Professionally trained, illusionary Mime Artist.
Experienced in TV, Film, Art Festivals,Trade Shows and Corporate Events all over the world.
Mime and Physicality Specialists offering professional advice, mime artists, mime shows, mime acts, mime characters, workshops, unique concepts and ideas.
Richard Knight:
has been performing internationally as a mime artist for over 15 years and has studied mime and movement for 7 years.
In that time he was taught by the late, great, french mime and movement teacher Jacques Lecoq and has won three major awards.
Now he is performing on a regular basis internationally with his own theatre company called; ‘Mime The Gap’.
Mime Shows:
Mime Shows, Mime Acts, Classic White Face French characters, Charlie Chaplin Lookalike, and other wonderful characters also
available. His latest show ‘Magician’s Nightmare’ is being performing around the UK.
Professional Consultation:
Professional expert advice concerning mime, movement and physical comedy advice for Film, TV and Theatre.
Workshops:
Workshops in Mime, Physical Comedy, Slapstick, Commedia Dell Arte, Clown, Silent Comedy and
Mask also available by appointment.
Latest Update:
Recently performed - ‘Magician’s Nightmare’ - on June 24th 2009 at Blackpool
Richard has recently been helping with the movement direction for the play ‘Maggie’s End’ at the Shaw Theatre, London directed by Jack Milner which opened April 7th-17th 2009. He recently performed on the Richard & Judy Show on Feb 23rd 2009 and on the Justin Lee Collins Show on May 7th 2009.
Previously he was teaching Mime and Commedia dell Arte at the Circus Space and was recently teaching Commedia & Clown at East 15 Acting School, during May 2009
Mime The Gap supplied the Farnborough Air Show in July 2008 with 8 Mime Artists as Flying Airmen and in August 2008, 3x Mime Artists for the launch of the new EuroStar Ebbsfleet International Station in Kent. Recently Richard Knight was a mime artist consultant on the up and coming Wink Bingo Commercial featuring two other mime artists. You can also see Richard performing everyday on two huge plasma screens at Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 5 at the ‘Glorious Britain’ Souvenir shops both air and land side of the departure lounge.