Michael has been having fun performing throughout the world for decades. Variously identified as a visual comic, performance artist, new vaudevillian, mime (gasp), physical comedian, storyteller, magician and fool, he claims only to be a clown...and not a very traditional clown at that. Michael has appeared in such prestigious venues as the New York International Festival of Clown Theater, the Just For Laughs Festival, and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. For two years, Michael was the star clown in the national tour of OOPS! The Big Apple Circus Stage Show and is now working on the Broadway bound production of Busker Alley

Michael Lane Trautman
Clown, USA