Fitzmaurice Voicework

"The work approaches
the body as a whole
system and the vocal
mechanism as part of
that totality."

- workshop participant

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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.

ADAM BRADLEY

Toronto ON Canada
647.505.4846
adam@adambradley.tv
www.adambradley.tv

Adam Bradley is an actor, writer, director, and producer based in Toronto, Canada, where he also teaches voice classes and acting classes using Practical Aesthetics as his preferred technique. He graduated from the Atlantic Acting Conservatory in 2006 and has trained all over the world, from Odin Teatret in Denmark to Dah Teatar in Belgrade to Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary. He has taught voice and acting in Vancouver, Toronto, and Oslo.

MA University of British Columbia; BA McGill University.

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.

TARA GORDON
: New York NY
tel: 212-645-2527
e: taralgordon@gmail.com

Tara Gordon currently resides in New York City. She is the co-artistic director of The Requiem Project, a performance company that focuses on the fusions of voice and energy work in contemporary dance. Tara privately coaches creative writers, journalists, and public speakers on the dynamics of speaking their own written words. Professional teaching and coaching associations include The New York Times Television, Barrington Stage Company, Wingspan Arts, The 21st Century Fund, and Alstra Capital Management. New York and regional acting credits include Hot Ink Festival, First Look Acting Company, Magellan Gallery, Camilla Theater Workshop, Carnegie Mellon Summer Stage, and The Barrington Stage Company. Tara studied at the Tisch School of The Arts, and further studied acting at The Actors Center in New York City with a focus on Anton Chekhov, and is currently completing her MA at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Her graduate research areas are in neuroscience, mysticism, and mind-body techniques. With a collaborative partner, Tara's graduate thesis is the development of a movement technique that incorporates Fitzmaurice Voicework®, contemporary dance, and Pilates. Tara is a certified Pilates instructor and Reiki practitioner.

BFA New York University.

CAMILLA HELLBERG

Helsinki Finland
&
Cape Town South Africa
tel: +358-40-509-1126 (Finland)
e: camilla358@gmail.com

Camilla Hellberg is a freelance theatre artist, teacher, and healer. She is a co-founder of Teater Mestola and has acted in Maria Stuart: Songs and Dances of Weddings and Funerals, Sonen, Arrabal and Misantropen. She co-wrote and acted in the play Amsterdam that toured Finland in 2004-05. Maria Stuart toured in Sweden and Germany the same year. In 2008 she co-wrote and directed the play No Fear in Helsinki. She has been a board member of the Finnish Actors’ Union since 2006. Camilla also works as a project leader for MatikiMojo--Supporting Children with Arts and Culture, an international children's theatre project with outreach in Finland and South Africa. She has been a certified Theta Healing practitioner since 2007. Camilla is doing research on the “un-struggling” artist, investigating the role of the obstacle in the creative process and how to eliminate the blockages that inhibit it. Together, Fitzmaurice Voicework and the Theta Healing technique present new and effective ways to work with mind and body in life and acting. Camilla is based in Finland but works as an artist and teacher in other Nordic countries as well as in South Africa. She works and teaches in the Swedish, English, and Finnish languages.

MA Theatre Academy of Finland.

SARAH JESSOP


: Cambridge Massachusetts
781-361-5231
jessop@post.harvard.edu
www.sarahjessop.com

Sarah Jessop is a singer, actress and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a frequent performer in New York, Boston, and San Francisco, singing traditional Irish music, Americana, and Blues, and has recently been a visiting soloist at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. As a singer, she marvels at the ability of Fitzmaurice Voicework to continually facilitate rediscovery of the truth of a song. As an actor, she is fascinated by the work's ability to root text in one's own breath and felt humanity. As a human being, she remains inspired by the power of vocal and bodily awareness to promote truthful, mindful, and compassionate communication. Sarah enjoys exploring Voicework with professional singers and actors in Boston and New York City, as well as with private clients seeking more easeful, efficient, and expressive commuication. Currently Sarah is entering her first year as an MFA candidate in Voice and Speech Pedagogy at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute of Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, studying under Nancy Houfek. She also serves as a voice and speech consultant for teaching fellows at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard. Sarah earned her B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College.; MFA candidate A.R.T./MXAT Institute of Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University; BA Harvard University.

DANIEL MITAROTONDO

Artistic Director
The Common Tongue
520 East 14th Street, Apt#30
New York NY
646-884-0800
dwm2122@columbia.edu
dwm234@nyu.edu
artisticdirector@tctnyc.org
www.tctnyc.org

Danny Mitarotondo is a playwright, director, and actor, and the Artistic Director/Co-Founder of The Common Tongue (TCT), an international production company comprised of 22 actors and writers based in New York. Danny's plays We Carry On, Sea, and American Breakfast premiered at the Manhattan Repertory Theater, TheaterLab, the American Theater of Actors, and the Gene Frankel Theater, all of which he acted in as well. As an actor, his most recent New York credits also include Shadow Play and Heart's Desire at the Atlantic Theatre School, and the film Untitled by AFI Director John Francis McCarthy. As a director, he most recently was nominated at the Strawberry One-Acts Festival for his play Sea as Best Director 2009, and he has been working for over three years with playwright Edward Albee in a collaborative re-staging of Albee's All Over. Incarnations of this process and project have appeared at the Geraldine Page Salon for the Arts, TheaterLab, and most recently the Atlantic Theatre Company's Linda Gross Theatre, starring Marian Seldes, Kathleen Butler, Denise Lute and many others. Danny has also trained at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Sheila Allen and is an MFA Playwriting Candidate at Columbia University under the direction of Charles Mee, Kelly Stuart and Anne Bogart. He lives in New York City.

MFA candidate Columbia University; BA New York University-Gallatin; Graduate Atlantic Theatre Company's Professional Conservatory.

MAY NAZARENO


Cambridge MA & Manila Philippines tel: 646-221-0886 tel: +63-926-703-7410 (Manila) www.maynazareno.com: May Nazareno is currently with the American Repertory Theatre/Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, completing her MFA in Voice under Nancy Houfek. May has been teaching actors, singers, community leaders, and business executives as private clients both in New York City and San Francisco. She is also the first teacher to bring Fitzmaurice Voicework to the Philippines and has taught at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and De La Salle University. In addition to her work as a teacher, May is a playwright, actor, singer, producer, and director. Her play Dead Woman Home has premiered in Seattle at the 2004 Mae West Festival, New York’s Midtown International Theatre Festival, the National Theatre Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the 2005 Theatre Communications Group National Conference in Seattle, Tanghalan On Stage, and the Filipina Women’s National Summit in San Francisco. Producing credits include Tanghalan on Stage, the first Filipino American Theatre Festival in San Francisco and the United States, and Pamana Ako: Discovering One's Heritage through Song for the first Asian American Theatre Festival. Directing credits include Passing which May wrote and developed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and Eve Ensler’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, which performed at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

MFA candidate A.R.T./MXAT Institute of Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University; BA State University of New York-Binghamton.

TERRY O'CONNELL

Idaho Falls ID
tel: 208-227-0123
&
Los Angeles, CA
tel: 646-421-4500 e: terry@oconnell.com www.thetatimes.com: Terry O’Connell is a ThetaHealing™ Master, Practitioner and Teacher, and is exploring the connections between Fitzmaurice Voicework® and ThetaHealing™. Terry was drawn to the work after experiencing its powerful effect on her own breathing after a single one-day workshop in 2006. The ability of Fitzmaurice Voicework® to transform a person through the physical experience of a theta brainwave complements the energetic approach to the same transformation that Terry experiences in practicing ThetaHealing™ with her clients and students. Terry has worked with clients and students from more than 35 countries. Much of her client work is done over the phone. Terry teaches in New York, Los Angeles, Idaho, England, and Australia throughout the year.; MBA The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; MS & BS Georgetown University.

PATRICIA PEARSON

San Francisco CA tel: 415-285-6203 e: runningpup@mindspring.com: Patricia Pearson was born and grew up in New York City and left there to live in Alaska and then California where she lives now, in San Francisco. She is an improviser and performs with BATS Improv as a member of The Sunday Players. For most of her professional life Patricia has been a graphic designer and illustrator and is now in the process of switching to performance. She has attended The Art Students League in New York City, Columbia University, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and the Academy of Art in San Francisco where she also taught.

KATHERINE POULSEN

Adjunct faculty
Wesley Institute
5 Mary Street
Drummoyne NSW 2047
Australia
+61 2 9819 8888
+61 414 727 426 (cell)
katherinepoulsen@hotmail.com

Katherine Poulsen is a Sydney based voice trainer and theatre director who currently lectures in Voice and Acting Shakespeare on the Bachelor of Dramatic Art program at Wesley Institute, teaches American Dialect for Screenwise and lectures students in presentation skills for the Insearch program at the University of Technology, Sydney. As a voice teacher she has instructed at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), The Actors Centre, the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), the Actors College of Theatre and Television (ACTT), and in New Zealand at the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (NASDA). She has acted and directed for the stage in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Katherine completed her undergraduate degree in Theatre at Theatre Nepean (BA Performance, University of Western Sydney-Nepean) and her post graduate degree in Voice Studies at NIDA, with a diploma from ATCL Speech & Drama. As an adjunct to her theatre training Katherine has trained in music, ballet, corporeal mime and life drawing, all of which she has found to enhance her abilities as a director and instructor.

MA Voice National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) Sydney Australia; BA University of Western Sydney-Nepean.

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.

SUSAN RYAN

: Adjunct Faculty
Horace Mann School
Riverdale
New York NY 10471
tel: 718-432-3761
e: susanryan@earthlink.net; Susan Ryan is currently teaching privately and is also the co-creator and lead instructor for the Horace Mann Summer Intensive, a program whose curriculum is designed to teach physically-based theatre disciplines to teenagers and pre-college students. Susan has taught voice and speech for NYU Undergraduate Drama at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, has served as a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center Institute, and is trained in LCI’s approach to Aesthetic Education for grades K through 12. As a Lincoln Center Institute Teaching Artist she taught within the New Jersey public school system. She is also an Early Childhood Music Specialist working in private music programs and in preschools in New York City. As a professional actor she has worked in theatre, film and television. As a professional vocalist she has worked in both live and recorded mediums and has performed in venues ranging from the blues clubs of Greenwich Village to Symphony Space and Carnegie Hall. She is trained in the movement disciplines of Viewpoints and Contact Improvisation and has also studied Suzuki with The SITI Company both in Saratoga Springs and New York City. She is a member of VASTA and AFTRA, and holds the Certificate from the Center for Music and Young Children.
BFA New York University.

BRAITHE TIDWELL

New York NY
tel: 917-647-8324
e: braitheg@yahoo.com

Braithe Tidwell is an actress, writer, and director based in New York City, where she offers private acting and voice coaching. She has practiced Fitzmaurice Voicework for almost ten years, studying with Dudley Knight, Grace Zandarski, and Ilse Pfeifer at the Actors Center in New York, Aole T. Miller at Studio 5 in Brooklyn, and with Catherine Fitzmaurice. Braithe studied extensively at the Stella Adler Conservatory through the Tisch School of the Arts. She has also studied Strasberg, Grotowski, Per Brahe’s mask work, and clowning with Christopher Bayes. Braithe wrote and directed the play Committing the Conscious: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and acted in the movie Virgin.
BFA New York University.

BERNARD VASH

San Francisco CA
e: bvash008@msn.com

Bernard Vash spent 13 years at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco under William Ball and Allen Fletcher, as a founding member of the Young Conservatory and later an actor and as instructor of phonetics and ear training, voice, and acting. His colleagues included Nancy Houfek, Deborah Sussel, Marie Chambers, and Deborah Hecht. Bernard has also taught at Temple University and San Francisco State University, and has coached dialects for Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Bernard studied at Carnegie Mellon University with Donna Snow, Rick Winter, Robert Chaplin, Timothy Monich, and Edith Skinner; and with Anne Lawder and Edith Skinner at ACT. In 1980, he assisted Edith Skinner teaching and was trained to teach her method. He is also pursuing the Linklater designation track. Recently (as Tucker Sonoma) he has trained with Shakespeare and Company both as a teacher trainee and as a participant. He has also trained in stage combat and fight choreography with Gregory Hoffman at Dueling Arts International, and he attended their 2007 Teaching Symposium.

VERENA WELSER

Sudbury MA

&
Boston MA

tel: 978-443-2612

e: vmwelser@gmail.com

Verena Welser studied classical guitar and classical singing at Vienna Music University. She then extended her voice studies in many different genres and cultures (Tyrolean folk music, Wiener lied, French chanson, Haitian ceremonial music, Indian spiritual music, Greek laments, and Tuvan (South Siberian) folk and ceremonial music. She is also a long term Yoga practitioner and student. She taught and teaches Voice in Vienna and Innsbruck Austria, Munich Germany, Auroville India, and in the Boston area in the USA. She has been a passionate Fitzmaurice Voicework student and teacher since 2008.

Federal Teaching Diploma Vienna Music University; Montessori Teaching Diplomas Austria & USA; Graduate Yoga Asanas & Philosophy Bihar Yoga University, Bihar India & Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Tamil Nadu India.