Rhys Thomas (juggler)
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Rhys Thomas is a juggler, comedian and entertainer in the Pacific Northwest
of the United States. He has been performing publicly since 1987. His performance style is one characterized by jokes and puns accompanied by visual tricks and stunts. He performs at schools, churches, libraries and pirate festivals.
Rhys grew up in Crow, Oregon
. He taught himself to walk on a cable strung between two trees above a pond.
As a juggler, Rhys has appeared in the European Juggling Competition in Denmark, twice at the World Cup Street Performer Competition in Japan and as an artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution. He has also appeared as far afield as the island of Tobago and unicycled on a frozen sea near the Bering Strait.
Rhys also helped found the Portland Juggling Festival, and has appeared in many of its juggling and vaudeville extravaganzas. His official website is Jugglemania.
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...
of the United States. He has been performing publicly since 1987. His performance style is one characterized by jokes and puns accompanied by visual tricks and stunts. He performs at schools, churches, libraries and pirate festivals.
Rhys grew up in Crow, Oregon
Crow, Oregon
Crow is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.-History:According to Oregon Geographic Names, a post office was established in 1874 and named after community founders James Andrew Jackson Crow and Helen Fisk Crow, pioneers who came to Oregon by wagon train...
. He taught himself to walk on a cable strung between two trees above a pond.
As a juggler, Rhys has appeared in the European Juggling Competition in Denmark, twice at the World Cup Street Performer Competition in Japan and as an artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution. He has also appeared as far afield as the island of Tobago and unicycled on a frozen sea near the Bering Strait.
Rhys also helped found the Portland Juggling Festival, and has appeared in many of its juggling and vaudeville extravaganzas. His official website is Jugglemania.