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Kaf Warman, Associate Teaching Professor in Movement and Improvisation at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. specializes in a physical approach to acting. Prior to joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Kaf spent nine years as Associate Artistic Director of the longest-running theatre company in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, directing up to six shows a year, a position she still holds during the summer months. |
She has had Guest Professor/Director positions at California Institute of the Arts, UC Irvine, the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, the University of Maine at Orono and Goddard College, where she received her BA and MFA in Theatre. Kaf is a graduate of the two-year professional training program at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, School of Movement, Mime, and Theatre in Paris, France, and was one of the first three students invited by Jacques Lecoq to attend a third pedagogical year.
She has performed with theatre companies both here and abroad, including the Caravan Theatre (Boston), Meredith Monk's The House (NY), the Bread & Puppet Theatre (VT, NY), the Los Angeles Mask Theatre (CA), Friend's Roadshow (England), and was a founding member of Foots Barn Traveling Theatre (England, France), The Two Penny Circus (VT), David Mamet's St Nicholas Theatre (VT), as well as directing her own touring company for several years.
Well known in movement theatre for her work with the Neutral Mask, Commedia dell' Arte and Clowning, Kaf continues to conduct workshops in these disciplines throughout the country. Her reputation as a mask specialist has also led to her consulting with the US Department of Education, the University of Hawaii, Honolulu School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, California Arts Council, the Los Angeles Music Center Education Division, the Very Special Arts Festival and The International Mask Research Foundation on ways to integrate masks into multi cultural education curriculums, as well as working on the design and implementation of the award-winning "workshop in a box" MAKE A MASK. |
