Reflections on the Art of Acting: Using the Tao Te Ching as a Mirror (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481201681)

Peter Lobdell made his Broadway debut with "Equus" as director of mime and movement in 1975. He has directed movement for ten productions of "Equus", most recently at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the Alley Theatre in Houston. He was a movement coach for the Broadway company of "The Elephant Man". He has created and performed more than thirty works of movement theater seen at Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, A Clear Space, the Cubiculo, and La Mama ETC in New York. His work has been presented regionally at the Long Wharf, St. Louis Rep, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Yale Rep Winterfest, Dancer's Collective of Atlanta and Milwaukee Center for the Arts; internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, HOT in the Hague, Netherlands, the 9th Annual Festival of Marionettes in Ascona, Switzerland, and the T2 Studio in Tokyo, Japan. Most recently, he directed the movement for productions of "Our Town at the Hartford Stage Company and at the Alley Theatre. He has adapted Italo Calvino's "The Tavern of Crossed Destinies", Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", and Amos Tutuola's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" for the stage, all produced at Amherst College. He wrote and performed a one man piece, "Raving", premiered at the Michael Howard Studio in New York and later performed at the Metropolitan Playhouse in New York. He wrote and directed a new play with stage magic, "C'est La Vie", produced at Amherst College. He has taught movement and acting for the Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts and for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. He was director of the movement program at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York for twelve years and he taught at the Michael Howard Studio. Presently he is a senior resident artist in the Department of Theater and Dance at Amherst College.