E-CIBS notes the death on 21 June 2026 of RG Davis, a key disseminator of Brechtian ideas in the USA as the founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and of Epic West at UC Berkeley. An obituary article about Davis by Lily Janiak in the San Francisco Chronicle can be found here.

The image of Davis above is a still from an interview conducted in 2013 by missionlocal.org, a project of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EkGM51gRIg).