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PAGE CONTENTS TEACHERS Founder Master Teachers Associate Teachers Assistant Teachers INSTITUTIONS COUNTRIES/STATES/CITIES   "[Catherine] is a theatre artist and teacher of the very highest rank. She has provided practical help and real expressive power to so many fine actors. She is a warm, gentle, compassionate teacher with a sense of humor, devotion to her charges, and passion for her work." -- Frank Galati, Tony Award-winning Director, Associate Director, Goodman Theatre     "I feel I was refining what I already know, but going much deeper." -- workshop participant FOUNDER CATHERINE FITZMAURICE   New York City NY tel/fax: 212-532-8718 e-mail: cfvoice@gmail.com   Catherine Fitzmaurice teaches voice and text to private clients in New York City, as well as around the United States and internationally. She has taught voice and text at Yale School of Drama, Harvard/A.R.T., the Juilliard School, NYU's Graduate Acting program, ACT, UCLA, USC, New York's Actors Center, London University, the Central School of Speech and Drama, in workshops and seminars, and in theatre and medical conference presentations for voice professionals. She is Professor of Theatre at the University of Delaware, where she teaches acting to undergraduates. Catherine has been invited to lecture and conduct workshops for theatre and medical colleagues at international theatres, actor training establishments, universities, and conferences at: the Performance Breath conference at RADA in London; Purnati Arts Centre in Bali; Pantheatre in Paris France; the Moscow Art Theatre; the International Slavic University in Moscow; Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski in Italy; 7th Voice Symposium of the Australian Voice Association; 1st Congreso de Voz in Chile; 2nd Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC ll) in Germany; 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) in Israel; 1st International Conference on Consciousnesss, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts in Wales; also as Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer in Drama at the University of California-Irvine; at Sundance Theatre Lab, Esalen Institute, and Naropa University; numerous times at several colleges, universities, and actor training programs, and several times at ATHE, VASTA, and the Care of the Professional Voice Symposium of the Voice Foundation. Catherine has been voice, speech, text, and dialect coach and consultant for award-winning directors Frank Galati, Mark Lamos, JoAnne Akalaitis, Des McAnuff, Michael Langham, Stan Wojewodski, Robert Wilson, and Ivo van Hove, at such venues as ACT, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Stratford/Canada, Hartford Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival, and New York Theatre Workshop. She coached Haing Ngor's Academy Award-winning performance in The Killing Fields. Her Teacher Certification Program is offered in New York City and Los Angeles every two years. Catherine has acted for Robert Wilson as Goneril in Lear at Metromedia Studios in Los Angeles, on the national tour of Whose Life is it Anyway? with Brian Bedford, as a member of the company at ACT for three years, and many other venues. Catherine's article, "Breathing is Meaning," describing the origins and methods of her approach to voice training, is published by Applause Books in THE VOCAL VISION, ed. Marian Hampton, New York, 1997; her article, "Zeami Breathing," is published in the Internet Journal, "Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts," Vol. 1, #1, March 2000, and in "The Voice and Speech Review," Vol. #1, August 2000; and her article, "Structured Breathing," is published in the VASTA Newsletter, Spring 2003,Vol. 17, #1. MA (Theatre Studies) and BA (English Literature), University of Michigan; Graduate of Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England (3-year program); Certificate International Phonetics Association; Certificates of completion from several bodywork and healing energy trainings. Certified Somatic Therapist. MASTER TEACHERS Master Teachers have 20 to 25 years experience teaching Fitzmaurice Voicework after working extensively with Catherine Fitzmaurice. Each of these teachers brings a unique perspective to the work, yet maintains a clear conceptual and practical mastery of the aims and methods outlined by Catherine. Many Master and Associate Teachers of Fitzmaurice Voicework are also members of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and their extended bio's may be found on VASTA's web pages at www.vasta.org. PAUL BACKER Master teacher   Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of Performance University of Southern California School of Theatre Drama Center DRC Los Angeles CA 90089 tel: 213-740-9449 fax: 213-740-8888 e: pbacker@usc.edu web: http://theatre.usc.edu/faculty/backer_000.html Paul Backer is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Ojai Shakespeare Festival in California. He has worked there and elsewhere as actor, director, teacher, and producer. Besides voice, he has previously taught acting, movement, and theatre history at California State University-Northridge, UC-Santa Barbara, Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, Santa Monica College, and the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts. He is an active member and past Executive Committee member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, and he has recently completed his coursework and qualifying exams towards his PhD at the University of California-Irvine. He is now ABD, working on a dissertation on Shakespeare and Daoism. PhD (ABD) University of California- Irvine; MA California State University-Northridge; BA UCLA. NANCY HOUFEK Master teacher   Head of Voice & Speech American Repertory Theatre/ Institute for Advanced Theatre Training Harvard University Loeb Drama Center 64 Brattle St. Cambridge MA 02138 tel: 617-495-2668 e: nancy_houfek@harvard.edu web: http://www.amrep.org/framesets/faculty.html Nancy Houfek trains teachers of voice, speech, text, and dialects in A.R.T.'s MFA in Voice program. She also teaches voice, speech, text, and dialects for the graduate level acting students of Harvard's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and coaches the A.R.T. professional company. Nancy worked at the American Conservatory Theatre as actor, teacher, director, and coach for nearly a decade. She has appeared in over 100 plays and musicals nationwide, and directed both professional and academic productions. She has served on the faculties of the University of Washington, Southern Methodist University, the Drama Studio of London, and the University of Minnesota where she was Head of Actor Training. She has served as a consultant to television journalists, talk show personalities, and other professional voice users, and gives presentations for the Kennedy School of Government and the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard, for whom she made a film, The Act of Teaching, for their educational series. MFA American Conservatory Theatre; BA Stanford University. LYNNE INNERST Master teacher   Senior Lecturer Temple University Department of Theatre 1301 W. Norris Street Philadelphia PA 19122 tel: 215-204-8652 fax: 215-204-8566 e: dirtpatchranch@yahoo.com   Lynne Innerst has taught at CalState-Long Beach, the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park College, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, University of New Mexico, University of Akron, and Southern Illinois University. She has worked as a professional actress for over twenty years. MFA University of Southern California; BFA University of New Mexico-Albuquerque. DUDLEY KNIGHT Master teacher   Visiting Faculty University of Connecticut-Storrs Department of Dramatic Art 802 Bolton Rd. Unit 1127 Storrs CT 06269 tel: 860-486-4025 & Easton PA e: dknight@uci.edu Dudley Knight has retired from the University of California at Irvine, where he taught for twenty years, and is pursuing his acting career again, as well as guest teaching at Yale School of Drama, the Actors Center in New York City, and currently at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. He has coached voice, text, and dialects at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, LA Actors Theatre, and Theatre West. He has taught voice, speech, and acting at A.C.T., U.S.C., CalArts, Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts/West, and CalState-Northridge, and in London and Dublin. He has studied voice with Kristin Linklater and Catherine Fitzmaurice. His article in THE VOCAL VISION, "Standard Speech: The Ongoing Debate," offers a new paradigm for speech work based on physical flexibility and clarity rather than correctness. He offers his own workshops in his Knight Speechwork with colleague Phil Thompson. His many articles are referenced in articles. He recently performed as Creon in Antigone at Ball State University, and at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. MFA Yale School of Drama; BA Haverford College. SAUL KOTZUBEI Master teacher   Los Angeles CA tel: 323-965-8333 e: voicecoachLA@aol.com web: www.voicecoachLA.com Saul Kotzubei teaches workshops, ongoing voice classes, and private clients in Los Angeles. He is the lead trainer for the two-year Fitzmaurice Voicework Teacher Certification Program. A performer with a masters degree in Buddhist Studies, extensive acting training, and a year studying clown in London with Phillippe Gaullier, Saul has taught Fitzmaurice Voicework at the Actors Center in New York, for NYU's BFA program at CAP 21, and in workshops in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, San Francisco, as well as in London, Paris, and Santiago Chile. In addition to his voice teaching, Saul has done a wide range of communication-related teaching and consulting: he has, for example, taught theatre games to Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, consulted for the municipal government of Prague in their transition to democracy, done conflict resolution at a U.S. Zen center, taught presentation skills for business executives in Chile, and taught creativity workshops in Russia. He performed at El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood in the critically acclaimed West Coast premiere of Lanford Wilson's Sympathetic Magic. His articles on the voice are published online for the acting community in Los Angeles. MA Columbia University; BA Wesleyan University. JOAN MELTON Master teacher   New York City & Professor of Theatre, Head of Voice and Movement California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 tel: 714-278-2164 fax: 714-278-7041 e: jmelton@exchange.fullerton.edu web: http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/theatredance/mainframeset3.html web: www.onevoicebook.com Dr. Joan Melton is currently resident and working in New York City, while maintaining her appointment at CSUF and coordinating programs for Trinity College Carmarthen Wales where she has frequently guest-taught. Joan previously taught at the University of California-Irvine and Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy. She has taught workshops on "Integrating Singing Technique into Theatre Voice Training" and/or Fitzmaurice Voicework at conferences of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in San Diego, the 5th International Voice Symposium in Austria, PEVOC lV in Sweden, the Voice Symposium of Australia in Brisbane, the Voice Foundation's Symposium in Philadelphia, and at the Region Vlll Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She has taught at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, at Bird College, Kent, England, at the LITES Drama Summer School in Dublin, Ireland <www.lites.fsbusiness.co.uk>, at the Academy of the Arts in Brisbane, Australia, at Western Australia Academy of the Arts, at the University of Mississippi, and Fullerton College, as well as workshops with Kevin Robison, David Nevell, and Dr. Kenneth Tom. She is a published author and composer. Her book ONE VOICE is available from Heinemann. Many of her articles can be accessed in articles. PhD University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; MA and BA University of Mississippi; Advanced Diploma Central School of Speech and Drama. DONNA SNOW Master teacher   Associate Professor, Head of Graduate and Undergraduate Acting Temple University Department of Theatre 1301 W. Norris Street Philadelphia PA 19122 tel: 215-204-8652 fax: 215-204-8566 e: dsnow@unix.temple.edu web: www.temple.edu/sct/contact/directory.html Donna Snow has served several terms as Chair of the Theatre Department at Temple University, where she teaches and directs. She has taught at Circle in the Square, A.C.T., and the Institute for Renaissance and Baroque Studies. She worked as a professional actress for 15 years at such theatres as the Arena Stage, A.C.T., Long Wharf Theatre, Stage West, Studio Arena, Syracuse Stage, GeVa, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, the Walnut Street Theatre, the Folger, St. Louis Rep, Seattle Rep, and Off-Broadway. MFA American Conservatory Theatre; BA University of Washington. PHIL THOMPSON Master teacher   Associate Professor Head of Acting University of California-Irvine Department of Drama Drama 249 Irvine CA 92697 tel: 949-824-9440 fax: 949-824-3475 e: pthompso@uci.edu web: http://drama.arts.uci.edu/faculty/thompson.html Phil Thompson has studied with Dudley Knight, Robert Cohen, and Jerzy Grotowski, among others. He taught at the Ohio State University for nine years and served for three years as the head of the MFA in Acting program. He works as a voice/dialect coach for UCI as well as for professional productions at such theatres as South Coast Repertory, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Madison Repertory Theatre, and for the last six years at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He has acted with the Grove and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals. He serves currently on the board of URTA, and is President of VASTA. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA University of Iowa. 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. The year of certification follows the name (in parentheses). BETSY ALLEN (03)   London England e: betsytowne@gmail.com Betsy Allen is now living in London, England. She is a voice coach for musicians, actors, and singers. Her teaching is a fusion of Fitzmaurice Voicework, extended vocal technique, and song composition. Betsy trained as an actor and singer at California Institute of the Arts and Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theatre Wing, and has also studied at the Actors Center in NYC. She has written and produced more than five solo performance pieces, and has performed at PS 122, Makor, Playwrights Horizons, The Theatre for the New City, The Painted Bride (PA), and the Hudson Theatre (Los Angeles). She teaches and coaches voice with an interest and passion for self-scripting. An excerpt of her masters' thesis on Vocal Pedagogy was presented together with a voice workshop at the International Conference on the Arts and Humanities in O'ahu Hawaii, 2006. MA Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University; BFA New York University. SOHA AL-JURF (02)             San Francisco CA e: soha.al-jurf@ucsfmedctr.org Soha Al-Jurf is a speech pathologist specializing in the evaluation and treatment of voice disorders. Her graduate degree is from Iowa's Vocology Program, and her undergraduate degree is in Voice Performance (opera). MA CCC-SLP University of Iowa; BFA University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.   MARIELA ARAGON-CHIARI (06)       Panama City Panama tel: 507-317-9097 e: maragonch@cwpanama.net Mariela Aragon-Chiari is a freelance actress and acting coach for actors and non-actors. Since 1982 she has been acting and studying and participating in theatre workshops in her native country, Panama, and all around the world: ISTA in Londrina Brazil in 1994, Odin Teatret Denmark in 1997, International School of Latin American and Caribbean Theatre (EITALC) in the USA, and Colombia in 1997 and Brazil in 2001, Aprendiendo a Aprender (Learning to Learn) sponsored by the International Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (HIVOS) in 2003, and a Fitzmaurice five-day workshop in 2004. During these formative years she had the opportunity to work with masters such as Eugenio Barba, Roberta Carreri, Julia Varley, Santiago Garcia, Augusto Boal, Tage Larsen, Richard Armstrong, and Luis De Tavira, among others. Since becoming interested in the benefits of good breathing and alternative therapies she has also taken workshops with Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks of the Hendricks Institute (Conscious Breathing and Living: The Foundation Course, and Breathwork and Movement for Professionals), and she has completed Reiki Level 2 training. She is interested in taking the theatrical experience outside the usual boundaries and has collaborated in performances with musicians, painters, and muti-media artists. In 2004, together with another Panamanian actress, she started Proyecta Proyecto La Bruja, a theatrical project for production and presentation of workshops and short plays for actors and non-actors. MICHAEL BARNES (94)   Assistant Professor Wayne State University Department of Theatre 4841 Cass Ave. Suite 3225 Detroit MI 48202 tel: 313-577-0926 fax: 313-577-0935 e: mjbarnes@wayne.edu Michael Barnes has taught at the University of Miami, Temple University, and the University of Delaware. In 2003 he coached at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and he has coached dialects, voice, text, and singing at such theatres as Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Wilma Theatre, Studio Theatre, Rep Stage Company, Pearl Theatre, People's Light and Theatre, Venture Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, and Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He has acted and directed in regional theatre. His article about Fitzmaurice Voicework, co-authored with Bruce Smith, is referenced in articles, and his MFA thesis, also about Fitzmaurice Voicework, is referenced at the end of Catherine's article, "Breathing is Meaning." Michael serves as VASTA's Director of Technology. MFA National Theatre Conservatory/Denver Center for the Performing Arts; BFA University of Oklahoma. CYNTHIA BARRETT (98)   Atlanta GA tel: 404-840-1975 e: cynbarrett@gmail.com Cynthia Barrett is currently a freelance actor and coach in Atlanta, Georgia. She was previously an Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina-Greensboro teaching vocal production, speech, dialects, text, and acting, and has also taught on the performance faculties of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, University of California-Davis, University of Illinois, and Interlochen. She has worked as an actor and voice/text coach for the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Repertory Theatre, Metro Theater Company, and the Alliance Theatre Company. MFA University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; BA Indiana State University. CYNTHIA BASSHAM (04)   Instructor University of California-Irvine Department of Drama Irvine CA 92697 tel: 949-824-9440 & Seydways Acting Studios San Francisco CA e: c_bassham@yahoo.com www.cynthiabassham.com   Cynthia Bassham teaches ongoing weekly Fitzmaurice Voicework classes at Seydways Studios in San Francisco, and taught voice and speech at the American Conservatory Theatre's Studio program for five years. She is a professional actor with extensive credits, including originating the role of "C" in the world premiere of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women directed by the author. Cynthia's introduction to elements of Fitzmaurice Voicework started at ACT where she studied with Nancy Houfek from 1986 to 1989. She later continued her studies of the method with Saul Kotzubei.   MFA American Conservatory Theatre; BA University of Washington. JOSEPH BATES (00)   Visiting Faculty Auburn University Department of Theater 211 Telfair Peet Theater Auburn AL 36849 Auburn AL c: 937-367-6530 e: jbates4@ix.netcom.com www.musictheatreventures.org   Joseph Bates, music director and voice coach, has conducted over 25 productions including Chicago, Sweeney Todd, Candide, The Most Happy Fella, She Loves Me, and The King and I. He serves as Music Director for the Dayton Opera Artists-In-Residence Program. He has conducted The Pirates of Penzance, The Impresario, and Candide for the Dayton Opera. Joseph has directed over 20 musicals and operas that include Crazy for You, Evita, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, and Amahl and the Night Visitors. His orchestral repertoire as conductor includes music by Barber, Bernstein, Poulenc, Chausson, and Mozart. He has recently retired from twenty years at Wright State University as Music Director in the Theatre Department to pursue his burgeoning professional career. MARIKA BECZ (04)   Instructor NYU-Playwrights Horizons New York NY tel: 718-344-0864 e: mbecz@hotmail.com   Marika Becz is a professional actor, director, choreographer, teacher, and voice coach. She has served on the faculties and/or taught workshops for UC-Irvine, Cal State-Fullerton, CSU Summer Arts with the Second City Company, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, and Malashock Dance and Co. Professional credits include South Coast Rep, Connecticut Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Central Coast Shakepeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival/LA, New York Performance Works, The Old Globe, Theatre Neo, and the Mark Taper Amphitheatre. She is a founding member of The Gravity Project, and is a certified level ll Reiki practitioner. She has also taught voice at Barnard College.   MFA University of California-Irvine; BFA University of Connecticut. ANDREW BELSER (04)   Artistic Director, The Gravity Project Head, Juniata Theatre Associate Professor Juniata College Huntingdon PA 16652 tel: 814-641-3494 fax: 814-641-3155 e: belser@juniata.edu   Andrew Belser is a director and theatre-maker. He founded The Gravity Project at Juniata in 2004. A sampling of his original theatrical creations includes Nine Gates, a theatrical voyage into desire inspired by poet Jane Hirshfeld's book of essays NINE GATES: ENTERING THE MIND OF POETRY; He, a Butoh/Tango movement melange and an erotic look at clowning; Exit The King, a radical, sacred, and irreverent reworking of Ionesco's classic play; The Body of Mystery, a movement investigation of Judeo-Christian mythology; Songs and Lives, a music/performance piece featuring the Audubon Quartet; The Sympathetic Weight of Bones, a meditation on love co-conceived with Whit Maclaughlin; and The French Farce Session, a theatrical pondering using farce as a tool for psychotherapy. Among his directing work on scripts are the premieres of Russell Davis' The Second Death of Priscilla and The Wild Goose Circus, Leslie Lee's The Ninth Wave, and John Mighton's The Little Years. Other recent productions have included adaptations of Spring's Awakening and The Firebugs. Andy was honored as Pennsylvania Professor of the Year for 2003. Recent formative theatrical experiences have been his training in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Skinner Releasing, a directing residency with Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis, and clown work with Avner the Eccentric. At the very center of Andy's life are his wife Virginia and two sons Noah and Avery.   MFA Virginia Tech University; MA Villanova University; BA Grove City College. KIM BEY (04)   Assistant Professor Howard University Department of Theatre Arts 2455 6th Street, NW Washington DC 20059 tel: 202-806-7050 e: kbey@howard.edu   Kim James Bey is a faculty member and Co-Coordinator of the Acting Program at Howard University. Kim has acting credits that include Off-Broadway, regional productions, television, and voiceovers for ESL. She is a vocal and acting coach for university productions, as well as at the Studio Theatre and the American Century, and recently as the vocal assistant to Lynn Watson for the Arena Stage production of Orpheus Descending directed by Molly Smith. She has studied with Maggie Flanigin, Mai Loughran, and Hal Scott; and with John Barton and Fiona Shaw at the British American Academy in Oxford, England.   MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers University; BFA Howard University. CYNTHIA BLAISE (00)   Los Angeles CA e: cynthialblaise@yahoo.com Cynthia Blaise is a voice, speech, and dialect coach for theatre and film as well as an actor and director. She taught speech and dialects at Temple University for four years and was the voice, speech, dialect, and text coach for the Hilberry and Bonstelle Theatres and the MFA program at Wayne State University for six years, and most recently the voice and speech instructor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her film credits include Spitfire Grill, Polish Wedding, Tecumseh, The Affair of the Necklace and the independent features Get the Hell Out of Hamtown, and Nobody Knows. Cynthia coached voice at Second City in Detroit and dialects for MeadowBrook Theatre. She has taught workshops for ACTF at the University of New Hampshire, Southern Birmingham College, and Western Kentucky University. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA University of Oregon. KENNEDY BROWN (04)   Adjunct Faculty California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 & Stella Adler Academy of Acting 6773 Hollywood Blvd. 2nd floor Los Angeles CA 90028 tel: 310-795-5795 e: kennedy.brown@hotmail.com Kennedy Brown is an actor/teacher living in Santa Monica California. In addition to pursuing a career in acting, Kennedy is Head of Speech and Dialects at the Stella Adler Studio LA, and an Instructor of Voice and Movement at Cal State University-Fullerton. Kennedy trained at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York City. He went on to perform in classical theatre as a core member of the Jean Cocteau Repertory which at the time was New York City's oldest rotating repertory company. While there, he performed in notable productions of The First Lulu, Enrico lV, The Brothers Karamazov, Iphigenaia at Aulis, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Tartuffe, Waiting for Godot, Major Barbara, Orpheus, What the Butler Saw, and Mother Courage. Kennedy began teaching Voice, Speech, and Shakespeare at the Stella Adler School where he trained undergraduates from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He also certified as a yoga instructor and began training in movement with Fay Simpson, creator of the Lucid Body technique, for whom he later became an assistant instructor. While in New York, Kennedy also held faculty posions at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Currently, Kennedy performs with The Gravity Project, a movement-based theatre company that is developing unique ways for exploring the Voice, Movement, and Text in performance. BA Santa Clara University; Graduate National Shakespeare Conservatory. ANNE BURK (05)   Instructor University of Southern California School of Theatre Drama Center DRC Los Angeles CA 90089 & Voice and Speech Coach Tom Todoroff Studio Los Angeles CA e: voiceandspeech@anneburk.com   Anne Burk also teaches at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Hollywood, has worked as a performer, director, and teacher in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and has worked as a dialect and movement coach for theatrical productions in California and Nevada. She also teaches privately in the Los Angeles area. MFA UCLA; BA San Jose State University; Graduate East 15 Drama School. TOM BURKE (05)     Speech Pathologist Metropolitan Speech Pathology New York NY 10165 tel: 212-598-0600 e: tomburke3@prodigy.net www.tomburkevoice.com   Tom Burke is a speech pathologist and singer, specializing in the performer's voice and in consulting with children. He also consults with business executives for Google. MS CCC-SLP and BA Loyola College-Maryland. DEBORA CAHN (99)     New York City NY & Los Angeles CA   Debora Cahn has taught at California State University-Long Beach, University of California-Irvine, American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard, the Actors Center in New York, the Moscow Art Theatre Institute, and the Slavic Institute in Moscow. Coaching credits include productions at South Coast Repertory Theatre, the Arden Theatre Company, and Freedom Theatre. She was a writer for the award-winning television series West Wing and now is a producer writer for Grey's Anatomy. MFA American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA Barnard College/Columbia University.   EVELYN CASE (06)   Lecturer California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 tel: 714-278-2029 e: ecase@fullerton.edu   Evelyn Case currently teaches voice and movement, acting and Shakespeare at CSUF. She has taught workshops and intensives at universities across the southeast, and has performed extensively in regional theatres. Her Fitzmaurice workshop at the 2007 KCACTF conference in Cedar City Utah had over sixty participants and was photographed for an hour and featured on the front page in the Cedar City Daily News. Evelyn was a member of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's resident company for eleven seasons where her tenure included seasons of rotating repertory as well as major American tours of Romeo and Juliet, Arms and the Man, and Comedy of Errors. She has appeared in leading roles at the Laguna Playhouse, Shakespeare Orange County and Theatre on the Green, the American Stage Company, Pennsylvania Stage Company, and Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Areas of interest include Viewpoints, continuing her certification in Alba Emoting, and association with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox Massachusetts. She is co-editor of the Shakespeare Collection, SNIPPETS FROM SHAKESPEARE, published by Watermark Press in 1990 and SHAKESPEARE: A LOVER'S TALE, also commissioned by Watermark. Evelyn serves as the Western region Editor for the VASTA newsletter and is a member of the Shakespeare Association of America. MFA University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival; BFA Wright State University. JOANNA CAZDEN (06)     Los Angeles CA tel: 818-845-6654 e: joanna@voiceofyourlife.com www.voiceofyourlife.com Joanna Cazden is a speech pathologist, singer, and cross-disciplinary educator interested in the neuro-cognitive foundations of voice pedagogy and healing. Currently a Senior Staff Speech Pathologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 's Outpatient Voice program, half of her patients are performing artists and she has modified Fitzmaurice methods to help treat a variety of voice disorders. She has presented at ATHE, VASTA, ASHA, and NATS national conferences, the Voice Foundation Symposium, and the UCSF Voice Conference, and has written on vocal health and technique for publications as diverse as Onstage and Electronic Musician magazines, Sing Out!, Folkworks, Whole Life Times, and the Voice and Speech Review. Joanna toured extensively as a singer/songwriter in the 1970s-80s, released 6 solo albums, and was considered a pioneer in the women's music movement of that era. Her stage credits include the Seattle Lyric Theater, Boston's Om Theater Workshop, and a season as music director for the Caravan Theater in Cambridge MA. She is also a longtime student of chakra-based meditation and somatic therapies, practices Reiki lll, and is pleased to serve on VASTA's Board of Directors. She maintains a private practice in Burbank CA and welcomes queries about pedagogy and therapy techniques. MS-CCC California State University-Northridge; MFA California Institute for the Arts; BA University of Washington RUTH CHILDS (02)   Assistant Professor State University of New York-Brockport Theatre Department SUNY Brockport NY 14420 tel: 585-395-5261 e: rchilds@brockport.edu   Ruth Childs previously taught at Grinnell College and the University of Minnesota, and has worked as voice and dialect coach for professional and university productions. She works as an actress and spent a year as a company member at the Guthrie Theatre. MFA University of Minnesota; BA Grinnell College. JESSICA CLAIRE (04)   Adjunct Faculty California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 & Los Angeles CA tel: 917-501-0666 e: jessclaire@gmail.com   Jessica Claire recently moved to Los Angeles from New York City where she taught voice and speech at Barnard College, NYU, and Marymount Manhattan College. In Los Angeles she has taught at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the New York Film Academy, and other private acting studios. She also works with private students on voice and dialects and enjoys an ongoing teaching collaboration with Master Teacher Saul Kotzubei. As an actress, Jessica has performed regionally and in New York: at the American Conservatory Theatre, Shakespeare Sedona, and the Ohio Theater in SoHo New York City, among others. She is a member of AEA, AFTRA, and VASTA. MFA American Conservatory Theatre; BA Barnard College. MARIA COMINIS (04)   Lecturer California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 tel: 714-278-7164 e: mcominis@exchange.fullerton.edu   Maria Cominis has also taught student film directors at the University of Southern California School for Film and Television, and Cal State University-Long Beach, Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, Azusa Pacific University, American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, the University of Bowling Green, Ohio, and the University of California-Irvine. She studied acting under the tutelage of Uta Hagen as her key student in her master classes, and has taught at HB Studio in New York since 1996, continuing there now in the summers. She has also studied musical theatre in the Manhattan School of Music Professional Workshop, and classical voice. Her professional theatre credits include Threepenny Opera, West Side Story, Into The Woods, and Music Man, and for television One Life to Live, All My Children, and Comedy Central: 2003 Political Satire, and most recently played Mona on Desperate Housewives. MFA University of California-Irvine; BFA California State University-Long Beach. DEBORAH COONEY (99)   Lecturer Tufts University Department of Drama and Dance Boston MA tel: 646-765-7135 e: deborahcooney@earthlink.net Deborah Cooney, voice and dialect coach, was an award-winning member of the BBC Repertory Company. She has also studied voice with Arthur Lessac, Michael McCallion, Sue Ann Park, and Patsy Rodenburg, and completed a voice teaching internship with Nancy Houfek at the American Repertory Theatre, Institute for Advanced Actor Training at Harvard University, prior to completing her MFA in Voice there. She has previously taught at the Academy for Classical Acting/Shakespeare Theatre, NYU/CAP 21, and the School for Film & Television, and has coached at the Public Theatre and several off-Broadway shows in New York City, at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, and at Hartford Stage. MFA (Voice) American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; Graduate Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. MICHELE CUOMO (03)   Assistant Professor City University of New York Queensborough College Department of Speech Communications and Theatre Humanities Building H-125 Bayside NY 11364 tel: 718-631-6284 e: michelecuomo@hotmail.com Michele Cuomo is also teaching at Marymount Manhattan College. Her previous voice teachers include Bobby Troka, Mary Coy, Phil Thompson, and Krista Scott. She previously taught acting, voice, and movement at the University of Georgia-Athens, and the University of Mississippi. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor and a registered teacher of the Yoga Alliance. She is a core company member of Genesis Shakespeare Festival in Illinois, and Associate Director of Miss Elsie Productions at Oxford Mississippi (www.misselsieproductions.org). Michele performed at the Centre for Performance Research's Past Masters Series in London in Witch Dance, her original recreation of the life and work of Mary Wigman. MFA Ohio State University; BA College of New Rochelle. STANTON DAVIS (00)   Assistant Professor Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance DeKalb IL tel: 815-753-1334 e: stantondavis@hotmail.com Stanton Davis is from Tucson Arizona. He previously served as speech and dialect coach for Temple Theatre Department's graduate and undergraduate actors. Stanton previously taught voice, acting, Shakespeare, dramatic literature, and stage combat at SUNY-New Paltz. He has worked as an actor (stage, film, and TV commercials), fight director, stage hand, director, voice coach, and education director at professional theatres throughout the country. He works with private students in accent reduction, voice, and speech. Credits include work at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Lab Arizona, Courtyard Players Touring Company, Arizona Jewish Theatre, AKA Theatre, Tucson Actors Studio, Candlelight Theatre Company (NYC), New Paltz Summer Rep, York Little Theatre, and the Arizona, Tucson, Southwest, Baltimore, Wisconsin, Park City, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Stanton is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors. MFA University of Delaware; BA University of Utah. PATRICIA DELOREY (01)   Assistant Professor Asolo Conservatory Florida State University Center for Performing Arts Sarasota FL e: pdel62@hotmail.com Patricia Delorey spent summer 2003 in Costa Rica teaching voice. She is the voice and speech specialist with Asolo Conservatory, and previously worked in Moscow and Italy where she taught and coached MFA students at the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. She has taught at Southwest Texas State University, Salem State College, and at ART's Institute in Cambridge MA. MFA (Voice) American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; MA Harvard University; BA Salem State College. MICHAEL ELLIS-TOLAYDO (02)   Professor of Dramatic Arts St. Mary's College Arts and Letters 18952 East Fisher Road St. Mary's City MD 20686 tel: 240-895-4244 fax: 240-895-4958 e: mellistolaydo@smcm.edu www.smcm.edu/users/mellistolaydo/     Michael Ellis-Tolaydo is the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor in the Arts Chair, the first to receive this award. As an actor and director he has worked in every state in the USA, especially extensively at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. He is originally from Kenya, East Africa.   MFA Catholic University; MA American University; Graduate Diploma Academy of Dramatic Art, Oakland University. MICHA ESPINOSA (98)   Assistant Professor Western Michigan University Director of Voice and Speech Department of Theatre Arts Kalamazoo MI 49008 e: micha.espinosa@wmich.edu web: www.yogaforactors.com   Micha Espinosa taught previously at the University of Miami and the Coconut Street Playhouse as voice and speech coach, and she still maintains her freelance work as actor and coach in the Miami area. She has also taught at Texas State University-San Marcos, New World School of the Arts, Florida International University, University of California-San Diego, and every year since 1996 to premier actors at Shioya (The Actors Studio) in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. She introduced Fitzmaurice Voicework at the Texas Educational Theatre Association Conference in January, 2001. She has worked as a private coach specializing in accent reduction for the past seven years. She is a professional actress/singer who has worked in films, television, commercials, and regional theatres for over ten years. Micha is an associate editor for the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) www.ukans.edu/~idea, has served as the Membership Chair for VASTA, is a certified yoga instructor, and has also studied Feldenkrais work. She recently presented in Guadalajara Mexico and Santiago Chile, and in summer 2004 at both VASTA and ATHE she presented her current research project examining how Latino/a actors are perceived in America, especially with regard to their voice and speech. She also presented at the 2005 VASTA conference in Scotland. She travels extensively with her husband, a sculptor and painter. MFA University of California-San Diego; BFA Stephens College. BRIAN EVANS (06)   Assistant Professor Ohio University Athens OH e: evansb1@ohio.edu Brian Evans teaches acting, voice, speech, and stage combat. He has worked as a professional actor for the Colorado and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, South Coast Repertory, Porthouse Theatre, and, most recently, the Oxford Shakespeare Festival. Television credits include Chapelle's Show and Judging Amy. His voice-over work includes the audio book of The Virginian. He produced award-winning theatre while working in Los Angeles, including the world premieres of several new playwrights. He has worked as a voice and dialect coach for professional productions in Los Angeles and Mississippi. As a member of the Society of American Fight Directors he has studied stage combat with SAFD teachers in Las Vegas and at Los Angeles Fight Academy. MFA University of California-Irvine; BFA Kent State University. NANCY EYERMANN (03)     Austin TX e: nancyeyermann@yahoo.com Nancy Eyermann has been acting professionally around the country since 2002, and has performed Lady Macbeth and Annie Sullivan at the Texas Shakespeare Festival and many roles with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. She was an active participant in CSF's educational programs, introducing Acting Interns and High School Workshop students to Fitzmaurice Voicework and Shakespeare text. She previously taught voice classes to undergraduates at Temple while she was completing her MFA and later as adjunct faculty there. In the summer of 2005 Nancy toured TSF's production of The Miracle Worker to Beijing as part of China's second American Drama Society Conference. Nancy is now resident in Austin Texas. MFA Temple University; BFA Texas State University-San Marcos.   AMY SUE FALL (07)   Instructor Idyllwild Arts Academy Idyllwild CA 92549 tel: 626-274-7526 e: dialectsandvoice@yahoo.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 seven years. She founded and produced the Voice and Speech Methods Workshops and will be presenting the Text Methods Workshop in July 2007 with Neil Freeman, Robert Barton, and Louis Coaianni at the University of Illinoisat Chicago. 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. She enjoys watching science fiction with her boyfriend and her two cats, Zeus and Athena. MFA Roosevelt University; BA Bowling Green State University. JANET FEINDEL (01)   Associate 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)   Los Angeles CA tel: 646-342-5314 e: laura.flanagan@gmail.com Laura Flanagan has relocated to Los Angeles. 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)   Regina 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. DONNETTA GRAYS (03)     New York City NY tel: 917-783-3662 e: donnetta@verizon.net web: www.donnettagrays.com Donnetta Grays has performed around the country with various companies including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Comapny, and the Charleston Shakespeare Project. She has also done radio voiceovers for Coca-Cola, Wendy's, MIP Health, and a series of radio spots for Value City department stores. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and AEA. While attending UCI, Donnetta taught advanced voice and speech, beginning acting, and movement to undergraduate students. As a company member at OSF she introduced Fitzmaurice Voicework to private clients and taught middle school and high school students basic elements of theatre and storytelling. Her recent acting work in New York City includes Law and Order:CI, a recurring role on Law and Order:SVU, and a supporting role in the award-winning short film Shook which has an open-ended run on Showtime. Currently she is a cast member of Well on Broadway, has her own theatre company, Coyote Rep, and coaches actors privately in voice, speech, and dialects. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA College of Charleston. FANNI GREEN (02)   Associate Professor University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave TAR 230 Tampa Florida 33620 tel: 813-974-9138 fax: 813-974-4122 e: fgreen@arts.usf.edu   Fanni Green regularly teaches voice, speech, and acting at USF one semester per year, and works in the New York City area the rest of the year as an actress and playwright. She has taught at the Juilliard School Drama Division.   MFA New York University; BA University of South Florida.   JOHN GRESH (05)     Pittsburgh tel: 412-523-3986 e: greshjf@yahoo.com John Gresh is an actor, teacher, and pianist/vocalist living in Pittsburgh. He recently directed Savage in Limbo and The Music Lesson at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, and worked with playwright Lee Blessing's on the play, Flag Day, and playwright/director Eric Simonson on his play Carter's Way as part of the Momentum Festival at City Theatre. He has appeared at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, and at Carnegie-Mellon's Summer New Play Festival. He has taught at Westminster College and at Point Park University where he studied with Master Teacher Lynne Innerst, and offers private coaching in Fitzmaurice Voicework. MFA and BA Point Park University. MELISSA GROGAN (04)   Assistant Professor Texas State University-San Marcos Department of Theatre and Dance 601 University Drive San Marcos TX 78666 tel: 512-245-2053 fax: 512-245-8440 c: 512-557-1624 e: mg35@txstate.edu   Melissa Grogan teaches voice and dialects at Texas State, and also works as a professional actress, vocal coach, and director in the Austin area, and in some of North Carolina's professional theatres. She studied performance, text, and voice with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford England during the early summer of 2004.   MFA University of North Carolina-Greensboro; BFA Texas State University-San Marcos. 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, 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. KATE INGRAM (00)   Associate Professor, Performance Area Coordinator University of Central Florida Department of Theatre P.O. Box 162372 Orlando FL 32816 tel: 407-823-4872 fax: 407-823-6446 e: khingram@mail.ucf.edu Kate Ingram has taught at UCF since 2001. She previously taught at SUNY-New Paltz where she served as Chair. A professional AEA actress for over thirty years, some recent credits at the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival include Desiree in A Little Night Music, Gertrude in Hamlet, and Elmire in Tartuffe. An active member of VASTA, she is also a certified Lessac teacher and has studied with William Esper, Cicely Berry, and Sue Ann Park. Her work includes dialect coaching, text coaching, and directing for a number of theatre companies in New York and Florida. MFA University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival; BA Syracuse University. ANNE JAMES (05)   Assistant Professor California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 tel: 714-278-7512 e: anjames@exchange.fullerton.edu NY tel: 917-447-7811 e: integratedartistry@earthlink.net www.integratedartistry.com Anne James has previously taught at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Loyola University-New Orleans, Marymount Manhattan College, the Neighborhood Playhouse, and NYU-Playwrights Horizons in New York City. She is an actress whose Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include Playmaker's Repertory Company, Virginia Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Directors' Lab, the WPA, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Laguna Playhouse. Film and television credits include Ed, Spin City, Guiding Light, Double Platinum, Flatliners, Generations, and Tennessee in the Summer (BBC), and she has shot national commercials for Wendy's and MCI. Her comedy improv credits include Caroline's Comedy Club, Upright Citizens' Brigade, Chicago City Limits, and the Groundlings. As owner and founder of "Integrated Artistry", anne has created a coaching methodology that integrates healing, organic, self-empowering practices into both corporate and artistic performance. She is a member of SAG, AEA, AFTRA, and VASTA. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA California State University-Fullerton. GUNTHER JENSEN (06)   Lecturer El Camino College Fine Arts Department 16007 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance CA 90506 tel: 818-317-7919 e: guntherjensen@ca.rr.com Gunther Jensen has also studied with W. Duncan Ross, Stephen Book, Annan Deveare Smith, Howard Fine, Uta Hagen, and Robert Cohen. He teaches acting, improvisation, and dialects at El Camino, and has served as dialect coach for the International City Theatre in Long Beach and the Hudson Theatre Guild, as well as coaching actors for film and television. He is a professional actor with extensive film and television credits that include guest starring or recurring roles on Six Feet Under, Strong Medicine, Crossing Jordan, The X-Files Movie, and First Daughter. He is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Psychology at Phillips Graduate Institute exploring the possibility of incorporating the Fitzmaurice Voicework with Drama Therapy and the addiction recovery process. MFA University of Southern California; BA University of California-Irvine. JIM JOHNSON (00)   Associate Professor University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance 133 CWM Houston TX 77204 tel: 773-743-0996 e: jjohnson33@uh.edu www.cjmg.net www.accenthelp.com Jim Johnson previously taught at De Paul University and is a founder and contributing editor to www.AccentHelp.com, an online dialect resource for actors He coaches professionally in Houston Texas, including over 20 productions at the Alley Thetare. Jim has served as dialect coach for such actors as Aidan Quinn, Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, Erin Dilly, Brent Barret, and Connie Cooper, and has coached productions directed by John Rando, Scott Schwartz, Joe Brancato, Ken Ludwig, Judith Ivey, Gregory Boyd, and Paul Barnes. In addition to his coaching, Jim works professionally as an actor. MFA University of Nebraska-Lincoln; BA Buena Vista College. MELANIE JULIAN (05)   Visiting Lecturer University of California-Davis Department of Theatre and Dance Davis CA tel: 412-841-4667 e: meljulian@gmail.com Melanie Julian is originally from Murray, Kentucky. In the last several years she has worked as a professional actress in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, and Pittsburgh. She completed a MA degree in Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Pittsburgh, and a MFA degree from the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University. She has taught acting to undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Georgia, and it was during her time in Georgia that she was introduced to Fitzmaurice Voicework by Associate Michele Cuomo. She taught voice and speech at Point Park's Conservatory before moving to Davis, California, to join the theatre faculty at UC-Davis. She currently teaches voice, speech, movement, acting, and is the resident vocal coach for the departmental shows. She also continues to coach voice and give acting classes in and around Davis. In the spring of 2006 she finished a 200-hour yoga teacher training, and in the summer she attended the Actor Combatant training at the National Stage Combat Workshop. MFA Point Park University; MA University of Pittsburgh; BA and BFA University of Kentucky. DREW KAHL (06)   Assistant Professor SUNY-Oneonta Department of Communication Arts Oneonta NY 13820 tel: 607-436-3125 e: kahlag@oneonta.edu Drew Kahl recently relocated to New York State from the Baltimore/Washington area. He works professionally as an actor, director, and voice/text coach. In the fall of 2005, he joined the theatre faculty at SUNY-Oneonta where he teaches acting, directing, and voice. Recent directing credits include The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Comedy of Errors for the Shakespeare Project, as well as numerous academic productions. He has appeared with many regional theatres including Arena Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Project, Rep Stage, Roundhouse Theatre (DC), Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, and the now defunct Cricket Theatre in Minneapolis. MFA University of Minnesota; BA St. Mary's College. JULIA KAPUSTIAN (00)   Los Angeles CA tel: 323-387-9134 e: juliakapustian@yahoo.com Julia Kapustian has recently moved with her husband to Los Angeles. She previously studied voice with Anna Petrova at the Moscow Art Theatre School and in master classes with Cicely Berry, Kristin Linklater, Shanna Beth McGee, and Eric van Grootel. She has worked extensively as an actress in theatre and film, playing Masha in Kalyagin's production of Seagull at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anna Christie in O'Neill's Anna Christie and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew at the Theatre Workers Union, and in several productions of plays by Ostrowski at the Moscow Region Youth Theatre. She has directed and acted at the Stanislavski Drama Theatre, coached children, journalists, and politicians, and has taught and lectured on Voice and Space at the Conference on Eurythmy at the Academy for Eurythmy. While in Moscow she taught at the Slavic Institute, at the Moscow State University in the Department of Public Relations, at the State University for Cinematography, the State University for Music, and the Moscow Art Theatre School. Graduate Moscow Art Theatre School. LEONARD KELLY (03)   Assistant Professor West Chester University Department of Theatre Arts West Chester PA 19383 tel: 610-436-3463 e: lkelly4399@aol.com Leonard Kelly is active in the Philadelphia theatre community, acting with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival and acting and directing with the Vagabond Acting Troupe. He recently directed Dancing at Lughnasa, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Psycho Beach Party at WCU. He also performed in The Dumbwaiter with Vagabond and coached Medea at WCU. He directed The Writer's Mind by Dennis DiClaudio for the 2003 New York City Fringe Festival. He offers a public class on Fitzmaurice Voicework in Philadelphia. MFA University of Texas-Austin; BA West Chester University. MARGARET KEMP (06)   Adjunct Faculty California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 & Los Angeles CA tel: 323-666-5412 e: margaretkemp@earthlink.net Margaret Kemp provides instruction within both the business and artistic communities in Los Angeles. Fitzmaurice Voicework is the foundation of her instruction in acting, on-camera technique, and live presentation skills, as well as voice and speech. She started the Creative Dramatics program at the Hollywood YMCA. This popular program serves urban students who have no other access to theatre education. She is now also teaching community Voicework classes. Margaret is an actor who has enjoyed numerous appearances on stage, television, and film. MFA Academy of Classical Acting/The Shakespeare Theatre/George Washington University; BS Northwestern University. KAREN KOPRYANSKI (06)   Instructor Boston Conservatory 8 The Fenway Boston MA 02115 tel: 617-407-4094 e: lilyofforce@yahoo.com Karen Kopryanski is an instructor of voice, speech, and movement at the Boston Conservatory and at Suffolk University, and is a regular guest teacher for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Heifetz International Music Institute, and the Massachusetts Drama Guild. She has also taught and coached at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Harvard Extension School, Brandeis University, Indiana University, the Moscow Art Theatre School, and the Cantiere Internazionale Teatro Giovani. Vocal coaching credits include The Sugar Syndrome at Williamstown, and La Dispute and Marat/Sade, both at the American Repertory Theatre. As an actor, Karen has studied at the Shakespeare Theatre's Classical Summer Conservatory where she played Celia in As You LIke It, toured with the internationally acclaimed Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theatre, spent several summers with Shakespeare in Delaware Park in her hometown of Buffalo NY (as Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Bianca in Taming of the Shrew), and she recently performed in a short piece for Coal Miner Films that won Best Science Fiction in the National Film Challenge. MFA (Voice) American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA State University of New York-Oswego. MICHELLE LOPEZ (07)   Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts Kennilworth 560 P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee WI 53222 tel: 414-229-0413 e: michelle.lopez.rios@gmail.com Michelle Lopez has taught at Univerity of Houston and offered workshops at Houston Community College and she also worked as a freelance actor, director, and voice/dialect coach in Houston before moving to Milwaukee in 2006. She has worked as a voice and dialect coach in Houston for Stages Repertory Theatre, Unhinged Productions, Rice University, Unity Theatre, and the University of Houston, and most recently coached Jersey Productions' Cabaret and Ragtime in Covington Kentucky. She was Associate Producer in 2005 for the Edward Albee Playwrights' Workshop under the supervision of Lanford Wilson. She directed A Trip Through the MInd of a Crazy Mexican at Talente Bilingue de Houston in 2006. She has performed at the Mark Taper Forum, the Court Theatre, and Troy Rep, all in Los Angeles, at the Ojai Shakespeare Festival, and at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle. MFA University of Houston; BFA University of Southern California. KRISTEN LOREE (02)   Assistant Professor University of New Mexico-Albuquerque Albuquerque NM tel: 505-710-7724 fax: 505-232-8831 e: realsticks@aol.com web: http://www.solarts.org/Contact.html   Kristen Loree is an actor, director, performance artist, and mother of two. She is a founder of the non-profit group Sol Arts. Kristen teaches voicework to children and adults with the University of Mexico, Santa Fe Opera, and privately. Sol Arts is a Performance Space producing artistic creations with the community. MFA New York University; BFA University of New Mexico-Albuquerque. GREGORY LUSH (04)       Dallas TX tel: 202-321-8002 e: gregorylush@yahoo.com   Gregory Lush recently taught voice and speech in the performance program at Ohio University, but has decided to renew his full-time acting career, working primarily in Chicago and Dallas. He played Caliban in the 2006 production of The Tempest at the Dallas Shakespeare Festival, and has since been working as an actor in Chicago, appearing in Denmark, the inaugural production of Victory Gardens at the newly renovated Biograph Theatre. In addition to his work with Catherine, he also studied with and did workshops with Shakespeare and Company, Arthur Lessac, Mary Coy, Liz Wiley, and Michele Cuomo. He has worked as a professional actor, director, composer, and voice coach around the country at such venues as the Folger, Round House, Theatre of the First Amendment, Upstart Crow, Stage West, Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park, Theatre at Lime Kiln, and the Genesis Skakespeare Festival. Favorite roles include Hamlet, Benedick (Much Ado about Nothing), Dromio of Ephesus (Comedy of Errors), Feste (Twelfth Night), Gerry (Dancing at Lughnasa), and Adam in the American premiere of Time of My Life. MFA University of Mississippi; BFA University of Texas-Arlington. HEATHER LYLE (07)   Instructor Bluecat Voice Studio 15219 Sunset Blvd. Suite 204 Pacific Palisades CA 90272 tel: 310-200-0506 e: voice@vocalyoga.com www.vocalyoga.com Heather Lyle has also taught at Los Angeles Mission College and Los Angeles High School for the Arts and in many acting studios. A winner of the prestigious California University Sally Casanova Doctoral Scholarship, Heather completed doctoral research on voice and a doctoral internship at Indiana University School of Muic. She has taught numerous singers and actors in the Los Angeles area, many of whom have gone on to starring roles in television and theatre. She is a composer and musical director and has worked for the San Fernando Repertory Theare and the Theatre Tribe Company, writing and directing. Heather has sung every style of music from opera and musical theatre to jazz and pop, including traditional Middle Eastern music, and she sings in seven languages. She has performed in over fifty productions, recorded four original CD's, and presently sings with her jazz band, the eight-piece Bluecat Express. She has recorded for a movie sound track inside the Great Pyramid, and has performed concerts floating down the Amazon River and in numerous other venues, including nightclubs in Paris, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and the Playboy Mansion. She performed at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival on stage with Herbie Hancock, Kenny G, and Dee Dee Bridgewater, and at the Playboy Jazz Festival in May 2007. Her current CD, The Spirit of New Orleans, on Rhombus Records, is played on jazz stations throughout the USA. MMusic and BMusic California State University-Northridge. 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)   New York City NY tel: 917-763-7423 e: tommarion@gmail.com Tom Marion recently taught at Ohio University, Marymount College, and at The Acting Studio in Manhattan. He 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 has taught voice & speech at the University of the Arts, Circle in the Square Theatre School, The Actors Center, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and is also a performer and director. 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. 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)   Adjunct Faculty University of Nebraska-Lincoln Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Lincoln NE 68588 tel: 402-617-0990 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. He has also recently taught in Singapore and 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. 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, 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@dramadance.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: 206-284-7926 c: 916-730-8842 e: pmurphy@kellersupply.com Brennan Murphy was formerly the head of the acting program at CSU-Sacramento. 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, 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 works privately with clients on business presentation and voice skills. In 2003, Brennan was a guest lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. 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. DAVID NEVELL (04)   Assistant Professor Graduate Program Coordinator California State University-Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance P.O. Box 6850 Fullerton CA 92834 tel: 714-278-4782 fax: 714-278-7041 e: nevellvoice@earthlink.net www.davidnevell.com David Nevell has been teaching Fitzmaurice Voicework since 1995. He is an actor, teacher, dialect coach, and group facilitator. He recently returned from teaching Fitzmaurice workshops in New Zealand. David has also taught at the Actors Center (NYC), Marymount Manhattan College, NYU's Cap 21, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and UC-Irvine. He has also served as a private voice and speech coach to teachers, actors, singers, business professionals, clergy, and politicians, and has led workshops for numerous organizations and training programs. Professional acting credits include performances at Shakespeare Festival/LA, South Coast Repertory, PCPA/Theaterfest, Huntington Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, San Jose Repertory, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. ANDREA ODINOV (06)   Los Angeles CA tel: 818-653-6577 e: aodinov@hotmail.com www.andreaodinov.com Andrea Odinov currently works as a professional actor, singer, and private voice instructor in Los Angeles. She has taught Fitzmaurice Voicework to undergraduates at the University of California-Irvine and the University of California-Santa Barbara, and in workshops in the Los Angeles area for both singers and actors. Her acting credits include the Laguna Playhouse, Texas Shakespeare Festival, several Los Angeles theatres, and episodic and commercial television roles. Andrea has worked in corporate voice-overs as the exclusive voice for both Voxicomm and Touchcredit. She was a staff writer for the online magazine, www.ActingNow.com, and a member of SAG, AFTRA, and AEA. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA University of Delaware. ILSE PFEIFER (02)   Instructor NYU-Atlantic Theatre School New York City NY tel: 212-662-3105 e: ifpfeifer@aol.com Ilse Pfeifer is currently teaching Fitzmaurice Voicework and Movement privately and at NYU's Atlantic Theatre School and HB Studios in New York City, She is frequently a Guest Teacher at Eastern Connecticut State University and at Fordham University. She has taught workshops in NYC for students from Eastern New Mexico University and Central and Eastern Connecticut State University. She has also taught at Gate Acting Conservatory, NYU/Playwrights Horizons, Sioux Falls University in South Dakota, University of New Mexico, and in Europe at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin and the Berlin School of Performing Arts, and she presented an introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework at the KCACTF conference in Providence Rhode Island in January 2005. She worked as movement coach for Arch Street Pictures and filmmaker Robert Columbo. Ilse danced with Zero Moving Dance Company for five years, and later worked as performing artist, choreographer, and bodyworker. Her work has been presented by the Next Move Festival at Annenberg Center, American Music Theatre Festival, City Dances, The Arts Bank, and Movement Theatre International in Philadelphia, and by Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, PS 122, and Dixon Place in NYC, as well as Baltimore Theatre Project. She worked as interviewer with PBS documentary filmmaker Glenn Holsten in Love Park, danced in choreographer Kevin O'Day's Storage Space, danced and acted in Helmut Gottschild's Frogs, Karen Bamonte's Salon Evenings, and sang in radio artist Gregory Whitehead's Nothing but Fog. Ilse conceptualized and produced I gaze at the prairie and see things and MIX. Both were aired in part by PBS in Philadelphia. She was honored as a Pew Fellowships in the Arts Discipline winner in Choreography & Dance-based Performance Art. Along with her artistic work she has had a long-standing interest in somatic modalities. Initially it was for her own use to help keep her body healthy and available, and to address performers' anxiety and specific dance injuries. As Ilse enjoys helping others, this eventually led her to work with others and to share her knowledge in order to better their performances. She studied modalities such as foot reflexology in the technique of Eunice D. Ingham in Germany to work with reflexes in the body, and Reiki with the Traditional Reiki Network in the US to help with the energetic body, as well as neuro-muscular retraining with Irene Dowd in NYC to work with movement retraining and the muscular/skeletal structure. To enhance her understanding of acting, Ilse deepened her theatre training at the Actors Center Teacher Development Program in NYC. She currently resides in New York City where she teaches weekly Fitzmaurice Labs and works with private clients in the performing arts and other professions interested in her synthesis of work as voice/body coach. Graduate Diploma Royal Academy of Dancing, London; Graduate Diploma Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London. PAMELA PRATHER (02)   Lecturer in Acting Yale School of Drama 222 York Street New Haven CT 06520 tel: 917-868-0211 e: voicecoach@aol.com web: www.yale.edu/drama Pamela Prather teaches speech at YSD and has also taught at UCLA, and in New York City at Marymount Manhattan College, the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and the School for Film and Television. She has coached voice and/or dialects at Yale Repertory Theatre, The Play Company, Underwood Theater Company, The Edge Theatre Company, Hamptons' Shakespeare Festival, and at St. Anne's WareHouse, DUMBO, and Dance Theatre Workshop. She has been an actor, voiceover actor, and radio announcer, and performed her own piece MultiMedea in several New York Festivals. Pamela has spent time in Japan and has studied Noh Theatre, Kyogen, and Butoh, and also recently completed a yoga teacher certification. She also teaches a private class and workshops in New York City and in France. MFA UCLA; BA University of New Mexico-Albuquerque.   RENE PULLIAM (05)   Associate Professor University of Mississippi Department of Theatre Arts Isom Hall University MS 38677 tel: 662-915-6991 fax: 662-915-5968 e: rpulliam@olemiss.edu Rene Pulliam currently heads the BFA program in Musical Theatre at the University of Mississippi. She has directed and/or choreographed hundreds of musicals across the United States, including Oklahoma for Birmingham Summerfest Musical Theatre, and the west coast premiers of Smile, Closer Than Ever, and Over Here. In doing so she has worked with acclaimed composers and writers Howard Ashman, Marvin Hamlisch, and the Sherman Brothers. She was awarded the Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for her choreography on No, No, Nanette, and Good News. Her performance credits include television (The Carol Burnett Show), commercials (Dr. Pepper) and touring companies (The King And I, Godspell, and Oklahoma). She apprenticed with the late rhythm and tap dancer Eddie Brown, and has shared the stage with tap legends Honi Coles, Bunny Briggs, Jimmy Slyde, and the Nicholas Brothers. She received her BA in Music and her MFA in Dance/Choreograhy. MFA Mills College; BA Whittier College. HEATHER RASCHE (04)   Instructor Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts New Brunswick NJ tel: 310-386-2299 e: hlrasche@yahoo.com Dr. Heather Rasche is an actress and an educator. She taught acting to directors for the past four years at the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television. She has also taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Brooks Institute of Photography, and privately. She completed her doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara where her research focused on the mid-life female body in performance. Her dissertation, "Actresses, Age, and Anxiety", explores how the disguises of youth, both cinematic and cosmetic, alter performance. PhD and MA University of California-Santa Barbara; BFA New York University. DENNIS ROMER (04)   Professor of Theatre Artistic Director Otterbein College Department of Theatre and Dance Westerville OH 43081 tel: 614-823-1754 fax: 614-823-1898 e: dromer@otterbein.edu Dennis Romer serves as Artistic Director of the Otterbein College Department of Theatre and Dance. He is a current member of AEA, SAG, and AFTRA, and has been involved in over two hundred theatrical productions as actor, director, or producer. He has performed or directed at Ensemble Studio Theatre (LA), Raft Theater (NYC), Cleveland Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Meadowbrook, Parker Playhouse, Riverside Shakespeare, Catco, and others. Dennis created four different characters on daytime soaps with the longest stint on As The World Turns for two years. He has done many starring and co-starring roles on night-time TV and over 75 commercials. Dennis is also proud to have established the New Play Series at Otterbein College, commissioning outstanding playwrights including Anthony Clarvoe, Kia Corthron, Carter Lewis, Neena Beeber, Joan Ackerman, and Bill Corbett. He also created, in relationship with the Actors Center, Otterbein's annual NYC showcase for selected senior students, a yearly intern relationship with the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival, and an annual classoom project devoted to provocative social issues. MFA Wayne State University; BA Otterbein College. NANCY SAKLAD (01)   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. KRISTA SCOTT (00)     Visiting Faculty Syracuse University Department of Drama e: kristacscott@yahoo.com Krista Scott teaches courses in Voice and Movement, Speech, Dialects, and Shakespeare Text. She has taught at Ithaca College, the University of Mississippi, American University in Cairo (Egypt), Saint Cloud State University, and Concordia College in St. Paul Minnesota, and will be teaching at the University of Connecticut-Storrs in 2008. 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. ROBERTA SLOAN (98)   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:rrsloan@mail.ucf.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)   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 somatic 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. CANDACE TAYLOR (04)   Assistant Professor Roosevelt University The Theatre Conservatory 430 S. Michigan Ave. Room 780 Chicago IL 60605 tel: 312-341-2158 e: ctaylor@roosevelt.edu Candace Taylor teaches acting at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. She has taught acting and voice, and has directed, at the University of Colorado, Southern Methodist University, SUNY-Albany, the University of Delaware, and the University of Tennessee. As an actress, Candace most recently appeared in Yellowman at Denver's Curious Theatre, and previous to that as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet and Agave in the The Bacchae of Euripides at Knoxville's Clarence Brown Theatre. Candace has directed productions of Arcadia, Love's Labors Lost, Flyin' West, and On the Verge. She studied Fitzmaurice Voicework for three years in graduate school with Catherine. MFA University of Delaware; BS Northwestern University. PHIL TIMBERLAKE (03)   Assistant Professor DePaul University The Theatre School 2135 N. Kenmore Avenue Chicago IL 60614 tel: 773-935-5020 e: phil@amytimberlake.com Phil Timberlake was the 1996 Annette Kade Fulbright Fellow to France, where he studied "extended voice" at the Roy Hart International Arts Centre. He previously taught at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Commomwealth University. He has also taught at The Actor's Gymnasium and The Actors Center in Chicago, and has led "extended voice" workshops at Lookingglass Theatre, Roosevelt University, Purdue University, Barat College, and the Modjeska Youth Theatre. Phil is an ensemble member of Lifeline Theatre where he received a Jeff Citation Nomination for Best Supporting Actor - Musical for his work in Queen Lucia. Other Chicago acting credits include First Folio Shakespeare (The Tempest), Lifeline (Two Towers), Apple Tree (Violet), Powertap (The Beaux' Strategem), Shaw Chicago (Misalliance), City Lit (Playboy Stories), and Shakespeare's Motley Crew (Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear). He is the resident voice and speech coach at First Folio Shakespeare, and is a member of VASTA, SAG, and the Society of American Fight Directors. MFA Virginia Commonwealth University; BA Purdue University. GREG UNGAR (03)     Instructor South Coast Repertory Conservatory 655 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa CA 92626 tel: 949-307-9070 e: gregungar@yahoo.com Dr. Greg Ungar teaches acting, voice, and dramatic literature at the University of California-Irvine and South Coast Repertory. He has recently completed his PhD in Theatre Studies at the University of California-Irvine, and is an artist and a runner. PhD and MFA University of California-Irvine; MA University of Colorado-Boulder; BA University of California-Berkeley. ED VAUGHAN (04)   Professor of Theatre Otterbein College Department of Theatre and Dance Westerville OH 43081 tel: 614-823-1754 fax: 614-823-1898 e: wvaughan@otterbein.edu Ed Vaughan has made a life in the theatre for over 35 years working as an actor, director, stage manager, artistic director, professor, producer, and theatre manager. His first love is acting and he has had the opportunity to play Lear, Willy Loman, Uncle Peck, and Bobby Gould, among others, and most recently, Neils Bohr in Copenhagen. His directing credits range from the Greeks to Mamet and Durang, with Sweeney Todd, Boy Gets Girl, and Proof among his favorites. He also enjoys directing new plays and was happy to help develop new works by Anthony Clarvoe, Kia Corthron, and Carter Lewis as part of Otterbein College's New Play Series. When not on stage, Ed teaches acting and is Performance Intern Coordinator in the Department of Theatre at Otterbein. Outside of the theatre, he enjoys following the lives and careers of his son and daughter. His son is a diver with the Army, currently stationed in Hawaii, and his daughter is finishing her degree to be an interpreter of American Sign Language. MA University of Connecticut; BA Otterbein College. KIRBY WAHL (05)   Assistant Professor Elon University Department of Theatre Elon NC tel: 336-278-5684 e: kwahl@elon.edu Kirby Wahl is an actor, director, voice/text/dialect coach, and fight director. He previously taught acting, voice, and movement courses at the University of Toledo where he also recently performed as Richard in Richard lll. He has also studied with Patsy Rodenburg and Richard Armstrong, and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His professional acting credits include performances with the Riverside Shakespeare Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Arizona Theatre Company, Forestburgh Playhouse, Allenberry Playhouse, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, among others. He has also traveled with numerous tours, including the national tour of Phantom of the Opera. He currently resides with his wife and two sons in Greensboro NC. MFA University of Arizona-Tucson; BFA Webster University. ASHLEY WARD (02)   Instructor American InterContinental University Los Angeles CA tel: 310-617-0725 e: awardvoice@yahoo.com Ashley Ward has also taught at the University of California-Irvine, and as the voice specialist at South Coast Repertory's Youth and Teen Conservatory program. She is an actress (sometimes credited as Ashley Fuller) and has developed a one-woman show based on the life of Dorothy Parker to be staged in Los Angeles. Favorite roles include Olivia in Twelfth Night, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Fanny in On the Verge, and Marisol in Marisol. Ashley is a member of Screen Actors Guild. She is also the founder and director of The Haven Theatre Company in Los Angeles. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA California State University-Stanislaus. LYNN WATSON (98)   Associate Professor, Chair University of Maryland-Baltimore County Department of Theatre 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore MD 21250 tel: 410-455-2892 fax: 410-455-1046 e: jwatson@umbc.edu web: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre/faq/dept_bios.html Lynn Watson presented a workshop at the 2005 VASTA conference in Scotland, and also presented at the Voice Foundation's Voice Symposium in June 2003--"Fitzmaurice Voicework for Actors." She previously presented the work to speech pathologists in Maryland. For the past four seasons she has consulted on voice, speech, dialects, and text at Arena Stage in Washington DC. The Washington Post said of The Misanthrope: "beautifully spoken . . . the production boasts the level of the classics one used to encounter in places like the Stratford Festival in Ontario." Other credits include four seasons at South Coast Repertory, A.C.T. in San Francisco, Mark Taper Forum, Maryland Stage Company, and private consultation for stage, film, and television. Her acting credits include Off-Broadway in New York at the American Place Theatre. She has also performed at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, toured nationally, and played leading classical roles in regional theatre. Her writing and articles appear in the Voice and Speech Review, The Complete Voice and Speech Workout, the survey Teaching Breathing, and the online magazine Acting Now. She is an associate editor for the International Dialects of English Archive (www.ku.edu/-idea), and previously taught acting and MFA voice classes at University of California-Irvine. MFA University of California-Irvine; BFA Ohio University. WALTON WILSON (98)   Associate Professor, Head of Voice and Speech Associate Chair, Acting Program Yale School of Drama P.O. Box 208244 New Haven CT 06520 tel: 203-432-8811 fax: 203-432-9668 e: walton.wilson@yale.edu web: www.yale.edu/drama   Walton Wilson is also a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and has also studied voice with Richard Armstrong, Meredith Monk, Patsy Rodenburg, and various members of the Roy Hart Theatre. He has served as vocal coach for productions on Broadway, Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, and at major regional theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, and Yale Rep, working on the world premieres of Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project, Eric Begosian's Humpty Dumpty, Martha Clarke's Endangered Species, and David Rabe's The Black Monk. He has taught in numerous actor training programs, including NYU/ETW, ART's Institute, National Theatre Institute, and Southern Methodist University, as well as internationally, and has led workshops for community activists and prison inmates. His acting credits include productions Off-Broadway and in regional theatres and Shakespeare festivals across the country. BFA Southern Methodist University. KATE WISNIEWSKI (02)   Instructor, Associate Partner Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab 1525 10th Ave Seattle WA 98122 tel: 206-323-7499 e: kwisniewski@earthlink.net www.freeholdtheatre.org   Kate Wisniewski also coaches voice, speech, and dialects privately in Seattle. As an actor Kate has appeared throughout the Seattle area and at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge MA where she first studied Fitzmaurice Voicework with Nancy Houfek. Graduate Diploma American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA Millersville State University. LOU ANNE WRIGHT (04)   Associate Professor University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance Center for the Fine Arts P.O. Box 3951 Laramie WY 82071 tel: 307-766-2425 fax: 307-766-2197 e: lawright@uwyo.edu   Lou Anne Wright is an actor, dialect coach, and professor of acting, voice, speech, dialects, and theatre history, and a writer. She has served as voice/dialect coach for such companies as the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Playmakers Repertory, the Shadow Theatre, and the West Coast Ensemble. Lou Anne was seen on television as Judy Shepard in HBO's The Laramie Project and she has most recently performed on stage in The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, both in Denver. As a playwright, she authored the play Kabuki Medea which won the Jefferson Award for Best Production in San Francisco. It was also produced at the Kennedy Center. She is co-author of PLAYWRITING: FROM FORMULA TO FORM published by Harcourt Brace and is currently working on SETTING THE STAGE, a new Introduction to Theatre book for Wadsworth Publishing. Her screenwriting credits include the film adaptation of Eudora Welty's The Hitch-Hikers, which featured Patty Duke and Richard Hatch (and for which she was nominated for the Directors Guild of America's Lillian Gish award.) MFA National Theatre Conservatory/Denver Center for the Performing Arts; BA California State University-Northridge GRACE ZANDARSKI (98)   Lecturer in Acting Yale School of Drama 222 York Street New Haven CT 06520 & New York NY tel: 212-642-8580 e: gracezan@earthlink.net web: www.yale.edu/drama   Grace Zandarski has been teaching Fitzmaurice Voicework for several years in New York City at the recently closed Actors Center and at Fordham University, and recently taught in Moscow. She is a lecturer at Yale School of Drama, and has previously taught at the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University, Fordham University, NYU's Cap 21, and Queens College. Recent coaching credits include the Off-Broadway production of Little Eyolf. Grace does private coaching and consulting with actors, broadcasters, and business people from a wide variety of disciplines. She is a working actor, recently starring in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at the Wilma Theater, for which she was nominated for an award. MFA American Conservatory Theatre; BA Princeton University. FRANCINE ZERFAS (05)   Instructor NYU-Playwrights Horizons Theatre School 440 Lafayette 4th floor New York NY tel: 212-529-8720 e: zeetah@aol.com Francine Zerfas is a teacher, performer, and writer, who also currently teaches at NYU-Atlantic Theatre Company and at CUNY-Brooklyn College. She has also taught at the Caymichael Patten Studio, Classic Stage Company, and the Hangar Summer Theatre in Ithaca NY, and has conducted vocal workshops at the Centro em Movimento in Lisbon, Portugal. She was a co-founder of The Tiny Mythic Theater Company in New York City, where she functioned as both an actor and writer for the company. Some past performances include leading roles in Apocrypha by Travis Preston and Royston Coppenger at the Cucaracha Theater, Two Small Bodies at the Harold Clurman Theater, The Eagle Has Two Heads at the Ohio Theater in Soho, and Democracy in America at the Yale Repertory Theatre and Center Stage Baltimore. She has appeared in several independent films and video art works, including The Madness of Day by Terence Grace, Revolution, and an independent feature by Jeff Kahn, and in Irony, In Shadow City, and The Smallest Particle by Ken Feingold, with whom she collaborated in a year-long experimental video art project in Southeast Asia. As writer, she has collaborated with both The Private Theater and the Tiny Mythic Theater creating original works. Her full-length play, Advice for a Traveling Salesman, was directed by Kristin Marting and produced in New York City in 1987. Francine has traveled extensively in ballet and modern dance companies and also performed with various independent choreographers in Minneapolis. She is the founder of the Penrose Mothers' Artists Colony, a residency where women artists who are mothers can create while accompanied by their children. Her current writing project is The Cardboard Guy, a personal narrative about a two-year writing relationship through postcards. MFA New School University; BFA New York University. ASSISTANT TEACHERS All Assistant Teachers of Fitzmaurice Voicework have attended a Certification Program led by Catherine Fitzmaurice and the Master Teachers and are further developing their experience with the work.   MIRLA CRISTE   Assistant Professor University of Georgia Department of Drama and Theatre Division of Fine Arts Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Fine Arts Building Athens GA 30602 tel: 646-246-4415 e: mirlac@world.oberlin.edu   Mirla Criste has been teaching the arts at every level through college for 20 years. She taught Fitzmaurice Voicework at Oberlin College for two years, and has been a visiting Instructor at Slippery Rock University and at Hamilton College. She has been involved in the professional theatre as director, performer, designer, choreographer, playwright, composer, and producer since 1985. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and AEA. MFA University of California-Irvine; BA Oberlin College. APRIL IBARRA       Los Angeles CA e: pros005@aol.com April Ibarra taught Introduction to Theatre and acting for non-majors at CalState-Fullerton as a TA. She also coached voice and speech for undergraduate theatre majors. She has worked with Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA at the Frida Kahlo Theatre in Los Angeles, and has studied with members of the Moscow Art Theatre and American Repertory Theatre at the Stanislavsky summer training program in Cambridge. Her theatre credits include Lysistrata, Real Women Have Curves, Frida Kahlo, and the west coast premiere of Andorra. MFA California State University-Fullerton; BA California State University-Northridge. STEVE RAMSHUR     Union City NJ tel: 646-234-6360 e: ramshur@gmail.com Steve Ramshur is an actor, director, and fight choreographer. He has been an instructor at NYU's Graduate Acting Program, Stella Adler, Actors' Studio, and the NY Public Theatre's Shakespeare Lab. He has also worked at the Guthrie Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, and Cabrillo Stage. He was Assistant Director for the NY premiere of Edward Albee's The Play About The Baby, and has directed Little Eyolf, On The Verge, and Swordmaster Off-Broadway, and, most recently, The Fantasticks in California. He has been awarded a Fox Fellowship and a Gary Kalkin Fellowship. MFA New York University; BA University of Connecticut. MAGGIE SUROVELL     Instructor Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts New Brunswick NJ & New York City NY tel: 212-866-1993 e: maggiesurovell@gmail.com Maggie Surovell is currently teaching speech at Rutgers and acting and playwriting as an Artist in Residence at Shepard High School. She has taught voice and speech at Sarah Lawrence College and at the University of Georgia to undergraduate theatre majors. She apprenticed with Fitzmaurice Associate Pamela Prather in her speech class at Yale School of Drama, and she also teaches private clients in New York City, where she has dialect and voice coached shows at Cherry Lane Theatre, New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, with Les Freres Corbusier, Gotham Stages, Broad Horizons Theatre Company, and Stageworks/Hudson. Maggie continues to tour her comic one-woman show, Warning Signs, which she has performed with the Alliance Theatre, Les Freres Corbusier, Brat Productions, Stageworks/Hudson, and FHB Theater Productions. MFA University of Georgia; BA Temple University. INSTITUTIONS (with links to teachers' bio's): American InterContinental University, Los Angeles CA (Ward) American Repertory Theatre/Institute for Advanced Theatre Training/Harvard University, Cambridge MA (Houfek, Morrison) (MFA) Asolo Conservatory, Sarasota FL (Delorey) (MFA) Auburn University, Auburn AL (Bates, Hague) Bluecat Studio, Los Angeles CA (Lyle) Boston Conservatory, Boston MA (Cooney, Kopryanski) (MMusic) California State University-Fullerton CA (Brown, Case, Claire, Cominis, James, Kemp, Melton, Nevell) (MFA) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA (Feindel) (MFA) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles CA (Cazden) Chautauqua Theatre Company, Chautauqua NY (Miller) City University of New York-Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY (Zerfas) (MFA) City University of New York-Queensborough College, Bayside NY (Cuomo) DePaul University (Timberlake) Creighton University, Omaha NE (Meneghini) El Camino College, Torrance CA (Jensen) Elon University, Elon NC (Wahl) Fordham University, New York NY (Zandarski) Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab, Seattle WA (Hammond, B.Murphy, Wisniewski) Frostburg State University, Frostburg MD (Mattis) Harvard University/American Repertory Theatre/Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, Cambridge MA (Houfek, Morrison) (MFA) Harvard University/Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Cambridge MA (Houfek, Maggor) HB Studios (Pfeifer) Howard University, Washington DC (Bey) Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild CA (Fall) Juniata College, Huntingdon PA (Belser) Marymount Manhattan College NY (Morrison) New Jersey Shakespeare Festival NJ (McDonald) New York University/Atlantic Theatre Company, New York NY (Pfeifer, Zerfas) New York University/Playwrights Horizons, New York NY (Becz, Zerfas) Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL (Davis) (MFA) Northwestern University, Chicago IL (Martin) Ohio University, Athens OH (Evans) Otterbein College, Westerville OH (M. Murphy, Romer, Vaughan) Roosevelt University, Chicago IL (Taylor) Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick NJ (Rasche, Surovell ) (MFA) St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City MD (Ellis-Tolaydo) Seydways Acting Studios, Los Angeles CA (Kotzubei) Seydways Acting Studios, San Francisco CA (Bassham) Shepard High School ,New York City NY (Surovell) South Coast Repertory Conservatory, Costa Mesa CA (Ungar) State University of New York-Brockport NY (Childs) State University of New York-New Paltz NY (Saklad) State University of New York-Oneonta NY (Kahl) Stuart Rogers Acting Studio, Los Angeles CA (Kotzubei) Studio 5, Brooklyn NY (Miller) Syracuse University, Syracuse NY (Scott) Temple University, Philadelphia PA (Innerst, Sloan, Snow) (MFA) Texas State University-San Marcos TX (Grogan) Tom Todoroff Studio, Los Angeles CA (Burk) Tufts University, Boston MA (Cooney) University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA (Howey) University of California-Davis (Julian) (MFA) University of California-Irvine CA (Bassham, Thompson) (MFA) University of California-Santa Barbara CA (Morgan) University of Central Florida, Orlando FL (Ingram) (MFA) University of Connecticut-Storrs , Storrs CT (Knight) University of Georgia, Athens GA (Criste) (MFA) University of Houston TX (Johnson) (MFA) University of Maryland-Baltimore MD (Watson) University of Mississippi, Oxford MS (Pulliam) University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE (Meneghini) University of North Carolina-Charlotte NC (Harley, Mizell) University of New Mexico-Albuquerque NM (Loree) University of Regina Conservatory of Performing Arts, Regina Saskatchewan Canada (Foster) University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA (Backer, Burk) (MFA) University of South Florida, Tampa FL (Green) University of West Chester PA (Kelly) University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI (Holderness, Lopez) (MFA) University of Wyoming, Laramie WY (Wright) Wagner College, Staten Island NY (McDonald) Wayne State University, Detroit MI (Barnes) (MFA) West Virginia University, Morgantown WV (Hitt) (MFA) Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, Perth Australia (Moody) Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI (Espinosa) Westminster College, New Wilmington PA (Mackenzie) Yale School of Drama/Yale University, New Haven CT (McGuire, Prather, Wilson, Zandarski ) (MFA) COUNTRIES/STATES/CITIES (with links to teachers' bio's):   AUSTRALIA: Perth (Moody)       CANADA: Regina Saskatchewan (Foster)     ENGLAND:   London (Allen)     PANAMA: Panama City (Aragon-Chiari)     UNITED STATES:   ALABAMA Auburn AL (Bates, Hague)   CALIFORNIA Costa Mesa CA (Ungar) Davis CA (Julian) Fullerton CA (Brown, Case, Claire, Cominis, Kemp, Melton, Nevell) Idyllwild CA (Fall) Irvine CA (Bassham, Thompson) Los Angeles CA (Backer, Blaise, Brown, Burk, Cazden, Claire, Fall, Flanagan, Ibarra, Jensen, Kapustian, Kemp, Kotzubei, Lyle, Odinov, Ward) San Francisco CA (Bassham) Santa Barbara CA (Morgan)   CONNECTICUT New Haven CT (McGuire, Prather, Wilson, Zandarski) Old Lyme CT (Cooney) Storrs CT  (Knight)   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington DC (Bey, Marino)   FLORIDA Orlando FL (Ingram) Sarasota FL (Delorey) Tampa FL (Green)   GEORGIA Athens GA (Criste) Atlanta GA (Barrett)   ILLINOIS Chicago IL (Lush, Martin, Taylor, Timberlake) Decatur IL Smart DeKalb IL (Davis)   MARYLAND Baltimore MD (Watson) Frostburg MD (Mattis) St. Mary's City MD (Ellis-Tolaydo)   MASSACHUSETTS Boston MA (Cooney, Kopryanski ) Cambridge MA (Houfek, Kopryanski, Maggor, Morrison)   MICHIGAN Detroit MI (Barnes) Kalamazoo MI (Espinosa)   MISSISSIPPI Oxford MS (Pulliam)   NEBRASKA Lincoln NE (Meneghini) Omaha NE (Meneghini)   NEW JERSEY Madison NJ (McDonald) New Brunswick NJ (Rasche, Surovell) South Orange NJ (Green) Union City NJ (Ramshur)   NEW MEXICO Albuquerque NM (Loree)   NEW YORK Bayside NY (Cuomo) Brockport NY (Childs) New Paltz NY (Saklad) New York NY (Becz, Burke, Cuomo, Fitzmaurice, Grays, Green, James, Knight, Marion, Matero, McDonald, McGuire, Melton, Miller, Morrison, Pfeifer, Prather, Ramshur, Rasche, Surovell, Zandarski, Zerfas) Oneonta NY (Kahl) Syracuse NY (Scott)   NORTH CAROLINA Elon NC (Wahl) Greensboro NC (Barrett) Charlotte NC (Harley, Mizell)   OHIO Athens OH (Evans) Dayton OH (Bates) Westerville OH (M. Murphy, Romer, Vaughan)   PENNSYLVANIA Easton PA (Knight) Huntingdon PA (Belser) New Wilmington PA (Mackenzie) Philadelphia PA (Howey, Innerst, Kelly, Sloan, Snow) Pittsburgh PA (Feindel, Gresh) West Chester PA (Kelly)   TEXAS Austin TX (Eyermann) Houston TX (Johnson) San Marcos TX (Grogan)   WASHINGTON Seattle WA (Hammond, B. Murphy, Wisniewski)   WEST VIRGINIA Morgantown WV (Hitt)   WISCONSIN Milwaukee WI (Holderness, Lopez)   WYOMING Laramie WY (Wright)     Home Overview Calendar Teachers/Locations Articles Links FITZMAURICE VOICEWORK is a Registered Trademark owned by Catherine Fitzmaurice