Zea Barker: director, designer, animator, clown

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Video Director, Designer, Performer and self-taught Animator newly transplanted to Chicago from the East Coast. As production designer, Zea was a part of the creative team that brought you music videos and concert dvd for The Dresden Dolls and music videos for Ben Folds and a handful of local Boston bands. Her work can be seen online at venues like Pitchfork and in rotation on MTV and MTV Europe. In 2007, she made her directorial debut with a music video for the band Neptune (Grey Shallows) which was featured at the Boston Underground Film Festival. She has directed five more video shorts since then, not the least of which included eight gentlemen who work as Blue Men, in drag, in a dance battle. She is the co-creator/animator of the original short films Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction which have been official selections for Chicago Short Film Brigade, Fuck the Backrow: national tour and Blood From a Turnip Puppetry Film Festival. Zea co-created and produced an original Pochinko clown performance, Wanted, featured in the experimental theater series at Gorilla Tango Theater. Zea is a student of master Pochinko clown teacher, Sue Morrison and New York's bouffon darling, Eric Davis. Zea is currently illustrating a new comic book, writing a new solo clown show, working on a series of illustrations featuring the horrid stuff kids say to eachother and searching for a circus to run away with.
"JERRY LEE LEWIS MEETS DAME MARGOT FONTAINE"
- Audience member



"THE LITTLE TRAMP FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY"
- Evan O'Television



"YOU'VE GOT, AND DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A GOOD THING, BUT YOU'VE GOT A CAROL BURNETT THING GOING ON. SHE WAS MY FAVORITE AS A KID.
... AND YOUR FACE IS MADE OF RUBBER"
- Gene Preble



"IT CERTAINLY MADE ME WARM AND FUZZY INSIDE. MY FRIEND SAID IT WAS LIKE I SWALLOWED A KITTEN."
-Lauren Goldberg, Fairytale Vegas Photography



"IT'S LIKE YOU'RE FROM SPACE, ZEA. IN A GOOD WAY. NOT THAT THERE'S A BAD WAY TO BE FROM SPACE. IT'S SPACE"
-Samantha Barnes, Soprano



"WHEN WERE YOU TAKEN ON THE SPACESHIP AND RETURNED?"
-Jay Lesenger, Opera Director



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