After a glittering career in menswear, Fraser Hooper gave it all up to follow his dream and become a clown. Thirty years on his unique brand of award winning comedy has delighted thousands of audiences in over forty countries worldwide. Now residing in New Zealand he has played at nearly every major street, clown and theatre festival in Europe, Canada and Australasia.

His shows take audience participation to a new level, his routines are hilarious, clowning classics with elements of mime and knockabout comedy that pay homage to his heroes, the great silent clowns.

In New Zealand he won The Iron Chicken award at The Bread and Circus World Buskers Festival for Best Act. In Germany he won Best Act at The Landshut Festival. In China he won Bronze at The Wuhan International Acrobatic Festival. He got Five Star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival and in France he won Silver at Saint-Paul-Les- Dax Circus Festival and People’s Choice at The Festival International du Cirque du Val d'Oise. In the UK he regularly performed his show at the National Theatre London, the Glastonbury Festival and was an original cast member of the highly acclaimed variety show Slightly Fat Features.

Fraser is also a popular clown tutor at circus schools and theatre festivals across the globe and for twelve years was the regular clown tutor at The National Centre for Circus Arts London the UK’s premier circus school.

As a director he has created shows with clowns, street performers, actors and puppeteers all over Europe, Australasia and Canada. Artists that have worked with him have taken their shows to festivals and events worldwide including The Edinburgh Festival, Las Vegas, German Variety Theatre and The West End. At present there are no plans to go back to menswear.