Work Experience
SeaWorld San Diego
Role/Act: Hand Balancer/Duo handstand and contortion act
Date: January 2023 - February 2023
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: Performed a total of 56 shows in a contortion-handstand duo act. These 20-minute pop-up shows took place four times a day and included opening and closing choreographic numbers.
Circus Bella
Role/Act: Hand Balancer/Chair stacking act
Date: May 2023 - July 2023
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: Performed solo chair stacking act for 16 shows at various locations throughout the SF Bay area, Reno, and LA. Set up and take down of the backdrop and stage was part of his workload each performance day.
Stuart Art Collection at UCSD
Role/Act: Clown/Chair Stacking
Date: September 2023 - October 2023
Location: La Jolla, CA
Description: Developed an immersive circus experience for this corporate event. Creation involved a video with a seamless transition into reality where characters “crash” the event and lead attendees throughout a night of entertainment. Cole played a bewildered, masked clown character interacting with the guests and other clowns prior to performing chair stacking.
Performances
Frontier Brouhaha by San Diego Circus Center
Role/Act: Poet/Handstands, Hand to Hand, Duo Trapeze, and Teeterboard
Date: December 2022
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: In addition to training for and performing acts in handstands, hand to hand, duo trapeze, and teeterboard, Cole was responsible for writing and performing five hip-hop verses throughout the course of the show.
VIVA Festival
Role/Act: Handstands on Chair with Rapping
Date: March 2023
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: Cole had created his first solo handstand act to present at the Viva Festival in Las Vegas, where he later claimed 3rd place in the handbalancing category. This act combined handbalancing on a single chair with a performance of new original song lyrics
Jubilee by San Diego Circus Center
Role/Act: Drunk Pirate/Chair Stacking, Teeterboard
Date: May 2023
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: Created a five-chair act based on a drunken pirate character and performed it at the SDCC spring showcase
3rd Annual San Diego Circus Festival
Role/Act: Drunk Pirate/Chair Stacking with Rapping, Teeterboard
Date: August 2023
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: Created a musical rendition of the drunken pirate chair stacking act where he composed and performed an original musical about the pirate running out of rum and stacking up chairs to get to a bottle containing more rum.
Timescape by San Diego Circus Center
Role/Act: Handstands, Hand to Hand
Date: December 2023
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: Cole held leadership responsibilities in act building and show construction. He performed in the hand-to-hand and handstand acts.
Training
Completed two years of formal circus training where he trained upwards of 40 hours a week under renowned coach Jean-Luc Martin. Though primarily focusing on handstands and hand-to-hand, his training also immersed him in a diverse array of disciplines such as teeterboard, duo trapeze, clowning, dance, and juggling.