Title(s)Faculty - Visual and Performing Arts, On sabbatical
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Bear Capron grew up one block from Castilleja, went to Stanford, then
moved to Europe in 1970 where he obtained his Masters in Theater
Education and Performance at the Amsterdam Theaterschool in the
Netherlands. As teacher, actor, director, mime and Gestalt therapist,
Bear spent seventeen years in Holland before returning home for good in
1988. In the late 1990s Capron went back to school to study film and now
teaches Film Studies and digital moviemaking electives to Middle and
Upper School, in addition to teaching sixth grade and upper school Drama
and advising Castilleja's GSA, the Rainbow Alliance. He loves music and
dance, wordplay, talking with animals and playing all day. He makes his
home in Mountain View with his spouse, composer Alva Henderson.
