Fred Garbo

The Inflatable Theater Company is a performance act founded by Fred Garbo centered around large, self-designed inflatable props and geometric shapes. These inflatables transform, deflate, and reshape around the performer during the show, creating a unique blend of physical comedy, juggling, and visual spectacle that serves as the company's signature style.

Fred Garbo performs a distinctive style of physical comedy combining mime, juggling, and theatrical manipulation of large inflatable props. His shows are largely non-verbal and family-friendly, drawing on classical mime traditions while incorporating his unique inflatables as characters and environments that interact with him throughout the performance.

Fred Garbo has performed at performing arts centers, international theater festivals, and school programs across the United States and internationally. His visually striking, non-verbal style makes his work particularly suited for family-oriented programming and venues that specialize in physical theater and variety arts.

Unlike traditional mimes who typically rely on invisible objects, whiteface makeup, and classical gestural vocabulary, Fred Garbo incorporates massive, colorful inflatable structures that become active characters and transforming environments in the performance. His work fuses mime technique with prop-based spectacle in a way that defies easy categorization within conventional mime traditions.