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Avner the Eccentric
American performer and magician
Avner Eisenberg, also known by his stage name"Avner the Eccentric" (born August 26, 1948) is an American vaudeville performer, clown, mime, juggler, and sleight of handmagician.[1]John Simon described him in 1984 as "A clown for the thinking man and the most exacting child."[2]
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Avner went to four different universities with a variety of tentative majors; he ultimately received a theater degree from the University of Washington in 1971.
He then studied mime in Paris under Jacques Lecoq, interrupting those studies to spend some time as a puppeteer. Returning to the U.S., he taught at Carlo Clementi's Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California.[1]
He performed at Renaissance fairs and on stages, before playing the title role in the 1985 film The Jewel of the Nile,[3][4] a film that also featured his fellow vaudevillians The Fl