2024 Workshop: Devising Without Limits
Davis Robinson is founder and artistic director of Beau Jest Moving Theater, a Boston-based company with whom he has worked for over thirty years as an actor and director. Beau Jest has appeared at Lincoln Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and numerous theaters around the country. Their stage adaptation of Krazy Kat won the Elliot Norton Award, and their commissions from the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival led to three TW world premieres. In Maine, he frequently directs at the Theater at Monmouth and for Bowdoin College, where he is a professor of theater. He has directed Shakespeare, Chekov, opera, new works, and original projects, and has appeared in numerous films, television series, and commercials, including HBO’s Julia and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Past workshops taught at Celebration Barn include Comedy for Actors, Improvisation, and the Devising Intensive. Davis trained with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and with Tony Montanaro and Keith Johnstone at Celebration Barn. He is the author of A Practical Guide to Ensemble Devising and The Physical Comedy Handbook.