TROUPE BIO
The first of the franchised Fou Fou Ha! squads, FOU YORK brings a much needed pop art charm to the big apple. Their rare blend of absurdist shenanigans and practiced choreography has graced the stage at such legendary NYC venues as the House of Yes, Highline Ballroom, Sony Hall (formerly Diamond Horseshoe), The McKittrick Hotel, The Edge, MOMA PS1, The Coney Island Sideshow and more! They were resident performers at Susanne Bartsch’s Bartschland Follies and have been lucky enough to take their show on the road – traveling to Miami for Art Basel, New Orleans’ One Eye Jack, a series of shows in London and Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. They can also be found roving the grounds of many music festivals including Mysteryland, Elements, Electric Forest, Bonnaroo and Okeechobee! Fou York has been featured in live performances with indie pop darlings Haute & Freddy, and continues to romp around the east coast in search of the clown within us all!
DIRECTOR BIO
Beatriz BB (She/Her) is a New York based dance artist, director and performer. She grew up studying classical ballet, musical theater and competitive dance in Louisville, Kentucky. She earned a BFA in Dance Performance at CalArts, where she built an interdisciplinary practice and passion for directing. Notable choreographic collaborations include Sharon Eyal, Sidra Bell, Nora Chipaumira, Danielle Agami, and Matthew Dailey. Beatriz is a working contemporary and commercial dancer, resident performer at House of Yes, co-director of FOU YORK clown troupe (Fou Fou Ha!), and an internationally touring artist. She was recently honored by The Generation Project as an outstanding storyteller.
DIRECTOR BIO
Renata (she/they) is a dancer, shaker, and certified antics maker. Twenty years ago, she crash-landed in NYC after gleefully shattering her Santa Barbara glass ceiling—and she’s been causing delightful chaos ever since. A performer of many talents, Renata sings, dances, struts sky-high on stilts, and occasionally sets the stage (safely!) on fire with her fire dancing. Her favorite trick? Turning unsuspecting audience members into co-conspirators and coaxing them out of their comfort zones and into the fun. She stumbled into Fous in the Forest a decade ago and promptly fell head over heels. Now, as co-director of FOU YORK, she helps bring the mischief, magic, and mayhem home to NYC. As a member of numerous troupes—including Desert Sin, Alchemy, Sherita, Enchanted, Stilt Brigade, and Fou York—Renata has bewitched audiences in theaters and festivals across NYC and beyond. These days, you can also find her weaving her magic in the immersive Off-Broadway production Masquerade.
CON FOUZED
A haute mess of contradictions, Con Fouzed is everything and nothing at once: curious yet uncertain, lost yet leading, confused yet strangely convincing. She starts sentences she doesn’t finish, finishes jokes she didn’t start, and makes bold decisions she quickly reconsiders. She turns confusion into an art form—where hesitation becomes magic and a mischievous spark fuels subtle, surprising shenanigans. With a wink and a raised eyebrow, she nudges others just far enough out of their comfort zones to surprise themselves—and even her. Delightfully unapologetic in her lostness, she remains—against all odds—exactly where she’s meant to be… even if she took the scenic route to nowhere.
FIFI FOU
While barricaded in her LA pageant green room singing ‘I Dreamed A Dream’, FIFI FOU suffered a psychotic break. Due to ‘dehydration and fluorescent lighting’, she smashed herself into a particularly unflattering mirror which released excessive levels of Bitchytoxin into her bloodstream. Scarred and shook, Fifi fled in search of other child stars with trust issues. She stumbled into Schnitzel and Schmaltzy, who licked her tears, patched her sores with glitter glue, and just like that she was adopted into the Fou York gang! Fifi and her six taxidermy cats now live a quaint life of stardom in the nightclub cages of Brooklyn.
SCHNITZEL FOU
Elegantly charming and always poised and put together… is everything Schnitzel Fou is not. A hot mess of awkward ass grabbing and tripping over her own feet, she genuinely does try to hold it together, until her big mouth gets her into trouble again. A little hood, a little goofy, and a whole mess of sass, watch out for Schnitzel cause she will shank a bitch (or at least try to until you offer her a drink).
TOE FOU
Toe Fou’s an aspiring red carpet reporter who tries to spend as much time as possible interviewing celebrities. He asks the hard-hitting questions, such as “If you had to choose between crashing the train or running over a bunch of people tied to the tracks, what would you be wearing?” He was born on a farm, and all of his best friends are plants.
ELEGANZA FOU
Larger than life to the point of delusion, Eleganza Fou is a divalicious diva with an insatiable appetite for fierce fashions, dancing queens, and shady reads (though she can’t actually read). Grotesquely lavish, she appreciates the finer things in life; a rhinestoned rubber ducky, clashing tacky patterns, and bedazzled dildos. When she’s not screaming YAS QUEEN at fellow fashionista divas, she’s blacked out.
POUKA FOU
Once a part of a clown coven of powerfully stupid sorcerers, Pouka Fou set out on a fool’s journey and ended up amongst the urchins on the streets of NYC! Always flirty, sometimes shy, endlessly optimistic, and delightfully devilish, Pouka Fou will make you squirm like worms and shake like snakes! Always getting tied up in nonsense webs of his own creation, Pouka Fou is not afraid of a little bondage. When he’s not messing up magical spells or developing crushes on strange strangers, he’s likely experiencing vivid hallucinations that have mostly to do with anthropomorphic kitchen wares.
SNAH FOU
Situation Normal All-Hell Fucked-On Up are the words to live by for our little bumbling buddy Snah Fou. Despite his best attempts to not be a Fuck-up because of nominative determinism he is destined to always be the Fous flubbing, fouled up fool. His mismanagement of mediocre muck ups mixed with a botched butchering of bungled balls-up blunders only add to his charmingly morally reprehensible and grossly objectionable tastes and displays of vulgar reveals and heinous hijinks.
DÉJÀ FOU
Equal parts whimsy and allure – an “educator” who helps young catamites explore self-expression through art, movement, and storytelling. In his spare time he enjoys nursing injured river otters back to health and using them to recreate stop-motion videos of popular reality TV shows like Sister Wives and What We Do In the Shadows. He’s like a good bodega: on every corner and always open.
FOU BEAUCOUP
When Fou Beaucoup hitched a ride from a wild unicorn, in hot pursuit of a five-leafed clover, she had no clue that her luck was about to be forever changed. Though she lost the plot somewhere along the way, she found her Fou Fam, dripping rainbows and waxing rhapsodic about the internal monologues of bubbles. A whole lot of extra, with a splash of fantastic, Fou Beaucoup will tickle your funny bush with her flirtations en Francais. So what say you come along and play? Make her day, si vous plait!
FOU KING MELANINATED
Born from a spilled libation and a busted boombox under a full moon, Fou King Melaninated Fou is a high-octane pop-art trickster fueled by rhythm, ritual, and righteous foolishness. He thrives on controlled chaos, practiced foolishry, and the ancestral call to turn the party all the way up; preferably while making direct eye contact. Equal parts jester and griot, he hoards attention, snacks, and compliments, while staying melanated and moisturized, but will absolutely refuse bland energy, dry crowds, or anyone who can’t clap on beat. When not causing beautiful disruptions, Fou King can be found rehearsing imaginary choreography, collecting shiny nonsense, and reminding you ,loudly, that foolishness is power, spectacle is sacred, and this crown is not for decoration.
TUTTI FRUTTI FOU
Tutti Frutti was living at a combo acro/puppet/pottery studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, til her polycule kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes. What was she to do, where was she to go, she was out on her bodega booty! So over the bridge from Bushwick, then back over the bridge because she fell asleep on the train, to Schnitzel Fou’s door, she was there to sell stolen fruit pies but Schnitzel saw more. She had bright style, she had fancy flair, she was only slightly annoying. That’s how she became Tutti Frutti Fou! She’s the gal who brings frozen grapes to the game night while everybody else just brings chips. The charismatic chica from Bushwick, the spectacle named Tutti Frutti Fou!