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BIOGRAPHY

Rafael Svarin is a Swiss-born, New York-trained, Europe-based actor with experience in producing and directing. He is also a clown. Like, certified!

He wishes he had more to say here just to make the paragraph a bit longer.
For purely aesthetic reasons.

Rafael was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland and right away launched his acting career in the role of "Newborn" where he convincingly pretended to be happy to have been ripped out of his mother's comforting womb, only to be thrown into this nasty world with nothing but his naked body to express what his mind thinks.

During the next few safe and quiet, yet mostly happy years he learned to perfect his technique and skills in order to be prepared for the ordeals of puberty and high school.

He survived. Barely.

After breaking his back, back in 2010, Rafael decided to move to New York to break a leg - in the hopes of ending up in a cast for a long time...

He ended up in a few casts since arriving to this concrete jungle of opportunists and went on breaking legs and the bank.

All in good spirit, of course.

 

After just over 10 years in NYC and amidst a global pandemic, Rafael felt it was time to move back to Switzerland to see what Europe had been up to.

He has since worked on a fun project in Düsseldorf and trained to become a clown. So might say that not much has changed, and while that is true, Rafael would like to point out that he now possesses a life-size certificate to support that claim. The one regarding him being a clown. 

But yeah, not much has changed.

Except that he hopes to return to action in 2025 with renewed vigor and intent. So, beware! Or not. 

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