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PAGE CONTENTS ASSOCIATE TEACHERS - B "The approach is both scientific and natural." -- Workshop Participant   ASSOCIATE TEACHERS All Associate Teachers of Fitzmaurice Voicework have completed the Certification Program led by Catherine Fitzmaurice and the Master Teachers, and have from 1 to 15 years experience teaching the work. Please search alphabetically by last name. A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z MICHAEL BARNES (98)   Assistant Professor Wayne State University Department of Theatre 4841 Cass Ave. Suite 3225 Detroit MI 48202 tel: 313-577-0926 fax: 313-577-0935 e: mjbarnes@wayne.edu Michael Barnes has taught at the University of Miami, Temple University, and the University of Delaware. In 2003 he coached at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and he has coached dialects, voice, text, and singing at such theatres as Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Wilma Theatre, Studio Theatre, Rep Stage Company, Pearl Theatre, People's Light and Theatre, Venture Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He has acted and directed in regional theatre. His article about Fitzmaurice Voicework, co-authored with Bruce Smith, is referenced in articles, and his MFA thesis, also about Fitzmaurice Voicework, is referenced at the end of Catherine's article, "Breathing is Meaning." Michael serves as VASTA's Director of Technology. MFA National Theatre Conservatory/Denver Center for the Performing Arts; BFA University of Oklahoma. CYNTHIA BARRETT (98)   Atlanta GA tel: 404-840-1975 e: cynbarrett@gmail.com Cynthia Barrett is currently a freelance actor and coach in Atlanta, Georgia. She was previously an Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina-Greensboro teaching vocal production, speech, dialects, text, and acting, and has also taught on the performance faculties of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, University of California-Davis, University of Illinois, and Interlochen. She has worked as an actor and voice/text coach for the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Repertory Theatre, Metro Theater Company, and the Alliance Theatre Company. MFA University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; BA Indiana State University. CYNTHIA BASSHAM (04)   Instructor University of California-Irvine Department of Drama Irvine CA 92697 tel: 949-824-9440 & Seydways Acting Studios San Francisco CA e: c_bassham@yahoo.com www.cynthiabassham.com   Cynthia Bassham teaches ongoing weekly Fitzmaurice Voicework classes at Seydways Studios in San Francisco, and taught voice and speech at the American Conservatory Theatre's Studio program for five years. She also teaches at Stanford University. She is a professional actor with extensive credits, including originating the role of "C" in the world premiere of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women directed by the author. Cynthia's introduction to elements of Fitzmaurice Voicework started at ACT where she studied with Nancy Houfek from 1986 to 1989. She later continued her studies of the method with Saul Kotzubei.   MFA American Conservatory Theatre; BA University of Washington. JOSEPH BATES (00)   Visiting Faculty Auburn University Department of Theater 211 Telfair Peet Theater Auburn AL 36849 Auburn AL c: 937-367-6530 e: jbates4@ix.netcom.com www.musictheatreventures.org   Joseph Bates, music director and voice coach, has conducted over 25 productions including Chicago, Sweeney Todd, Candide, The Most Happy Fella, She Loves Me, and The King and I. He serves as Music Director for the Dayton Opera Artists-In-Residence Program. He has conducted The Pirates of Penzance, The Impresario, and Candide for the Dayton Opera. Joseph has directed over 20 musicals and operas that include Crazy for You, Evita, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, and Amahl and the Night Visitors. His orchestral repertoire as conductor includes music by Barber, Bernstein, Poulenc, Chausson, and Mozart. He has recently retired from twenty years at Wright State University as Music Director in the Theatre Department to pursue his burgeoning professional career. JOANNA BATTLES (09)   Assistant Professor Louisiana State University Baton Rouge LA e: joannabattles@gmail.com Joanna is a professional actor as well as a voice, speech and dialect coach for theatre and film. She has been a faculty member, and/or presented workshops at New York University, Playwright's Horizons Theatre School, Brooklyn College, Brown/Trinity Consortium, Louisiana State University, Swine Palace Theatre, and Stonesoup Theatre Co. MFA Brown University; BFA New York University. MARIKA BECZ (04)   Instructor NYU-Playwrights Horizons New York NY tel: 718-344-0864 e: mbecz@hotmail.com   Marika Becz is a professional actor, director, choreographer, teacher, and voice coach. She has served on the faculties and/or taught workshops for Juniata College, UC-Irvine, Cal State-Fullerton, CSU Summer Arts with the Second City Company, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, and Malashock Dance and Co. Professional credits include South Coast Rep, Connecticut Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Central Coast Shakepeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival/LA, New York Performance Works, The Old Globe, Theatre Neo, and the Mark Taper Amphitheatre. She is a founding member of The Gravity Project, and is a certified yoga instructor and level ll Reiki practitioner. She has also taught voice at Barnard College.   MFA University of California-Irvine; BFA University of Connecticut. ANDREW BELSER (04)   Artistic Director, The Gravity Project Head, Juniata Theatre Professor of Theatre Juniata College Huntingdon PA 16652 tel: 814-641-3494 fax: 814-641-3155 e: belser@juniata.edu   Andrew Belser is a director and theatre-maker. He founded The Gravity Project at Juniata in 2004. A sampling of his original theatrical creations includes Nine Gates, a theatrical voyage into desire inspired by poet Jane Hirshfeld's book of essays NINE GATES: ENTERING THE MIND OF POETRY; He, a Butoh/Tango movement melange and an erotic look at clowning; Exit The King, a radical, sacred, and irreverent reworking of Ionesco's classic play; The Body of Mystery, a movement investigation of Judeo-Christian mythology; Songs and Lives, a music/performance piece featuring the Audubon Quartet; The Sympathetic Weight of Bones, a meditation on love co-conceived with Whit Maclaughlin; and The French Farce Session, a theatrical pondering using farce as a tool for psychotherapy. Among his directing work on scripts are the premieres of Russell Davis' The Second Death of Priscilla and The Wild Goose Circus, Leslie Lee's The Ninth Wave, and John Mighton's The Little Years. Other recent productions have included adaptations of Spring's Awakening and The Firebugs. Andy was honored as Pennsylvania Professor of the Year for 2003. Recent formative theatrical experiences have been his training in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Skinner Releasing, a directing residency with Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis, and clown work with Avner the Eccentric. At the very center of Andy's life are his wife Virginia and two sons Noah and Avery.   MFA Virginia Tech University; MA Villanova University; BA Grove City College. KIM BEY (04)   Assistant Professor Howard University Department of Theatre Arts 2455 6th Street, NW Washington DC 20059 tel: 202-806-7050 e: kbey@howard.edu   Kim James Bey is a faculty member and Co-Coordinator of the Acting Program at Howard University. Kim has acting credits that include Off-Broadway, regional productions, television, and voiceovers for ESL. She is a vocal and acting coach for university productions, as well as at the Studio Theatre and the American Century, and recently as the vocal assistant to Lynn Watson for the Arena Stage production of Orpheus Descending directed by Molly Smith. She has studied with Maggie Flanigin, Mai Loughran, and Hal Scott; and with John Barton and Fiona Shaw at the British American Academy in Oxford, England.   MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers University; BFA Howard University. CYNTHIA BLAISE (00)   Los Angeles CA e: cynthialblaise@yahoo.com Cynthia Blaise is a voice, speech, and dialect coach for theatre and film as well as an actor and director. She taught speech and dialects at Temple University for four years and was the voice, speech, dialect, and text coach for the Hilberry and Bonstelle Theatres and the MFA program at Wayne State University for six years, and most recently the voice and speech instructor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her film credits include Spitfire Grill, Polish Wedding, Tecumseh, The Affair of the Necklace and the independent features Get the Hell Out of Hamtown, and Nobody Knows. Cynthia coached voice at Second City in Detroit and dialects for MeadowBrook Theatre. She has taught workshops for ACTF at the University of New Hampshire, Southern Birmingham College, and Western Kentucky University. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA University of Oregon. KENNEDY BROWN (04)   Adjunct Faculty California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 & Stella Adler Academy of Acting 6773 Hollywood Blvd. 2nd floor Los Angeles CA 90028 tel: 310-795-5795 e: kennedy.brown@hotmail.com Kennedy Brown is an actor/teacher living in Santa Monica California. In addition to pursuing a career in acting, Kennedy is Head of Speech and Dialects at the Stella Adler Studio LA, and an Instructor of Voice and Movement at Cal State University-Fullerton. Kennedy trained at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York City. He went on to perform in classical theatre as a core member of the Jean Cocteau Repertory which at the time was New York City's oldest rotating repertory company. While there, he performed in notable productions of The First Lulu, Enrico lV, The Brothers Karamazov, Iphigenaia at Aulis, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Tartuffe, Waiting for Godot, Major Barbara, Orpheus, What the Butler Saw, and Mother Courage. Kennedy began teaching Voice, Speech, and Shakespeare at the Stella Adler School where he trained undergraduates from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He also certified as a yoga instructor and began training in movement with Fay Simpson, creator of the Lucid Body technique, for whom he later became an assistant instructor. While in New York, Kennedy also held faculty posions at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Currently, Kennedy performs with The Gravity Project, a movement-based theatre company that is developing unique ways for exploring the Voice, Movement, and Text in performance. BA Santa Clara University; Graduate National Shakespeare Conservatory. ANNE BURK (05)   Instructor University of Southern California School of Theatre Drama Center DRC Los Angeles CA 90089 & Voice and Speech Coach Tom Todoroff Studio Los Angeles CA e: voiceandspeech@anneburk.com   Anne Burk also teaches at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Hollywood, has worked as a performer, director, and teacher in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and has worked as a dialect and movement coach for theatrical productions in California and Nevada. She also teaches privately in the Los Angeles area. MFA UCLA; BA San Jose State University; Graduate East 15 Drama School. JENNIFER BURKE (08)   Assistant Professor University of Miami Miami, FL e: jburke@miami.edu Jennifer Burke specializes in voice and speech. Prior to her move to Miami, she taught voice, speech and acting in the musical theatre and dance departments at the Boston Conservatory.  She has directed and coached for several theatres in the New England area and originated the role of “Deb” in John Kuntz’s national award-winning play, Jasper Lake, produced by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.     MFA Brandeis University; BA Bates College. TOM BURKE (05)     Pace University Musical Theatre Department New York NY tel: 212-598-0600 e: tomburke3@prodigy.net www.tomburkevoice.com Tom Burke is a speech pathologist and singer, specializing in the performer's voice and in consulting with children. He also consults with business executives for Google. MS CCC-SLP and BA Loyola College-Maryland. 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