David Lane is an interdisciplinary theatre artist sharing his time between North Adams, Massachusetts and Calgary, Alberta. David studied Drama at the University of Calgary with the likes of Clem Martini and improv guru Keith Johnstone, and earned an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He trained extensively with Calgary’s Green Fools Theatre Society before helping to co-found The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, co-directing several of their inaugural shows.
When not in his studio, David teaches performance, life-drawing, and classes in creative-practice at Siena College in Albany, NY, and is a director-in-residence at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA). In 2016, his original clown play "The Painting", was selected to be presented at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region One, earning a “Best Ensemble” prize.
David was a co-creator and the lead designer of "Iniskim", an illuminated, night-time puppet performance celebrating the return of Buffalo to Banff National Park and presented by the National Arts Center’s Grand Acts of Theatre. David founded the annual Berkshire Lantern Walk (now in its fifth year), a community festival of light, in collaboration with the New England Puppet Intensive and Clark Art Institute.
He is a two-time Jim Henson Foundation grant recipient for his original play "The Chronicles of Rose", which tells the story of Rose Valland who helped save countless European paintings from being lost forever during WWII.
David’s latest project is a silent narrative play about traditional Newfoundland Mummering. His work with the St. John’s Lantern Festival led to the formation of a small, but spunky batch of like-minded artists, The Newfoundland Puppet Collective.
