American Mime Theatre

The American Mime Theatre is the Performing Company and School of American Mime, an acting medium expressing itself through movement. it is neither a pantomime company nor a dance company. It performs its own original plays culled from its repertory, with new works continuously in development. It was founded in 1952 by Paul J. Curtis (August 29, 1927– April 28, 2012). Some of the notable performers in the company's past include Anita Morris, Lily Tomlin (albeit for exactly three weeks), James Noble and his wife Carolyn Coates, as well as  Marion Knox, Deda Kavanaugh, Charles Barney, Arthur Yorinks, Marc Maislen, Daniel Richter and Jean Barbour. After a period of inactivity, AMT relaunched in 2023 with Yorinks as artistic director and Lynn M. Stirrup as executive director.

Reviews
In 1984, The New York Times wrote: "As one of the few who toiled in the vineyards over the decades when mime was considered chiefly a European import, Mr. Curtis deserves credit where credit is due. The program that the American Mime Theater is offering... demonstrated an independent view of mime that owes little to conventions associated with the form ... it allows for a free-form approach that roams between the realistic and the stylized."