Francisco Reynders

Francisco "Frans" Reynders was an active and highly-regarded mime, theatrical designer and fine artist. Growing up in The Netherlands, he eventually moved to the United States, first living in . He later moved to Portland, Oregon where he taught at Lewis and Clark College and founded the Oregon Mime Theater in 1977. His four-act mime play The Life of an Artist (initially staged in 1973) was the first such production ever done in the United States.