DANIEL STEIN has just completed serving his five year rotation as School Director, and now carries the title of Projects Director of The Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre where he also teaches "Preparing the Instrument", "Generating New Material" and "Improvisation". After studying in the Professional Actors Training Program at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he had the privilege of working with Jewel Walker, he then went to Paris to study with Etienne Decroux, and subsequently made his home in Paris for 20 years. Daniel started his professional career as an actor with the French National Theatre. In 1978 he started touring his own solo performances which have now toured in more than 25 countries. He had his own school in Paris for 15 years and has taught master classes throughout the world at institutions such as Juilliard School of Drama, New York and The Institute of Dramatic Arts, Tokyo. Daniel has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States/Japan Commission, the Pew Charitable Trust, and has been named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.