My name is Namtro. I am a travelling clown who works Indiana — school gyms, county fairs, parade routes, and the occasional McDonald's dining room where the layout is decent and the staff has not yet decided I am a problem. I travel out of a duffel bag. I sew my own seams. I sleep in motels where the desk clerk already knows my face and has stopped asking questions.

This site is where I put the notes. Not the press kit version — the version I would write in a motel room at 1 a.m. with one shoe off and greasepaint still hanging around my jaw like I lost a bar fight with a birthday party. It is a working notebook that I happen to publish because the road will eat anything you do not pin to a page.

What you will find here

  • Route planning between Indiana towns, because stacking two first-time venues back to back is how you end up sewing in a parking lot outside Kokomo at dusk.
  • Costume and prop notes from actual performance days, written while the failures are still warm and personally offensive.
  • Timing breakdowns for bits that work in school gyms, fairgrounds, and tight parade streets where the sound system is a man with a megaphone and a grudge.
  • Backstage tech notes, because this site runs on Astro and Bun and I deploy it between sets like a man who cannot leave well enough alone.
  • Confessions that have nothing to do with clowning but everything to do with why I was not posting — dogs, broken bones, cigarettes in spiritually incorrect locations, and a warlock that keeps getting me summoned.

How I write

I write like I talk, which is too much, with too many commas, and with a tendency to turn a three-word observation into a four-paragraph meditation on why the McDonald's in Muncie should be legally required to keep Coke in stock at all times. If something sounds like it was written by a man who takes clowning deadly seriously and everything else only sort of seriously, that is because it was, and I was probably eating cereal at 2 a.m. in a motel outside Lafayette when I wrote it.

Booking and contact

If you want to book me for a town event, school assembly, or whatever a "circus education thing" is, reach out through the usual channels and mention this blog so I know which lane the request is coming from. I am easier to find than I am to schedule, and I am not particularly easy to find.