T. Daniel & Laurie Willets
While T. Daniel studied with Marcel Marceau at his Ecole Internationale de Mime, both T. Daniel and Laurie Willets continued to study with Marceau for a total of more than three years. Returning to Paris, they completed their training with the Father of Modern Mime, Etienne Decroux. With this background they continued their careers creating Mime Plays like Fantasmia, Merlin & The Color of Magic, Le Boeuf sur le Toi, Magical Night, Shadows of a Mind creating over 25 Mime Plays and over 60 Dramatic Studies. T. Daniel and Laurie Willets have toured these productions around World (3 WORLD TOURS).
They have also performed with over 35 symphonies performing Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev; the American premiere of The Nightingale by Theo Loevendie; The Comedians by Kabalevsky; L'Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky and C. F. Ramuz with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; with Chicago Pro Musica; with the Cambrai Chamber Orchestra; The Hong Kong Sinfonietta; and shared the stage with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra over 8 different occasions premiering 11 works.
They also produced Jean Cocteau’s pantomime farce Le Boeuf sur le Toit and performed with Darius Milhaud’s four-hand piano version of the music, And created a new pantomime to Kurt Weill’s lost music Zaubernacht (Magical Night) with James Conlon conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival.
In 2002, T. Daniel and Laurie Willets were officially invited to The White House for a reception and given artistic recognition by First Lady Laura Bush as honored American Artists.