ONLINE CLASSES!
NOW IN SESSION JANUARY 2021
Train and collaborate with performers and educators from around the world. Strengthen your creative core. This unique opportunity invites participants to explore the Donlon "Five Books" including neo-classic mime, clown, movement for actors, mask, and devised theatre. The time-tested Donlon pedagogy developed over 50 years is studied internationally by artists on the highest levels.
JOIN A WORLD COMMUNITY!
Please see WORKSHOPS page for details.
RENT the Flying Actor Studio & House for an ARTIST RETREAT!
Actors, Musicians, Dancers, Writers, Fine Artists, Cirque & Physical Theatre performers: Create your own world for a Day-Week-Month.
The house sleeps 10 comfortably: 2 studios, 4 bedrooms, 2 kitchens, 2 laundries, 3 bathrooms, living room with fireplace, dining room, spacious deck with valley views. Please view SPACES
Hiking trails out the door, walk to Ashland town center, wineries, restaurants, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, outdoor activities, Ashland located on I-5(four hours from Portland & 5 hours from San Francisco), Medford International Airport 20 minutes away. Please inquire at flyingactorstudio@gmail.com
NOW IN SESSION JANUARY 2021
Train and collaborate with performers and educators from around the world. Strengthen your creative core. This unique opportunity invites participants to explore the Donlon "Five Books" including neo-classic mime, clown, movement for actors, mask, and devised theatre. The time-tested Donlon pedagogy developed over 50 years is studied internationally by artists on the highest levels.
JOIN A WORLD COMMUNITY!
Please see WORKSHOPS page for details.
RENT the Flying Actor Studio & House for an ARTIST RETREAT!
Actors, Musicians, Dancers, Writers, Fine Artists, Cirque & Physical Theatre performers: Create your own world for a Day-Week-Month.
The house sleeps 10 comfortably: 2 studios, 4 bedrooms, 2 kitchens, 2 laundries, 3 bathrooms, living room with fireplace, dining room, spacious deck with valley views. Please view SPACES
Hiking trails out the door, walk to Ashland town center, wineries, restaurants, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, outdoor activities, Ashland located on I-5(four hours from Portland & 5 hours from San Francisco), Medford International Airport 20 minutes away. Please inquire at flyingactorstudio@gmail.com
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About James Donlon has been a celebrated master teacher, international performer and director since 1970. He 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. Donlon has presented residencies with special institutions like El Teatro Campesino, Mexico City 's Bellas Artes, Prague's national Academy of Performing Arts (AMU), 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. He 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. James created fight choreography for Linda Ronstadt. Among his past students are legendary Broadway musical actor Terry Mann, and Hollywood writers Peter Hedges (The Odd Life of Timothy Green), Angus MacLachlan (Junebug), and Noah Harpster (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood). James is the only physical theater artist ever invited to perform with legendary San Francisco street mime Robert Shields of CBS' The Shields & Yarnell Show. He is the first American clown to perform in the famed Teatro Dimitri of Switzerland. James has performed his original work throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America to critical acclaim. For more info including quotes, history and a recent article, click here. |
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