Artistic Directors
Gregg Goldston
Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956, Goldston began studying mime with Richmond Shepard at the age of 18. Throughout his career Goldston also studied extensively with Stefan Niedzialkowski and Marcel Marceau.
In 1980, he 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, 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, 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.
As a performer, Goldston has made brief appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Law & Order, television commercials, and at numerous corporate and industrial events.
Goldston currently lives in New York City where he teaches on-going 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.
Bartlomiej Ostapczuk
An actor-mime, director, playwright and choreographer. Founder of the Mimo Theatre and Warsaw Mime Center at “Teatr Na Woli” theatre.
Since 2005 Artistic Director of the International Mime & Physical Theatre Festival in Warsaw, Poland. He was studying the art of Mime in Warsaw Mime Theatre (1998-2001) and in Mime Studio with Polish mime artist Stefan Niedzalkowski.
He has enjoyed several scholarships from "The School for Mime Theatre" in the USA. He was also studying in the "Escola de mim corporal dramatic" in Barcelona.
Actually he performs on the stage of the Grand Theatre National Opera in Poland in performances directed by: Krzysztof Warlikowski, Mariusz Trelinski, Mikolaj Grabowski, Tomasz Konina, Achim Freyer.
Actor of the American Company "Alithea Mime Theatre"
He has traveled extensively with the Grand Theatre, his solo show and Alithea Mime Theatre and performed in theatres in: Japan, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Germany,France, Puerto Rico, England, United States, China. Co-author of many artistic projects and productions for the pantomime theatre and theatre of movement. Currently, he conducts the Pantomime Studio in the "Teatr Na Woli" theatre in Warsaw.
