Duncan Wall is a writer and an organizer with a jones for physical culture. He is the author of The Ordinary Acrobat: Inside the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past & Present (Knopf 2013), which narrated his experience as a Fulbright Fellow at France's National Circus School, and the National Director of Circus Now, a community service organization dedicated to promoting and progressing the circus arts in America. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the co–Artistic Director of The Candidatos, a inexplicably macabre clown-theater company that toured internationally, including appearances at Lincoln Center, HERE Arts, and the Samuel Beckett Theater. He has studied community building through the circus arts as a visiting fellow at McGill University and taught circus history and aesthetics at the National Circus School of Montreal. Today his heart belongs to the U.S. Department of Arts & Culture, and other outlandish social justice efforts.