MICK BARNFATHER

London Theatre Program, Midsummer in Oxford Program, Midsummer Conservatory Program

Mick Barnfather has been working in theatre as an actor, director and teacher for more than 40 years. Amongst other acting work he has been a member of the internationally acclaimed touring company Complicité since 1986, appearing in six of their shows: Food Stuff, Please Please Please, The Visit, The Three Lives Of Lucie Cabrol, The Chairs and Light.

He has also worked as an actor in television, radio and short films and directed a number of devised physical theatre and comedy shows.

During his career as an actor and director, he has always continued to teach theatre. He worked at the Commedia School in Copenhagen where he taught Melodrama and Neutral Mask. He also taught Clown at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Devising Theatre at both Rose Bruford Drama School and the Manchester Metropolitan University where he  teaches Improvisation at present.

He was a teacher at the Philippe Gaulier School where he taught Bouffon, Clown and Neutral Mask. He is a regular teacher at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London, where he teaches Theatre Studies on the three year degree program, at the London School of Musical Theatre where he teaches improvisation and at the Florida State University London program where he teaches physical theatre . He has also taught Physical Theatre for over twenty five years for the British American Drama Academy and at RADA for ten years where he taught Clown, Mask, Ensemble and Physicality in Performance. During this time he also taught on the open Complicité workshop programs and has given classes and courses in Hong Kong, Berlin, Hamburg, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and America. He also runs his own open courses.

For more details about him: www.mickbarnfather.com