2026 Program
Montreal
Clown
Festival
9th edition: April 10-18, 2026
Gala Cabaret
Date: Friday April 10- 7:30 PM
Venue: Gesù
Audience: All ages – Bilingual, LSQ interpretation
Directed by Joe de Paul
Bold, brilliant, and delightfully ridiculous, the Gala Cabaret is the festival’s signature event—and not to be missed.
Les p’tites polisses en servisse
Free show
Date: Saturday April 11 – 3:00 PM
Venue: Maison de la Culture Claude-Léveillée
Audience: All Ages, Non verbal
Written, directed and performed by Dominique Grenier & Marie-Michèle Pharand
Co-Presentation La Maison de la Culture Claude Léveillée & MTL Clowns
Colonial Circus
Date: Saturday 11 April – 8 PM
Venue: La Risée
Audience: 18+ English Non Verbal
Created and performed by Shreya Parashar & Sachin Sharma (Two2Mango)
An immersive comedy led by two clowns who draw you in—with playfulness and a wink—into the history of colonization.
Creepy Boys
Date: Tuesday April 14 – 8 PM
Venue: La Sala Rossa
Audience: 18+ English
Created and performed by Sam Kruger & S.E. Grummett. Directed by Deanna Fleysher.
2025 Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominees, the cult-duo, Creepy Boys, arrive in Montreal for their 100th performance of their self titled show.
Madame vous déteste
Date: Wednesday April 15 – 8 PM
Venue: La Sotterenea
Audience: 18+ French
Les Talons Fous
A clownish, physical creation in a bouffon style, where pain becomes material for play and transformation. Roles of dominance are overturned and twisted around a dance pole, among other things…
En Attendant Oedipe
Free show
Date: April 16 – 7:30 PM
Venue: Maison de la Culture Claude-Léveillée
Audience: 12+ French
Written, directed and performed by François Blouin. Co-Presentation La Maison de la Culture Claude Léveillée & MTL Clowns.
It’s about Oedipus, father, mother, love, freedom, monsters, teaching, Freud & Jung…
Le Grand Imbécile
Date: Friday April 17 – 9 PM
Venue: La Toscadura
Audience: 18+ Bilingual, LSQ interprétation
The Montreal Clown Festival presents the Grand Imbecile, our signature show ready to electrify the audience on its second Friday night with high-energy antics, eccentric performances, and pure fun!
Les Billy-croquettes
Date: Saturday April 18 – 1 PM
Venue: Le MEM-Centre des Mémoires Montréalaises
Audience: For ages 3 to 6, French
Josette Lépine (Les sœurs kif-kif)
Join us for an afternoon Cabaret! Les Billy-croquettes is a small circus band made up of an accordionist and her mechanical animals.
Dirt Trip
Date: Saturday April 18 – 8 PM
Venue: Le MEM-Centre des Mémoires Montréalaises
Audience: English
Created and performed par Alex Tatarsky. Music by Shane Riley.
A decomposing lecture-performance on the connections between clowns and compost, featuring a court jester who would rather be a rotting vegetable…
Discussion Day
Date: Sunday April 12 – 11:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m.
Venue: Gesù (Espace Custeau)
Audience: Professionals, Artists, Academics and Clown Curious
In partnership with Dr. Clown Foundation
Clown Workshop
Date: April 13 2026
Facilitated by Catherine Cédilot, this workshop offers a combination of foundational exercises drawn from different approaches to clowning and performance. Each exercise is designed to place vulnerability at the service of one’s craft and creativity as a performing artist.
Clown Workshop
Date: April 19 & 20
Facilitated by Alex Tatarsky. In collaboration with École de Clown et Comédie Zani.
A two-day immersive workshop. Alex is a clown expert in decomposition, absurdity, and poetic chaos…
Clown Audition
Date: April 16 & 17
Cirque du Soleil Workshop/Audition for clowns and physical actors.
Contemporary clowns – physical actors – comic actors – mimes – comedians – drag clowns – other acting disciplines (masked play, Commedia dell’arte, etc.).
By Invitation. Deadline February 25, 2026.
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