Theatre Development Fund – TDF: Bill Irwin is not a scholar. He is not a biographer. He is a clown. Whether you know him as Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street, or for playing fools in Shakespeare, or from his neo-vaudeville romps Fool Moon and Old Hats, his Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College training is usually in evidence. Even his Tony-winning turn as George in the 2005 Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? had a touch of buffoonery. So it's no surprise he's long been captivated by Samuel Beckett, whose absurdist writings are populated by tragicomic clowns.
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