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About Me
Early Beginnings
As a child I spent most of my time and pocket money in novelty and joke shops. My debut magical performance was to my grade 1 class when I was only 5 years old.
Many years later when Brisbane hosted World Expo ’88 I fell in love with street theatre and modern clowning. Armed with this new passion every spare moment was spent learning a wide variety of circus skills and magic tricks.
Entertainer
By 1992 I had reached a stage where I was able to give up my day job in the retail jewelry trade and launch into an unknown future as a full time entertainer.
Since then I have performed thousands of shows and circus workshops for countless people in many wonderful places including Norfolk Island, Scotland, England, France, Holland, Jordan, Israel, Thailand, Cambodia and all over Australia.
Clown Doctor
Sick children at Brisbane's Royal Children's Hospital know me best as ‘Dr. Bob’, the Clown Doctor™. Parodying the medical routine brings laughter and joy into a patient’s experience. This makes a hospital visit less stressful. Laughter also helps patients in times of pain, fear and grief.
Teacher
When I started my career I had a lot of support, advice and encouragement from experienced entertainers. I would never have made it this far without their help.
I am honored to be in the position where I can now teach other people some of the ‘tricks of the trade’.
School Chaplain
2 days each week I work at my local primary school as the chaplain. I offer pastoral care and support to kids when times get tough as well as fun activities the rest of the time.
Family
I am happily married to my wife Pippa who works as a paediatric Occupational Therapist. Her expertise with children has helped my show improve immensely.
In December 2006 we became the proud parents of our first daughter, April. Our second child Fraser was born in May 2008.
Hobbies and Interests
What little spare time I have is spread between doing home renovations, sea kayaking, rock climbing, playing the ukulele badly and going off-road unicycling.
