Born in the United States in 1957, McNeer has worked as an actor and theatrical educator in the USA and in Europe since 1977.
With a Bachelor’s degree in the “Interpretation of Literature” from Northwestern University, he also studied at the Mimenschule Ilg in Zurich and with Tadashi Suzuki in Togamura, Japan.
He regularly conducts seminars for actors and educators in Germany, and acting courses in Puglia, southern Italy. In 13 years of acting work with Teatro Kismet in Bari, Italy, he has also taught theatre in schools, prisons and psychiatric wards. He has worked as an actor in front of children and adults in Asia and the Middle East as well as throughout Europe.
In 1999, together with his wife Pia Wachter, he founded La Luna nel Pozzo (The Moon in the Well), a cultural centre in the countryside near Ostuni (Brindisi province), in southern Italy, where, aside from his work as director and actor, he continues his theatrical research with non-professional actors (young people, teachers, social workers, differently-abled), both in theatrical and non-theatrical settings, such as the countryside, town squares and historical neighborhoods, archeological sites. ... read more.

Pia Wachter