BIO & CREDENTIALS

A Personal Introduction

Mr. De Fazio comes from a bi-cultural, bilingual background, has received an eclectic education, and has worked most of his life in the professional theatre. 

He has dual citizenship:  Italian and American.  He spends half of his time in Europe and half in the United States.

Mr. De Fazio has studied singing, the violin, and dance.  

He studied photography through the University of California Extension in Berkeley and Los Angeles.

He received is B.A. in Theatre from Hope College (Michigan).

He received his Master of Divinity degree (M.Div.) from San Francisco Theological Seminary (Berkeley).

He received a Master Level Certificate from the University of California Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) in Screenwriting.

He received a Master degree (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing from Antioch University.

Mr. De Fazio is an ordained Daoist Shifu of the American Dragon Gate Lineage. 

He is a certified Sumi-e painter, a martial artist (Kenpo), and a practitioner of Tai Chi Ch’uang and Qigong.

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In 1991, he founded the international cultural association, Studio De Fazio, in Rome, Italy. The Studio is an artistic point of reference for professional actors, directors, opera singers, and dancers from eleven countries who come to research an original creative approach pioneered by Mr. De Fazio. 

In 2013, he founded in Rome, Italy the international, non-profit cultural association dedicated to the research and study of Communication: CREA Studio.

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Dominique De Fazio is recognized internationally as one of the most distinguished theatrical teachers/directors in the world.

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Teaching Credits and Achievements

A former student and subsequent collaborator of Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Dominique De Fazio is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio in New York.  Appointed by Mr. Strasberg to be a Moderator of the Acting Sessions of The Actors Studio, Mr. De Fazio taught periodically at The Actors Studio over a period of years.

After the historic seminar given by Lee Strasberg in Bochum, Germany in 1978, Mr. De Fazio was the first teacher to bring a systematic training in the tradition called “The Method” to Germany, Italy, France and Spain.

Later, Mr. De Fazio created a new and complete System of Creative Study and Research sometimes referred to as “The Poetic Theatre.” 

As a world-renown teacher of acting, Mr. De Fazio was invited to lecture and teach his new system at the conference on Stanislavski held in Paris in 1988:  Le Siecle Stanislavski.  This symposium brought together the most important figures in the world that represent the various developments of the Stanislavski tradition over the past one hundred years. .  From the United States, Sidney Pollack, Stellar Adler, Bobby Lewis, Ellen Burstein, and Dominique De Fazio came to lecture.  

Mr. De Fazio lectured at the Georges Pompidou Centre on his own evolution of the Stanislavski  System, “Toward a Poetic Theatre”.  Three of these directors were invited also to conduct workshops during the symposium to demonstrate their evolution of Stanislavski:  Stella Adler (the Group Theatre), Bobby Lewis (the Group Theatre and co-founder of The Actors Studio), and Dominique De Fazio (The Actors Studio and Studio De Fazio).  

In 1995, Mr. De Fazio was one of seven European directors invited to participate in the Stanislavski-Brecht International Symposium held in Hannover, Germany.  At this symposium, each director conducted a workshop and presented results of the workshop.  A book on this symposium has subsequently been published in Berlin.   

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