About the Residency

Troy Wunderle, the long-time Big Top Tour artistic director of Circus Smirkus, brings his circus adventures to the region for a two-week residency March 5-16 that includes a series of early-evening one-man family circus shows and circus arts programs and workshops at multiple schools and after-school and community programs. This residency promises fun and hands-on learning for all ages!

Upcoming Performances & Events


Wunderle's One Man Circus
Family fun for all ages!
This interactive show features ball, ring and club juggling routines; intricate diablo manipulation; fast-paced rhythmic ball bouncing; unicycle skits; plate spinning; teetering rolla bollas; clown antics; roling globe stunts; ladder balancing; audience participation; magic and more!

We invite you to the final show of our residency -- postponed due to snow, and back to welcome the spring/summer season!

Free Family Show at Moultonborough Central School
916 Whittier Hwy., Moultonborough
6:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 29
Generously sponsored by the Moultonborough PTA & featuring MCS Circus Students!

Download poster here.

The program was offered at four locations across our region in March. .

Lakeway Elementary School, 325 Union St., Littleton
Thursday, March 8, 6:30 p.m.
Suggested donation $5/person, $10/family      Download a poster here.

Woodsville Elementary School, 206 Central St., Woodsville
Friday, March 9, 6:30 p.m.
$5/student, $10/family             Download a poster here. 

Edward Fenn Elementary School, 169 Main St., Gorham
Thursday, March 15, 6:30 p.m.
$5/ticket, $10/family                  Download a poster here.

Lancaster Elementary School, 35 Ice Pond Rd., Lancaster
Friday, March 16, 6:30 p.m.
$5/ticket, $10/family                   Download a poster here.

Please note: If the ticket price is a hardship, please pay what you can or come as our guest -- but definitely come!

This residency is coordinated by the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire and supported in part by the New England States Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies, including the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Thank you to all our funders, hosts and partners, including The Tillotson Fund of the NH Charitable Foundation Foundation and the NH State Council on the Arts for operating support.




About the Artist

Troy Wunderle is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He is a former international performer with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. For the past fourteen years, he has toured throughout the United States as a freelance performer.

He has been featured on the Disney Channel, The Today Show, Martha Stewart, Chronicle, Fetch, Fox and Friends and America's Funniest Home Videos.

Troy is Big Top Tour Artistic Director of Circus Smirkus, a former Director of Clowning for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and founder of Wunderle's Big Top Adventures LLC.