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Total Theater master class

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You Are Your Game

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Imagine Yourself

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The Mask as the Gateway to the Self

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Divining Shakespeare

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Mask (neutral, emotion, character, commedia-silent and verbal)

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Physical Theater

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Movement

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Mime

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Tumbling and stage combat

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Clowning

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Improvisation

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Configuration

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Commedia dell' Arte

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Delsarte, melodrama

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Shakespeare

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Advanced acting

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Directing

2016

Fulbright Senior Specialist, Prague Academy of Preforming Arts
Directed world premiere of "The Reckoning: Pecora for the Public"

2014

Guest Director Prague Shakespeare Co.
Guest Professor, University of Kristiansand, Norway

2013

Guest Director, Wayne State University, Detroit
Directed world premiere, “The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein”

2000-2010

Producer/Host, Artist Express and arTTalks videos (Profiles of Merce Cunningham, Danta Marioni, Joe McDonnell, Aurora Valentinetti and others)

2009

Senior Fulbright Specialist in Theater to The Iceland Academy of the Arts

2005-2008

Consultant to Cirque du Soleil, physical theater and clown; Kooza, Delirium, Corteo

2006

Commedia dell’ Arte consultant to The Glorious Ones, directed by Graciela Daniele, written by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, based upon the novel by Francine Prose (Public Theatre, Pittsburgh and Lincoln Center, NY)

2001-2004

Creative Consultant to David Shiner (ACT)

2002-2003

Director, Shakespeare in Schools (ESU)

2002

Director, Pomp Duck and Circumstance (Circus/Cabaret, Berlin)

2001-2002

Arts Consultant, Seattle School Board

2005-2018

Hit & Run Theater Co. Seattle, WA

1980-1999

Bathhouse Theater, Seattle, WA

1976-1980

Floating Theater, Seattle, WA

1972-1974

National Theater School of Canada

1974-1976

Seattle Repertory Theater, Seattle, WAConsultant to Cirque du Soleil,
physical theater and clown; Kooza, Delirium, Corteo

1980-1990

University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

1967-1971

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
(Co-founded Professional Actor's Training Program, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

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Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik

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Commedia School, Copenhagen

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New York University, New York

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Yale Drama School

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SUNNY Purchase, NY

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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

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Clown Conservatory, Circus Center, San Francisco

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Dell' Arte School of Physical Theater, Blue Lake, CA

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Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA

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University of California, Los Angeles, CA

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Jarvis Conservatory, Napa, CA

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Family Services, Napa, CA

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UCSD, La Jolla, CA

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Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

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Ohio State University, Columbus

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University of New Mexico, Portales

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Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City

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University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

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Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

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Caravan Theatre Company, Armstrong, BC

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Greater Vancouver Prof. Theatre Association

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Western Washington State College, WA

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Jungian Society, Seattle

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English Speaking Union, Seattle

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National Endowment for the Arts, Theater Panelist: Artists in the Schools

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Theater Communications Group Observership

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Fellow, National Film Board of Canada

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Canada Council Travel Grant to Europe

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Professional Theater Tour of Germany
(Guest of Federal Republic of Germany and Goethe Institute)

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Member, Advisory Board, American Museum of Radio, Bellingham

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Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario - Combat choreographer “Coriolanus”

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St Lawrence Centre, Toronto, Ontario - Cabaret

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Chelsea Theater Center, New York – Biography, Ice Age

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Judson’s Poets Theater, NY – world premiere of Chekhov’s “Tatiana Repina”

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Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park – A Holiday Big Broadcast

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Indiana Repertory Co. – Threepenny Opera

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Baltimore Center Stage - Misalliance

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Delaware Arts Festival – Imaginary Invalid, Where’s Charly

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Norfolk Theater, Virginia – A Shot in the Dark (with Cybill Shepherd)

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Dallas Shakespeare Festival – Comedy of Errors

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Pickle Family Circus, San Francisco, CA - (wrote and directed circus/theatre
fusion piece “Café des Artistes”, incorporating clowns, acrobats, narrative and circus skill acts)

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City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA - Sacco & Vanzetti (A Vaudeville)

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Long Island University, Post – Red Noses

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Open Fist Theater, Los Angeles – Macbeth

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UCLA Graduate Acting Program – Three Sisters

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Teatro Zinzanni, Seattle - (interactive cabaret clown dinner show - featuring
animation, audience involvement and clown routines)

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Seattle Shakespeare Co. - A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Boomer Classics, Kirkland Performance Center - Stoppard’s
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Zaslove’s Big Broadcast

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Black Box Opera, Seattle

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American Museum of Radio, Bellingham, WA – The Big Broadcast

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Vancouver East Cultural Centre – The Big Broadcast

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Vancouver Arts Club Theatre – On the Verge

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Axis Theatre, Vancouver – trained company for “The Number 14”

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University of British Columbia – The Way of the World

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Wives Tales - (devised storytelling technique for Irish folk-tale with dual narrator/performers)

• Servant of Two Masters
• Twelfth Night
• Great Expectations
• Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles)
• On the Verge
• Hamlet
• An Italian Straw Hat
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Skin of Our Teeth
• Love’s Labor’s Lost
• The Imaginary Invalid
• The Merchant of Venice
• Oedipus (Yeats)
• The Dybbuk
• Macbeth
• The Three Sisters
• Another Day in the Life of Vic & Sade
• The Playboy of the Western World

• Someone’s Knocking
• A Comedy of Errors
• A Day in the Life of Vic & Sade
• The Flowering Peach
• Waiting for Godot
• Othello
• Johnson Over Jordan
• Puntila and His Servant Matti
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Under Milk Wood
• King Lear
• Wild Oats
• him
• The Threepenny Opera
• Boy Meets Girl
• Peer Gynt
• Josephine the Mouse Singer
• The Adding Machine
• The Colleen Bawn

• Top Hat, White Tie & Tales – Irving Berlin revue
• A Legend of St Nicholas (original adaptation by Arne Zaslove)
• Black Stage Views (a history of the black entertainer in America)
• Sherlock’s Veiled Secret
• The Big Broadcast (a recreation of the golden age of radio - 17 versions each with all new
   material)
• Buckskin to Satin (tracing the growth of early American folk music from hymns to Grand Ole
   Opry)
• Postcards (American culture explored through vintage postcards)
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (a recreation of the classic comic strip)
• Entertaining Brecht
• The Golem
• Say It with a Song
• Cowboy Commedia Capers
• Sunday Funnies (a collage show celebrating the golden age of newspaper comic strips)
• Eleanor Marx
• All Aboard (a celebration of American railroad culture through songs and stories)
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• The Ballad of Mary Reade

• Happy Days
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Play
• Not I
• Rip Van Winkle
• Mister Mister
• Footfalls
• The Big Broadcast 1
• Krapp’s Last Tape

• Indians
• Collected Works of Billy the Kid
• Benito Cereno
• Biography
• Architect & Emperor
• A Look at the Fifties
• Seven Keys to Bald Pate
• Devised Pieces (collage shows created with contributions from the ensemble)
• The Sports Show - (history of sports from the Greek Olympics to modern superheros)
• America’s Players - (the development of the American theater’s earliest performers and stages)
• The History Show - (all of American history in a quick and irreverent study)
• Made for TV - (communication from cave man to cathode tubes)
• Crazy Quilt - (American humor from Twain to TV)

• Marat/Sade
• Rhinoceros
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
• A Cry of Players
• Endgame (Actor)
• Waiting for Godot (Actor)
• Eh? (Actor)
• Absurd Review - (collage of nursery rhymes, songs and stories with found
   objects - 3 versions)
• Locomotion Show - (a celebration of movement from amoebas to space flight,
   featuring the poetry of Walt Whitman)

• Brave Little Tailor
• Androcles & The Lion
• Dancing Donkey
• Prof Filarsky’s Miraculous Invention
• Jack & Beanstalk

• Imaginary Invalid (Moliere)
• An Italian Straw Hat (Labiche) – set in New Orleans
• The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Moliere)
• No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre)

• 1964 – 1966 Fulbright Scholar, Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France
   (School of Physical Theatre - First American Student)
• 1962 – 1964 Apprenticeship with Commedia dell’ Arte
   Master Carlo Mazzone - Clementi
• 1957 - 1961Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA