Jeff Raz

[1] A large man, Raz has a long running collaboration with five-foot-tall clown Diane Wasnak as "Pino and Razz".

[3] Raz toured in 2007 as the "Dead Clown", the lead in Cirque du Solei's production, Corteo.

[4] In 2009 he reprised this role in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka Japan http://www.jeffraz.com/ Raz is part of the new circus movement—circuses without animals.

Raz has taught at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College and the San Francisco School of Circus Arts.

[1] He wrote solo plays Father-Land, about a secular Jew's understanding of the Holocaust, and Birth Mark, about adoption.