ABOUT THE ARTISTS 

Billy has appeared on The Jimmy Kimmel Show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The New York International Fringe Festival, a six-week engagement at The Flea Theater in New York, The Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (LA and NYC). The critics called Billy: Sardonically twisted! Skillfully obscene! Chilling!” – The New York Times “Astonishingly creative and hilariously lewd!” - New York Post “The only mime I’ve ever laughed at!” - Philadelphia Weekly “A simply glorious hour of inch-perfect, charcoal-dark clowning.” - The London Times “Brilliant! A one-man variety show depicting the most taboo and controversial stories of our culture.” NYTheatre.com “Throw away any preconceptions you have about mimes because this is like nothing you’ve ever imagined!” – New West Albuquerque STEVEN BANKS Steven Banks is the Emmy nominated head writer of SpongeBob Squarepants and wrote and starred in Home Entertainment Center (on Amazon Prime). He co-created and co-directed Shadowland, with the dance/theater company Pilobolus, which has been performed in 40 countries. His books include the Middle School Bites series and the novel, King of the Creeps. He is the screenwriter and producer of the upcoming film, The Big Whoop with Two Headed Dog and Sandra Oh. Steven is a drop out of Los Angeles City College.

Madcap physical comedy actor Luciano Brindisi from Argentina is recognized throughout South America and Europe as a master of mime, clown, and physical comedy. Luciano’s shows have toured over 100 cities in Argentina, Brasil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Italy and Spain. He has performed at international mime festivals throughout South America and Europe, numerous television programs in Argentina, and appeared in several films including the Cannes Festival. Luciano has also developed and performed in many promotions for international companies, and is a multi-award winner in Argentina for his work with the arts in education. LUCIANO BRINDISI explodes on the stage with electric energy solving the “NOW” with absurd and eccentric antics. www.lucianobrindisi.com

Highly acclaimed mime duo KEITH BERGER and SHARON DISKIN have performed together since 1985, delighting a wide range of concert audiences throughout the world. Noted for their exciting performance style and professional discipline, Sharon and Keith have been enthusiastically received by audiences and critics alike at theatre venues ranging from New York City’s La Mama to L.A.’s Disney Concert Hall, from L.A.’s House of Blues to the iconic Troubador, from the world-renowned Edinburgh Arts Festival in Scotland to venues throughout Europe and Asia. Berger & Diskin have taught workshops and master classes in Physical Theatre and Mime throughout the U.S., Europeand Asia including Cornell University, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Disney Animation Studios, The Macau Cultural Center and at hundreds of schools throughout Southern California. Since 1990, The Chameleons have been among the most popular and in demand artists touring their young audience shows for The Music Center of Los Angeles County and The Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts, among many other organizations. Keith and Sharon were honored with the PASA award for their excellence as professional artists in the schools, which was presented by the County of Los Angeles, California Arts Council, and the California Department of Education. Keith and Sharon live in L.A. where they raised their two children – also performing artists.

James Donlon is a celebrated international performer, master teacher, and director of physical theatre since 1970, presenting his original solo programs throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America. The New York Times called Donlon’s work "an extraordinary blend of skill and lunacy”. James has been a film movement coach for Oscar-winners Javier Bardem, Kathy Bates, and Frances McDormand, as well as film stars Benjamin Bratt and David Strathairn. He created fight choreography for Linda Ronstadt, and has presented residencies with special world institutions like USA's El Teatro Campesino, Mexico City 's Bellas Artes, Prague's national Academy of Performing Arts (AMU), Barcelona’s Institut del Teatre, Dublin's Gaiety School of Acting, and Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown College where he taught Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin and Big Apple Circus clown icon Barry Lubin. Donlon has been on the faculties of acting schools such as The American Conservatory Theater, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The National Theatre Conservatory-Denver Center, The Yale School of Drama, UC-Santa Barbara, UC-San Diego, and the Oregon Center for the Arts. Among his past students are legendary Broadway musical actor Terry Mann, and Hollywood writers Angus MacLachlan (Junebug), and Noah Harpster (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood). He founded San Francisco's iconic Flying Actor Studio, and co-hosts the Mime Radio Show podcast archiving important voices in physical theatre over the last 60 years. James is the only physical theater artist ever invited to perform with the legendary mime Robert Shields of CBS' The Shields & Yarnell Show, and is the first American mime/clown to perform in the famed Teatro Dimitri of Switzerland. He has been awarded the "Golden Hands" gloves by the World Mime Organization for his life-time achievement of excellence in the art of Mime.

Dean Evans is an award winning performer, director, and physical theater artist. Dean was named one of the top 50 'players' by New City magazine. They have performed around the world as a solo artist and with companies such as the Second City, iO, the Goodman, Cirque Du Soliel and many more. Dean is an ensemble member of the renowned performance art collective the Neo-Futurists where they wrote and performed groundbreaking original work. Dean is currently the Artistic director of The Nonsemble in Los Angeles. Dean also performs as Honeybuns. Honeybuns has enjoyed their own career performing in NYC, Chicago, Moscow, Ireland, Austin TX, and Los Angeles. Dean has created over a dozen full length theatrical productions, various immersive spectacles, 3 full length circuses, and dozens of comedic characters. They have appeared on NBC, Russia's минута славы, the onion network, and various commercials and television. Dean has been on faculty at Columbia College, The Celebration Barn, the Second City Training Center, Aloft circus arts, and the Actor's Gymnasium. They have taught as a guest artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, UIC, Oberlin College, the Ohio State University, Lake Forest College and more. Dean currently teaches classes in Clown, Mime, Bouffon, and devising in Los Angeles

A Los Angeles native, theatre artist-performer, director, deviser, community engagement worker, and tinkerer of materials. Garcia is Movement faculty at California Institute of the Arts, and a Resident Teaching Artist for Center Theatre Group. Trained in ensemble based physical theatre from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, where she is visiting faculty. Most recently, Estela Garcia was the Puppetry Choreographer for Lisa Portes’ production of Quixote Nuevo by Octavio Solis; it toured from South Coast Repertory to Seattle Rep and Portland Center Stage. In addition, Garcia was Director of Movement and a Creative Collaborator for the production of Isaac Gomez’s I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER directed by Sara Guerrero at Greenway Court Theatre. Garcia wrote and directed her new play Dinner with Remedios y sus Gatos which was presented for Center Theatre Group’s Library Reading Series in August 2023. She was the performer/creator of Remedios Varo: La Alquimista, which was presented at the 2018 LAX Performance Festival, and directed Hija de Mi Madre for the Short+Sweet Hollywood Latinx Festival, which won Best of Fest, Best Writing and Best Acting awards. Garcia’s other credits include Puppetry Direction for South Coast Repertory’s The Long Road Today, Assistant Directing Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven, a co-production of Center Theatre Group and El Teatro Campesino, serving as movement director for Born in Chaos (TheatreWorkers Project) and D is for Dog and Hyperbole Origins for Rogue Artists Ensemble, where Garcia was an ensemble member. Director’s Lab West 2023 alum.

Tina Kronis is a theatre artist, director, choreographer and teacher. She is Artistic Director and co-founder of Theatre Movement Bazaar, a company dedicated to creating original performance works with an emphasis on physical action -- merging elements of dance, text, cinema, and media from diverse sources into a complex performance. Her productions have been featured in the Radar LA Festival, Beijing Comedy Festival, Shanghai International Contemporary Theatre Festival, The Chekhov International Festival (the first US production in over 25 years). With GRAIL PROJECT, she garnered Ovation Awards Best Direction, Best Choreography, and Best Ensemble. For ANTON’S UNCLES she was awarded Outstanding Theatre Award, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Best Choreography Award, LA Weekly. With the Gorky Drama Theatre, she co-created and directed a production awarded the Silver Medallion Award for best production, 2020. She co-created the Swissmask/mime/dance company, Mummenschanz’s shows, NEXT and YOU + ME, and performed in their Broadway and international companies. She has just returned from touring Scotland and London with her new critically acclaimed musical, TINY LITTLE TOWN.

Michael Hays is an actor, writer, cartoonist, mime, clown & general oddball. Hailing from a damp little corner in Portland, Oregon he graduated with a BFA in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University. He then studied Mime, Clown, and Physical Theatre for several years under the mentorship of James Donlon at the Flying Actors Studio in Ashland, Oregon. Michael also co-founded, wrote, performed, and taught with the theatre company "A Muse Zoo". In 2017 they performed their slapstick comedy The Truth* around North America at the Oregon Fringe, Toronto Fringe, Indy Fringe, and Capital Fringe in Washington D.C. Michael also debuted his one man show Life’s a Gas at the Oregon Fringe Festival in 2018. Over the past several years Michael has worked as an actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, performed in Protomartyr’s music video for “Polacrilex Kid”, and has presented multiple solo pieces for the Ashland Lunacy Festival. This past year he wrote, produced and performed a live sit-com titled the “The Four Witches” at the Broadwater Theatre. He has also brought his clown character The Leech to venues like El Cid and Little joy to host several of Los Angeles’s grumpiest punk bands. Michael is currently living in Los Angeles- if you can call that living.

A native of Los Angeles and a founding member of the LA Mime Festival, actor, teacher, and movement coach Lorin Eric Salm was a student of the legendary master of mime Marcel Marceau and is a graduate of Marceau's Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris (Paris International School of Mimodrama). He studied Etienne Decroux’s Corporeal Mime under former Decroux assistants Corinne Soum and Steven Wasson, and former Decroux student Ivan Bacciocchi, and also studied with Polish mime master Stefan Niedzialkowski. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from California State University, Northridge. Lorin has performed in Paris with Marcel Marceau and in his own solo mime show C’est-à-dire... (That is to Say...), as well as in Israel, New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. In addition to acting work in theatre, film, and television, he is a character movement reference actor and motion capture actor for animated films and television series, including children's favorites Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. Lorin's TV appearances as mime characters include Martha & Snoop's Potluck Party Challenge, Hannah Montana, Nip/Tuck, and a national commercial for Geico. This November-December, he will be appearing in a small mime role in LA Opera's La Bohème at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. As a mime instructor, Lorin founded his Los Angeles school Mime Theatre Studio in 2001, where he teaches in person for local students and online for students across North America and around the world. He is a longtime guest instructor for Cirque du Soleil, and he creates movement and coaches talent for major Hollywood film and TV productions, including stars Jesse Eisenberg, Cole Sprouse, Riley Keough, and Damon Wayans. Lorin has been a guest instructor at CalArts, UCLA, Ohio State University, and Australia's Queensland University of Technology. He created Character Movement for Animation workshops which he has taught at leading animation studios including Disney, DreamWorks, and Sony.

Silent Partners is a clown trio that transports you back to the 1920s movie theatre! These performers bring silent movies to life onstage with live sound effects, Chaplinesque slapstick, and audience participation. “We met in the clown scene, each with a desire for creating something a little unique and theatrical.” Molly, Danny, and Cole are excited to bring you something new! @silentpartnerscomedy on Instagram/TikTok

Daniel Stein Studio Professor, University of CA, Santa Barbara Teaches Movement for the Actor and Devising of Original Works Curator of the Annual PARTICLE COLLIDER FESTIVAL at UCSB. After studying in the Professional Actors Training Program at Carnegie-Mellon University, notably with Jewel Walker, Daniel went to Paris, France to study with Etienne Decroux, becoming M. Decroux’s frequent translator. Subsequently making his home in Paris for 20 years, Daniel started his professional career as an actor with the French National Theatre. His solo performances have toured in more than 30 countries, as well as in theatres such as the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center in the United States. The performance of his first solo show, TIMEPIECE, received this review: "Perhaps a handful of times can a critic sit in a theatre and in the space of a mere hour see a performer change the entire course of an established art form, but that is precisely what happened when Daniel Stein opened the Dance Theater Workshops New Mime Series” - Barton Womble, New York Daily News). He has performed and taught master classes throughout the world at institutions such as The Juilliard School of Drama and The Shanghai Theatre Academy. Daniel is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States/Japan Commission, the Pew Charitable Trust… Recent summers have seen him teaching in Sicily, The Danish National School for the Performing Arts, Copenhagen and in Seoul, South Korea. Prior to finding his artistic home at The University of California, Santa Barbara he spent seven years at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island as Head of Movement and Physical Theatre for their MFA Professional Actor Training Program. Prior to that over a decade at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, CA. serving as School Director and core instructor. For more information visit PoeticDynamics.com

Gideon Berger is a director, actor, and mime. He grew up touring with the Chameleons Mime Theater, eventually discovering that he could speak and act at the same time. He went on to study directing at Bard College, going on to direct and write avant-garde theater all over New York State, including adaptions of King Ubu, Cowboy Mouth, and his own Yuppie Mime Musical. He began translating his experience directing theater to film, writing scripts, directing music videos, documentaries, and shorts, culminating in the creation of his debut feature, The Tannery. His film acting credits include Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, I Think I Live Here, and The Tannery. Currently, he is writing new scripts and directing work in collaboration with productions in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles.

Liz Maxwell is a professor at Chapman University specializing in modern dance technique/repertory, choreography, and somatic practices. Early training was in New York City at The Juilliard School. During 15 years in New York, Liz toured Europe, Japan, and the United States in the companies of Laura Dean, Lucinda Childs, Ton Simons, Neil Greenberg, Elisa Monte, Kenneth Rinker, Bill Young, and Donald Byrd. Most recently, Liz performed her solo “Return” with music by Mio Morales and direction by Bill Young at Waxworks in NYC. Liz also worked for 10 years in K-12 classrooms as a Teaching-Artist with Lincoln Center Institute. She received an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington's unique program for returning professionals. Liz is certified as a Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and is a registered Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA.

Born in Hawthorne, California, Albert Smith is fluent in both Spanish and English. From an early age, he developed a passion for filmmaking, physical storytelling, and music. He studied Filmmaking and Television Production at Oxnard College, where he collaborated with local filmmakers as an actor, writer, and producer. Since 2010, Albert has trained in Acting and Scene Analysis at The Berg Studios with Gregory Berger, and he has also studied Movement and Mime at the Flying Actor Studio with James Donlon. Albert made his stage debut in 2014 in Rick Najera’s Latinologues, playing the role of Carlos, a janitor from the Dominican Republic. Since then, he has been an active member of Teatro de las Américas, performing regularly in productions and participating in the company’s Film Workshop, including projects such as Luz Universal and Nube Oscura. Dedicated to collaboration, Albert continues to work with local artists and filmmakers. You can follow his antics on YouTube (@albertsmith1080) and Facebook.

Jamin is a theatre maker and mime artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Influenced by artists such as OSF fight choreographer U. Jonathan Toppo and master mime James Donlon, Jamin explores physical theatre through mime, mask work, and calls upon neoclassical clown training to devise theatrical shows ranging from original burlesque songs to featured characters in stage plays across the U.S. He spent much of his childhood on Mexico beaches battling coconuts in palm trees and arm-wrestling hermit crabs. ​Many hermit crabs won. From the springs of this play, Jamin forged a strong connection between the physical, tactile world and his own imagination. Recalling days of archery with illusory enemies in the sand, he channels his childlike wonder through the creation of mimodramas and clown routines infused in theatrical shows to excite and inspire audiences of all ages.

Internationally touring and award winning artist Sierra Camille is a captivating physical theater artist, aerialist, and clown bringing hilarious high glamour to stages around the world. Co-founder of Live Loud Girls, Levity Aerial Troupe, and Skytopia Aerial Arts, she’s a fierce collaborator. Performance highlights include: World Culture Festival - Karachi, Circus Nonsense, Misfit Cabaret, Clowns Without Borders, UpLift Physical Theatre, and The Traveling Spectacular. Her one woman show clinched Best of Fringe San Francisco in 2023. You can find her touring one of her shows: The Miss American Dream Show, Candy Vision, or Launderland when she’s not creating theater at Church of Clown in San Francisco.

Aleah Zimmer is an actor and artist whose work spans devised performance, short film, and experimental theatre. She holds a BFA in theatre from Southern Oregon University (2016) where she studied movement under James Donlon, and earned her MFA from NYU Tisch's Graduate Acting Program in 2020. Since then she has continued to explore physical storytelling through shot films and ensemble driven projects.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER David Guerra is an award-winning actor, director, teaching and performing artist. As an actor, he has toured internationally, bringing his experience to cities like Shanghai and Beijing, China; Puebla and Hermosillo, Mexico; and Edinburgh, Scotland. Some of his film and television credits include: And Now I Lay Me Down (HollyShorts Film Festival, LA Shorts International Film Festival and Santa Barbara International Film Festival); Wild Rose starring Omarion; Kukulkan: A Mayan Story; Where the Sky is Born; La Rosa y El Gato; Flor de naranja; Diagnosis X and Untold Stories of the ER. David’s favorite stage credits are: Grail Project, a three-time Ovation Awards winner; Edinburgh Festival Fringe ‘14, ’15, and ’18 with three different Theatre Movement Bazaar productions; A Mulholland Christmas Carol with Theatre of NOTE; Piñata Dreams by Josefina López; and Ochre & Onyx: The Langston Hughes Project by Lynn Manning, directed by Nataki Garrett. Mr. Guerra earned an Associate in Arts degree from East Los Angeles College and graduated with honors distinction in major from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Paula Rebelo is a Brazilian actress based in Los Angeles. She is a longtime collaborator with Theatre Movement Bazaar and has performed in Cherry Jam, Big Shot (South Coast Repertory, Bootleg Theater, and tours to China and Scotland), Grail Project (Bootleg Theater and Edinburgh Fringe), and Tiny Little Town (Broadwater, Edinburgh, and London tours). Other selected credits include Do You Feel Anger? (Circle X Theatre), Cry It Out (Company of Fools), The River Bride (Arizona Theatre Company), The Clean House (Boise Contemporary Theater), The Temptation of St. Antony (Four Larks), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), and several productions with immersive theatre company The Speakeasy Society. She is an associate member of Echo Theatre Company. Paula has received two Ovation Awards and an LA Theatre Bites Award for her work in LA theatre. She holds a B.F.A. from CalArts.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Jorge “Miami” Berrios is an actor, writer and comedian that currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in Miami and is the youngest of six siblings. He has toured with The Second City Touring Company, performed in the CBS Diversity Showcase, and graduated the LACC Theater Academy. He would like to thank THEATRE MOVEMENT BIZARE and his mother for getting on that boat in 1980 and leaving Cuba! No pares, sigue, sigue!

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZARR PERFORMER Nikhil Pai (he/him) is an actor, director, and educator whose career spans from classical and contemporary theatre to television and film to immersive performance to voice over. His most recent collaboration with Theatre Movement Bazaar was in their production of Tiny Little Town, a new musical adapted from Gogol’s The Government Inspector (playing Kevin Konner née Khlestakov), which toured the UK at the Greenwich Theatre and the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In other Los Angeles area theatre, he starred as Dave Riley in the International City Theatre’s production of The Outsider. Nikhil is a company member of LA’s premier classical theatre company, Independent Shakespeare Co. where he has played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Arnold in the West Coast premiere of The Snow Geese, among others; directed Noël Coward’s Private Lives; and served on the company’s Board of Directors from 2018-2024. He is a frequent collaborator with the immersive performance company, The Speakeasy Society, playing Jacob Marley in Ebenezer!, F. Scott Fitzgerald in Wild, and Tik Tok in their episodic series The Kansas Collection. He has made appearances in the wildly popular television shows Westworld, Grace and Frankie, The Morning Show, Superstore, S.W.A.T., Platonic, Castle, and Selfie, among others. His film credits include Miss Stevens, Straight Up, Double Exposure, and Hollywood Stargirl. He has also lent his voice to the award-winning CurtCo Media narrative podcast, Solar. Nikhil teaches Acting in the CalArts School of Theater. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Arts and Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from CalArts.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Colin is a performer and scenic designer originally from Lake Tahoe. He is thrilled to be working with TMB and the LA Mime Festival. PERFORMANCE: Chicago Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Metropolis Performing Arts Center, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Contemporary Theatre. DESIGN: Team StarKid at El Portal, Curtis Theatre, Broadwater Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, Pocket Playhouse, UO University Theatre. UPCOMING: The Aaron Play at Independent Shakespeare Theatre Studio with Coin & Ghost Theatre Company.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Mychel Scott is a performer with a lifelong love for storytelling through movement and character. A former student at the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, she first discovered her passion for acting as a child when she was cast in a school production of The Lion King. Though her academic path led her to earn a bachelor’s degree in Deaf Studies (ASL), she never lost her draw to the stage. Known among friends for her expressive, playful spirit, Mychel continues to explore the art of performance through theater, music, and movement. Bringing stories to life without words feels like home to her. She is excited to return to her roots and join in on the creative fun in this year’s Mime Festival.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Lamont Oakley is a multitalented, award winning artist from Oakland, California. Lamont was most recently seen on screen in “Alone Time” by Serraph Films. His most notable role was Lancelot in Theatre Movement Bazaar’s multi-award winning GRAIL PROJECT and was last seen in Theater Movement Bazaar’s Tiny Little Town. Lamont is grateful to continue his contribution to Los Angeles theatre.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Originally from Koreatown, Los Angeles, Prisca is a graduate of the Theatre Academy of LACC and a divemaster who likes to meditate and take long walks, in nature. She has worked with Theatre Movement Bazaar previously on Seagull, Shadows, Grail Project, and Tiny Little Town. She most recently appears as Secret Agent Kim in Countdown (Amazon Prime) and on Loot (Apple TV+), scheduled for broadcast at the end of October.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Eddie Vona is thrilled to be performing in the Mime Festial! Recent credits: Tiny Little Town (Theatre Movement Bazaar/Edinburgh Fringe '24), Pericles, Rent, Under Milk Wood, The Secret in the Wings (Coeurage Ensemble), Come Get Maggie (Rogue Machine), Girlfriend, Hand to God (Dezart Performs), Chisme y Queso (Center Theatre Group), Darkside (The Garage Theatre), In Love and Warcraft (Artists at Play). BFA from NYU Tisch. And for something completely different: @sugarotterflour on Instagram.

THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR PERFORMER Olivia Cristina Delgado Featured on the cover of American Theatre for her work in Evelina Fernandez’s A Mexican Trilogy, Olivia’s credits include The LATC, Colony, Broad, Kirk Douglas, and Getty Villa.

CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE PERFORMER(S) Students performing in the 2025 festival represent Mime Theatre Studio's "Level II Class" — an ongoing, intermediate-level weekly training course. Attracting students with various performing and training backgrounds, the Level II Class focuses on the techniques of mime masters Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux (Corporeal Mime), and Stefan Niedzialkowski. The curriculum includes physical techniques, improvisation, creation exercises, mime history, and study of various mime artists' work. Established in Los Angeles in 2001, the program is led by actor, teacher, and movement coach Lorin Eric Salm. Featured student performers April, Camilo Eraso, K. Henderson, and Anthony Sherritt, under the direction of Lorin Eric Salm, will present a montage of movement studies from the technique of Marcel Marceau based on the Four Elements — Water, Air, Fire, and Earth.

CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE PERFORMER Julia Wergeles (She/Her): is a senior in the BFA Acting program at UC Santa Barbara! At UCSB she has performed in Dance Nation (Sofia), LAUNCHPAD’s Strange Birds (Phoebe), The Threepenny Opera (Jenny), has understudied for Indecent (all female roles) and The Crucible (Giles Corey), and performed with the Prague Shakespeare Company in Troilus and Cressida (Hector). For the past two years, she has performed movement pieces in Daniel Stein’s Particle Collider Festival. This past March, her and Claire Ruberg devised a one act movement piece, Night Light, that is now in development for a multimedia short film. Her current role is playing Prospero in UCSB’s Naked Shakes’ production of The Tempest.

CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE PERFORMER Claire Ruberg (She/Her) is a senior in the UC Santa Barbara BFA Acting Program! Her recent performances include: Dance Nation (Maeve Understudy), LAUNCHPAD Reading Series Masters of Fine Arts (Playwriting Candidate), LAUNCHPAD preview production of Strange Birds (Joe Understudy), and The Threepenny Opera (Betty), and Macbeth (Witch) at Prague Shakespeare Company. She performed original movement pieces in Daniel Stein’s Particle Collider Festival for the past two years. This past winter, she devised Night Light, a one act movement piece with Julia Wergeles, mentored by Daniel Stein; that movement piece will soon be a multimedia short film. She is currently playing Caliban in UCSB Naked Shakes’ production of The Tempest. Fun fact: she loves horror movies and will happily take recommendations!

CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE PERFORMER Meadow is a queer clown, mime, actor, teacher and director born and raised in Los Angeles. They have studied physical theatre from many teachers including Dan Griffiths, Eric Davis and Alexandra Billings. Their inspiration comes from the mundanity of life and how much beauty lies within it. From brushing your teeth to laying down to sleep, beauty permeates through everything in Meadows' eyes. That folds into the work that they like to create. Meadow also teaches movement classes for adults and kids. Meadows practice in both performing and teaching uses the body as the driving force in creation and expression. You can find out more at inthemeadow.org or on their instagram @bugbodymuseum

CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE PERFORMER Rudolphe Le Feuvre is a senior at the University of California - Santa Barbara. In the past two years, he has been studying with Daniel Stein the principles of radical changes of energy and the perpendicularity of storytelling. This is his second appearance in the LA Mime Festival.