Rick Wamer is an internationally renowned physical theatre artist, mime, choreographer, and director. His solo performances, collaborations, and residencies have delighted and entertained audiences globally for close to four decades. He is a student of Marcel Marceau, and served as his assistant during his U.S. Seminars in Gambier, Ohio in the 1980’s and ‘90’s. He also studied with Stefan Niedzialkowski of Warsaw Polish Mime Theatre founded by Henryk Tomaszewski.

Outstanding global festival appearances include the Shanghai International Arts Festival, Warsaw Mime Festival, performances at the Panphys Physical Theatre Festival in Skopje, Macedonia, for which he won “Best of Festival” honors and representing the United States in a Festival for Peace among Jewish and Palestinian Israelis in Shefa-Amr, Israel. 

He was a founding member of The Invisible People Mime Theatre, co-founded Theatrical Mime Theatre in Tucson, served as Artistic Director of the Saskatchewan Seminars for Mime and Movement Theatre and co-Director of the School for Mime Theatre at Kenyon College. He has filled numerous residencies at colleges and universities, is the recipient of several public and private grants and fellowships.

Having dedicated much of his professional artist career to accessibility of the arts for everyone, he has been recognized for his contributions to arts integration education in K-12 schools throughout the U.S., and is a co-creator of Embody Learn­ing™.

A published poet, he has also co-authored two books on arts integration practice, is recognized among 20th Century Mime artists and practitioners in From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots and Clowns: A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theatre by Annette Bercut Lust, as well as being a recipient of several awards including The Buffalo Exchange 2015 Contributor to the Arts Community Artist Award. 

He is a contributing author in an upcoming book by E. Reid Gilbert entitled, “Embodying the Word”. He teaches theatre at the University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film and Television in Tucson.