"Best Solo Performance" in DC Fringe 2008! "Best Solo Show AND Best of the Fest" in Orlando Fringe 2009! One man performs the epic story of "Seven Samurai," complete with victimized peasants, marauding bandits, samurai warriors, and spectacular fight scenes. Retold at a comic breakneck pace. Unique, riveting, and very funny.

David Gaines studied, and later taught, at the renowned Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. His London company, The Moving Picture Mime Show, toured Europe and the world for 10 years.

In the U.S., he has taught at UMKC grad school, and given workshops all over the country. He is a member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, and freelances as a director and movement consultant.

His most recent show is the acclaimed 7 (x1) Samurai which opened (and was voted “Best Solo Performance”) in the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival, and has since garnered “Best Solo Show “ and “Best of the Fest” awards at the 2009 Orlando Fringe, and the “Critics Choice” award at the 2009 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.