Sea level
Two men. One submarine. Zero words.
An award-winning, world-touring physical comedy. Seventeen years, four countries, and still making waves.
Watch the trailer Book the show
Sea level
An award-winning, world-touring physical comedy. Seventeen years, four countries, and still making waves.
Watch the trailer Book the showPeriscope up
New dates are being charted now. Want The Submarine Show in your town? Tell your local theatre, or bring us there yourself.
Dive log · 10 meters
Deep beneath the ocean's surface, two intrepid explorers have just crashed their submarine, and that's only the beginning. What follows is an epic, madcap journey from the ocean floor all the way to the sky and back again, as our heroes navigate the impossible with nothing but their bodies, their wits, and their boundless imagination. Watch in wonder as a vivid world teeming with flora and fauna erupts before your very eyes, conjured from thin air, built from absolutely nothing.
This is physical comedy at its most fearless. Nonstop, breathless, and gloriously absurd, The Submarine Show will have you doubled over in laughter one moment and leaning forward in genuine suspense the next. Jaron and Slater's signature brand of storytelling is pure kinetic adventure: not a single word is spoken, every moment is discovered live in the room, and no two shows are ever the same.
Since its debut in 2009, this award-winning comedy has toured internationally to rave reviews and standing ovations. Seventeen years and counting, and it's still making waves.
Dive log · 40 meters
A wordless show is best experienced, not described. Press play.
Dive log · 200 meters
"Inspired madcap physical comedy... first-class clowns... a must-see"
San Francisco Chronicle
"A sharp and laugh-out-loud funny piece of first-rate physical storytelling"
The Scotsman
"Their silly expedition finds some fine comedic treasure"
★★★★
Time Out New York
"A mastery of physical comedy that was not just inspiring, but occasionally downright scary"
HuffPost
"Uproarious... unconventional from start to finish"
SF Weekly
"The action never lets up in a show crammed with playful and clever ideas"
FringeReview · Highly Recommended
"Almost impossible to resist"
★★★★
A Younger Theatre
"Truly incredible"
★★★★★
Broadway Baby
"Inspired mimes and brilliant clowns"
CultureVulture
Dive log · 400 meters
Jaron is a Bay Area native and performer, teacher, and director of circus, physical theatre, and puppetry whose work lives at the intersection of the athletic and the deeply strange. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz and the Dell'Arte School, Jaron has trained at CircoArts New Zealand and under the legendary Lu Yi at the Circus Center in San Francisco. Co-founder of Kinetic Arts Center in Oakland and a recent recipient of an MFA in Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut, he has spent decades building spaces where bodies tell stories that words cannot.
Having trained in theatre school, clown school, circus school, and puppet school, Jaron has performed all over the world, including with Cirque du Soleil. The Submarine Show remains his absolute favorite thing to do, a joy born equally from the show itself and from the irreplaceable creative partnership he shares with Slater. Jaron currently calls Seattle home.
Slater is an Emmy Award-winning performer and creator working at the intersection of physical theatre, dance, clown, mime, and puppetry. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Theatre Arts and trained at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Slater won an Emmy for motion capture body performance and has appeared on TEDx. He has toured internationally with his own award-winning devised productions, including The Box Club, Le Projet Migration, and The Submarine Show.
A terminally optimistic performing artist and a devoted teacher, Slater has spent nearly two decades working with students of all ages and imagines this is what he'll be doing for the rest of his life.
Ocean floor · Booking
The Submarine Show travels light. No set, no scenery, no load-in to speak of.
We need a simple lighting wash, two specials, house lights, and a single audio file. The show runs 75 minutes with no intermission and works in nearly any venue, from black boxes to proscenium houses to festival tents. The only requirement is that the performers can move between the stage and the audience.
Because the show is wordless, it tours internationally without translation and plays equally well for family audiences, festival crowds, and theatre subscribers.
Jaron Hollander & Slater Penney
