Gloria Spielman

Talking to Shannon Hitchcock of Shannon and The Sunshine Band as part of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour.

Lorin Eric Salm is an American actor and mime instructor.  Trained by the world-renowned master of mime Marcel Marceau, he is a graduate of Marceau’s Paris International School of Mimodrama.  Mr. Salm teaches mime at his own Mime Theatre Studio in Los Angeles, is a movement coach and mime coach for Hollywood film and television productions, a guest instructor for Cirque du Soleil, and teaches character movement to top animation studios. Lorin kindly agreed to answer some questions about mime.

T. Daniel is an internationally known creator, choreographer and performer of mime. His work has been compared to Red Skelton, Buster Keaton and Marcel Marceau. T. Daniel studied mime under Marceau and Etienne Decroux, Father of Modern Mime. He talked to me from his Chicago home.