Summary:
Versatile voice, speech, text, and theatre teacher with extensive professional training and vocal science background. Skilled in the following methods: Linklater, Fitzmaurice, Berry, Phonetic Pillows, Skinner, and Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Extensive college directorial experience. VASTA member; professional Equity actor trained in Meisner technique; experienced in dialect work, and mask characterization - twenty-five year member of Ralph Lee's Mettwee River Theatre Company (mettawee.org). Professionally trained in movement, creative dramatics, children’s theatre, puppetry, mask making, and stage combat. Founding member of the Linklater Center for Voice and Language, NYC.
Degree's and Certificates
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Designated Teacher of Linklater Voice 2002
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Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework Voice 2001
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Certificate of Vocal Coaching (with Tony Church) Denver Center 1992
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Vocal Coach Internship: The Royal Shakespeare Company (with Cecily Berry and Andrew Wade.) Summer 1993
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MFA Rutgers Acting (with Bill Esper) 1985
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BFA Ithaca College Theatre 1982
Training Workshops:
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Experiencing Accents. Knight-Thompson Speechwork. August 2010
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Experiencing Speech. Knight-Thompson Speechwork. August 2009
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Linda Wise – Pan Theatre/Roy Hart – NYC workshop 2006
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Shakespeare & Company Month-long Intensive (June 2003)
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Phonetic Pillows and Accents Workshop with Louis Colaianni (April 2000)
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Patsy Rodenburg Shakespeare Workshop (March 1997)
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Skinner, consonants and vowels: Lucille Rubin (3 years)
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Robert Neff Williams method: Jacklyn Maddux (2 years)
Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships:
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CUNY Steward Travel Award Recipient (for 2012 The Voice Foundation's 41st Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA): March 2012.
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Provost's Award for Student Research Engagement: April 19, 2012.
Grants-In-Aid:
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PSC CUNY Traditional-A, Langston Hughes in Harlem. February 2016: $3500.
Teaching Experience:
YORK COLLEGE, CUNY
Jamaica, Queens, NYC
Assistant Professor 2010 - Present
Assistant Professor (Substitute) 2008 - 2010
Adjunct Assistant Professor 2003 – 2008
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Teach Voice & Diction; Interpretation of Poetry; Introduction to Theatre; Acting; Advanced Acting; Special Studies; Theatre Practice
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Fall 2008
Theatre Arts Division
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
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Taught speech class to 1st year MFA students
THE NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY, Spring 2009
Eugene Lange College
65 west 11th Street, NYC
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Taught Linklater voice class
LINKLATER CENTER FOR VOICE AND LANGUAGE, NYC, 2004 – 2008
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Taught classes and workshops in speech and voice
MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE, NYC, (1999–2000); 2003 – 2008
Adjunct Teacher of Voice and Speech
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Production vocal coach
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Taught Linklater voice and Skinner speech to BFA & BA students
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NYC, Fall 2007 – Spring 2008
Field Instructor
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Taught voice and text to B.F.A. musical theatre students at CAP21 Studios
OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens Ohio, January 2007 – June 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice/Acting
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Taught voice, heightened language, and text in BFA program
CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL, NYC, Fall 1999 – 2003
Instructor of Voice
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Co-taught 4 classes of voice production with Dr. Lucille Rubin
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Taught 1 semester Linklater voice to visiting students from The University of Southern Connecticut
NATIONAL THEATRE WORKSHOP FOR THE HANDICAPPED, NYC, 2001-2003
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Teach Classes in Voice & Speech, and Monologue
Vocal Coaching Experience:
NYS THEATRE INSTITUE, Troy, NY, January 2008
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Macbeth, dir. Liz Swain
MARYMOUNT COLLEGE, NYC, Fall 2000 – 2007
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Six Degrees of Separation, dir. Richard Niles
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Rhinoceros, dir. Richard Niles
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The Inspector General, dir. Brian Rheinhart
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Imperceptible Mutabilities of the Third Kingdom, dir. David Lee
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A Winter’s Tale, dir. Liz Swain
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Camile, dir. Liz Swain
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A New Way to Please You, dir. Liz Swain
ZIGGURAT THEATRE, Los Angeles, March 2000
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Twilight World, dir. Stephen Legawiec
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, England, Summer 1993
Vocal Coach Internship
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Julius Caesar, dir. David Thacker. Duties included research of language; teaching rhetoric; leading
vocal warm-ups; presentation of two poetry workshops
Poery Projects:
Langston Hughes in Harlem – Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- BAM, with Will Power. (Harvey Theatre) 2006
Speak Out – an evening of activist speech and song - Acting Studio, NYC, April 1998
Raving Lunatics – a cut-up of spontaneous prosody by Jack Kerouac – Ward Studio, NYC, October 2002
Gwendolyn Brooks – The Warpland - Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, Winter 2008