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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.

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AMY SUE FALL (07)
 
amy
Instructor
Idyllwild Arts Academy
Idyllwild CA 92549
tel: 626-274-7526
e: dialectsandvoice@yahoo.com
www.dialectsandvoice.com
www.methodsworkshops.com

Amy Sue Fall has taught at the University of Kansas-Lawrence, University of Missouri-Kansas City, SUNY-Fredonia, and Webster University, as well as private coaching in Chicago and Los Angeles. Amy Sue's letter to the editor, "Response: Rhoticity in the Accents of American Film Actors: A Sociolinguistic Study" (by Nancy Elliott), was published in the Voice and Speech Review, Volume 2 (2001). Amy Sue also teaches Louis Colaianni's Pillow Approach to speech and has specialized in accent modification for the past ten years. She founded and produces the Methods Workshops and will be presenting another Voice Methods Workshop in July 2008 with Phil Thompson, Louis Coaianni, and Nancy Krebs at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. She has studied with master voice teachers Louis Colaianni, Patsy Rodenburg at the National Theatre Studio, and Catherine Fitzmaurice. She has been the voice/dialect coach on numerous productions including Grapes of Wrath, directed by Risa Brainin, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Moonchildren, Oliver, and many others. She has directed Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief, The Congresswoman, and No Exit, and was Assistant Director for Valley Song at Northlight Theatre (a LORT theatre) in Chicago.

MFA Roosevelt University; BA Bowling Green State University.
JANET FEINDEL (01)
 
janetAssociate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Drama
Purnell Center
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh PA 15213
tel: 416-594-1401
e: feindel@andrew.cmu.edu
web: drama1.cfa.cmu.edu/web/acting/bios/feindel.html

Janet Feindel's dialect and voice coaching credits include Showtime's Queer As Folk; the Stratford Festival, Canada; Shaw Festival, where she was Principal of the Academy; Canadian Stage Company, Toronto; Soul Pepper Theatre Company, Toronto; Pittsburgh Public Theatre; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; Ark Theatre, Los Angeles; and she coached Brian Bedford for the film Nixon. She has recently coached Measure for Measure at CMU and Macbeth at Starlight Theatre in Pittsburgh. She led a Master Class at the Canadian Voice Care Symposium and has been on faculty for the Care of the Professional Voice Symposium in Philadelphia for the last ten years. She is a writer and playwright and her play, A Particular Class of Women, was produced at the University of North Dakota. She is a designated Linklater Teacher, and has studied voice with Cicely Berry and David Smukler. She recently completed her Alexander Teacher Training with the Alexander Alliance and is now certified with Alexander Technique International. Her article on Voice and the Alexander Technique was published among the International Congress of the F. M. Alexander Technique papers, by STAT in England. She also contributed a chapter "Strategies for dealing with Vocal Tension" in PROFESSIONAL VOICE, edited by Drs. Tom Murry and Michael Benninger, published by Plural Publishing. Janet also recently presented at the International Alexander Conference in Budapest Hungary, and presented and performed at the IMISE conference in Paris France and presented again in Rome Italy, with her write-up of the presentation appearing in LoStraniero, published in Naples Italy. She has also given workshops in Germany.

MFA Carnegie Mellon University; BA University of Toronto; Honors Diploma George Brown College.


LAURA FLANAGAN (03)
 
lauraf
Los Angeles CA
tel: 646-342-5314
e: laura.flanagan@gmail.com

Laura Flanagan has relocated to Los Angeles. She teaches acting at AMDA and offers an ongoing Sunday workshop in Fitzmaurice Voicework in Silverlake. She was a New York based actress who taught voice and acting in the BFA program at Long Island University's CW Post Campus and at NYU's School for Continuing and Professional Studies, and coached at the New School University. She performed in numerous Off- and Off-Off-Broadway productions and regionally at the Shakespeare Festival of New Jersey, Florida Stage, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has also worked as a teaching artist for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and as an assistant opera director for the Lowell House Opera Society at Harvard University. Laura previously taught voice workshops at the Mark Morris Dance Studio in Brooklyn and privately throughout the NY metropolitan area. She was the 2006 winner of the Charles Bowden Award for Acting from New Dramatists.

MFA Carnegie Mellon University/Moscow Art Theatre; BA Yale University.


TRACI FOSTER (06)
 
traciRegina Saskatchewan
Canada S4S 0A2
tel: 306-522-7630
e: tracifoster@sasktel.net

Traci Foster is a Canadian-based artist and educator who explores and develops her work through a blend of Fitzmaurice Voicework, extended vocal technique, movement, and mask. Her latest area of creative focus is as the founding member and Artistic Director of Lunacy, an interdisciplinary collective. Currently, she is co-writing Twelve Crows, an original multidisciplinary theatrical work and artistic installation. Traci is a faculty member of the University of Regina Conservatory of Performing Arts, Youth Ballet of Saskatchewan Summer Intensive, and Regina Public School Board's Learning Through The Arts Program. She also teaches privately and conducts workshops in voice, mask, clown, and bodywork. In addition to study at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the University of Regina, Traci has engaged in extensive training and mentorship experiences with founding member of the Roy Hart Theatre Group and extended vocal technique visionary, Richard Armstrong of New York City; renowned mask and clown teacher, Sue Morrison of Toronto, Dora Award-winning vocalist and writer, Fides Krucker of Toronto, and founding member of the Toronto Dance Theatre, Amelia Itcush of Saskatchewan. Her acting credits include The Attic, The Pearls, Three Fine Girls, Room With Five Walls, and Pretty Girl Ugly.


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