Tina Gromova

Tina Gromova and I keeping the kids entertained at the North Park Mall in Dallas, Texas.

Working at Le Theatre de Marionette was fun. They not only did their puppet plays at their theatre space in the mall but would do shows throughout the mall in during the course of the year. Once a year we would also find ourselves putting on a black light puppet at the Texas State Fair in Dallas for three weeks.

I also got to work with some very talented people. One such person was Tina Gromova, who had recently immigrated from Russia. She was very versatile being a singer, dancer, actress and of course puppeteer. I learned so much from her and was grateful for the time I worked alongside her. Despite the language barrier Pammy and I became the best of friends with her. Tina was also a skilled seamstress and made Pammy's clown costume for our 2001 tour with the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. She still lives in Dallas performing in variety shows for Dick Monday: former Ringling clown, Director of RBBB Clown College, very talented fellow and all around nice guy.

Tina could easily have fit in the circus world. She was a hard worker, ambitious, talented and adventurous. She was a one woman show. You don't run across people like her every day, especially outside of the circus so we feel fortunate to have met her.