FROM TU

Man Ran Away to the Circus

He found his calling with The Greatest Show on Earth

By Mike Salmon, Centre View

As teenagers approach high school, running away to join the circus comes up as a last resort, but for Brandon Glass it became a reality.

After graduating from John R. Lewis High School in 2010 he dabbled in work with the people who were hearing impaired, as a stunt man in show business and is now part of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus.

Joining the circus may be something to say jokingly but “now it’s actually my life,” Glass said.

The journey there is as roundabout as a three-ring circus. “The story is quite an adventure,” he said. 

There are no animals at the circus but it's still called The Greatest Show on Earth

Lewis High School, where he played the trumpet, Glass ended up at Towson University studying deaf studies and sign language. From there he went to being a stuntman in Los Angeles where he did a lot of stunt fighting with pyrotechnics. Glass described it as “basically fireworks coming out of my shoes,” he said.

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