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- NANCY
SAKLAD (01)
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Assistant
Professor
- State
University of New York-New Paltz
- New Paltz
NY
- 646-338-5995
- e: nsaklad293@cs.com
Nancy Saklad has
taught at the American Musical and Dramatic
Academy in NYC, Queens College NY, the
University of Miami, the University of New
Hampshire, and Regis College in Massachusetts.
She has presented acting and directing workshops
for ATHE and Fitzmaurice voice workshops for the
Kennedy Center/American College Theatre
Festival. In addition to Fitzmaurice Voicework,
her intensive study includes Lessac voice
training and Michael Chekhov acting technique.
Nancy is a professional director and recipient
of the New England Theatre Conference (NETC)
Moss Hart Award for her direction of The
Diary of Ann Frank for the American College
Theatre Festival. She has directed in many New
England theatres, including Boston's Public
Theatre, and has coached acting and voice and
speech privately in NYC.
MFA Purdue
University; BA University of New
Hampshire.
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KRISTA
SCOTT (00)
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- Visiting
Faculty
- University of
Connecticut-Storrs
- Department of
Theatre
- e: kristacscott@yahoo.com
Krista Scott
teaches courses in Voice and Movement, Speech,
Dialects, and Shakespeare Text. She has taught
at Ithaca College, Syracuse University, the University of
Mississippi, American University in Cairo
(Egypt), Saint Cloud State University, and
Concordia College in St. Paul Minnesota. She has coached the
voices and dialects for productions at the
Hangar Theatre, the Kitchen Theatre,
Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Cornell University,
and Ithaca College. Krista has acted
professionally throughout the Midwest, and was
co-founder and Associate Director of The New
Tradition Theatre Company in St. Cloud MN. She
is an associate editor for the International
Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) www.ukans.edu/~idea and a member of VASTA and ATHE.
MFA University
of Minnesota; BFA Emporia State
University.
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- ERIK SINGER (08)
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- Adjunct Faculty
- Mason Gross School of the Arts
- Rutgers University
- New Brunswick NJ
tel: 917-520-5459
e: eriksinger@earthlink.net
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Erik Singer is an actor and a teacher of voice and acting. As an actor, Erik works in theatre, television and film and has an extensive voice-over career encompassing television and radio commercials, animation, and audiobooks. He has narrated numerous best-sellers, including The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom), Next (Michael Crichton), The Wisdom of Crowds, The Last Lecture, and The Bin Ladens (Steve Coll). He also teaches Fitzmaurice Voicework privately, and coaches actors in monologues, Shakespeare, acting technique, and audition preparation. He has toured the country playing Iago and Petruchio, and recently completed a run of Antony and Cleopatra Off-Broadway with Theatre for a New Audience.
Graduate, Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art; BA Yale University.
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- ROBERTA
SLOAN (98)
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Professor
of Theatre
- Chair
- Temple
University
- Department of
Theatre
- 1301 W. Norris
Street
- Philadelphia PA
19122
- tel:
215-204-8652
- fax:
215-204-8566
- e:rsloan@temple.edu
Dr. Roberta
Sloan is a recipient of the Kennedy Center
Bronze Medallion for service to the Kennedy
Center/American College Theatre Festival. She
was Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance,
and Media Arts at the University of Central
Oklahoma for nine years, developing the program
from serving 7 majors when she began, to 165
when she moved in 2004 to the position of Chair
and Artistic Director of the Conservatory
Theatre at the University of Central Florida.
She directs productions ranging in style from
cutting-edge contemporary to classics, and
directed the first university productions of Angels in America, Parts I and II, which
won multiple awards from the KCACTF. She has
directed and/or acted in over 200 plays, most
recently playing Ruth Steiner in Collected
Stories at Carpenter Square Theatre in
Oklahoma City and directing The Laramie
Project at UCO. She has presented
Fitzmaurice workshops at the Southwest Theatre
Association Convention in Oklahoma City, the
American Alliance for Theatre and Education
Conference in Minneapolis, and at various
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
meetings. Roberta is an Addy Award-winning
commercial television producer and her
documentaries have won first place awards in
various competitions. She has produced two
videos of Fitzmaurice Voicework, and in summer
2003 taught her second Semester at Sea while
traveling round the world.
PhD and MA
University of Michigan; BS Northwestern
University.
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- ROGER
SMART (05)
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- Asistant
Professor
- Millikin
University
- Theatre
Department
- Decatur
OH
- tel:
336-601-4065
- e: roger@roger-smart.com
- web: www.roger-smart.com
Roger Smart has
directed extensively in North Carolina and
Chicago, and has taught voice, dialects, and
acting at Oklahoma State University and at the
University of North Carolina-Greensboro's BA,
BFA, and MFA programs. Previously he taught at
the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama in
England, and was Director of the Apprentice
Training Program at Court Theatre, the
professional LORT theatre in residence at the
University of Chicago, where he also developed
and ran the theatre's Artists in Schools
program, serving southside Chicago schools.
Originally educated in England, he has further
trained in voice with Catherine Fitzmaurice,
Dudley Knight, Patsy Rodenburg, and at the Roy
Hart Centre in France. Roger's training and
practice also includes a number of somatic
disciplines including Contact Improv, Suzuki
training, Viewpoints, and T'ai Chi. He is also
trained in Shiatsu and Reiki. Roger is currently
pursuing research towards a PhD at Goldsmiths
College, London University, in the area of
psycho-physical training for actors. He has been vocal,
dialect, and text coach for a number of
professional productions, works extensively as a
free-lance director, and frequently teaches in
London England.
MFA University
of California-Irvine; BEd University of Central
England.
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- JACQUELINE SPRINGFIELD (08)
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Assistant Professor
Middle Tennessee State University
Theatre and Dance Department
1301 East Main St.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
tel: 615-898-2269
e: afrodancer2002@aol.com
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Jacqueline Springfield is a professional actor, teacher, dancer and choreographer. Her theatre credits include People’s Branch Theatre, Metro Theatre Company, North Carolina Theatre for Young People and Triadstage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she also performs voiceovers and has appeared in numerous commercials, industrials and music videos. She is a participant in the annual Shades of Black Theatre Festival in Nashville as an actor, director and vocal coach.
MFA University
of North Carolina-Greensboro; BS Middle Tennessee State University.
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