Born April 11, 1950· Santa Monica, California, USA
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Emerging from a theatrical upbringing in Santa Monica, Irwin honed his craft at CalArts, continued under Herbert Blau at Oberlin, and refined clowning skills at Ringling Brothers’ Clown College before co-founding San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus in 1975. His stage work earned a Tony for the 2005 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a 1989 nomination for choreography on Largely New Yo…