Carlo Mazzone

Carlo Mazzone was born in Padua, Italy and worked with Vittorio Gassman, Dario Fo, Giorgio Strehler and others in post-war Italy. He began his performing career as a mime and was Marcel Marceau's first Italian partner. He was assistant to Jacques Lecoq from 1948 -1951. In 1958 he emigrated to the USA, where he appeared in a number of stage productions and in the 1965 film "The American Wife" with Ugo Tognazzi. He began to use both parents names, and became known as Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. He devoted his life to the spread of mime and Commedia dell'Arte in the USA, and taught at Stratford, Ontario; Carnegie Mellon, Brandeis, NYU, and the American Conservatory Theatre. His students included Julie Harris, Rene Auberjonois, Joan van Ark. In 1974 with his wife Jane Hill, he founded a school in northern California, for the physical training of the actor. Called the Dell'Arte School of Mime & Comedy, the school continues to this day as Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre.