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 New York City. He later moved
to Portland, Oregon where he taught at Lewis and Clark College and
founded the Oregon Mime Theater in 1973. 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.
