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PAGE CONTENTS ASSOCIATE TEACHERS - H "I liked the use of humor and humility in teaching. I felt a peer relationship and respect for my preferences - plenty of permission to find what/which way worked for me." -- 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       DAYDRIE HAGUE (03)   Associate Professor, Director of BFA Performance Program Auburn University Department of Theater 211 Telfair Peet Theater Auburn AL 36849 tel: 334-844-6613 fax: 334-844-4939 e: hagueda@auburn.edu Daydrie Hague is currently the Co-Director of the BFA Performance Program at Auburn University where she teaches acting and voice. She has taught English as a Second Language at Hostos College in the Bronx, and Effective Speech at NYU. Professional acting credits include three seasons at the Alley Theatre in Houston, and regional performances at Theatre Virginia, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, George St. Playhouse, Equity Library Theatre, Vineyard Theatre Lab, and Alan Ayckbourn's Theatre in the Round in Scarborough, England. Directing credits include Talking With, Mother Hicks, Hay Fever, and Three Sisters. Daydrie is a research associate for the International Dialects of English Archive. MFA University of Washington; BMusic SUNY-Potsdam. GIN HAMMOND (06) Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab 1525 10th Ave Seattle WA 98122 tel: 646-283-8033 e: ginhammond@hotmail.com www.ginhammond.com Gin Hammond also coaches voice, public speaking, accent modification, and dialects privately in Seattle. A native of San Diego, she has worked as an actor steadily across the country at theatres such as The Guthrie, Arena Stage, Longwharf Theatre, ACT, Pasadena Playhouse, ART, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Off-Broadway, and the Studio Theatre. She has also performed internationally in Russia, Germany, and England, and is a grant recipient of the Ford Mellon Foundation and winner of the 2005 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. MFA American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA Carleton College. ANNE HARLEY (03)   Assistant Professor University of North Carolina-Charlotte Music Department Charlotte NC tel: 617-576-9322 e: aharley@aya.yale.edu web: www.voiceinstitute.org   Dr. Anne Harley is originally from Canada, and is a classically trained soprano specializing in baroque music and an avid proponent of contemporary and experimental works for voice. She has a Doctorate of Musical Arts with a focus on Historical Performance (Voice) and a Masters degree in Music (voice performance) from Boston University, completing two years in their prestigious Opera Institute. She has obtained a grant to study Inuit throat singing and has been researching various historical perspectives on vocal production. She has also investigated voice work through the techniques of the Roy Hart School with Richard Armstrong. As a performer, The Boston Globe has dubbed her a "compelling advocate" and noted that she "boasts a naturally flexible, sweet high soprano." She has performed as soloist with groups across North America and in Europe, including the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Camerata, Boston Bach Ensemble, Musica Angelica, Back Bay Chorale, Musicians of the Old Post Road, The Neovoxer Ensemble, and at Tanglewood. She was a Bentley Fellow at Dartmouth College, and was a member of Lowell House at Harvard University where she taught voice and directed the spring 2002 production of Carmen, set at the April 2001 Free Trade protests in Quebec City. In 2003, she directed Eugene Onegin for Harvard University in the original Russian, and traveled to Russia. In 1999, she made her European debut as the lead in Handel's Acis & Galatea in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Her group TALISMAN's recent recording of music composed by Russian women aristocrats from the court of Catherine the Great was released on Dorian in September 2002; the project won the Noah Greenberg Award in 2001. Doctor Musical Arts Boston University; MMusic and Artist Diploma Boston University (Opera Institute); BA Yale University. LAURA HITT (04)   Associate Professor West Virginia University Division of Theatre & Dance Box 611 Morgantown WV 26506 tel: 304-905-9924 e: lahitt34@yahoo.com   Laura Hitt works as a voice/dialect coach, teacher, actress, and writer. In 2007 she served as dialect coach for Neil Bartlett's direction of his new adaptation of Oliver Twist, co-produced and performed at the American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge MA), Theatre for a New Audience (NYC), and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Over the last couple of years Laura has worked as dialect coach on Equity and non-Equity shows at Zeitgeist Stage (dir. David Miller, Eliot Norton Award-winning production) and Boston Theatre Works (dir. Jason Southerland) in Boston, HERE Arts Center and NYC Fringe Festival (dir. Peter Wallace) in NYC, and Greenbrier Valley Theatre (dir. Cathey Sawyer) in West Virginia. With a strong commitment to experimental work as well as classical work, her training includes study in several approaches to the speaking and singing voice, movement, and body therapies. In addition to the Fitzmaurice Voicework, she has studied voice with members of the Roy Hart Theatre, Kristin Linklater, Alice Hermes, and classical voice with Jo Rodenburg. She is also a certified massage therapist. Laura has performed nationally in theatre, musicals, opera, and collaboratively created theatre. She has taught voice, coached, and/or lectured at Providence College, Brown University, Wheaton College, Western Michigan University, and Rhode Island College. Before moving to WVU she was on faculty at the Boston Conservatory, where she taught voice, dialects, and music theatre performance in the BFA and MM programs. Most recent publication (as author and editor): GREAT SPEECHES IN HISTORY: HUMAN RIGHTS. (Greenhaven/Gale, 2002). MA Trinity Repertory Conservatory/Rhode Island College; BA Bard College. REBECCA HOLDERNESS (01)   Assistant Professor Theatre Department University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee WI & Artistic Director, Holderness Theater New York NY tel: 917-865-1725 e: rholderness2@earthlink.net www.holdernesstheater.org Rebecca Holderness is a director, choreographer and teacher, who has also taught at NYU's Undergraduate Drama, Cap 21and ETW, Vassar College, the New School University's Lang College and the City University of New York's Borough of Manhattan College. Rebecca's work revolves around the integration of movement and voice in the service of clear, passionate, and compelling theatre. She is a Lincoln Center Lab and Drama League Director, and has directed and taught around the country, working with new and classical texts, movement, acting, and voice. She is Artistic Director of Holderness Theater Company, acclaimed for its innovative productions, which offers various classes in New York City integrating movement, text, and voice. MFA Columbia University; BA Vassar College. DAVID HOWEY (98)   Associate Professor University of the Arts 320 South Broad Street Philadelphia PA 19102 tel: 215-717-6568 fax: 215-717-6364 e: dhowey@uarts.edu David Howey teaches voice, speech and acting. He worked as an actor in England for thirty years, including several seasons with the RSC. In the United States he has appeared on Broadway twice and toured widely with "Actors from the London Stage." He currently coaches and acts extensively for the Wilma Theatre and the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival. 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