about

a field of crowns is a place for the collection of Andrew Gaboury’s creative projects. The projects focus on collaborative development and facilitation of new multi-disciplinary performances and community interventions through a physical lens. I am interested in making performance a platform for joy, wonder beyond the everyday, exchange and empowerment.

Andrew Gaboury is an award-winning performer, writer and educator based in Port Credit, Mississauga. He is a collaborating artist with site-specific dancetheatre company Frog in Hand, where he helps train the Summer Company, programs the quarterly performance series Seasonal Activities, and provides dramaturgy and character support for their shows. In 2023 he created a roaming clown performance called “Pastel’s Imaginarium” which toured across Mississauga (Bread & Honey Festival, Port Credit BIA), Toronto (Dufferin Grove Park w/ Clay & Paper Theatre) and Scarborough (The Guild Festival’s Family Fest). He often creates roaming parades of characters to animate public spaces, which include the Inhabitants of the Lost Museum (2024), the Beekeepers (2024 & 2022), the Caretakers (2021) and Cyclops (the Cycling Oriented Performer Squad in collaboration with Clay & Paper Theatre, 2020).

In 2020, he wrote the critically acclaimed radio play “The Algonquin Tapes” (Toronto Fringe) which later became one of the main storylines for Frog in Hand’s production War of the Worlds Reimagined. He is currently working with Frog in Hand and Diaspora Games to create an audio science-fiction horror game called “Anomaly.” In 2017, one of his pieces of short fiction, “Emily Diaz”, was adapted into a physical theatre play for the Sears Drama Festival (Harbord CI). Andrew has led writing classes and workshops with the Living Arts Centre (2019-2020) and online with Frog in Hand (2020-2022). He has worked as dramaturg with Frog in Hand for their pieces “Noir” (2023) and “War of the Worlds Reimagined” (2022). In 2021, and again in 2024, he helped write and craft the world of “The Lost Museum”, an interactive multi-arts festival online at www.thelostmuseum.ca & in-person at the Small Arms Inspection Building in Mississauga (CreativeHub 1352).

In 2024 Andrew was nominated and won the Established Artist award at the Mississauga Arts Council’s Art Awards (MARTYS). He was presented with the Cultural Heritage Award at the Credits (the Heritage Mississauga Awards) and later received a Civic Award of Recognition by the City of Mississauga for his achievement in the arts.

Andrew graduated from North America’s first Therapeutic Clowning Certificate Program at George Brown in 2019. Today, Andrew is Executive Director and a therapeutic clown practitioner with Red Nose Remedy – a company founded by award-winning clown Helen Donnelly working in healthcare and long-term care settings across Ontario.  In 2024 he took on two apprentices and developed a new program alongside MABELLEarts to bring a practice of social therapeutic clown to refugee resettlement populations in Toronto. In 2020, he joined Kathleen Le Roux‘s team of therapeutic clowns primarily serving elders in Long-Term Care and those living with dementia.