After graduating from the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Clown College, Cheryl worked at Circus World in Florida performing in all the shows throughout the park and at various off premise promotional events such as the Citrus Bowl Halftime Show.

Cheryl has trained under Tony Montanaro at the Celebration Mime Theatre in Maine. Her mime and movement skills were further developed while studying at The Leonard Pitt School of Mime, respectively. Ms. Schruefer has also studied acting at Nassau Community College and Adelphi University Centre for Creative Arts.

In addition to performances at many corporate events including Pepsico and IBM and entertaining at schools such as the Cleary School for the Deaf for their annual holiday show, Cheryl has taught circus arts throughout schools and camps in the tri-state area.

Cheryl, aka Tiny the clown, was selected to perform in China for their International Clown Festivals four separate Festivals in 4 cities.

Last year, Ms. Schruefer was chosen to perform and manage the entertainment at Super Giant Bangkok, part of a large scale traveling Asian Tour.