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Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956, Gregg
Goldston began studying mime with Richmond Shepard at the age of 18.
Throughout his career Goldston also studied extensively with Moni Yakim,
Stefan Niedzialkowski and Marcel Marceau.
In 1980, Gregg Goldston founded The Goldston & Johnson
School for Mimes, an intensive summer program which hosted over ten seminars
with Stefan Niedzialkowski as well as premiered company production of
Time Sculptures. The School for Mimes also hosted five seminars with
Marcel Marceau who continues to serve as Artistic Advisor to the Goldston
Mime Foundation.
Working as an internationally known mime
for the past 30 years, Gregg Goldston has toured his solo “One
Mime Show” across the United States, and in Hong Kong, Paris, Taiwan,
Korea and Poland. In 2000/2001, he performed with Marcel Marceau as his
sign holder in the U.S. solo tours and in the fall of 2004, he performed
as a principal member of Marceau’s company, the Nouvelle Compagnie
de Marceau for the American Repertory Theatre shows in Boston. In 1986,
he founded The Invisible People, a 7-member mime company that toured
their productions both nationally and internationally.
A recipient of two N.E.A. choreography fellowships,
Gregg Goldston’s directing & coaching credits include: Mime
Coach for Anne Hathaway for the Miramax film, Ella Enchanted; Mime & Physical
Comedy Coach for Julie Harris in her upcoming equity play, Hanging Fire;
solo productions off-Broadway, and KaPoot!, a new vaudeville play that
premiered in Chicago
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As a performer, Gregg Goldston has made
brief appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Law & Order,
television commercials, and at numerous corporate and industrial events.
Gregg Goldston currently lives in New York
City where he teaches on-going mime classes at his Studio for Mime & Comedy.
In addition to his teaching and international tours, he is writing a
book on mime choreography, and creating a 7-tape video series on mime
and physical comedy.
What People Are Saying
"He {Gregg Goldston}
is creating the first generation of American mimes."
-- Marcel Marceau, 1986
"His ability and vision have expanded
the art of mime./I /lHis work is among the best I have seen in my long
history of performing around the world."
-- Marcel Marceau, 1995
"...his tour de force is to take the Marceau style and turn it into a blazing
display of physical virtuosity." /I ...a star performer."
-- Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
"Goldston combines a dancer's grace and
control with a silent comedian's timing to create terrifying, hilarious
images."
- The Chicago Reader
"When acting he leaves no doubts that
he is great performer."
- Scena Magazine - Warsaw, Poland
"We see at once, the gift of a Marceau
and Chaplin in Goldston."
- The Toledo Blade
Career Highlights
•Toured 2-Hour Solo Theater performance
for 30 years.
• Founder/ Director of The Invisible People, a 7-member touring company
for 8 years
• Founder & Artistic Director of Summer Intensive for Mimes for 21
years - Est. 1980.
• Is the Only Mime to perform with the Marceau Solo show and the Marceau
Compagnie, who had never attended the Marceau Ecole de Mimodrame
in Paris.
• Staged five collaborative Marcel Marceau 2-Week Seminars.
• Teaching Assistant to Marcel Marceau.
• N.E.A. Dance Choreography Fellowship recipient: 1980 & 1982.
• Founded The Goldston Mime Foundation in1978.
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