I love training and I continue to train because I love to learn and grow. I started out as a musician and an athlete, became a sculptor and a percussionist, an actor and a singer, and then, a writer and director. All along I have been a student of the body, the art of play and a practitioner of spiritual warriorship. And always, I have been creating visual imagery on the side — all of this is part of my training and what I make.
MFA Naropa University, Theater: Contemporary Performance
- Training in the practice and pedagogy of Grotowski (psycho-physical acting), Roy Hart Voice, Moment Work, Viewpoints, Suzuki, Red Square, Developmental Movement, Body Mind Centering, Butoh, and numerous other forms of devising original work
B.A. Harvard University, Cum Laude Comparative Study of Religion
Independent Theater Training:
Acting: Grotowski: Steve Wangh, Erica Berg, Andre Gregory; Stanislovski: T. Schreiber Studio: T.Schreiber, Mary Boyer, Sally Dunn; Suzuki: SITI Company
Singing Performance: Susan Slavin Actors and Singers Academy
Shakespeare: Shakespeare & Co. Summer Perf. Institute, and Month Intensive, and I am trained as a movement teacher in Shakespeare & Company’s body of work
Voice: Linklater: Kristin Linklater, Christine Adaire, Margaret Jansen; Roy Hart: Ethie Friend, Lynn Singer
Improvisation: Ruth Zaporah, Meredith Monk, Viewpoints (SITI), Wendell Beavers, Barbara Dilley
Movement: Capoeira, Butoh, Contact, Body Mind Centering, Developmental, African, Klien-Mahler, Fight
Movement for the Actor: Body Dynamics™ (Carol Reynolds) Shakespeare & Co (Karen Beaumont, Susan Dibble)
Clown: Giovanni Fusetti, Kevin Coleman, John Beale, Susan Dibble, Karen Beaumont
On Camera: Peter Miner
Percussion: Epizo Bangoura, Edna Lima, Others
Music Theory / Song Writing: The New School, Henry Gafney, Terre Roche
Sculpture: Harvard University, The Art Students League