The New York Goofs

Dick Monday

Dick's film and television credits include ABC’s “Into the Night” with Rick Dees, “Brain Donors”, “My Life”, “Love and Greed”, “Saved by the Bell”, “The Late Show with David Letterman”, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, “The Rosie O'Donnell Show” and Woody Allen's “Sweet and Lowdown”. He also writes, directs and stars in productions by the NY Goofs. The Goofs have been producing physical Comedy in festivals and theaters around the world for the past ten years, and this year began a monthly cabaret show titled “Goofballs Cabaret in Dallas. Additionally, Dick has been a featured act with The Big Apple Circus, Circus Sarasota, Circo Atayde in Mexico, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and The Lone Star Circus. Through the Foundation for Laughter, which Dick co-founded and serves as Artistic Director, he teaches clowning worldwide to clowns, actors, CEOs, Pastors, Health Care workers and theater students at the University of North Texas. You can see Dick’s comedy writing in most of the shows at Sea World in San Antonio. Last year, he made his Dallas Children’s Theatre directing debut with “Balloonacy”, and just completed directing Of Thee I Sing at Lyric Stage, as well as the regional premiere of Blue at DCT. Prior to all of this, Dick was the Director of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Clown College, where he trained and directed the clowns for The Greatest Show on Earth.

Hilary has been recognized as one of America's foremost professional physical comediennes, performing her original solo and ensemble work for over a decade throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. Uncovering the humor in everyday life, Hilary's  work has won accolades worldwide. She is also a founding member of the New York Goofs (est.1998) appearing with them in prestigious New York venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, the American Museum of Natural History, Symphony Space, and on tour at Wolf Trap with Bob McGrath from Sesame Street. Hilary is an adjunct professor of clowning at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She has also been entertaining children in NYC hospitals as "Nurse Nice" of the renowned Big Apple Circus Hospital Clown Program¨ (since 1987) and has been invited to teach Hospital Clowning internationally, most recently in Vienna with the Rote Nasen and the CliniClowns. Hilary's award winning solo show A Life In Her Day has most recently been performed to critical acclaim at the Festival Arlekin in Poland. Comicodeon in Austria, and Anjos do Picadeiro in Brazil.

Hilary Chaplain

Barry Lubin created the character of Grandma in 1975, which has become the iconic symbol of the Big Apple Circus. Barry began developing Grandma while performing with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He toured with the Greatest Show on Earth for 5 seasons before becoming part of the fabric of the Big Apple Circus in 1982 and is now in his 24th season. He has toured the world with Grandma performing on television, in circuses, festivals, and theater shows. He has been featured on Late Night with David Letterman and in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade several times. He has taught and directed at the Ringling Clown College, in several universities, and with the NY Goofs numerous times. He sailed to Europe as Interport Lecturer with Semester at Sea in 2008 and 2010. Barry was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 2002. He has two daughters, Emily 20 and Danielle 26, and now resides in Sweden.
 

Barry Lubin

Thiago Nascimento is a pianist praised for his innate musicality, impressive technique, and ability to improvise in a variety of styles. Born in Brazil, he was raised in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. His unique talents span classical piano technique, expressive musicality, "stride" jazz piano, improvisation and composition. In addition, his comedic nature and ability to seamlessly integrate slapstick comedy and combine any melodic fragment into any other piece of music on the spur of the moment (no matter how serious or inappropriate) inevitably brings to mind visions of a young Victor Borge.
Thiago is a graduate of  Dallas' Booker T. Washington arts magnet high school. He studied at Peabody Conservatory and graduated fromSouthern Methodist University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Music degree as a student of Alessio Bax. Thiago currently works as a professional pianist in the DFW area, equally at home is the realms of classical, jazz, ballet, musical theater and with the NY Goofs!

Thiago Nascimento

Chet has been performing with his parents since he was four years old.  He made his professional theatrical debut in 2009 in The King and I with the Lyric Stage. With his parents, he has appeared on stage with Bob McGrath at Wolf Trap, as the youngest artist in the AEMI Clown Festival in Tiandu City, China, and in Goof Shows in New York, Dallas, the Lone Star Circus, and Slappy’s Holiday Circus. Chet is a Senior at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas and is an Eagle Scout. His favorite theatrical roles include Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Slightly in Peter Pan at Casa Manana, Tom in Night of the Living Dead at Dallas Children’s Theatre and David in Rags at Lyric Stage.