Stoney Burke
Stoney Burke is a California street performer and actor.Bio
He was born January 17, 1953 in Highland, Michigan, to a home he describes as "unstable." Performing career
In 1975, Burke moved to Eugene, Oregon and enrolled as a dance and theater major at the University of Oregon. He moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1977 to study mime with Leonard Pitt, and soon began performing and commenting on current events. He claims to have "been hassled or arrested so many times practicing my free speech, I would bore you with the truth of it all."
Burke performs political comedy on college campuses, most notably at the University of California, Berkeley near Sather Gate. Burke routinely engages crowds throughout the day using conservative Republican perspectives as his primary satire subject matter. Burke hosts a TV show called Stoney Speaks on public-access television cable TV. Burke was featured in a Swedish documentary called An American in America. He played a soup kitchen server in the movie Bartleby and played a truck driver in the movie The Matrix Reloaded. He had a major role playing Lockheed Martin in Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors in November 2006, passed a resolution that declared November 14, 2007 "Stoney, A Clown Who Rabble Rouses In Defense of Free Speech, Day".
The University of California, Berkeley sailing team hosts an annual college sailing regatta named in Burke's honor.
Burke has a B.A. from San Francisco State University.
