JAMES DONLON is a celebrated international performer, master teacher, and director of physical theatre since 1970, performing 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”. He is the first American mime/clown invited to perform in the famed Teatro Dimitri of Switzerland. James was film movement coach for Oscar winners Javier Bardem, Kathy Bates, Frances McDormand, and created TV fight choreography for Linda Ronstadt. James has been on the drama faculties of The American Conservatory Theater, The Yale School of Drama, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The National Theatre Conservatory-Denver Center, UC-Santa Barbara, UC-San Diego, and the Oregon Center for the Arts. James founded San Francisco’s iconic Flying Actor Studio, and has presented numerous workshops in world institutions like Barcelona’s Institut del Teatre, Mexico City’s Bella Artes, Prague's National Academy of Performing Arts (AMU), and the USA’s El Teatro Campesino. Among his students have been Tony Award winner and master clown Bill Irwin, Broadway musical star Terrence Mann, and Film/ Television star Benjamin Bratt. James is the co-host of the Mime Radio Show podcast.

BILLY THE MIME first garnered attention with his show stopping appearance in the hit documentary THE ARISTOCRATS. He has rejuvenated an art form with entertaining, astounding, and often risk-taking routines such as The Priest & The Altar Boy, Dinner with Jeffrey Dahmer, Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: A Night at Monticello, and A Day Called 9/11. He has appeared at The New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Risadaria Festival (Brazil), Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (L.A. and NYC), The Aspen Comedy Festival, Largo (L.A.), The Lake Shore Theater and Mayne Stage (Chicago), The Revolutions International Theater Festival in New Mexico and The Sacred Fools Theater (L.A.). TV includes The Jimmy Kimmel Show, and Penn & Tellers Bullshit. The critics have called Billy’s shows: “Politically incorrect, shockingly! Twisted! Skillfully obscene! Chilling!” - The New York Times “A dazzling showman! Brilliant comic!” - Chicago Reader “Astonishingly creative and hilariously lewd!” - New York Post “Outrageously funny!” - Boston Herald “The only mime I’ve ever laughed at!” Philadelphia Weekly “Shows that performers of his ilk can actually be funny!” - Washington City Paper “How great it is to put yourself in the hands of a master. Simultaneously savage and sympathetic...Do not bring the kids” -The London Times

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.

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. 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 has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States/Japan Commission, the Pew Charitable Trust, and is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Summer 2022 saw him teaching in Sicily and later at The Danish National School For The Performing Arts, Copenhagen. 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.

KEITH BERGER adheres to no one “doctrine” of physical theatre. His influences range from the classical French Pantomime of Jean-Louis Barrault and Marcel Marceau to the forcefully dynamic American Mime Theatre. Keith was among the very first performers to take his act on to the streets of New York City and was named by Joseph Papp the city’s “Most Outstanding Street Performer.” From there he went on to tour his one-man show throughout the United States and Europe. Among these concerts were featured performances at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Palm Beach Arts Festival, and a Royal Command Performance for Princess Grace of Monaco. Some of his T.V. and film credits include Red Skelton’s Funny Faces, Crossover Dreams, Angel Heart, The Suicide Club, and a starring role on CBS’ Space Rangers. Off-Broadway, Keith wrote and starred in Broken Toys. In 1990, Keith teamed up with his new partner (and wife), Sharon Diskin, to form their highly acclaimed duo, The Chameleons. Renowned for their exhilarating performance style and professional discipline, The Chameleons have performed their programs for over 1 million children and adults all over the world. Keith has taught classes in Physical Theatre and Mime across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including at Cornell University, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Disney Animation Studios and at hundreds of schools throughout Southern California. He is a Master Teaching Artist with The L.A. Music Center and The Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts. Keith and Sharon received the PASA award for excellence as professional artists in the schools, presented by the County of Los Angeles, California Arts Council, andthe California Department of Education.

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, BestChoreography, 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 Swiss mask/ 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.

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 Paris International School of Mimodrama. Since 2001, Lorin's own school, Mime Theatre Studio, has been a consistent home for Los Angeles mime workshops and classes. Actors, dancers, and a wide variety of other performers have come to learn both about mime as an autonomous art form and how mime skills can enhance their work in other performing arts. In recent years, Mime Theatre Studio has expanded beyond in-person classes to offer online instruction to students across North America and around the world. Lorin has used mime techniques to enhance the art of animation, teaching his Character Movement for Animation workshops at leading studios including Disney, DreamWorks, and Sony Imageworks, and teaching student animators at Australia's Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Since 2006, he has been a guest movement instructor for the artists of Cirque du Soleil's resident Las Vegas shows and touring shows, and he recently coached and created stage movement for members of Grammy Award-winning rock band Weezer. As a mime coach and movement coach, Lorin is called upon by major Hollywood film and TV productions to create movement and to coach talent, including Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Cole Sprouse, and Emmy Award nominees Riley Keough and Damon Wayans. Lorin coached Sprouse for the 2024 film Lisa Frankenstein and coached Eisenberg for both the 2024 film Sasquatch Sunset and the 2020 film Resistance, in which Eisenberg played a young Marcel Marceau. Lorin also created Eisenberg's mime choreography for the film. Lorin has been a guest instructor or lecturer at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), UCLA, and Ohio State University, where he also received a visiting scholar research award to conduct research in the OSU Libraries' Marcel Marceau American Collection archive. In 1996, Lorin created the Internet's first website about the art of mime, The World of Mime Theatre, to promote international appreciation for the art. Learn some of the techniques used and taught by the world's most famous mime — the French master Marcel Marceau.