Clown Corp LLC
Celebrating its third birthday in 2025, Clown Corp LLC is a decades old corporation specializing in business, clowns, and business clowns. Clown Corp’s founding and only members are Julia Byrne, Nathan Ray, Tommy Sullivan-Lovett, and Yankl “Jake” Krakovsky, on a ceaseless quest for theatre that glorifies sex, violence, and laughter.
Clown Corp’s debut show BUSINESS DOING PLEASURE WITH YOU was awarded the Audience Choice Award in the 2022 Atlanta Fringe Festival. They continued partnering with Fringe in the Five/5ths of Ghostbusters fundraiser show with their opening section BUSTIN’ HARD OR HARDLY BUSTIN’. Their longest and most political piece, THE RED NOSE OF COURAGE, was the flagship project in the Emory University Theater Studies Department’s Alumni Workshop, and went onto be remounted at Windmill Arts, resulting in Clown Corp joining WA as resident artists in 2025. They are currently returning to BUSINESS DOING PLEASURE WITH YOU and revamping its story to create a whole new piece as wiser and older clowns.
Meet the Team
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Julia Byrne (she/they)
Julia is a Georgia native and multi-disciplinary artist. This is the last kind of theatre she thought she would make, and yet it brings her so so much joy. When not clowning, she writes plays about nature and hunger that have been produced far and wide. Check her out on the New Play Exchange!
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Nathan Ray (he/him)
Nathan is an actor, director, and clown from Atlanta, Georgia. He enjoys directing Shakespeare plays, painting miniatures, and helping run the world’s most successful clown business
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Tommy Sullivan-Lovett (they/he)
Tommy is an actor and playwright from Portland, OR. They came to Atlanta in 2016 to attend Emory University and hung around for the next eight years for some reason. Currently they live and act in Philadelphia, but the siren call of the clown office can’t be resisted for long. Recent credits include Romeo and Juliet for the Shakespeare Tavern and Waiting for Lefty for Egopo Classic Theater.
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Jake Krakovsky (he/they)
Jake is a theater-maker, educator, and Yiddishist from Atlanta, GA. They have been working professionally for over a decade as an actor, puppeteer, writer, director, dramaturg, teaching artist, and clown. As Clown Corp LLC’s beloved director, feared taskmaster, and Clown Papa™, he hopes you have fun. Or else!!!
