PETER GOLDFARB

 "The starting point of an actor's training is not the accumulation of technique and methodology but the rediscovery of one's own authenticity. By fully contacting, through moment to moment awareness, each individual's unique and vast creative resources, a transformation occurs far beyond anything that can ever be 'taught'."

- -Peter Goldfarb  

ACTOR TRAINING

Peter Goldfarb has had a long and distinguished career as an educator and trainer of theatre students and professionals around the world. He is a Vice President of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute Training and Education Committee for which he travels the globe teaching, lecturing, conducting seminars and participating in theatre conferences and festivals. Peter has led workshops and master classes at theatre schools and institutions in many countries throughout Europe, Asia, Mexico and South America. He is a founding faculty member and former Trustee of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where he established for the first time outside of Paris, a Master of Fine Arts Theatre Program comprised of the complete two year training of the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School.

Peter is an Adjunct Professor and Guest Artist at the University of Colorado and has both taught and directed at the National Theatre Conservatory of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Theatre School at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York. He is a former Trustee and Executive Committee member of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and a co-founder of the International Shakespeare Summer Academy in England.

Educated at the University of London, the University of Florence, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the University of Michigan where he graduated with honors in theatre, Peter subsequently did graduate work at the UCLA Film School and is the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques. Peter is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian and teaches in all of those languages.

Student comments:

"I am forever changed by this course… I will carry it with me from now on and use it in my life, work and art."

"Peter is a brilliant teacher."

"This was probably the most effective course in creative self-expression I have ever experienced."

"There is no way to do justice to this experience via pen and paper. There isn't a high enough score."

"He is honestly one of the most truthful and caring teachers I've had. He knows what he wants to get across, and uses what his students give him to express his points. He obviously loves what he does and is well trained and experienced in it. He's very insightful in terms of reading his students' inhibitions, hidden energies and blocks."

"Peter Goldfarb's work has helped me change my life... moving it along in a direction that is authentic and rewarding. I will always be grateful to him. I really love him and would be eager to be a student of anything he would teach."