George L. Lewis

Biography

George is a renowned teacher of Acting and Movement. Co-founder of the Freehold Studio Theatre Lab in Seattle, since the 1980s he has taught at countless renowned training centers such as: L'Ecole du Mime du Quat'Sous (Montreal), La École de Mime Corporel (Boston), Hobart College (NY), University of North Dakota, Pasqualini-Smith Studio, Cornish College of the Arts, and Antioch University (Seattle), among others. His career as a director is revealed in the more than 70 works he has staged, including Shakespeare, Chekhov, Moliere, Goldoni, and Thornton Wilder, being also a creator of plays, movement theater and clown. As an actor, he participated in twenty plays and since 2004 he has worked in prisons in Washington, creating original works based on the writings of inmates. His solid training spans various schools, including L'ecole Nationale du Cirque Paris and L'ecole de Mime Etienne Decroux Paris, France, and with world-renowned teachers such as I Made Djimat in Bali, Indonesia (masks/dance) and Gennadi Bogdanov (Meyerhold's Biomechanics). For years, he has taught Dramatic Movement for Actors and Physical Comedy in Buenos Aires. His recent works as a clown director in Argentina include La Ultima Vez (que me tira de un precipicio), Mal de Mar with Ñata Voltaje, and Amor Mito as a writer and movement director.