Vladimir Olshansky: Clown, mime, visual comedy

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Vladimir Olshansky (9 August 1947 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is an actor-clown, director, composer, graduate of the Moscow State Circus School (Russian: Государственное училище циркового и эстрадного искусства им. М. Н. Румянцева (Карандаша) (ГУЦЭИ)), together with clown Slava Polunin, he is the founder of the clown theatre company Litsedei (Лицедеи). He creates numerous one man shows and performs at the Leningrad's State Variety Theatre (Ленингрдский Государственный Театр Эстрады), In parallel he studies directing at the Leningrad's State Theatre and Cinema Institute (ЛГИТМИК)

At the end of 1980s Vladimir moves to New York, where he becomes a supervisor hospital clown, working with New York's Big Apple Circus's Clown Care Unit, and with his one-person show at La Mama Theatre of New York.

He works with Slava Polunin playing the part of the main Yellow Clown character in his Slava's Snowshow at The Old Vic theatre in London as well, as in the other theatres throughout Europe and USA. In 1996, Vladimir, with brother Yury and Caterina Turi Bicocchi founds Soccorso Clown, Italian non-for-profit, performing arts organization at the service of the Community, and becomes its artistic director. In 2006 Vladimir creates "Strange Games” show,[1][2] which he brings to the various International Festivals in Edinburgh,[3][4] Avignon[5] etc. In 2010, he creates Vice Versa Visual Theatre with the show The Path of a Clown[6] which he presents in Madrid, Spain, Italy and USA. Presently, Vladimir Olshansky lives and works in Rome, Italy.