

He has performed at festivals including Coachella and Lightning in a Bottle, and is a member of the Hollywood Fringe award-winning clown troupes Wet the Hippo and Four Clowns.

Don is a founding member of The Innocents clown troupe and the Del Close award-winning mainstage iO sketch team DJ Faucet, performing at the Chicago and San Francisco Sketchfests. His sketches have been featured on Funny Or Die, Huffington Post and Comedy Cake. Don teaches sketch comedy writing and improvisation at the largest tech companies in Silicon Valley.

He originated the lead roles of Butterbeans Arbuckle in Four Clowns’ The Halfwits Last Hurrah (Fringe Award for Best in Physical Theater 2015), Noah in the Four Clowns production of Noah, and Captain Buck in the 60’s space sex farce Wild Space A Go Go.

Don has studied clown with Sue Morrison, Avner Eisenberg, Eric Davis, John Gilkey, David Bridel, Daniel Passer, Paola Coletto and Aitor Basauri, has trained at Tim Robbins’ Actors Gang, and has studied comedy at UCB Advanced Study, Improv Olympic and Second City.