New York Downtown Clown Presents Its 3rd Annual Golden Nose Awards April 20

Lace up your shiny big shoes, its time for this year’s The Golden Nose Awards, the award show that offers all the glitz and glam of the “other”awards show with slightly less make-up. The Golden Nose Awards is the only Clown Awards Show in North America. Presented by The New York Downtown Clown, This years Golden Nose Awards will take place on Monday, April 20th. Red Carpet arrivals at 7:30pm (complete with the Clown Paparazzi), with the presentation set to begin at 8pm at the Kriane Theatre 85 E 4th St (btwn 2nd Ave & Bowery).  Dress: formal attire - noses optional.

This annual event celebrates Clown Excellence in NYC from performances of the New York Downtown Clown Revue. This exciting evening will be complete with performances by the nominees, slapstick acts, door prizes, red carpet, and audience participation in addition to announcing this year’s winners (see list of nominees below).

Superstars of the Clown world will be on-hand to present the awards including Joel Jeske (Big Apple Circus, Cut to the Chase [2008 Drama Desk Nominee], Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus), David Foster (co-producer of Slava’s Snowshow), Mark Gindick (Happy Hour, Big Apple Circus), and Barry Lubin (Big Apple Circus’s Grandma). The Golden Noses on the award statues are created and provided by clown nose designers ProKNOWS (www.proknows.com).

Winners of Audience Choice Awards will be announced on April 20th 2009 at The Golden Nose Ceremony and award statues will be given out to the winners.