Support Elodie's Heartfelt Solo Show at the Fringe Festival

Hi friends, family, and beloved weirdos,

This June, I will be doing a 5-show run of my solo clown show FEELINGS as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Since 2018, I have been crafting this show--a culmination of my years clowning and performing, as well as my deeply personal journey griefing Dom's death, in a culture that too often refuses to acknowledge loss. This show is my heart, through and through. It is my smile through the uncried tears, my laugh breaking through my sobs, and my love passing through my body so that I can be fully seen. But this Fringe festival endeavor is also proving to be very expensive. I’m asking for your help to bring this show to life on a professional stage.

The Official Description of the show:

Somewhere between a TED talk, a preschool classroom, and group therapy, FEELINGS is my first solo clown show and delightful romp through the psyche. As I attempt to demonstrate my “expertise” in this immersive queer multimedia experience, the lines between different feelings, between fact and fiction, start to blur. As the coping mechanisms I demonstrate to the crowd start to fail and confuse, we start to see what I am actually coping with. The show blends multimedia, physical comedy, and raw storytelling--think: professionally choreographed dance numbers, powerpoints about Dougie, and audience participation. FEELINGS is intimate and gentle, but also dangerous and nutty, embodying the tension between play and analysis, profundity and profanity, sincerity and farce.

What People Are Saying:

"Feelings unflinchingly exposes the tragicomedy of no-holds-barred, full-spectrum emotion. Elodie Azoulay’s performance carves out space to live, laugh, love, cringe, cry, and claw out eyeballs as resistance and repression are brought into relief; all to be reminded that it’s safe to be complex because that is to be complete. Witness courage modeled in this wildly entertaining, astute, unhinged, and entirely hypomanic masterpiece. It snatches up the hand and charges through a Wonka-fied factory of human experience: buckle up and prepare to feel feelings." - Theo, Licensed Therapist

"Watching FEELINGS had me tickled, squirming, cathartic-sighing and heart-expanded. The wide-eyed, responsive presence of clown essences that Elodie wove together with absurd satirizing of mainstream mental health frameworks and touching personal storytelling was such a rich and tantalizing combination. Thoughtful playfulness was infused into so many details causing me to twinkle my fingers with delight at the twists and turns. Lets keep talking about feelings, clumsily, deeply, unexpectedly. I’m sure rememberings from this offering/work will pop-up like little bird chirps as I continue to swim through human-emotion waters." - Tone, Artist and Craniosacral Therapist

Why Your Support Matters:

I’ve already poured my heart into creating this show. Now, I need to cover the costs of actually sharing it at the festival:

- $2,285 – Theater rental & festival submission (can't do it without a stage!)

- $750 – Promo video/teaser trailer (so people actually come!)

- $750 – Set designer & materials (clowns need playgrounds)

- $250 – Printed posters & promo materials (gotta spread the word)

- $300 – Videographer (to capture the magic)

- $50 – Photographer (for evidence that this happened)

Total Goal: $4,385

Every dollar helps me in sharing this wild, heartfelt show with a bigger audience—and proving that art about grief can be joyful, ridiculous, and deeply human. If you are able to donate, you will receive a link to watch the professional recording of the show that you helped me pay for! So even if you aren't local, you can see the show for yourself.

How You Can Help:

- Donate what you can (even $5 helps!).

- Share this fundraiser with anyone who loves weird art, true stories, or clowns who cry.

- Come see the show in June if you're in LA (I’ll send details!).

This show exists because of the people who’ve held space for my messiest emotions. Now, I want to hold space for others—with prop gags, honesty, and a little chaos.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Let’s make some FEELINGS happen.

Love,

Elodie

(they/them)

P.S. If you can’t contribute financially, sharing this or sending good vibes means the world. And if you *can* contribute—know that I’ll be ugly-crying happy tears in your honor.