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Sam Ferlo — Actor and Clown
Chapter One
About Sam.
Second generation circus performer.
I quickly learned to fall in love with the world of live performance and film. Studying carefully as I watched Buster Keaton take the next fall. Or my father making the audience laugh to tears with authenticity.
That foundation eventually carried me around the world, performing with productions including Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas and Blanc de Blanc in Australia.
Today I’m continuing to deepen my craft through the William Esper Studio’s Meisner conservatory in New York, exploring truthful acting while carrying with me everything the circus taught me. Precision, playfulness, vulnerability, and presence.
The Work
Circus
Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas
Featured Clown / Actor
Cirque du Soleil·Las Vegas
Cabaret
Blanc de Blanc
Featured Comedy Host / Physical Actor
Blanc de Blanc·Australia
Film
Sorta Kinda True
Supporting
Dir. Keenan Gray·Independent
Short film
Full credits available in the résumé PDF — this is only the highlight reel.
Rehearsal Room
Training.
The technical work behind the wildness. Meisner in one room, clown in the next, circus underneath it all.
Acting
William Esper Studio
New York · 2026
Two-year Meisner conservatory. Repetition, emotional preparation, scene study, and the slow work of living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
Physical
Cirque du Soleil — Residency
Las Vegas · 2019 — 2020
Character work, theatrical clown discovery, stunt training.
Foundation
Circus, Childhood
On the road · 1996 — 2011
Trained (informally, endlessly) by my parents and the touring company that raised me. Learned to fall, to time a look, and to make silence funny.
Special Skills
A short list of tricks.
- ✦Meisner Technique
- ✦Clown / Bouffon
- ✦Physical Comedy
- ✦Mask Work
- ✦Acrobatics
- ✦Stilts
- ✦Juggling (on request)
- ✦Partner Acrobatics
- ✦Devised Ensemble
- ✦Improvisation
- ✦Movement
- ✦Aerial (basic silks)
- ✦Stage combat (unarmed)
- ✦Guitar · Singing