Bio

Ambrose Martos has performed clown, standup, improv, sketch and dance around New York City and the world. In 2006 he toured North America as a principal clown with Cirque du Soleil’s “Quidam” and he and his physical comedy trio Happy Hour (www.happyhourclowns.com) had their show “It Takes 3” produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Symphony Space in NYC and the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles. The Glasgow Herald said Ambrose is “a man with a God-given face for comedy.” In 2005, he performed in the award-winning Off-Broadway hit “Slava’s Snowshow” at the Union Square Theater. He currently tours the world with Australia’s Umbilical Brothers and hosts burlesque shows at the Slipper Room in New York City. He was a finalist in the 2006 Andy Kaufman Comedy Competition and once had his roller skating disco act described as “brave comedy” by ABC’s Diane Sawyer (but she may have been joking). Ambrose plays the lead role in the short film Lutkoski Fish Sticks, which won 3rd Place at the 2005 NYU First Run Film Festival, and can be seen as a Merry Prankster in Julie Taymor’s 1960s Beatles musical “Across the Universe”. He is a graduate of the Ringling Bros. Clown College and works in hospitals as a member of The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, which he hopes will make up for some of the bad things he did as a teenager.