Mark Jaster

Mark Jaster presents wildly popular shows worthy of his master teachers, Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux. His diverse skills, luminous imagination and world-class training ignite in unique and engaging performances. Put aside whatever you expected from mime, and prepare to enjoy brilliantly articulate gesture, playful interaction, gentle, inclusive humor, witty musical surprises, and seasoned experience with a vast range of audiences.Piccolo’s Trunk enchants with illusions and humorous surprises, The Maestro’s audience is his hilarious orchestra, and A Fool named ‘O’ astonishes with the wordless wit of a medieval jester. Mark’s workshops and residencies are perennial favorites. Past performance highlights: Maryland Renaissance Festival, Philadelphia International Children’s Festival, and the Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater.

“Clown extraordinaire and one of the most graceful performers you will ever see on a stage.”

WASHINGTON POST

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Mark Jaster studied mime with Etienne Decroux, the celebrated teacher of Marcel Marceau, and has served as Mr. Marceau’s teaching assistant. Jaster’s diverse skills as actor, musician, dancer, and mime, his experience in children’s theater, his solid classical training under this era’s masters of mime, and his own fertile, off-beat imagination have made his solo shows a popular success with all ages. Mark offers workshops, performances and entire plays in mime and has been entertaining people of all ages in this country and abroad since the early 1970’s. He has appeared at the Kennedy Center, The White House, the National Cathedral, Wolf Trap, and the Maryland Renaissance Festival.

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