WHO IS BILLY THE MIME?
Billy The Mime has amazed audiences and made them think for many years. Billy has garnered national attention in Time Magazine, Variety, Rolling Stone and The Washington Post due to his show stopping performance in the smash hit documentary The Aristocrats. (Dir. Paul Provenza)
Billy The Mime is a true artist who is not afraid to tackle controversial subject matter and stretch the very boundaries of the art of mime with such routines as Dreams Of A Young Crippled Boy, JFK JR. We Hardly Knew Ye, The Abortion, The Man Who Got AIDS In San Francisco, Slave!, Close To Her: Memories of Karen Carpenter, World War II, Terry Schiavo - Adieu, A Day Called 9/11, and The Little Clown. He believes that the art of mime can address many of the social ills and problems that plague us today; addressing current events pulled straight from today’s headlines as well as historical events and people. (Billy The Mime is not affiliated with Bili The Mime.)
Billy the Mime Training and Background:
Billy The Mime has studied with the great French mime genius Marcel Marceau’s celebrated student, Thomas Cirimele and America’s Foremost Mime, Richmond Sheppard. Billy also studied clown and mask work with James Donlon and circus skills with the late, great Hovey Burgess. In addition to his solo mime work Billy was a co-founder of the Fresno Mime Troupe, Faxus Mime Menagerie, The Mime Corporation and was a member of Mimes R Us. Billy The Mime also performs as his clown alter ago “Allen The Clown”.
Billy The Mime began his life as a mime performing on the street a la famous mime Robert Shields of Shields & Yarnell. He has toured extensively throughout numerous places performing mime for elementary, middle and high schools, (Hoover High School - five curtain calls!), in addition to churches, conventions, libraries, retirement communities and night clubs. When not performing Billy’s hobbies include painting, raising beagles, playing guitar and he is not married.
“Silently offensive!”
USA Today
“Pet-unfriendly mime!”
Entertainment Weekly
“The kind of Mime you don’t want to kill”
Jimmy Kimmel
“The mime is a standout!”
Newsweek
“For mature audiences only”
Newsday
“The most original contributions (to the movie The Aristocrats) are made by Billy The Mime, who manages to relate the essence of the joke without a word!”
Variety
