About the Class: Clown is a path to the most authentic self. It is not about putting on a mask but about taking one off, allowing what is real, funny, strange, tender, and unpolished to be seen without shame. The clown doesn’t hide from the world; it meets the world with open arms. Clown is also a state of presence without the interference of the mind, without the accumulation of outer influences. In this space, something unexpected and profoundly human and sometimes beyond that appears when we explore with curiosity, hope, playfulness, and surrender. Through Clown, we remember that our truth, however awkward or funny or beautiful, is not only enough; it is ours, and it is the very thing that connects us to others, to the world and back to our very own Self.

Sneha Sakhare is an actor, singer, writer, teacher (Clown/Physical Theatre), and a former software engineer from India, currently based in New York City. Her work is rooted in ‘Prasada Budhi,’ a mindset of thinking that everything is a divine offering. 

As a playwright, Sneha has written Pandemic Chapatis (Rattlestick Theatre & Company), No One’s Watching (Eugene O'Neill Theatre), Ragas of the Rooted Heart (Theatre of Others), and devised Glimpse (Rattlestick Theatre & Company). 

Sneha has also written, created, and performed a solo show titled Divinity and Ice Cream, which had its first reading in November 2024 at Nooma Studio and is currently still in development. 

As an actor, Sneha is a classically trained Clown and Commedia Dell'Arte performer with intensive five-year training under her teacher-mentor Christopher Bayes at Pandamonium Studio. She has also trained extensively with Jim Calder for more than five years and with Aitor Basauri(Spymonkey) in New York City. Her actor training further includes Adishakti Theatre’s SOPE (Source of Performing Energy) program in Pondicherry, India, under Vinay Kumar and Nimmy Raphel, as well as a Balinese masks workshop in Bali, Indonesia. Sneha completed her one - year acting conservatory program at The Barrow Group Theatre Company in 2018 and received Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Family Foundation Fellowship in 2022. In addition, she has been deeply influenced by her lifelong training back in India under her father, Dr. Professor Sahebrao Sakhare (PhD in Patanjali Yoga), with whom she studied Yog for nearly twenty years, a foundation that continues to shape her as an artist. 

As a singer, Sneha has been classically trained in Indian Classical music under veteran Marathi singer Padmashree Padmaja Phenany Joglekar from 2015–2017. She has performed at numerous spiritual centers, pilgrimages, and temples across India as a bhajan (devotional song) singer. She has performed on national platforms, received accolades such as ‘Singing Idol’ and ‘Voice of the Region,’ and appeared on national television, including concerts in front of thousands across India. 

As a teacher and clown, Sneha has been studying clown through teacher training programs in 2021 and 2022, and further deepened her practice through an apprenticeship program during 2023–2024 with Christopher Bayes at Pandamonium Studio in Brooklyn and at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in New Haven, CT. 

Individual Coaching, In-Person (LA) or Online, for scenes, songs and monologues for Film/TV and theatre auditions with the option to tape auditions while I read for you. We can work on script analysis, emotional prep, how to self-tape, live audition skills and more.

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Go more in-depth with this 90 minute Individual Coaching, In-Person (LA) or Online, for scenes, songs and monologues for Film/TV and theatre auditions with the option to tape auditions while I read for you. We can work on script analysis, emotional prep, how to self-tape, live audition skills and more.

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