Resume
BENJAMIN
LIPMAN
THE NEXT GENERATION OF JESTER
blipman@rocketmail.com (CELL) 609-226-5067
OBJECTIVE
Combine performance skills from around the world with comedy, magic, and
dance, giving variety entertainment a polished modern attitude to form a
novel show captivating and inspiring audiences of all ages.
AWARDS RECEIVED
- New Jersey’s Top 40 People in the Year 2000 issue of New Jersey
Magazine.
- Atlantic City Magazine review “Juggling Genius”.
- The New Jersey Press’s Top Summer Job of 2001
- Make it Magic Competition 1st place
SUMMARY OF PERFORMANCE SKILLS
- Choreographed juggling, magic, and manipulation routines: Acrobatics,
crystal ball contact juggling and much more.
- Death defying stunts: Machetes, Bowling Balls, Torches and Fire-Sticks,
Balance Tricks, Fire Eating, 6ft unicycle, 12 foot free standing ladder…
Other Skills:
- Balloon sculptures,
- Close-up Magic,
- Stilt-Walking,
- Unicycles,
- improvisation training,
- face painting,
- public speaking.
- Courses Completed: 2 years of Mime and Movement at Montclair University
Classes Taught:
- Variety Performance skills Class for the collage theater student
1997-2001
- juggling magic and mime for children 2001 & 2002
PAST PERFORMANCES
- Taj Mahal’s resident juggler and performer Summer 1997 & 98.
- Show Boat Casino Hotel resident entertainer 1998.
- Trump’s Imperial Ball Room Mystery Dinner Theater.
- Wild Wood board walk’s family night summer 98,99, 2000,2001, 2002
- Atlantic City Convention Center’s Kid’s Fair.
- The New Atlantic City Convention Center’s Grand Opening.
- Half-time show for the Atlantic City Sea Gull’s professional basketball
Home Coming.
- Stockton College Orientation Show
- Stage shows including Christmas shows at Bally’s and Harrah’s
Casino Hotel, Philadelphia arts festival,
- 2000 Political convention, and town festivals.
- New York’s 2001 First Night New Year’s Party
- The 2001 New Jersey Teacher’s convention
- 2002 east cost college tour
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 1996 Infinity, - Mystics Demonstrator, Performed with and taught
Juggling at Ron Jon’s Surf Shop.
- 1998 - Resident entertainer at Show Boat Casino Hotel, performing
lounge acts and high-roller parties including the Halloween Grand Ball.
- 2000 activities director and life enrichment coordinator at Alter
Assisted living Community for the elderly
- 2002- Directed an after-school program in variety performance
arts at Madison’s YMCA
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Million-dollar performance insurance policy.
- Masters degree in Physical Therapy