An internationally known master teacher of movement and performance for actors, Donlon has developed a training method which has gained acceptance on the highest professional levels. In the early years Donlon's Menagerie Mime Theatre School in San Francisco was one of the first professional training studios in the United States.
Donlon has been on the faculty of such prestigious institutions as The Yale School of Drama, The American Conservatory Theatre, The North Carolina School of the Arts, The National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center, The University of California at Santa Barbara and Ireland's Gaiety School of Acting. He was head of movement for the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown College.
Donlon has presented workshops in over 100 college theater departments, international institutes like Mexico City's Bellas Artes, and has conducted residencies for landmark companies like Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino.
Donlon's work extends to film and television where he was movement coach for Oscar winner Kathy Bates and storyboard artist for PBS Great Performances. Among his former students are film and television star Benjamin Bratt, clown extraordinaire Bill Irwin, and Broadway musical star Terrence Mann. |  | |
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