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 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 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.

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.

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 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 in 19 countries and counting. 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.

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.

Highly acclaimed mime duo KEITH BERGER and SHARON DISKIN (also known as The Chameleons Mime theatre) 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.

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

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. For the Gorky Drama Theatre in Vladivostok, Russia, she co-created and directed a production awarded the Silver Medallion Award for best production in the Far East Russian Region, 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. www.TheatreMovementBazaar.org

BILLY THE MIME 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.