Geoff Hoyle was the original Zazu in the Broadway cast of The Lion King and appeared off-Broadway in his solo Feast of Fools and more recently in Mr. Fox by Bill Irwin. He trained with Marcel Marceau’s teacher, Etienne Decroux, and clowned with Circus Flora, Pickle Family Circus, Teatro Zinzanni and Cirque du Soleil. His award-winning shows Boomer!, Feast of Fools, The Convict’s Return, Geni(us) and The First Hundred Years have been seen in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London, Berlin, Taiwan, England and the former Soviet Union. Regional theatre credits include Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, A.C.T., La Jolla Playhouse and American Repertory Theatre. His film credits include Popeye, Smooth Talk, Spirit of ’76 and Valley of the Heart’s Delight. He has received several National Endowment for the Arts mime fellowships as well as an ArtsLink grant to visit circuses in Latvia and Russia and a 2004 TCG National Theatre Artist’s Residency Program Fellowship to work with Arizona Theatre Company giving workshops in mask, clown and mime, while translating six of Georges Feydeau’s one-act plays.