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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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NANCY SAKLAD (01)
 
nancysAssistant 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.


KRISTA SCOTT (00)
 
krista
 
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.

 

ERIK SINGER (08)
 
krista
 
Adjunct Faculty
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers University
New Brunswick NJ
tel: 917-520-5459
e: eriksinger@earthlink.net


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.


ROBERTA SLOAN (98)
 
robertaProfessor 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.


ROGER SMART (05)
 
roger
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.


JACQUELINE SPRINGFIELD (08)
 
roger

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

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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