Daniel Stein (mime)

Daniel Stein (born 1952) is an American modern performer of a type of physical theater known as corporeal mime.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Stein came to acting and drama naturally but haphazardly. In an 8th grade social studies class on American History, given the assignment of doing a project on Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Stein wrote, directed and starred in a color 12-minute super 8 mm film on his subject. Filmed on the bluffs of Lake Michigan, his father served as cinematographer. Stein still retains the original print of the 1967 film.

In high school, Stein had his formal introduction to the dramatic arts, studying under the innovative and provocative drama director Dale Gutzman at Whitefish Bay High School, in suburban Milwaukee. Stein appeared in productions as diverse as Peer Gynt, Dracula, The Great Sebastians and Gutzman’s own original musical Flash Gordon. In a foreshadowing of things to come, Stein also starred in Gutzman’s original musical tragedy The Gods, a multimedia production based on the life of Jean-Gaspard Deburau, the famous and innovative French mime of the mid-19th century, who performed in pantomime blanche, so called because of the whiteface the artist wore.

Stein also began honing his dramatic reading talents, competing in high school forensic interpretive poetry reading competitions.

Stein has taught throughout the world at institutions such as the Juilliard School of Drama, and The Institute of Dramatic Arts, Tokyo. He had his own school in Paris for 15 years. In 2007-08, Stein was a Visiting Guest Artist in Dramatic Arts at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He currently holds the position of Director of Movement and Physical Theatre for the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Program in Providence, Rhode Island. Stein holds dual American and French citizenship.

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