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Stephen Chipps Mime Theatre
Chipps will perform his extraordinary and eclectic fusion of mime, masks and movement
theatre at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri this March 26th, 27th and
28th, of 2004. This highly theatrical and mesmerizing performance is suitable for all ages and is
presented through Byrd Productions _______________. Stephen Chipps Mime Theatre
highlights include ‘Dragon dance’- an epic struggle of opposing forces created using a dual
mask and the hauntingly beautiful Sea of Hands, a gorgeous exploration of movement and life
in the ocean depths using black light theatre. The Cleveland based artist has toured for over 21
years in 45 states throughout the US, Japan, Korea, Okinawa and Canada. The show features
elements of modern and corporeal mime, mask work, black light theatre, the original music of
Mark Kmit and the smooth solo guitar of Pete Cavano. Stephen has studied with mime
masters and artists from around the world including Marcel Marceau, Stefan Niedzialkowski
and The Goldston & Johnson School for Mimes and The Saskatchewan Seminars for Mime
and Movement Theatre. He is a faculty member of The School for Mimes held each summer at
Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and is a member of the Ohio Arts Council’s Arts-in-
Education Program. Stephen also tours as part of Kapoot Clown Theatre, a three man comedy
show he co-wrote with partners Dan Griffiths and Jim Williams which appeared at the Just off
Broadway Theatre this last October. Stephen Chipps Mime Theatre recently appeared as part
of the Fall for the Arts Series at the Bristol Valley Theatre in Naples, New York.
Chipps will perform his extraordinary and eclectic fusion of mime, masks and movement
theatre at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri this March 26th, 27th and
28th, of 2004. This highly theatrical and mesmerizing performance is suitable for all ages and is
presented through Byrd Productions _______________. Stephen Chipps Mime Theatre
highlights include ‘Dragon dance’- an epic struggle of opposing forces created using a dual
mask and the hauntingly beautiful Sea of Hands, a gorgeous exploration of movement and life
in the ocean depths using black light theatre. The Cleveland based artist has toured for over 21
years in 45 states throughout the US, Japan, Korea, Okinawa and Canada. The show features
elements of modern and corporeal mime, mask work, black light theatre, the original music of
Mark Kmit and the smooth solo guitar of Pete Cavano. Stephen has studied with mime
masters and artists from around the world including Marcel Marceau, Stefan Niedzialkowski
and The Goldston & Johnson School for Mimes and The Saskatchewan Seminars for Mime
and Movement Theatre. He is a faculty member of The School for Mimes held each summer at
Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and is a member of the Ohio Arts Council’s Arts-in-
Education Program. Stephen also tours as part of Kapoot Clown Theatre, a three man comedy
show he co-wrote with partners Dan Griffiths and Jim Williams which appeared at the Just off
Broadway Theatre this last October. Stephen Chipps Mime Theatre recently appeared as part
of the Fall for the Arts Series at the Bristol Valley Theatre in Naples, New York.
You Can't Do That In A Mime Show
Byrd Production’s Movement Theatre is thrilled to bring Dean Hatton to Kansas City
audiences straight from his triumphant showing in the Minneapolis Fringe Festival. His
performances of You Can’t Do That In A Mime Show have been called consistently clever and
inventive, inspired art and the real thing. Local mime artist and producer Beth Byrd will be
aiding and abetting Dean in this endeavor. Together, they are dynamically trained physical
theater artists that take the art of mime and skillfully make it their own by mixing a variety of
different pantomime and physical comedy techniques into a musical gross-ology that will send
your mind to places it is not allowed.
October 14-16, 2005
Byrd Production’s Movement Theatre is thrilled to bring Dean Hatton to Kansas City
audiences straight from his triumphant showing in the Minneapolis Fringe Festival. His
performances of You Can’t Do That In A Mime Show have been called consistently clever and
inventive, inspired art and the real thing. Local mime artist and producer Beth Byrd will be
aiding and abetting Dean in this endeavor. Together, they are dynamically trained physical
theater artists that take the art of mime and skillfully make it their own by mixing a variety of
different pantomime and physical comedy techniques into a musical gross-ology that will send
your mind to places it is not allowed.
October 14-16, 2005
GEOMETRIES:
A Performing Arts Experiment By A Not-So Mathematical Genius
A sometimes wacky, sometimes beautiful mix of mime and monologue theatre,
GEOMETRIES follows the multiple alter egos of, Rick Wamer as he journeys through the
landscape of everyday stress. GEOMETRIES, debuted at the 1994 Fringe Festival in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where it received excellent reviews. Rick Wamer, the creator and
performer of GEOMETRIES, has toured Poland with the Invisible People Mime Theatre and
Puerto Rico with the Alithea Mime Theatre and is currently working with ATOM (A Theatre
of Mime) as a consultant for Universal Studios in Hollywood.
June 7-9, YEAR?
A Performing Arts Experiment By A Not-So Mathematical Genius
A sometimes wacky, sometimes beautiful mix of mime and monologue theatre,
GEOMETRIES follows the multiple alter egos of, Rick Wamer as he journeys through the
landscape of everyday stress. GEOMETRIES, debuted at the 1994 Fringe Festival in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where it received excellent reviews. Rick Wamer, the creator and
performer of GEOMETRIES, has toured Poland with the Invisible People Mime Theatre and
Puerto Rico with the Alithea Mime Theatre and is currently working with ATOM (A Theatre
of Mime) as a consultant for Universal Studios in Hollywood.
June 7-9, YEAR?
Hybrid:
The interaction of unlike things
Created by: Ingrid Andrea Geurtsen and Heidi Stubblefield
Hybrid is a collage of images and characters that orbits around tragedy and comedy, beauty
and the grotesque, cruelty and compassion. It’s set in an ageless world of invention, laughter
and foolishness. Come see it “through the famous red nose – the smallest mask in the world
which would help people to expose their naïveté and their fragility.” – Jacques LeCoq
December 8-11, 2006
The interaction of unlike things
Created by: Ingrid Andrea Geurtsen and Heidi Stubblefield
Hybrid is a collage of images and characters that orbits around tragedy and comedy, beauty
and the grotesque, cruelty and compassion. It’s set in an ageless world of invention, laughter
and foolishness. Come see it “through the famous red nose – the smallest mask in the world
which would help people to expose their naïveté and their fragility.” – Jacques LeCoq
December 8-11, 2006
