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PAGE CONTENTS ASSOCIATE TEACHERS - M "I feel I was refining what I already know, but going much deeper." -- 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   SCOTT MACKENZIE (04)   Assistant Professor Westminster College Department of Communication Studies, Theatre and Art New Wilmington PA 16172 tel: 724-946-6238 e: mackensa@westminster.edu   Dr. Scott Mackenzie is originally from Michigan, and has taught at Michigan State, Wayne State University in Detroit, and the University of Michigan in Flint. He joined the Westminster faculty in 2001 and specializes in voice and diction. His acting experience includes film, television, and theatre. Roles in Othello, Medea, The Crucible, A Tale of Two Cities, and Arsenic and Old Lace among his favorite theatre performance credits. Among the productions he has directed are: All My Sons, The Subject Was Roses, Lost in Yonkers, Born Yesterday, Crimes of the Heart, The Imaginary Invalid, Hot L Baltimore, Kiss Me Kate, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Laramie Project, and The Baker From Madrigal. Baker was the English language premier of Traidor, inconfesso y martir by Spanish playwright Jose Zorilla. In 2005, Scott co-wrote and directed Out of the Fire: Voices of the Holocaust. While on active duty with the United States Army Reserve in 2006, Scott directed Bigfoot Stole My Wife, the first show produced entirely by military and civilian personnel stationed in Baghdad's International Zone. PhD Wayne State University; MFA Michigan State University; BA University of Texas-Dallas. REBEKAH MAGGOR (04)   Bok Center Fellow Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Science Center 318 1 Oxford St. Cambridge MA 02138 e: rmaggor@fas.harvard.edu   Rebekah Maggor has been named a Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow and was a 2004 recipient of the New Play Commissions Grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She developed her play, Two Days at Home, Three days in Prison (the story of a female guard in an Israeli military prison) with the Boston-based company NextStages, and it has had readings at Huntington's Breaking Ground Festival and at New York Theatre Workshop, and a workshop with the London-based Weaver-Hughes Ensemble. Rebekah also received a Cambridge Arts Council grant for her one-woman play, Shakespeare's Actresses in America, which she first performed in January 2006 at the American Repertory Theatre's new Zero Arrow Theatre, and then took on the road to Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre and the Players Club in New York City, to consistently rave reviews. She is also the 2005-2006 and the 2004-2005 recipient of the Bok Center Fellowship at Harvard University. Her project for the Bok Center researches the history of public speaking at Harvard College as well as devises methods for improving the rhetoric and public speaking of current Harvard College students. She also works as a voice and speech consultant to Harvard teaching fellows and faculty. As a performer, Rebekah has also appeared in the Suite production of Wanderlust with Mabou Mines at PS 122 in New York City. She has worked with directors Robert Woodruff, Peter Sellers, Janos Szasz, Andrei Serban, and Anne Bogart among others. Favorite roles include Tatyana in Chekhov's The Festivities, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Sophie in Baal, Joanne in Godspell, and Lady Macbeth. She has performed in the United States, Russia, Italy, and Israel. MFA American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA Columbia University. CHRISTOPHER MARINO (04)   Washington DC e: artistco@aol.com   Christopher Marino has been a freelance actor, director, and teacher for the last decade working primarily in classical repertoire. As an actor he has worked regionally throughout the United States and in England. Recent teaching credits include the Academy of Classical Acting, American Academy of Dramatic Art, Towson University, Ramapo College, and Rose Bruford College in England. He has taught at his alma mater, the Academy of Classical Acting, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Towson University, and recently directed critically well-received productions of Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors. MFA Academy of Classical Acting/The Shakespeare Theatre/George Washington University; BA Bard College; Graduate Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. TOM MARION (01)   CUNY York College New York City NY tel: 917-763-7423 e: tom.marion@gmail.com Tom Marion also teaches at Columbia University, Marymount Manhattan College, and the Linklater Center for Voice and Language. He previously taught at Ohio University, New York University, Queensborough Community College, The Acting Studio in Manhattan, the University of the Arts, Circle in the Square Theatre School, The Actors Center, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and is a performer and director. He studied with Bill Esper and Tony Church, completed a vocal coaching internship with the Royal Shakespeare Company with Cicely Berry and Andrew Wade, and was designated a Linklater teacher in 2003. He is a twenty-year member of The Mettawee River Co. which creates outdoor performances for rural communities of upstate New York and New England (http://mettawee.org/>). MFA Rutgers University; BFA Ithaca College; Certificate of Voice Training National Theatre Conservatory/Denver Center for the Performing Arts. JASON MARTIN (07)   Visiting Faculty Northwestern University Department of Performance Studies 1800 Sherman Ave. Suite 400 Evanston IL 60201 tel: 773-908-5225 e: jkmartin92@hotmail.com Jason Martin is also an actor and voice/dialect coach, working at many Chicago area off-Loop theatres, including award-winning shows at Circle Theatre, and he also teaches privately. He spent three years acting with California Repertory. He taught acting, as well as voice and speech, to undergraduates at California State University-Long Beach, where he studied for two years with Master Teacher Lynne Innerst. MFA California State University-Long Beach; BA Duke University. CARLA MATERO (03)     New York City NY 10023 tel: 917-319-3391 e: bejart@aol.com Carla Matero is an actress, singer, and writer, based in New York City, where she offers private acting and voice coaching. She has studied Shakespeare and Jacobean drama with Michael Kahn, Fiona Shaw, and Paola Dionisotti at the British American Drama Academy and has also had extensive training in Alexander, Feldenkrais, Linklater, Suzuki, Strasberg, and Meisner. Recently Carla received a special acknowledgement by The Drama Review for her role of Gisele in The Workroom, directed by Moni Yakim, and was seen in Lilly Simone in the improv mockumentary Goldberg's Variations. Carla sings with Kevin Orton's group, The Maledictions, which performs frequently around New York City. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and AEA. MFA Pennsylvania State University; BFA Wright State University. BENJAMIN MATHES   The Acting Corps Los Angeles, CA 678-230-1445 e: bcmathes@gmail.com www.benjaminmathes.com   Benjamin Mathes is from Atlanta Georgia, and is now living in Los Angeles. He has taught at the University of San Diego and as a Teaching Assistant at the University of California-Irvine. His professional career has led him to leading roles in Off-Broadway classical theatre, Regional Theatre, Soap Operas, Network Television, and even as a Food Network Host. He has also recently completed a film role, and wrote and shot a commercial for Chick-Fil-A. Through Fitzmaurice Voicework, Benjamin works to help his clients unite the breath and the body, finding deeper, more truthful performances. Further, Benjamin is an avid Ultimate Frisbee player and an indoor cycling instructor. MFA University of California, Irvine; BFA Webster University. NICOLE MATTIS (06) Assistant Professor Frostburg State University Division of Performing Arts - Theatre 101 Braddock Road PAC 310 Frostburg MD 21532 tel: 301-687-3212 fax: 301-687-3153 e: nmattis@frostburg.edu Nicole Mattis directs and teaches voice, movement, speech, dialects, and acting, and is the vocal coach for university productions. She has also taught at the University of Illinois and Interlochen Center for the Performing Arts. As an actor, she has performed with the Cumberland Theatre, Timberlake Playhouse, Texas Shakespeare Festival, the Storefront Theatre, and the Station Theatre. During studies at the Central School for Speech and Drama she performed in an original piece called Drowning, and she also performed the role of Lydia in the American premiere of Athol Fugard's Dimetos. MFA University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; BA Northern Michigan University. DAVID McDONALD (04)   Assistant Professor Head of Voice and Speech Wagner College Theatre Department One Campus Rd. Staten Island NY 10301 e: dmcdonal@wagner.edu   David McDonald teaches voice, speech, dialects, and acting. He served as voice, dialect, and text coach at the Shakespeare Festival of New Jersey in the summers and previously headed the Theatre Department at Florida Community College at Jacksonville. MFA UCLA; BA University of California-Davis. BETH McGUIRE (02)   Lecturer in Acting Yale School of Drama 222 York Street New Haven CT 06520 tel: 917-572-4235 e: elizabeth.mcguire@yale.edu web: www.yale.edu/drama Beth McGuire teaches speech, dialects, and text at YSD and voice privately in New York City. She has served as voice, dialect, and text coach at Playwrights Horizons, The Working Theatre, the Shakespeare Festival of New Jersey, Hartford Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club-Stage 2, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Roundtable Theatre. Beth also coaches and consults with actors and corporate clients on dialects, dialect management, vocal production, text, and presentation skills. She has also been on the faculty at Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn College, St. Francis College, and the National Shakespeare Touring Company, and was Chair of Voice and Speech at the School for Film and Television in New York City. She has worked as an actress for the past twenty-five years, appearing in classical and contemporary works on stage and for the camera. Together with Associate Pamela Prather, Beth teaches their co-creation: Kinesphonetics, a kinesthetic approach to learning phonetics. She is a member of VASTA, Equity, SAG, and AFTRA. MFA Brandeis University; BA Oberlin College. TAMMY MENEGHINI (06)   Assistant Professor University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Theatre and Dance Boulder CO e: tmeneghini@wordbuilder.com www.tmeneghini.com Tammy Meneghini is a professional actor, singer, teacher, and voice and movement coach. She teaches acting, movement, and voice at UNL and is also a voice coach in the Music Department at Creighton University in Omaha, and coaches privately. She taught previously at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Northern Illinois University, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and at the Actors Movement Studio (NYC) where she trained with Lloyd Williamson and then taught the Williamson Movement Technique for several years. She has also trained with Deborah Robertson, Kathryn Gately, Gene Terruso, and Shirley Calloway. As an actor and director she has worked in Chicago, New York, and California. She is a company member of the Angels Theatre Company in Nebraska where she has been an integral part of several new work commissions. As a singer she has worked on numerous musicals and has developed several cabaret pieces that have been produced in New York, Chicago, and various locations in the Midwest. MFA Northern Illinois University; BA University of St. Mary. AOLE T. MILLER (06)   Creative Director Studio 5 421 Classon Ave. Brooklyn NY 11238 tel: 347-351-8430 fax: 718-789-1965 e: dreamshavewings@earthlink.net www.perbrahe.com Aole T. Miller has been an actor, director, writer, and teacher in the United States, Denmark, and Bali Indonesia since 1992. He has been Director of the Bali Conservatory since 2002. He is the first African American Ceremonial Mask Dancer of Bali and the first teacher to bring Fitzmaurice Voicework to Denmark, Bali, and Singapore. He has also frequently taught in Australia. He teaches Mask Work, Fitzmaurice Voicework, Michael Chekhov, Viewpoints, and Grotowski's concept of the physical container and the plastiques for character development. He is a member of VASTA and is on the faculty of the Chautauqua Theatre Company. He has also taught at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Yale University, Wayne State (MFA), the New School (MFA), SUNY-Purchase, University of Southern California, The Bill Esper Studio, Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, the National Theatre Institute, Western Michigan University, and the Michael Chekhov Conference 2002. He recently coached Michelle Williams for her Academy Award-nominated role in Ang Lee's movie Brokeback Mountain. He directed Voices of Juarez at the 2004 International New York Fringe Festival. His BFA is in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts. BFA New York University. CHARLES MILLER (08)     Associate Professor Pellissippi State College Liberal Arts Department PO Box 22990 Knoxville TN 37933 e: cmiller@pstcc.edu Charles is an Associate Professor and Director of Theatre at Pellissippi State College in Knoxville TN.  He was the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of the Smoky Mountain Shakespeare Festival. He has worked as an actor and director at American Stage, Asolo Theater, Porthouse Theatre, and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. He has worked as voice and movement coach for the University of Tennessee and the Clarence Brown Theatre. He has also studied with Cicely Berry, Margaret Loft, and Jim Hancock.  Charles is a member of the SAFD, SSDC, and VASTA.  MFA Southern Methodist University;   BFA University of Idaho. KELLY MIZELL (01)   Lecturer in Theatre University of North Carolina-Charlotte Theatre Department Charlotte NC e: kellisimo@yahoo.com Kelly Mizell has taught and directed at Emory and Henry University, Virginia Intermont College, NYU's CAP 21 Studio, in Moscow for the American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, and at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She has worked as an actress in New York City, regionally, and on tour. MFA American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA North Carolina State University-Raleigh. JULIA MOODY (02)   Lecturer in Voice Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts Edith Cowan University 3 Bradford St. Mount Lawley Western Australia 6050 tel: 08-9370-9106 fax: 08-9370-6665 e: j.moody@ecu.edu.au Julia Moody trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did her graduate work in Voice Studies at the National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in Sydney. She has worked as a professional actor in theatre, film, television, and radio since 1975, primarily in Australia and also in the United Kingdom. As a voice teacher and consultant Julia has worked with The Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Ballarat, NIDA's Open Programme, SBS TV and radio, many conference master classes and workshops, including for the British Voice association in 2008, and corporate and community organisations. Julia has been a Board member of the Australian Voice Association: she presented a Fitzmaurice workshop at their 2002 symposium, and another in Melbourne. She hosted Catherine Fitzmaurice's workshop in Sydney in September 2005. Graduate Diploma NIDA (Sydney); BA Curtin University, Perth. MICHAEL MORGAN (06)   Senior Lecturer University of California-Santa Barbara Department of Dramatic Art Santa Barbara CA 93106 tel: 805-893-2048 e: mmorgan@theaterdance.ucsb.edu www.dramadance.ucsb.edu/people_facultyprofile.php?ResearcherID=167 Dr. Michael Morgan is a senior lecturer with security of employment at UCSB where he teaches voice, speech, stage dialects, scansion, and text. He has taught at Penn State, Yale School of Drama, Temple University, Walnut Street Theatre, Theatre Conservatorium in Brussels, Royal Conservatoire in Liege, Arena Stage, Neighborhood Playhouse, University of Hawaii, American Academy of Dramatic Art, UCSD, Pepperdine University, and Cal Arts. As an actor, he most recently appeared in a movie for Black Entertainment Network, Odocie, in which he played Uncle Leon. He has performed at the Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, La Mama, California Shakespeare Festival, Ensemble Theatre New York, Independent Shakespeare Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare & Company, Peoples Light and Theatre Company, the Red Pear Theatre in the south of France, City Street Theatre, the Negro Ensemble Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Lobero Theatre, Classical Theatre Lab in Los Angeles, Sierra Repertory Theatre, the Working Theatre, Off-Broadway, and in numerous films, TV soaps, and voice-overs. Michael's article "Voice and Chinese medicine" was published in the Voice and Speech Review. His paper, "Creative Chaos in Fitzmaurice Voicework", which he presented at the Conference for Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth in 2005, was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2006. It forms a chapter in his completed dissertation, "Fitzmaurice Voicework, Constructing the Holistic Actor", an overview from an ideological and historical perspective. Michael is also a designated Linklater teacher, a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance, and a licensed acupuncturist. PHD University of California-Santa Barbara; MS Samra University of Oriental Medicine; BFA New York University. JEFF MORRISON (00)   Assistant Professor Marymount Manhattan College New York NY tel: 619-820-0953 e: jmorrison@mmm.edu Jeff Morrison specializes in voice and movement work for the actor. Voice teaching and coaching include: San Diego State University, American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University where he has for several years taught voice to the incoming MFA class in the summers, the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre in Moscow, Russia, University of Northern Iowa, Tufts University, The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Boston, and American Stage Festival in Nashua NH. Movement training includes study with Roberta Carreri of the Odin Teatret; study of Kabuki, Commedia Dell'Arte, contact improvisation, and capoeira (since 1994). He is co-founder of an experimental actors' ensemble, The Winter Project, which has premiered two original pieces. He recently performed with the Neovoxer Ensemble in New York City. He recently organized an exchange project with American and Russian voice teachers. MFA University of Wisconsin-Madison; BA University of Pennsylvania. BRENNAN MURPHY (02)   Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab 1525 10th Ave Seattle WA 98122 tel: 206-323-8652 c: 206-853-9168 e: voxboxinc@yahoo.com Brennan Murphy currently teaches acting and voice at Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab in Seattle Washington and works with private clients on voice/speech/presentation skills through his company Vox Box Inc. Previously he had a twenty-year career as a professional actor in New York City and at regional theatres around the United States, performing in over 100 professional productions: stage productions, commercials, numerous workshops of new plays, and several experimental venues. On Broadway he was a featured actor in Angela Lansbury's revival of Mame, the critically-acclaimed Hal Prince/NYC Opera production of Candide, as well as Take Me Along, the musical version of Eugene O'Neill's classic, Ah, Wilderness! He is a founding member of two of New York City's experimental theatre companies: Cucaracha Theatre and the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre. Previous to his professional acting career, Brennan was a professional dancer performing as a soloist with New York's Joffrey II Dancers and the New York City Opera Ballet. He has danced ballets choreographed by George Balanchine, Anthony Tudor, and several other great 20th Century choreographers. As an educator, he has taught acting, voice, and movement at New York City's Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, California State University-Sacramento (Head of Acting), Illinois State University, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, SUNY at Buffalo State College, and at several of London's leading drama schools: Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, and Middlesex University. Brennan has taught master classes at universities around the United States and was a guest lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. He is an active member of the Washington Voice Foundation, a group of doctor, speech therapist, and other voice professionals that workshop together. Brennan's article, "Forty Angry Women in a Room," was published in the 2003 issue of "The Voice and Speech Review." MFA Yale School of Drama; Graduate Diploma (Hons.) Central School of Speech and Drama; BA Seattle University. MELINDA MURPHY (06)     Adjunct Faculty and Movement Coach Otterbein College Department of Theatre and Dance Westerville OH 43081 tel: 614-823-1621 fax: 614-823-1898 e: mmurphy@otterbein.edu   Melinda Murphy teaches acting classes and coaches productions at Otterbein, specializing in somatic techniques as applied to movement, voice, characterization, singing, and dance. She also teaches classes and seminars for performing artists at other colleges, and maintains a private teaching practice. Melinda is one of the few teachers trained in both the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method®. She received certification in both methods in 1987, and has developed a teaching style that often combines the two, while increasingly incorporating Fitzmaurice Voicework with its detailed tools for breath and voice. She has also coached equestrians, figure skaters, musicians, and competitive barbershop singers, and has helped special-needs children and adults with movement, breathing, and speaking. She received her prior trainings from the Alexander Foundation in Philadelphia and the Feldenkrais Foundation Professional Training Program, and is certified to teach those methods by Alexander Technique International (ATI) and the Feldenkrais Guild of North America.BMusicEd Ohio State University. 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