About Barbara Ann Michaels

Barbara and I clicked from the first phone call.
She made me feel so comfortable, I felt like I knew her for years.
~ Jadee & Damian, married May 2009

Contact Barbara:

• Phone: 646-648-0128

• Email: Love@JesterOfThePeace.com

• Mail:
Planetarium Station
PO Box 715
New York, NY 10024

Travel to your locale and destination weddings gladly considered.

Barbara, how did you become a wedding officiant?

I was called upon by two sets of friends in the summer of 2005 to officiate both of their weddings on opposite coasts. I loved it with a capital L-O-V-E. Upon moving to New York City in 2009, I answered that call anew by becoming a registered wedding officiant. I am so happy to serve your love with my creativity, sensitivity, wit, wisdom, and laughter. You'll feel at home with me, and your wedding ceremony will feel like a homecoming celebration into your love.

I've been featured as a wedding officiant on the Four Weddings show on The Learning Channel, in the New York Daily News... and in dear family photo albums all over the world.


Barbara, what's unique about you as a Wedding Officiant?

What sets me apart is my range of custom design. I am open to whatever expression of love is most true for you, from cherished tradition to artful invention to a mix of everything in between. Sweet beach side wedding to helicopter wedding to intimate living room gathering to roller disco extravaganza. It's the way I bring myself as a collaborative artist to your love.


Now, here's my "official" biography. Enjoy!

Barbara Ann Michaels makes a career of the interplay of love, art, and comedy. Artistically, she specializes in audience-interactive and improvisational theater as a clown, dancer, actor, and writer. Via AppliedTheatrics.com, Barbara serves corporate and community events with mission-driven theater. Her BA in Modern Culture and Media is from Brown University. She has an MFA in performance art from Massachusetts College of Art. She also attended the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. Barbara's education in physical theater includes workshops around the world with master teachers in clown, mime, improvisation, and now voice. She has appeared at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the New York Clown Theater Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, ImprovBoston, First Night Boston, on the Discovery Channel, and as a clown in Brazil and Germany. She is based in New York City.

Barbara has performed in/on/at a...
Wedding Public park Public library Tradeshow Fundraiser Kids party Schools K-12 University Day care center Senior center Street corner	International festival Fringe Festival Street fair Opera house Baseball game Town parade Corporate party Restaurant Night club TV special Short film Rock concert Circus tent	Park bench Hay bale Roof of a car Abandoned bridge Drawbridge Greenhouse Under an overpass Moving trolley Graveyard Store window Squash court Tunnel Open field Living room Doorway