
Jugglers Stilt walkers Acrobats Magicians Yo-yo players Trapeze artists Wire walkers Face painters Mimes Clowns Henna artists Balloon sculptors Fire eaters Trick ropers Caricaturists Plate spinners Kid acts Fortune tellers Unicyclists Mind readers Hula hoopers Top spinners Block heads Musicians Bullwhippers Devil stick players Knife throwers Dancers Puppeteers Flag dancers Aerialists Diabolists Contortionists Sword swallowers Cigar box manipulators Hypnotists Temporary tattooists
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THE PERFORMERS
Playful Productions employs talented professional entertainers and educators, with years of experience and a variety of specialized skills. Our performers have worked in preeminent circuses, operas, and theaters around the world. All performers are carefully screened and selected to suit the individual event.
Find out more about available acts and artists.
Check out our themed educational shows.
Learn about what we do.
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THE PRESIDENT
Since 1993, Viveca Gardiner has produced variety arts, circus, and theater; performed as a juggler, ringmistress, trapeze artist, stilt walker, and roller skater; and worked backstage on wardrobe, concessions, ticketing, rigging, electrics, sound, sets, tent work, and house management. She has sawdust in her veins.
Viveca has taught circus skills to hundreds of children and adults in residencies, in- and after-school programs, continuing education courses, private lessons, special events, and corporate seminars.
She is a contributing editor of JUGGLE magazine, a member of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Advisory Board, an organizer for the Carmine Street Irregulars juggling club, a coach with Circus of the Kids, and a member of the International Jugglers Association and the American Youth Circus Organization. Before founding Playful Productions in 2001, Viveca was a director of the Big Apple Circus where she developed and managed community programs and wrote a study guide about circus arts and a circus-themed activity book for hospitalized children.
She has a bachelor's degree in literature from Harvard University and a master's degree in management from the Yale School of Management.
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