Mavis Jennings performed on Cirque du Soleil's Big Top productions of "Quidam" and "Varekai" from 1998 to 2016. During this time, he sang and acted in over 5000 shows on every continent in the world except Antarctica; a place he hopes to visit one day.

 

    While with Cirque, Mavis contributed his teaching skills through the company’s outreach program, "Cirque du Monde," where he taught beginning level clown and acting classes to under privileged children in several countries.

 

    It has been Mavis' greatest joy to teach and learn with students about all aspects of theatre history, directing, acting process, mask and movement techniques; Mavis is a Certified Candidate in Teaching and Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique with NMCA. Cirque du Soleil provided frequent Lecoq training workshops for its character actors, singers and acrobats during Mavis' years with the company. This training and years on a traveling stage have been a valuable resource for not only his future creativity, but also his teaching at Kent State University.

 

    While Mavis currently resides near Kent, Ohio he is frequently in touch with an enormous resource of friends and artistic-colleagues from around the globe with whom he continually endeavors to build a more worldly and diverse artistic vision.