Larry Hunt (Biography)

 

Larry Hunt is an actor, director, mask-maker, and educator. During the past 30 years, he has performed throughout most of the United States, Canada, and many other countries including China, Japan, Australia, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Bulgaria, Serbia and England.

Larry has produced and performed original theater works under the auspices of MASQUE, an international touring company which he founded in 1980. Larry has evolved a distinctive version of mask performance which combines historical traditions with performance approaches influenced by ZeAmi to Peter Brook.

In addition to solo performances incorporating original masks and puppets, he has collaborated extensively with other performing artists in several countries. His productions are vignette style as well as full length plays.

CD with performance excerpts is available upon request.

"A mask is two-way traffic all the time; it sends a message in and projects a message out."

Peter Brook