Dale Wolf

Interviewed on July 14, 2015

Dale Wolf is a mime, an impressionistic doodler, a gardener, a birdwatcher, and is currently identifying as tranz masculine, using male pronouns. He was born in Manhattan and educated at Temple University, where he majored in communications and theatre and earned a BA degree in 1976.

Dale Wolf moved to Durham, North Carolina, in 1976. He studied mime with several professionals including Tony Montanaro, Charlie Metcalf, Leo Berliner, and Hellmut Fricke-Gottschild. He cofounded Touch Mime Theatre. Members of Touch initially met in Tallahassee, Florida and formed the company in Carrboro, North Carolina, in 1976.

Dale Wolf has written and performed such pieces as In the OUTfield and 50! Evolution of a Butch Lesbian. He produced and appeared in an award-winning, local children’s television program, “Barney’s Army.” He cofounded with Dorie Drachman and others the theatre company Lesbian Thesbians, which produced and performed plays by and about lesbians from 1990 to 1991. With the theatre company Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Dale Wolf played numerous male roles including: Shakespeare’s Polonius, Frank Duncan (Maccountant), Brendan (Master Builder), Comrade Witherspoon and Friday (The Man Who Was Thursday).

For many years, Dale Wolf worked with queer youth organizations such as North Carolina Lambda Youth Network (NCLYN), InsideOut, and Time Out Youth. He is currently caretaking a small parcel of the planet in Durham, North Carolina, where he grows and shares food from his organic vegetable garden. He also feeds numerous feral chickens, other bird species, one feral cat, squirrels, and deer.

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