Grant Bashore began his mime studies with Dr. E. Reid Gilbert at the Wisconsin Mime Theatre and Valley Studio, which the New York Times at the time regarded as the “center of mime training in the United States.” Dr. Gilbert was an understudy of the great Etienne Decroux, the father of modern mime and teacher to Marcel Marceau. At the Valley Studio, Grant studied character acting, mime, mask, and voice. At age 10 he performed his first mime skits before a live audience at the Gard Theater in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The same year he performed the title role in the holiday opera “Amal and the Night Visitors.”
Grant later earned a B.A. degree in English from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and a law degree from the University of Arizona. He is a licensed attorney in Arizona and Spain.
From 1995 to the present, Grant has pursued a bilingual career in stage, film, commercial acting, and voice-over work with many respected artists (click here for resume). He is a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG). Grant has studied at the School for Mime Theatre at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio with the preeminent American mimes Nicholas Johnson, Stephen Chipps (Kapoot Clown Theatre) and Rick Wamer and Lorie Heald of the Tucson Theatrical Mime Theatre.
Grant presently studies and performs with the Tucson Theatrical Mime Theatre. More recent stage credits also include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2000 Zoni Award, Theater Works); Romeo and Juliet (Tucson Community Theater); Frida Kahlo (Teatro Bravo); Measure for Measure (Tucson Theatre Ensemble), and The Balcony (The Rogue Theatre) Grant has also performed with The Jesterz Improv Comedy Troupe in Scottsdale, Arizona and Tucson’s premier improv comedy troupe, Not Burned Out, Just Unscrewed.
Grant presently resides in Tucson, Arizona.
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