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PAGE CONTENTS ASSOCIATE TEACHERS - C "Thank you so much for creating, developing, and teaching this work." -- 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 DEBORA CAHN (99)     New York City NY & Los Angeles CA   Debora Cahn has taught at California State University-Long Beach, University of California-Irvine, American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard, the Actors Center in New York, the Moscow Art Theatre Institute, and the Slavic Institute in Moscow. Coaching credits include productions at South Coast Repertory Theatre, the Arden Theatre Company, and Freedom Theatre. She was a writer for the award-winning television series West Wing and a producer writer for Grey's Anatomy. MFA American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA Barnard College/Columbia University.   EVELYN CASE (06)   Senior Lecturer California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 tel: 714-278-2029 e: ecase@fullerton.edu   Evelyn Case currently teaches voice and movement, acting and Shakespeare at CSUF. She taught voice and movement at Steppenwolf's Summer School in Fresno in the summer of 2008, and has taught workshops and intensives at universities across the southeast, and performed extensively in regional theatres. Her Fitzmaurice workshop at the 2007 KCACTF conference in Cedar City Utah had over sixty participants and was photographed for an hour and featured on the front page in the Cedar City Daily News. Evelyn was a member of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's resident company for eleven seasons where her tenure included seasons of rotating repertory as well as major American tours of Romeo and Juliet, Arms and the Man, and Comedy of Errors. She has appeared in leading roles at the Laguna Playhouse, Shakespeare Orange County and Theatre on the Green, the American Stage Company, Pennsylvania Stage Company, and Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Areas of interest include Viewpoints, continuing her certification in Alba Emoting, and association with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox Massachusetts. She is co-editor of the Shakespeare Collection, SNIPPETS FROM SHAKESPEARE, published by Watermark Press in 1990 and SHAKESPEARE: A LOVER'S TALE, also commissioned by Watermark. Evelyn serves as the Western region Editor for the VASTA newsletter and is a member of the Shakespeare Association of America. MFA University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival; BFA Wright State University. JOANNA CAZDEN (06)     Speech Pathologist Los Angeles CA tel: 818-845-6654 e: joanna@voiceofyourlife.com www.voiceofyourlife.com Joanna Cazden is a speech pathologist, singer, and cross-disciplinary educator interested in the neuro-cognitive foundations of voice pedagogy and healing. Currently a Senior Staff Speech Pathologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 's Outpatient Voice program, half of her patients are performing artists and she has modified Fitzmaurice methods to help treat a variety of voice disorders. She has presented at ATHE, VASTA, ASHA, and NATS national conferences, the Voice Foundation Symposium, and the UCSF Voice Conference, and has written on vocal health and technique for publications as diverse as Onstage and Electronic Musician magazines, Sing Out!, Folkworks, Whole Life Times, and the Voice and Speech Review. Joanna toured extensively as a singer/songwriter in the 1970s-80s, released 6 solo albums, and was considered a pioneer in the women's music movement of that era. Her stage credits include the Seattle Lyric Theater, Boston's Om Theater Workshop, and a season as music director for the Caravan Theater in Cambridge MA. She is also a longtime student of chakra-based meditation and somatic therapies, practices Reiki lll, and is pleased to serve on VASTA's Board of Directors. She maintains a private practice in Burbank CA and welcomes queries about pedagogy and therapy techniques. MS-CCC California State University-Northridge; MFA California Institute for the Arts; BA University of Washington RUTH CHILDS (02)   Assistant Professor State University of New York-Brockport Theatre Department SUNY Brockport NY 14420 tel: 585-395-5261 e: rchilds@brockport.edu   Ruth Childs previously taught at Grinnell College and the University of Minnesota, and has worked as voice and dialect coach for professional and university productions. She works as an actress and spent a year as a company member at the Guthrie Theatre. MFA University of Minnesota; BA Grinnell College. JESSICA CLAIRE (04)     Los Angeles CA tel: 917-501-0666 e: jessclaire@gmail.com www.jessicaclairevoice.com Jessica Claire moved to Los Angeles from New York City where she taught voice and speech at Barnard College, NYU, and Marymount Manhattan College. In California she has taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, California State University-Fullerton, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the New York Film Academy, and other private acting studios. She also works with private students on voice and dialects and enjoys an ongoing teaching collaboration with Master Teacher Saul Kotzubei. As an actress, Jessica has performed regionally and in New York at the American Conservatory Theatre, Shakespeare Sedona, and the Ohio Theater in SoHo New York City, among others. She is a member of AEA, AFTRA, and VASTA. MFA American Conservatory Theatre; BA Barnard College. MARIA COMINIS (04)   Lecturer California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 tel: 714-278-7164 e: mcominis@exchange.fullerton.edu   Maria Cominis has also taught student film directors at the University of Southern California School for Film and Television, and Cal State University-Long Beach, Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, Azusa Pacific University, American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, the University of Bowling Green, Ohio, and the University of California-Irvine. She studied acting under the tutelage of Uta Hagen as her key student in her master classes, and has taught at HB Studio in New York since 1996, continuing there now in the summers. She has also studied musical theatre in the Manhattan School of Music Professional Workshop, and classical voice. Her professional theatre credits include Threepenny Opera, West Side Story, Into The Woods, and Music Man, and for television One Life to Live, All My Children, and Comedy Central: 2003 Political Satire, and most recently played Mona on Desperate Housewives. MFA University of California-Irvine; BFA California State University-Long Beach. DEBORAH COONEY (99)   Lecturer Tufts University Department of Drama and Dance Boston MA tel: 646-765-7135 e: deborahcooney@earthlink.net Deborah Cooney, voice and dialect coach, was an award-winning member of the BBC Repertory Company. She has also studied voice with Arthur Lessac, Michael McCallion, Sue Ann Park, and Patsy Rodenburg, and completed a voice teaching internship with Nancy Houfek at the American Repertory Theatre, Institute for Advanced Actor Training at Harvard University, prior to completing her MFA in Voice there. She has previously taught at the Academy for Classical Acting/Shakespeare Theatre, NYU/CAP 21, and the School for Film & Television, and has coached at the Public Theatre and several off-Broadway shows in New York City, at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, and at Hartford Stage. MFA (Voice) American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; Graduate Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. MICHELE CUOMO (03)   Assistant Professor City University of New York Queensborough College Department of Speech Communications and Theatre Humanities Building H-125 Bayside NY 11364 tel: 718-631-6284 e: michelecuomo@hotmail.com Michele Cuomo is also teaching at Marymount Manhattan College. Her previous voice teachers include Bobby Troka, Mary Coy, Phil Thompson, and Krista Scott. She previously taught acting, voice, and movement at the University of Georgia-Athens, and the University of Mississippi. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor and a registered teacher of the Yoga Alliance. She is a core company member of Genesis Shakespeare Festival in Illinois, and Associate Director of Miss Elsie Productions at Oxford Mississippi (www.misselsieproductions.org). Michele performed at the Centre for Performance Research's Past Masters Series in London in Witch Dance, her original recreation of the life and work of Mary Wigman. MFA Ohio State University; BA College of New Rochelle.   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 Founder      Master Teachers      Associate Teachers      Assistant Teachers       All Teachers Home Overview Calendar Teachers/Locations Articles Links FITZMAURICE VOICEWORK is a Registered Trademark owned by Catherine Fitzmaurice