|
Stanley
Allan Sherman - short history
- reviews - comments
Ecole Jacques
Lecoq Theatre Mime Movement - 1972 graduate
Member of: Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity Association, American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Association of Theater
Artists and Craftspeople
Known
for Commedia dell'Arte and masks, starting in 1972 Stanley began creating
masks for his shows and creating leather theater masks since 1976. Carlo
Mazzone-Clementi brought Stanley to his school in Northern California
working with him created a set of Commedia dell'Arte masks. He had the
longest running exhibition in the history of Lincoln Center Museum
of the Performing Arts, has made masks for NY Baroque Dance Company,
many Colleges, Universities including Yale, theater companies,
Big Apple Circus, World Wrestling Federation creating the
famous Mankind Mask, American Academy of Dramatic Arts,
special leather top hat for Philippe Petit. Various unusual custom
jobs including for the hit show, Bouffon Glass Menagoree. His custom
fitted leather clown noses are used around the world.
He
performed hundreds of mime, Clown Theater and Commedia dell'Arte style
shows in schools, odd stages, 3000 seat rock concerts and theaters. In
1975 coming to NYC, performing his own style of street theater on Wall
Street and Nassua in front of the Federal Treasury Building with 5 to
6, 20 to 30 minute full shows over the Wall Street Lunch hours. He created
the Aero Show, Featuring the Star Spangled Banner running 6 months
in LA, Critic's Choice in the LA Times, receiving rave reviews
around the country and touring until the mid 90's.
In
the acting world his skills is very useful, being Off Broadway for 4 years
in Grandma Sylvia's Funeral and appearing on Late Night with
Conan O'Brien on NBC 41 times. It was partly the mime, clown and Commedia
dell'Arte skill that made the comedy bits work on Late Night. After
one rehearsal on the set Stanley went back to the greenroom and fellow
comedy bit players asked, How did you do that entrance and exit? It
was hysterical! The answer, many years of performing and playing with
silence. It is what we do and how, which is selling many moments in film,
television, stage and the many venues - variety performers perform.
As
a Performer
Los
Angeles Times:
A Magical Clown Act Takes Flight
By
Kirk Ellis
There hasn't been a clown act like Stanley Allan Sherman's Aero
Show Featuring the Star-Spangled Banner since Bill Irwin rolled
into town with his Regard of Flight a few seasons back... The results
are nothing short of magical. ...The show builds slowly, with an almost
Chaplin-esque sense of comic construction... Sherman has the rare
ability to breathe life into inanimate, even imaginary objects...
The
Columbus Dispatch: Seriously, you must go see this clown
By: Michael Grossberg
Take your kid! If you don't have any [kids]... Borrow a few. Anyone
who doesn't grab the whole family to see this weirdly wonderful fellow
deserves to be arrested for criminal negligence. His show is that special...
Raises high expectations. The rest of the Festival is going to have to
be darned good to live up to them.
As
a Director, Coach for Clown and Mime Shows
John
Paulsen's Lonely Banquet
John brought Stanley in to work with him on his show for
the run at Here Art Center in NYC.
Stanley challenged me to pursue the territory within myself
unvisited, to take my work to the place of the uncommon. He demanded that
I not be satisfied with just entertaining people, but to give them theatre.
Stanley should have walked into the theatre wearing a demolition helmet...
demolish your safety zone, demolish your safety net. Break it and show
me your unique self, your unique vision for our ailing world. Working
with Stanley was like the difference between seeing a vacation postcard
to actually soaring through the Grand Canyon. Don't show me the postcard...
take me there, take me to the Grand Canyon... Scared of the edge?... Great.
Me too. Let's go! How exciting! - John Paulsen
Gautham
...I was
able to go out there and just "be" without having to do a bunch
of stuff... I'm taking my time, finding the moments, letting myself discover,
finding the joy. I'm still applying the principles we practiced... In
short, I'm really grateful for the work we did together. It's opened up
so much for me. Thank you!! - Gautham Prasad
Bride
of Beowulf: Developed and Directed by Stanley Allan
Sherman
A two person
children's clown style show that toured for 4 year with Young Audiences.
The show was based on the story Beowulf and incorporated acting, mime,
movement, puppetry, opera, and story telling.
The students were very enthusiastic. One of the best programs I've
seen! - Young Audiences Program Observer
An outstanding creative approach to presenting a difficult topic.
- S.M. Williamson, PTA Rep. Point o' View Elementary
As
a Director
OffOff
Online: The Russians are Coming?
By Kelly Aliano
Duet for Solo Voice... directed by Stanley Allan Sherman...
hilariously funny and eerily discomfiting... an enjoyable hour spent in
the theater... displays the coherence of Sherman's vision and creativity.
Full
Aero Show Reviews
|