Performer and director Eric Davis (aka Red Bastard) and director, actor, and educator Timothy Douglas will join The Actors Center Resident Company this June for workshops devoted to Bouffon and deepening awareness, presence, and authentic expression through spoken text.
Eric Davis is a multi-award winning performer & director with over 20 years of teaching experience in clown and bouffon. His critically-acclaimed bouffon show, Red Bastard, won dozens of 5-star reviews as well as awards for Best Theater, Most Outrageous Show, Commitment To Community and multiple Best of Fests across the globe, including Edinburgh International Fringe Festival where it was named Top 5 shows in the UK. To date he has performed for over a million audience members world wide in addition to creating original roles for Cirque du Soleil’s Iris and Alegria. For more info about the man and the beast, go to: redbastard.com
Timothy Douglas is a stage director, actor, and educator whose recent directing credits include Primary Trust with McCarter Theatre/Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the world premiere of She Who Dared with Chicago Opera Theater, Nina Simone: Four Women at Arena Stage, An Octoroon at NIDA (Sydney), and Blue with New Orleans Opera. Upcoming: the world premiere of Safronia with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Sally and Tom at Roundhouse Theatre.
He is a Linklater-designated voice instructor who has taught voice, scene study, and directing at American Conservatory Theater, Emerson College, Juilliard School, the Theatre School at DePaul University, University of Southern California, Yale School of Drama, Birmingham School of Acting (UK), and Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School).
Representative productions include The Color Purple at Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award for best musical), the U.S. premiere of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Roundhouse Theatre, Champion with Boston Lyric Opera, the premiere of Something Happened in Our Town with Children’s Theatre Company, the U.S. premiere of Tristan Bernay’s adaptation of Frankenstein at Classic Stage Company, Richard II with Shakespeare & Company, Brönte Off-Broadway, and the Great Theatre of China’s production/tour of Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced.
He has made productions for Actors Theatre of Louisville (Associate Artistic Director 2001-2004), American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Berkshire Theatre Group, Cleveland Playhouse, Denver Center, Downstage (New Zealand), Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Indiana Rep, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum (Director in Residence), Milwaukee Rep, National Theatret (Oslo), Pioneer Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Red Bull Theatre Company, Steppenwolf, South Coast Repertory, Sundance Theatre Institute, Syracuse Stage, and Woolly Mammoth, among many others, including Yale Repertory Theater with the world premiere of August Wilson’s Radio Golf.
