Joel Jeske
Joel Jeske
Joel Jeske is a physical comedian, director, and teacher. He created and starred in the 38th and 40th productions of New York’s Big Apple Circus entitled The Grand Tour and the Big Apple Circus’s 40th Anniversary.
Joel is the associate artistic director of the physical theatre company Parallel Exit. He created and starred in Parallel Exit’s Off-Broadway hits This Way That Way, Cut To The Chase, Room 17B, Exit! Stage Left!, and Everybody Gets Cake; and was nominated for a Drama Desk award in 2008, 2010, 2015 for those productions.
As a clown, Joel toured and created clown acts for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Cirque Du Soleil, and hosted The Big Apple Circus 2006-07 production of Step Right Up. Internationally, Joel starred at the GOP Variete with his variety creation: EXIT!, co-starred with comedian Peter Shub at the Apollo Variete/Dusseldorf, and headlined Festival Der Traume in Innsbruck, Austria, and the COS Festival in Reus, Spain.
Joel was most recently seen in New York in his one man show, The Artist Will Be With You In A Moment, combining physical comedy with the world of modern art. Check out Joel and the show at www.parallelexit.com