Gogo has done everything she can to live a life as magnificent as her vision board. If only she could achieve the three final steps – meet her Guru, earn her Third Eye and discover her Sacred Destiny. We join Gogo on an Odessey of self-realization- with all its pitfalls – as she visits the Master Restorer of Souls to hopefully/finally find the missing link between her life as it is – and the life she could/should be living.
All this in the dream state reality of CLOWN where literally anything is possible. It is the embodiment of the soul, the fantastic poetry of the eternal present moment, the center point between our humanity and our divinity – all filtered through someone who has set a hell-fire to their ego and lept with abandon and trust into the abyss of what it means to be human. BIOGRAPHY
Anastasia Phillips is a multi-disciplinary artist most known for her vast range of characters – dramatic, comedic and villainous – over the last 20 years in TV and Film. She can currently be seen starring on the #1 smash-hit Canadian Scripted show The Trades (CRAVE), for which she has just been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. She is also well known for her work in the off-the-wall dramedy Moonshine (CBC), and has garnered other awards for iconic multi-personality guest-star turns in Murdoch Mysteries and her work in the critically acclaimed independent films Tammy’s Always Dying and Don’t Talk to Irene.
Anastasia obtained her BFA in Acting from the conservatory at UBC, and theatre was her first home. She promptly went on to star as Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank for the Arts Club, and toured with the avant-garde Electric Theatre Company, originating roles in the acclaimed Studies in Motion, as well as working at the Citadel Theatre in Equus. She furthered her quest at Teatro Lume in Brazil, an acclaimed physical theatre company based out of Rio De Janeiro.
Oh yeah, and then she joined a circus.
Over the last year, Anastasia has been returning to her roots in physical and experimental theatre, realizing the real and acute need for a new medium to capture the absurdity and complexity of the times we live in. Enter “CLOWN.” To initiate her journey she flew to France to train at the iconic Le Coq school in France, and then continued to work with John Turner of Mump and Smoot fame at One North Collective, after which she did a residency to build a new show, which is currently being workshopped called “ANTHROPOS!”
