Michael Trautman is a celebrated mime, physical comedian, and clown who inventive career has spanned nearly five decades, captivating audiences at esteemed venues such as the Kennedy Center, the New York International Festival of Clown Theater, Toronto Clown Festival, and Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. His artistry, rooted in rigorous training with Tony Montenaro and Jacque Lecog. encompasses new vaudeville, storytelling, and surreal comic invention, with a repertoire that ranges from solo variety shows to full-scale clown theater. Currently based in Portland, Maine, where he teaches and directs at Circus Maine and the Maine Youth Circus, Trautman continues to inspire a new generation of performers while redefining the boundaries of clown and physical theater.
This conversation offers a rare glimpse into the creative journey, philisophy, anmd enduring legacy of an artist whose work celebrates laughter, vulnerability, and human connection in the language of movement and spectacle.
Performing at the Festival of Fools in Burlington, Vermont in 2012.
Bending over backwards for the ping pong ball trick. Performing at the Festival of Fools in Burlington, Vermont
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