Beni Malone
Mercury O’Malley

A graduate of Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Clown College, Three Schools of Art, Toronto and L’école Nationale Du Cirque in Paris, France; Beni Malone has almost single-handedly introduced and developed professional clowning and circus arts in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Best known for his work as a professional clown, Beni began his career with the Newfoundland Travelling Theatre Company in 1974. He has performed nationally and internationally in theatre, television and film. Beni is the founder and Artistic Director of Wonderbolt Productions, which has been creating and producing original circus inspired theatre since 1982.

Malone has written a variety of critically acclaimed shows including “Reunion At Purgatory High”, with Mark Critch, “All Fool’s Day”, and “Wunderground” an original show for the GEO Centre. Over the past decade he has presented The Wonderbolt Circus to enthusiastic full houses. Wonderbolt’s circus show “Tricksters” was performed at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, and their circus shows “Cirkzilla” “Bolt Out of the Blue” and “Circus Glorious” have toured extensively from 2012 through 2018.

In 2016 he began working with the Nunatsiavut Government to develop A circus/physical arts program along the remote northern coast of Labrador. This project has now been expanded and will hopefully include all the communities in Nunatsiavut.

Wonderbolt produces the wildly successful St. John’s International CircusFest which is now in its fifth year. In addition to this he operates The SPACE, a downtown cultural and training centre. He is presently working on researching and writing “Big Top Pop Up” loosely based on a circus which visited St. John’s in 1925.

Susan Jarvis
Minerva Mills

Susan Jarvis is a circus performer, instructor, and multidisciplinary artist from St. John's, NL. She has been working with the Wonderbolt Circus since 2013, and she was also a founding member of Smokeshow, a circus show that has been touring the province for the past several years. Susan has a Diploma in Textile Studies from the College of the North Atlantic and a Bachelor of Arts with a Diploma in Stage and Screen Technique from Memorial University.

Bryony Fowler
Hercules the Monkey

12 year old Bryony is a rare Quintuple Threat: actor, dancer, singer, gymnast and circus artist (aerials/contortion). Last year, she was accepted to the National Ballet School and the National Circus School summer programs. She was the title role Matilda and will be joined the world renowned competitive dance team of the Canadian Dance Company in Oakville last fall. Many thanks to Wonderbolt for this amazing opportunity!

Christopher Dunn
Officer Orcus

Christopher Dunn is a multidisciplinary firecracker that loves making people laugh. This has lead him to do improv, stand up comedy, musical theatre, and opera, even magic! He’ll try any art form once! Hailing from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, he now studies vocal performance at the University of Manitoba. (Photo: Dave Howells)

Kai Bryan
The Nightmare Aerialist

Kai Bryan aka \garbagefile is an award-winning visual artist, circus and drag performer based in St. John's, Ktaqmkuk. Their unique blend of aerial arts, gender bending, clown, and shapeshifting special effects have made them a celebrated staple of the local performing arts scene. (Photo: Meagan Eve Cole)

Olivia Goodridge
Venus O’Malley

Olivia is an aerial instructor, performer and student at iFly Aerial Arts, as well as a Kinesiology student at Memorial University in St. John’s. She was introduced to aerial arts 9 years ago while living in Houston, where she trained at the John Cooper School and Chimal Circus Arts. Since then, Olivia has attended Elite Aerial Worx in Las Vegas, the summer intensive at École Nationale de Cirque in Montréal, and trained at the Circus Hub in New Zealand. She has performed at many local events (e.g. Our Diva’s Do Christmas, SJICF Edge of the World Cabaret, Sheraton New Years Eve Gala, and Wonderbolt Circus’s The Best Medicine Show. Olivia is very excited to be sharing the stage again with so many talented artists!