Welcome to the Healthcare Clowning Hub!

Below you can find masterclasses, panels, conversations, and articles relating to healthcare clowning.

Healthcare clowning plays a vital role in hospitals, care homes, and community settings, offering presence, play, and deep human connection in environments that can often feel clinical, stressful, or isolating. This hub brings together resources from practitioners, researchers, and performers from around the world to share knowledge, practice, and lived experience from the field.

Here you’ll find recordings, reflections, and learning resources that explore techniques, ethics, and the impact of healthcare clowning, alongside real stories from practice, offering both inspiration and practical insight for anyone interested in this evolving field of care and performance.

Masterclasses

Below are four incredible masterclasses from leaders in Healthcare Clowning!

Olivier Hugues-Terreault

Olivier is a healthcare clown, performer, and facilitator who co-founded Dr. Clown in Montreal, and helped pioneer healthcare clowning in Canada through improvisation, empathy, and compassionate play in care settings.

Watch Olivier's Class

Patrick van den Boom

 Patrick van den Boom is an internationally recognized healthcare clown, performer, and trainer known for his work bringing improvisation, presence, and compassionate play into healthcare environments.

Watch Patrick's Class

Dick Monday & Tiffany Riley

Tiffany Riley and Dick Monday, known internationally as Slappy & Monday, are a comedy and healthcare clown duo who use physical comedy, music, and improvisation to entertain and educate worldwide. They are co-founders of The Laughter League, bringing therapeutic clowning into hospitals and camps, while also training performers and helping establish clowning as a tool for connection, wellbeing, and care.

Watch Dick & Tiffany's Class

Raquel Gendry

Raquel Gendry is a healthcare clown, performer, and educator best known for founding Narices Rojas Ecuador and training hundreds of medical clowns who have impacted hospitals and communities across Latin America. She has also collaborated on hospital clown research with the University of Southern California and currently works as a hospital clown in France while directing Les Grands Nez Rouges.

Watch Raquel's Class

Tales in Healthcare Clowning

What is happening in healthcare clowning around the world right now (April 2026)?

This panel offers a global “weather report” on healthcare clowning, with representatives from different regions sharing insights into current practices, challenges, and developments. 

Rather than focusing on a single thesis, this session provides a broad, informative overview of how healthcare clowning is evolving and what practitioners are witnessing in their respective regions.
 

Clownversations

Below are some amazing Clownversations with leaders in Healthcare Clowning! Scroll to see all of them. Â