Phil Burgers
Philip Burgers is an American writer and comedy performer, best known for his award-winning character Dr Brown.
Career
Burgers has performed worldwide since 2007 following on from his training at the prestigious Ecole Philippe Gaulier.
His most notable success to date is with the popular character Dr Brown, Dr Brown is a physical character based in an absurd world. Burgers took Dr Brown Because and Dr Brown Becaves around the world from 2009 - 2011 including Prague Fringe, Hong Kong Microfest, Australia. Since 2011, he has continued with Dr Brown in the family shows The Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and his Singing Tiger which won Best Children's Presentation at the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Director's Choice at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012 and Dr Brown Befrdfgth which won the BARRY award for the Best Show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012 and the Total Theatre Award for 'Innovation', the latter of which he won the Best Show by Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award. Burgers has also performed in Comedy Blaps sketches for Channel 4. The Blaps was co-written with Andrew Gaynord and its pilot episode will air on Channel 4.
