Philip Burgers is an American writer, comedy performer, director and clown teacher. He is best known for his character Dr Brown.

Career

Burgers began his career in 2007 following training at the French clown school Ecole Philippe Gaulier. His most notable success to date is with the character Dr Brown. Dr Brown is a physical character based in an absurd world. Burgers took ''Dr Brown Because'' and ''Dr Brown Becaves'' around the world from 2009 - 2011 including Prague Fringe, Hong Kong Microfest, Australia. Since 2011, he has continued with Dr Brown in the family shows wit
Stuart Bowden
''The Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his Singing Tiger'' and ''Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his Singing Tiger Again'' the former won Best Children's Presentation at the

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and the Director's Choice at the

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in 2012 and ''Dr Brown Befrdfgth'' which won the

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award for the Best Show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012 and the Total Theatre Award for 'Innovation', the latter of which he won the Best Show by Foster's

Edinburgh Comedy Award The Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards (formerly the Perrier Comedy Awards, and also briefly known by other names for sponsorship reasons) are presented to the comedy shows deemed to have been the best at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. ...

. Burgers has also performed in ''Comedy Blaps'' sketches for

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. The Blaps was co-written with Andrew Gaynord and its pilot episode will air on

. In 2016 he wrote and starred in his own 30-minute episode of the

sketch show Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and i ...

'' Netflix Presents: The Characters''. In 2018, he starred in the silent short film ''The Passage'', which premiered at Sundance. From 2020, he appeared as recurring character Phil in

Mae Martin Mae Martin (born 2 May 1987) is a Canadian-born comedian, actor, and screenwriter based in England. They wrote and starred in the Netflix comedy series ''Feel Good'' and won two Canadian Comedy Awards as part of the comedy troupe The Young an ...

's sitcom '' Feel Good''.

Filmography

References

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