Daniel Stein

Movement and Devising of original work

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 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.
Recent summers have seen him teaching in Sicily, later at 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

*Poetic Dynamics 101  (Writing a Book/Lecture Series)

Theatre is Anthropology on its feet. The human condition in all its colors must not ask the audience to “Look at the Sun”, for they will not.  Rather, the theatre delivers these sometimes jarring realities through an alluring lens of juxtaposition, story telling, image, humor, analogy, metaphor.... “Poetic Dynamics”

*Methodology of the Pedagogy of Performance

Articulation

Partnering

Solo & Ensemble Devising