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July 16th Upright Citizen Brigade Theater Los Angeles LIVE!

Funny! Twisted! Chilling! New York Times

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BILLY THE MIME
Billy The Mime garnered international attention with his show stopping appearance in the hit documentary THE ARISTOCRATS.

Billy's television appearances include The Jimmy Kimmel Show on ABC and Penn & Teller's Bullshit! on Showtime. He recently appeared at The 2006 New York International Fringe Festival garnering rave reviews and sold-out shows. He returned to New York for a Fringe Encore ˇ§Best of the Festivalˇ¨ at The Lion Theater at Theater Row.

He presented five sold-out shows at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in 2006 and recently appeared at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles and New York. Other appearances include The Aspen Comedy Festival, The Revolutions International Theater Festival in New Mexico and a critically acclaimed seven week run at The Sacred Fools Theater in Los Angeles.

Billy has taken master classes with Marcel Marceau, in addition to studying with Flip Reade, clown and mask work with James Donlon and circus skills with Hovey Burgess at Ringling Brother's Barnum & Bailey's Clown College.

BILLY THE MIME
Billy has rejuvenated an art form that has been justly ridiculed due to untrained and amateur practitioners and he has restored its ability to entertain, amuse, shock, and move an audience. Billy is not afraid to tackle controversial subject matter with such routines as JFK JR. We Hardly Knew Ye, The Abortion, The Life & Death of Princess Di, San Francisco: 1979, Slave!, Close To Her: Karen Carpenter, World War II, Kurt Cobain: Why?, The Priest and The Altar Boy, A Day Called 9/11, Columbine: School's Out and The Clown and The Beautiful Woman.

Billy The Mime is not married.