Artistic Directors Kari Margolis and Tony Brown

Kari Margolis and Tony Brown first joined forces in 1975, in Paris, while training intensively with Etienne Decroux. After seven years of performing abroad, they returned to the United States in 1982 and formed their Company (under the not-for-profit Adaptors Inc.) in New York City. After four years as Artists-in-Residence at the prestigious BACA Downtown Arts Center they opened their own facility in Downtown Brooklyn that housed rehearsal/performance space, a full-time actor training program and a video editing and recording studio. In September 1993, Margolis and Brown relocated the Company and Training Center to Minneapolis. The team is presently building an international training center in the beautiful New York Catskill Mountains, just 90 miles from New York City.

Margolis and Brown have created thirteen large-scale critically acclaimedworks which have toured nationally and internationally to Berlin, London, Singapore and throughout Mexico and Canada. Along with these works they have also created several site-specific events for such places as the Brooklyn Museum, the beach at Coney Island, NY and the Minnesota Science Museum.

Margolis and Brown / Collective Awards
*Creative Capital Foundation National Fellows, 2002
*Six Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts 1985-93
*"Bessie" New York Dance and Performance Award 1989
*Theater Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts 1987
*Jerome Travel Grant 1995

Kari Margolis / Individual Awards
Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Initiative Fellowship, 2005
Bush Foundation Artist Fellow, 2004
McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow 2002
Pew/TCG National Artist Residency Fellow 1999 - 2000
McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow 1998
Cowles Chair, University of Minnesota, 1998
Minnesota State Arts Board Theater Fellow 1997
National McKnight Fellow through the MN Dance Alliance 1993

Other Accomplishments (Margolis)
Kari Margolis is presently overseeing the building of the international Margolis Method Theatre Training and Research Center in Sullivan County New York where she has been teaching daily intensive training sessions since July 2005. Before leaving her position as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota's Department of Theatre and Dance to pursue the building of the Center, she played an important role in the reshaping of the Department's Acting Program where Margolis Method is still central to the Program's syllabus. She has had a chapter on the "Margolis Method™ A Dynamic Approach to Actor Training," published in "Movement for Actors" Allworth Press, NY, 2002 and is Producing a pilot Margolis Method™ DVD funded by National Endowment for the Arts

Ms. Margolis has been a Master Teacher at the Kennedy Center's National American College Theater Festival for several years. Each season the Kennedy Center offers a scholarship to a National Irene Ryan recipient to study at the Margolis Method Center. Ms. Margolis was Keynote Speaker for the National Conference of Theatre, Dance, Music and Art Educators, hosted by the National Dance Educators Organization, MPLS. July, 2001, served for four years on the National Endowment for the Arts Professional Theater and Creativity and Presentation Panels. (1992,93,94, 01) and has been a Site-Reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts Theater Program for twelve years. She served two terms as President of the National Movement Theatre Association and on the panels of the Jerome Foundation and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council in the Twin Cities.

Tony Brown / Individual Awards and Fellowships:
Rockefeller Foundation Project Grant, 2003
McKnight Playwrights Center Fellow 2002
McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow, 2001
Bush Foundation Artists Fellow, 2000
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, 2000
McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow, 1997
Open Studio/Arts Online Media Grant, 1995

Other Accomplishments (Brown)
Tony Brown is presently overseeing the building of the company's new Center in Sullivan County New York. Mr. Brown played a key role in designing the new multimedia center for the University of Minnesota's Department of Theatre and Dance, where he also taught media and acting classes. He created and produced a multi-screen, multimedia installation entitled "2005" presented at Intermedia Arts, Mpls. and has served on the Boards of the Minnesota Dance Alliance and the National Movement Theatre Association along with serving as a panelist on several local arts panels. He has been a Site-Reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts for 12 years. Mr. Brown has received recognition for his featured performance in AMERICAN SAFARI with a City Pages "Best Stage Performance of 2001", and two Arizoni Awards. From 1989 to 1993 he oversaw a multimedia regrant program for the New York State Council for the Arts through the company's video editing facility in Downtown Brooklyn.


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	Kari Margolis and Tony Brown first joined forces in 1975, in Paris, while training intensively with Etienne Decroux. After seven years of performing abroad, they returned to the United States in 1982 and formed their Company (under the not-for-profit Adaptors Inc.) in New York City. After four years as Artists-in-Residence at the prestigious BACA Downtown Arts Center they opened their own facility in Downtown Brooklyn that housed rehearsal/performance space, a full-time actor training program and a video editing and recording studio. In September 1993, Margolis and Brown relocated the Company and Training Center to Minneapolis. The team is presently building an international training center in the beautiful New York Catskill Mountains, just 90 miles from New York City. Margolis and Brown have created thirteen large-scale critically acclaimedworks which have toured nationally and internationally to Berlin, London, Singapore and throughout Mexico and Canada. Along with these works they have also created several site-specific events for such places as the Brooklyn Museum, the beach at Coney Island, NY and the Minnesota Science Museum. Margolis and Brown / Collective Awards Creative Capital Foundation National Fellows, 2002 Six Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts 1985-93 "Bessie" New York Dance and Performance Award 1989 Theater Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts 1987 Jerome Travel Grant 1995 Kari Margolis / Individual Awards* Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Initiative Fellowship, 2005 Bush Foundation Artist Fellow, 2004 McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow 2002 Pew/TCG National Artist Residency Fellow 1999 - 2000 McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow 1998 Cowles Chair, University of Minnesota, 1998 Minnesota State Arts Board Theater Fellow 1997 National McKnight Fellow through the MN Dance Alliance 1993 Other Accomplishments (Margolis) Kari Margolis is presently overseeing the building of the international Margolis Method Theatre Training and Research Center in Sullivan County New York where she has been teaching daily intensive training sessions since July 2005. Before leaving her position as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota's Department of Theatre and Dance to pursue the building of the Center, she played an important role in the reshaping of the Department's Acting Program where Margolis Method is still central to the Program's syllabus. She has had a chapter on the "Margolis Method™ A Dynamic Approach to Actor Training," published in "Movement for Actors" Allworth Press, NY, 2002 and is Producing a pilot Margolis Method™ DVD funded by National Endowment for the Arts Ms. Margolis has been a Master Teacher at the Kennedy Center's National American College Theater Festival for several years. Each season the Kennedy Center offers a scholarship to a National Irene Ryan recipient to study at the Margolis Method Center. Ms. Margolis was Keynote Speaker for the National Conference of Theatre, Dance, Music and Art Educators, hosted by the National Dance Educators Organization, MPLS. July, 2001, served for four years on the National Endowment for the Arts Professional Theater and Creativity and Presentation Panels. (1992,93,94, 01) and has been a Site-Reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts Theater Program for twelve years. She served two terms as President of the National Movement Theatre Association and on the panels of the Jerome Foundation and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council in the Twin Cities. Tony Brown / Individual Awards and Fellowships: Rockefeller Foundation Project Grant, 2003 McKnight Playwrights Center Fellow 2002 McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow, 2001 Bush Foundation Artists Fellow, 2000 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, 2000 McKnight Intermedia Arts Fellow, 1997 Open Studio/Arts Online Media Grant, 1995 Other Accomplishments (Brown) Tony Brown is presently overseeing the building of the company's new Center in Sullivan County New York. Mr. Brown played a key role in designing the new multimedia center for the University of Minnesota's Department of Theatre and Dance, where he also taught media and acting classes. He created and produced a multi-screen, multimedia installation entitled "2005" presented at Intermedia Arts, Mpls. and has served on the Boards of the Minnesota Dance Alliance and the National Movement Theatre Association along with serving as a panelist on several local arts panels. He has been a Site-Reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts for 12 years. Mr. Brown has received recognition for his featured performance in AMERICAN SAFARI with a City Pages "Best Stage Performance of 2001", and two Arizoni Awards. From 1989 to 1993 he oversaw a multimedia regrant program for the New York State Council for the Arts through the company's video editing facility in Downtown Brooklyn.
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