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	DIRECTORY Faculty Staff Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Dept. Contacts Penn State Directory INTERNAL Human Resources Promotion & Tenure				Faculty MARK OLSEN Movement The Pennsylvania State University 124 Arts Bldg University Park, PA 16802-2900 (814) 863-4703 meo2@psu.edu http://www.personal.psu.edu/meo2/ B.A. from Trinity University. Head of acting and movement at Wright State University, taught acting and movement at Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Houston, and recent guest teacher of movement and clowning at the New York Public Theatre's Shakespeare Lab. Studied Alexander Technique with Troupe and Anne Mathews in New York City, Mime at L'Ecole du Mime Corporeal in Paris as well as with Moni Yakim, Samuel Avital, and Stephan Niedzialkawski in New York, Clowning with Cheryl McFadden, Tai Chi with Masters Don Ahn and Jeff Bolt. Professional actor, certified teacher, fight director, and past secretary of SAFD and past vice-president of the Association for Theatre Movement Educators. Author of The Golden Buddha Changing Masks - essays on the spiritual dimension of acting, and The Actor with a Thousand Faces. Leading actor with the Cincinnati Ensemble Theatre, The Human Race Theatre Company, the mime/mask show, Mummenshanz, and toured the country with his solo show, Laughscapes and Thunder. Has directed over 30 productions and choreographed action and fight sequences for over 70 productions in numerous professional venues. Member Actors' Equity Association (AEA), American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD).