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"The work approaches the body as a whole system and the vocal mechanism as part of that totality."
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- ASSISTANT
TEACHERS
All Assistant
Teachers of Fitzmaurice Voicework have attended
a Certification Program led by Catherine
Fitzmaurice and the Master Teachers and are
further developing their experience with the
work.
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- MICHAEL COBB
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 - Head of Voice and Speech
- National Theatre Conservatory
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
1101 13th Street
Denver CO 80204
tel: 303-893-4000, ext. 2467
e: mcobb@dcpa.org
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Michael Cobb has been a professional actor, theatre maker, teacher, and coach for over twenty years. He teaches voice, speech, accents/dialects, and text at the National Theatre Conservatory and serves as Resident Vocal Coach for the Denver Center Theatre Company. Other teaching credits include the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre School, St. Lawrence University, SUNY Potsdam, and Rhode Island College. Acting credits include appearances on ALIVE TV for PBS, at Dallas Theatre Center, TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs, and as a member of the resident Acting Company at Trinity Rep in Providence.
MFA American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre School/Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University; MA Brown University; BA Missouri State University; Certificate, Trinity Rep Conservatory.
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- MIRLA
CRISTE
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 Assistant
Professor- University of
Georgia
- Department of
Drama and Theatre
- Division of
Fine Arts
- Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences
- Fine Arts
Building
- Athens GA
30602
- tel:
646-246-4415
- e: mirlac@world.oberlin.edu
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- Mirla Criste
has been teaching the arts at every level
through college for 20 years. She taught
Fitzmaurice Voicework at Oberlin College for two
years, and has been a visiting Instructor at
Slippery Rock University and at Hamilton
College. She has been involved in the
professional theatre as director, performer,
designer, choreographer, playwright, composer,
and producer since 1985. She is a member of SAG,
AFTRA, and AEA.
MFA University
of California-Irvine; BA Oberlin
College.
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- MARGOT EBLING
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 New Haven CT
e: margotebling@yahoo.com
Margot Ebling is an actor and teaching artist based in New Haven, Connecticut. As a voice and speech teacher, she has led classes at the New York Film Academy, assistant-taught for Pamela Prather at the Yale School of Drama and for Deborah Hecht at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and coached private students in New York and Connecticut. She is a founding member of LightBox, an experimental theatre company that adapts classic texts and creates new work relating to issues of our time. Her New York acting credits include: AJAX: 100% FUN, Charles Mee’s Orestes, Gull, Fanatics, Hamlet (LightBox); Innocents (Ripe Time / Ohio Theatre); What Remains is the Stillness of Objects (Room Stage / New York International Fringe Festival; Uncle Vanya (Tinderbox Theatre Group / Chekhov NOW Festival); Night (Ontological Theater); A Family Affair and The Poor of New York (Target Margin Theater); Absalom, Absalom! (Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab); Regional: Intimate Apparel, The Miracle Worker (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); International: The Calling (Netwerk Theatre, Belgium). Margot received her B.A. in Theatre Studies from Yale University and is a certified yoga instructor through Be Yoga / YogaWorks.
BA Yale University.
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- TARA GORDON
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 New York NY
tel: 212-645-2527
e: taralgordon@gmail.com
Tara Gordon is currently teaching and privately coaching in New York City and North Scottsdale, Arizona. Her current creative focus is co-developing performance workshops centralized around the fusions between Fitzmaurice Voicework, modern dance, and metaphysics. In addition to working with actors, she is privately coaching creative writers, journalists and public speakers on the dynamics of speaking their own written words. Professional teaching and coaching associations include: Wingspan Arts, Barrington Stage Company, The 21st Century Fund, Alstra Capital Management, and The New York Times Television. Professional acting credits include: Hot Ink Festival, Magellan Gallery, Camilla Theater Workshop, First Look Acting Company, Carnegie Mellon Summer Stage, and The Barrington Stage Company. She is currently teaching open bi-weekly Fitzmaurice workshops in New York City. She studied at the Tisch School of The Arts, and did post-graduate study at The Actors Center.
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- CAMILLA HELLBERG
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- Helsinki Finland
&
Cape Town South Africa
tel: +358-40-509-1126 (Finland)
e: camilla358@gmail.com
Camilla Hellberg is a freelance theatre artist, teacher, and healer. She is a co-founder of Teater Mestola and has acted in Maria Stuart: Songs and Dances of Weddings and Funerals, Sonen, Arrabal and Misantropen. She co-wrote and acted in the play Amsterdam that toured Finland in 2004-05. Maria Stuart toured in Sweden and Germany the same year. In 2008 she co-wrote and directed the play No Fear in Helsinki. She has been a board member of the Finnish Actors’ Union since 2006. Camilla also works as a project leader for MatikiMojo--Supporting Children with Arts and Culture, an international children's theatre project with outreach in Finland and South Africa. She has been a certified Theta Healing practitioner since 2007. Camilla is doing research on the “un-struggling” artist, investigating the role of the obstacle in the creative process and how to eliminate the blockages that inhibit it. Together, Fitzmaurice Voicework and the Theta Healing technique present new and effective ways to work with mind and body in life and acting. Camilla is based in Finland but works as an artist and teacher in other Nordic countries as well as in South Africa. She works and teaches in the Swedish, English, and Finnish languages.
MA Theatre Academy of Finland.
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- MICHELLE HORMAN
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- Voice Therapist/Singing Voice Specialist
Medical Practice of Robert T. Sataloff, MD
Philadelphia PA
e: michellehorman1@aol.com
Michelle Horman is a certified speech language pathologist specializing in the evaluation and treatment of injured voices. She has been associated with the practice of internationally recognized otolaryngologist Robert T. Sataloff since 1998, where she works in the rehabilitation of injured speakers and singers. She also sees a private clientele. Michelle received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., and her Master of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Indiana University in Bloomington IN. She also completed one year of MFA studies at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York. Michelle is an actor and singer, and a member of Actors Equity, and she performs regionally. Her study and practice in Fitzmaurice Voicework is directed toward the goal of integrating her varied vocal experience and accessing a maximally effective and emotionally available instrument in herself and others.
MA CCC-SLP Indiana University; BMusic Catholic University.
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- APRIL IBARRA
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- Los Angeles CA
e: pros005@aol.com
April Ibarra taught Introduction to Theatre and acting for non-majors at Cal State-Fullerton as a Teacher's Assistant. She also coached voice and speech for undergraduate theatre majors. She has worked with Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA at the Frida Kahlo Theatre in Los Angeles, and has studied with members of the Moscow Art Theatre and American Repertory Theatre at the Stanislavsky summer training program in Cambridge. Her theatre credits include Lysistrata, Real Women Have Curves, Frida Kahlo, and the west coast premiere of Andorra.
MFA California State University-Fullerton; BA California State University-Northridge.
- TANERA MARSHALL
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- Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Performing Arts
1040 W. Harrison Ave. mc 255
Chicago IL 60607
tel: 312-996-7660
e: tmarshal@uic.edu
Tanera Marshall has worked in the Chicago area as a performer, voice and dialect specialist, and teaching artist in public schools since 1995. Voice/Dialect credits include The Lucky Ones (with Rachel McAdams and Tim Robbins, released May ‘08), numerous productions at Greasy Joan & Co., Court Theater, Metropolis Performing Arts, Vittum Theater, and university theatre programs. In addition to on-camera and voiceover work, she has performed at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Court Theater, Redmoon Theater, WBEZ’s Stories On Stage, and with Greasy Joan & Co., where she was a company member for 7 years. Prior to UIC, she taught at Northern Illinois University and Columbia College-Chicago. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and VASTA.
MFA The Theatre School at DePaul University; BA Oberlin College.
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- CHRISTINE MENZIES
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- Associate Professor
California State University-Northridge
Department of Theatre
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge CA 91330
tel: 818-677-6612
e: christine.menzies@csun.edu
Christine Menzies has been an actor, director, writer, and teacher in the United States, Canada, Britain, and Trinidad. She has also taught at Louisiana State University, Portland State University, the University of Southern California and Cal-State Pomona, as well as colleges and universities across Canada. Christine has been Voice/Text/Dialects Director at the Oregon and Kentucky Shakespeare festivals, at Portland Centre Stage, and Artists Repertory Theatre in Oregon and The Swine Palace in Louisiana. She has directed extensively in the USA and abroad.
MFA York University; BEd University of London.
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- MAY NAZARENO
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- San Francisco CA
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Manila Philippines
tel: 646-221-0886
tel: +63-926-703-7410 (Manila)
www.maynazareno.com
May Nazareno has been teaching actors, singers, community leaders, and business executives as private clients both in New York City and San Francisco. She is also the first teacher to bring Fitzmaurice Voicework to the Philippines and has taught at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and De La Salle University. In addition to her work as a teacher, May is a playwright, actor, singer, producer, and director. Her play: Dead Woman Home has premiered in Seattle at the 2004 Mae West Festival, New York’s Midtown International Theatre Festival, the National Theatre Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the 2005 Theatre Communications Group National Conference in Seattle, Tanghalan On Stage, and the Filipina Women’s National Summit in San Francisco. Producing credits include: Tanghalan on Stage, the first Filipino American Theatre Festival in San Francisco and the United States, and Pamana Ako: Discovering One's Heritage through Song for the first Asian American Theatre Festival. Directing credits include: Passing which May wrote and developed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and Eve Ensler’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, which performed at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
BA State University of New York-Binghamton.
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- TERRY O'CONNELL
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- Idaho Falls ID
tel: 208-227-0123
e: terry@oconnell.com
www.thetatimes.com
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Terry O’Connell is a ThetaHealing™ Practitioner and Teacher, and is exploring the connections between Fitzmaurice Voicework® and ThetaHealing™. Terry was drawn to the work after experiencing its powerful effect on her own breathing after a single one-day workshop in 2006. The ability of Fitzmaurice Voicework® to transform a person through the physical experience of a theta brainwave complements the energetic approach to the same transformation that Terry experiences in practicing ThetaHealing™ with her clients and students. Terry has worked with clients and students from more than 30 countries. Much of her client work is done over the phone. Terry teaches in New York, Los Angeles, Idaho, England, Wales, and Australia throughout the year.
MBA The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; MS & BS Georgetown University.
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- JEFFREY PARKER
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- New York NY
tel: 949-230-2085
e: jeffreybensonparker@gmail.com
Jeffrey Parker has taught beginning Voice, advanced Speech, and both beginning and advanced Musical Theater at UC Irvine. He has served as music director and/or vocal coach for over a dozen productions in Southern California, and teaches private voice and singing lessons to clients throughout the country. As a performer, he has performed at the La Jolla Playhouse, the Starlight Bowl, and other California venues for many years. Currently living in New York, Jeff teaches voice, singing, dialects, and accent reduction to a wide range of private clients.
MFA University of California-Irvine; BA UCLA.
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- PATRICIA PEARSON
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- San Francisco CA
tel: 415-285-6203
e: runningpup@mindspring.com
Patricia Pearson was born and grew up in New York City and left there to live in Alaska and then California where she lives now, in San Francisco. She is an improviser and performs with BATS Improv as a member of The Sunday Players. For most of her professional life Patricia has been a graphic designer and illustrator and is now in the process of switching to performance. She has attended The Art Students League in New York City, Columbia University, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and the Academy of Art in San Francisco where she also taught.
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- STEVE
RAMSHUR
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- Union City
NJ
- tel:
646-234-6360
- e:
ramshur@gmail.com
Steve Ramshur is
an actor, director, and fight choreographer. He
has been an instructor at NYU's Graduate Acting
Program, Stella Adler, Actors' Studio, and the
NY Public Theatre's Shakespeare Lab. He has also
worked at the Guthrie Theater, Cleveland
Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Arizona Theatre
Company, and Cabrillo Stage. He was Assistant
Director for the NY premiere of Edward Albee's
The Play About The Baby, and has directed
Little Eyolf, On The Verge, and
Swordmaster Off-Broadway, and, most
recently, The Fantasticks in California.
He has been awarded a Fox Fellowship and a Gary
Kalkin Fellowship.
MFA New York
University; BA University of
Connecticut.
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- PETER ROUFFAER
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- Ghent Conservatory
Ghent Belgium
- e: prouffaer@hotmail.com
Peter Rouffaer teaches voice and drama at the Conservatory of Ghent. Before becoming an actor and voice teacher he studied sociology at the University of Leuven and sociology of art at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. He wrote his thesis for graduation on theatre and he became an assistant professor of sociology in Leuven. In 1978 he started training as an actor at the Conservatory of Brussels and graduated in 1982, beginning his career that same year playing several leading roles in modern and classical plays. His major Shakespearean roles include Posthumus and Cothen in Cymbeline, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, and Florizel in A Winter's Tale. He now combines teaching with his busy acting career that extends from theatre to film and television. He started training in voice with Kristin Linklater in 1976 and in 1978 went to The Mount to work with Shakespeare & Company, and in 1982 started teaching voice in the conservatories of Liege and Brussels. In the late 80's he met Enrique Pardo of the Roy Hart Theatre company and worked with him for several years teaching and developing productions, and then introduced Roy Hart work along with Linklater work into his teaching. In 2005 he worked with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Saul Kotzubei in a workshop in Paris organized by Linda Wise of the Roy Hart Theatre, and then came to do his Fitzmaurice Certification in New York City in 2007 and 2008.
MA Catholic University of Leuven; BA University of South Africa; Diploma Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
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- SUSAN RYAN
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- Adjunct Faculty
New York University
Playwrights Horizons Theatre School
440 Lafayette St., Fourth Floor
New York NY 10003
tel: 212-529-8720
e: mobaker@earthlink.net
Susan Ryan is an actress and vocalist who is also an Early Childhood Music Specialist working in private music programs and in preschools in New York City. She has served as a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center Institute and is trained in LCI’s approach to Aesthetic Education for grades K through 12. As a Lincoln Center Institute Teaching Artist she taught within the New Jersey public school system. As a professional actor she has worked in theatre, film and television. As a professional vocalist she has worked in both live and recorded mediums and has performed in venues ranging from the blues clubs of Greenwich Village to Symphony Space and Carnegie Hall. She is trained in the movement disciplines of Viewpoints and Contact Improvisation and has also studied Suzuki with The SITI Company both in Saratoga Springs and New York City. She is a member of VASTA and AFTRA, and holds the Certificate from the Center for Music and Young Children.
BFA New York University.
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- LAURI SMITH
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- Adjunct Faculty
Foothill Community College
Los Altos CA
tel: 650-888-3950
e: born2actsmith@gmail.com
Lauri Smith also teaches acting and Fitzmaurice Voicework in the San Francisco Bay area. An award-winning actor, playwright, director, and instructor with over twenty years experience in theatre, Lauri has performed at many theatres across the country from Theatre Works in Mountain View to the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her favorite roles include Wanda in The Waiting Room, Lois in Wonder of the World, Janice in Italian American Reconciliation, Marie in Woyzeck, and Claire in Proof. Her work as an instructor focuses on the importance of the Authentic Self and the development of a connected body-voice in actor-training while her performance work focuses on creating and embodying strong, diverse female characters.
MFA & BA University of California-Davis.
- MAGGIE
SUROVELL
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- New York City
NY
- tel:
212-866-1993
- e:
maggiesurovell@gmail.com
Maggie Surovell
has taught speech at Rutgers,
acting and playwriting as an Artist in Residence
at Shepard High School, and voice and
speech at Sarah Lawrence College and at the
University of Georgia to undergraduate theatre
majors. She apprenticed with Fitzmaurice
Associate Pamela Prather in her speech class at
Yale School of Drama, and she also teaches
private clients in New York City, where she has
dialect and voice coached shows at Cherry Lane
Theatre, New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse
Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, with Les
Freres Corbusier, Gotham Stages, Broad Horizons
Theatre Company, and Stageworks/Hudson. Maggie
continues to tour her comic one-woman show,
Warning Signs, which she has performed
with the Alliance Theatre, Les Freres Corbusier,
Brat Productions, Stageworks/Hudson, and FHB
Theater Productions, and she is developing a new one-woman show.
MFA University
of Georgia; BA Temple
University.
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- BRAITHE TIDWELL
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 - New York NY
tel: 917-647-8324
e: braitheg@yahoo.com
Braithe Tidwell is an actress, writer, and director based in New York City, where she offers private acting and voice coaching. She has practiced Fitzmaurice Voicework for almost ten years, studying with Dudley Knight, Grace Zandarski, and Ilse Pfeifer at the Actors Center in New York, Aole T. Miller at Studio 5 in Brooklyn, and with Catherine Fitzmaurice. Braithe studied extensively at the Stella Adler Conservatory through the Tisch School of the Arts. She has also studied Strasberg, Grotowski, Per Brahe’s mask work, and clowning with Christopher Bayes. Braithe wrote and directed the play Committing the Conscious: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and acted in the movie Virgin.
BFA New York University.
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- BERNARD VASH
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 San Francisco CA
e: bvash008@msn.com
Bernard Vash spent 13 years at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco under William Ball and Allen Fletcher, as a founding member of the Young Conservatory and later an actor and as instructor of phonetics and ear training, voice, and acting. His colleagues included Nancy Houfek, Deborah Sussel, Marie Chambers, and Deborah Hecht. Bernard has also taught at Temple University and San Francisco State University, and has coached dialects for Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Bernard studied at Carnegie Mellon University with Donna Snow, Rick Winter, Robert Chaplin, Timothy Monich, and Edith Skinner; and with Anne Lawder and Edith Skinner at ACT. In 1980, he assisted Edith Skinner teaching and was trained to teach her method. He is also pursuing the Linklater designation track. Recently (as Tucker Sonoma) he has trained with Shakespeare and Company both as a teacher trainee and as a participant. He has also trained in stage combat and fight choreography with Gregory Hoffman at Dueling Arts International, and he attended their 2007 Teaching Symposium.
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