TROUPE BIO
Fou Fou Ha! Austin! clawed its way into existence in 2018, shedding its rhinestone pastel showgirl skin for something far more feral. What emerged was an unhinged cabaret organism rooted in ritual, resistance, and absurd devotion. Reemerging post-pandemic at the Texas Eclipse Festival, they revived the Carrot Cult and expanded the Fou dimensions, an evolving mythology where narrative, chaos, and audience collapse into one shared hallucination. They have produced original works in collaboration with Mama Fou at The Vortex Theater, Cheer Up Charlies, Austin Motel, Kickbutt Coffee with performances spanning the House of Blues, underground clubs, SXSW takeovers, and festivals including Burning Man and Experience Incendia. Their chaos has traveled to New Orleans for Ball of the Wild and Not Your Dad’s Ball. They have collaborated with artists such as Haute & Freddy, High Step Society, Balkan Bump, The Love Muscles (NOLA), and worked alongside Erica Nix, advocating for local organizations such as ASHWELL Sexual Health & Wellness, and Clear the Air ATX.
Fou Fou Ha! Austin creates for the audience, for the misfits, the seekers, the ones craving something real. Their mission is to incite transformation through play: to crack people open, dissolve inhibition, and make connection inevitable. Part troupe, part cult, part portal. You’re never just watching. You’ve joined a cult.
DIRECTOR BIO
Raised in the bayou, where rituals lived in the soil, cycles were something Clussy Fou developed an early connection to. Decay, return, and transformation. Her existential crisis never resolved but takes shape through devotion to art. There’s something in the dirt. In the grit it takes. In the shadow that doesn’t hide but parades, dances, and demands to be seen. As the Austin chapter director, she helps builds spaces that invite risk. The places where performers and audiences confront, connect, and engage beyond just watching are vital. These temporary worlds serve as beacons. She found Fou Fou Ha! after spending too much time in spaces where she was the weirdest one. The clown offered a disruption, a new option for existence and feels like home. To be an artist is a privilege, yet it’s also an imbalance. There is no clean version of this work. You give daily. You tire in ways that sleep doesn’t fix. Her practice moves between the mundane and arcane. Using the stage as a medium, digital space as an extension, and narration as spell work. Influenced by occult traditions, botany, and the deeply strange, she treats performance as both ritual and reflection. Words are spells. Everything can be flipped upside down. Magic is ever present. At the center of her devotion is a commitment to Fou Fou Ha! and the deeply rich ethos and culture MamaFou has created through her wisdom and desire to nourish artist and the world at large. She keeps the path lit and the invitation open for those willing to step inside, help build and discover the transFOUmation available.
BEAUTY FOU
The world’s first and most prominent clown supermodel, Beauty Fou has strutted down countless runways from New York to Tokyo. Striking poses in hundreds of publications, serving in music videos, and even starring in her own feature length “adult clown” film, you’ll see Beauty everywhere once you start looking. A concept clown, she lives to embody and expand our ideas of what… of who… of… why.. Beauty truly is.
BLAISSEZ FOU
Raised by bodega cats and dragged into the spotlight against her will, Blaissez Fou has performed on stages, street corners, and dispensaries around the globe. Living on a strict diet of pickles and cigarettes, her hobbies include both not knowing and not caring. The heart of an anarchist with the looks of an angel, Blaissez is just as likely to swipe your most prized possessions as she is to steal your heart before performing her signature maneuver: The Irish Goodbye.
CLUSSY FOU
Gauche. Smoke and mirror seeker with carnival barker energy. A lifelong devotee to the fine art of fuxkery. Nothing xxxcites her like a hot dog. Well maybe knives, cults, and fluffy animals..but not, like, in that order. Don’t make it weird. There are also rumors that may not matter. Descended from moonshine bootleggers and a long lineage filled with anarchists. Obsessed with cosmic jokes. She once high fived a clown God while astral projecting and felt nothing. Then it all came flooding in while eating something with mustard and found Fou Fou Ha scribbled on a napkin. Her work is focused on chaos and in moments when something doesn’t act like it’s supposed to, she finds breath.
DEJA FOU
A little about Déjà Fou: She is a shapeshifting entity, trying to fit in on this planet. She loves to be one with the woodland creatures. Sometimes is a woodland creature… You can often catch her enjoying the little things in life. Although she likes the free things, (like air and water). She loves the finer things as well. She likes to show off her sparkly boobies and sculpted tail in exchange for diamonds and gold. Money works too. Déjà knows in order to afford her clam shell beach front on this planet, she’s got a lot of flashing to do. Déjà joined Fou Fou HA Austin circa 2019. Her notorious colors are periwinkle and clown red. Her talents are body acting, chaotic dance and classic burlesque with a splash of stupid.
DISCO FOU
It was a quiet Spring night when a white hot light plummeted from the stars straight into the fields of Texas. Emerging from a shimmering crater, was one single Disco Fou. A curious creature and ethereal shapeshifter, this Fou spends their days traversing twisted dimensions and the lines between. Known as an electric enigma who now performs in many disciplines, they are ever ready to peak your own curiosity and challenge you through a journey of play. Born in the stars, they are at home flying through the mists on multiple aerial apparatuses, particularly their beloved Disco Stick (aerial pole). Upside down or inside out, Disco is a reality-bending dynamic performer who challenges our worldly conceptions in the pursuit of new discoveries beyond our realm. Bumbling through this world’s strange conventions and structures leaves no moment lackluster– for no matter how hard they try, Disco can’t help but light up every room they peek into. Forever a connoisseur of the playful, provocative, and absurd ~ they simply must ask ~ what is truth but a pursuit of something unknown?
FOU FETISHE
Fou Fetishé, oh Fou Fetishé, were ever there a clown so toe tingled and shoe fancied? You can often find Fetishé twerking in the high heel section at your local kink store. Fou Fetishé was inducted to the order of the Fou in early 2025 and has been stealing shoe laces by the mouthful ever since. Some of Fetishé’s proudest accomplishments to date are her ever growing shoe collection, multiple twerking and mini skirt contest winnings, and her untamed wild yearning for the goofy game we call clown life.
FOU LALA
Miss Fou Lala, a self-described “Rocco sneeze-bomb clown,” can’t ever decide which is better: deep throating a balloon or turning a baguette into a strap-on. If you catch her at a show, she’ll probably catcall you in French (or was that just a quiche recipe??) and showcase her magnifique latex collection. Rumor has it she just adopted a huge poodle. Will you be the next to witness a rare sighting of Pou Lala?
GIGGLY FOU
Giggly Fou is a creature of glamour and laughter — a shapeshifting trickster slipping between time, reality, and gender. Silly, bubbly, and delightfully unpredictable, they’re a master of mischief with a sparkle in their eye. Obsessed with bubbles, Giggly Fou blows magical orbs that scatter enchantment (and a little chaos) wherever they drift — leaving laughter, confusion, and a touch of the uncanny in their wake. Playful yet uncanny, radiant yet strange, Giggly Fou invites you into a shimmering circus of wonder — just don’t expect things to make sense for long.
MERLOT FOU
Merlot was deep in her own bloody rituals before she found her Fou Fam that matched her unhinged behavior. She comes with baggage. Onstage she’ll unpack her shit right in front of you. Probably taking her clothes off too. On a good day she’ll write you a poem, on a bad day she will scream in disarray. Most days you’ll get both. You’ll see the swing and hear her sing. Some call her crazy, some call her Merlot Fou~ menstruating seemingly all the time.
MADAME FOUBARY
Resplendent, radiant and rambunctiously ridiculous. These are the words one would use to describe the silly yet silly triple threat (singing, dancing, vegetable summoning and commanding) clown diva, Madame FouBary. Ever the avian aficionado, this colorful coloratura comedienne can be found tending to her beloved friend and hair-mate, the Locally Known Birb, who occasionally joins her onstage. If you’re looking for an opera singing, sensual dancing, vegetable dominating clown who can demolish high notes while being low brow, then look no further than Madame FouBary!