Gregg Goldston and Haruka Moriyama

Teaches at Goldston Mime Foundation

Gregg Goldston has taught workshops across the globe while touring his One Mime Show. In 1980, he founded The Goldston Schools for Mimes, a two to six week Summer Intensive for Mime based in Gambier, Ohio. The School, which was later renamed The Goldston & Johnson School for Mimes. In 2008 Goldston created a second Summer Intensive based in Warsaw, Poland called The School for Modern Mime. Most recently, in 2013, he created his third program: The Goldston Moriyama Institute for Mime based at the Centro Jobel outside Rome, Italy. The Institute stages an exclusive three-week program for 10 performers from around the world.

Haruka Moriyama was born and raised in Japan where she studied contemporary dance as her central focus during her undergraduate studies.  After training in theatre and dance in Japan, she moved to New York City to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.After years of dance performance, she found herself with the desire to find an art that was more expressive than dance.  Consequently, in 2000, she discovered mime and immersed herself mime and physical comedy under Gregg Goldston in New York City.