swap_horiz Simon McBurney Alternatives

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Eugenio Barba

Italian theater director who founded Odin Teatret in Norway in 1964 and developed Theatre Anthropology, a systematic cro...

Italian Contemporary Physical Theater Theater Researcher

9.1 Excellent

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Michael Moschen

American performance artist who pioneered contact juggling and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990 for his innovativ...

Stage American Contemporary Kinetic Sculpture

8.9 Great

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Philippe Gaulier

Philippe Gaulier is a French theater teacher and clown who studied under Jacques Lecoq and founded the École Philippe Ga...

Teacher French Contemporary Clown

8.7 Great

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Avner Eisenberg (Avner the Eccentric)

American physical comedian known as Avner the Eccentric, who appeared in the 1985 film 'The Jewel of the Nile' and creat...

Stage American Contemporary Solo

8.3 Great

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Radim Vizvary

Radim Vizvary is a Czech mime and physical theater artist working within the strong Central European tradition of mime t...

Stage Contemporary Solo Czech

8.2 Great

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Dimitri (Dimitri Müller)

Swiss clown and mime (1935–2019) celebrated for blending circus skills, music, and silent comedy across a performance ca...

Swiss Stage Contemporary Circus

8.2 Great

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Gilles Maheu

Canadian theater director and mime who founded Montreal's Carbone 14 company in 1981, pioneering a visceral, image-based...

Stage Contemporary Canadian Ensemble

8.2 Great

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Nola Rae

Nola Rae is an Australian-born British mime and clown who co-founded the London International Mime Festival, first held...

Modern Stage Solo British

8.1 Great

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David Shiner

American clown and mime who gained wide recognition through Cirque du Soleil and co-created the Broadway show 'Fool Moon...

Stage American Contemporary Clown

8.1 Great

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Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp was a British dancer, actor, and mime, best known for his 1974 show Flowers and as a mentor to David Bowie...

Modern Dance Stage British

7.9 Good

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Victoria Chaplin

Victoria Chaplin is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and a Swiss-French circus and theater artist who co-founded the Cirq...

Stage Contemporary Clown Cirque Imaginaire

7.9 Good

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Geoff Hoyle

British-born American clown and physical comedian who performed with the Pickle Family Circus and appeared in several Br...

Stage Contemporary Clown British American

7.9 Good

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Karen Montanaro

Karen Montanaro is an American mime and dancer who toured with Tony Montanaro and co-wrote Mime Spoken Here, a 1995 perf...

Stage American Contemporary Solo

7.8 Good

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David Glass

British director who founded the David Glass Ensemble in 1988, creating visually striking physical theatre works often d...

Stage Contemporary British Ensemble

7.8 Good

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Angela de Castro

Brazilian-born clown and mime based in the UK, known since the 1980s for solo shows combining physical comedy with emoti...

Stage Contemporary Solo Brazilian

7.8 Good

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Guy Caron

Canadian mime and circus educator who trained under Marcel Marceau and co-founded Montreal's National Circus School (Éco...

Teacher Stage Contemporary Canadian

7.8 Good

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Yves Lebreton

Yves Lebreton is a French corporeal mime artist and teacher trained directly by Étienne Decroux, known internationally f...

Teacher Stage French Contemporary

7.4 Good

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Ronlin Foreman

American mime and physical theatre performer long associated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, later teaching physical...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

6.9 Fair

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Desmond Jones

British mime teacher who established the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre in London, training generatio...

Teacher Contemporary School British

6.8 Fair

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Jon Davison

British clown and physical theatre educator trained in the Lecoq tradition, known for academic writing on clown and buff...

Teacher Contemporary British Clown

6.4 Fair