Jos Houben (b.1959) is a Belgian native. He studied at L’École Jacques Lecoq with Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Pierre Byland. He is also a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method™. An original member of Complicité, he co-created and performed in A Minute Too Late (Perrier Award 1985) and collaborated on many of the company’s other productions. Jos was a director and co-writer for comedy troupe The Right Size (Olivier Awards Best Entertainment 1999, Best New Comedy 2002) playing in the West End and on Broadway. For Thames TV he created and performed Mr Fixit, a silent slapstick TV comedy for children. He was also creative director and associate producer for Ragdoll TV’s Brum: The Magical Little Car. He works all over the world as a director, teacher and actor. Recently he performed in Fragments by Samuel Beckett directed by Peter Brook (which will be revived in New York in April 2013). Jos’s one-man show The Art of Laughter has toured the world many times over and in May 2010 sold out a five-week run in Paris’s prestigious Théâtre du Rond Point. He is a devisor and consultant with comedy troups, opera companies, circus schools, workshop festivals, dance schools, universities and magicians worldwide. Since 2000 he has been a teacher at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
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