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Offering over 20 years of teaching experience in a variety of venues and to a wide range of ages and experience levels. Subjects have included voice, speech, verse scansion, improvisation, audition technique, and acting. Consistently working as a voice and speech teacher since 1999.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, Irvine, CA (2005 to Present)
Head of Undergraduate Acting (2008-present)
Casting Director (2007-present)
Lecturer, PSOE, Drama Department (2005-present)
Eli Simon, Department Chair
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER, San Francisco, CA (1998 to 2005)
Studio A.C.T. (1999 to Present)
Voice I & II and Speech I & II
Bruce Williams, Studio A.C.T. Director.
Young Conservatory (1998 to 1999)
Acting and Voice
Craig Slaight, Director, Young Conservatory
SEYDWAYS ACTING STUDIO, San Francisco, CA (2003 to Present)
A comprehensive lab committed to the art and craft of professional acting
Fitzmaurice Voicework®
Richard Seyd, Director
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, San Francisco, CA (Spring 2008)
Guest Instructor, Voice and Speech for the Stage
Peggy Phelan, Department Chair
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, CA (Spring 2005)
Part-time faculty, Voice for Perforance
Peter Novak, Department Chair
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Acting Company Ateliers 2010, Guest Instructor for three workshops
Fitzmaurice Voicework® Teacher Certification Programs V-VIII 2006-2009, Guest Instructor
California Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Camp, 2005, Instructor, Voice/Text Activation
Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre Program, 2005, One-day Voice Workshop
Funky Door Yoga, 2005, Two One-day Voice Workshops
Children’s Theatre Workshop, 1993, Instructor, Acting/Voice
Harvest Theatre, 1992, Instructor, Audition Technique
Stanford University, 1991, One-day Voice workshop for cast of Trojan Women
Youth Theatre of Vilnius, Lithuania, 1990, One-day Acting/Improv workshop for theatre company *introduced course into the curriculum
VOICE / DIALECT COACH
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Pride and Prejudice, adapted by Hanreddy/Sullivan and directed by Libby Appel Well, by Lisa Kron, directed by James Edmondson
South Coast Repertory
Hamlet, by Shakespeare, directed by Dan Sullivan (co-coached) Ridiculous Fraud, by Beth Henley, directed by Sharon Ott, West Coast Premiere The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard, directed by Martin Benson (co-coached)
Center REPertory Company
Noises Off by Michael Frayn, directed by Timothy Near How the Other Half Loves, by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Michael Butler
Transversal Theatre Company
Blue Shade by Bryan Reynolds, directed by Robert Cohen
Sixth Street Playhouse
Stones in His Pockets, by Marie Jones, directed by Sheri Lee Miller
University of California Irvine
Wild Party, by Andrew Lippa, directed by Dennis Beasley Escape from Happiness, by George Walker, directed by Rob Salas Book of Tink by Erik Ehn, directed by Jim Knipple (co-coached) The Bacchae, by Euripides, directed by Mihai Maniutiu West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents/Bernstein-Sondheim, directed by Eli Simon Measure for Measure, by Shakespeare, directed by Phil Thompson Uncle Vanya, by Anton Checkov, directed by Keith Fowler Midsummer Night?s Dream, by William Shakespeare, directed by Benjamin Pohlmeier Anything Goes, by Cole Porter, directed by Don Hill Urinetown, by Kotis/Hollman, directed by Myrona Delaney (co-coached) Fetes de la Nuit, by Charles L. Mee, directed by Annie Loui Sunday in the Park with George, by Lapine/Sondheim, directed by Eli Simon Music Man, by Meredith Wilson, directed by Bill Rauch The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune, by Robert Schenkkan, directed by Benjamin Polhmeier Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas, directed by Don Hill (co-coached) Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, directed by Brian Sivesend Kiss Me Kate, by Cole Porter and Sam & Bella Spewak, directed by Robert Cohen Nine, by Mario Fratti, directed by Trevor Bishop The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov, directed by Magdelena Zira
Santa Rosa Junior College
Cabaret, by Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb, and John Kander, directed by Leslie McCauley
Grant & Associates
(Media Training and Talent Coaching) Voice Specialist
Private Coaching
Audition/Voice/Speech/Dialects
FITZMARUICE VOICEWORK TEACHER CERTIFICATION COURSE IV; New York, NY (2003-2004)
Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER; San Francisco, CA (1986-1989)
Master of Fine Arts, Acting
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON; Seattle, WA (1982-1986)
Bachelor of Arts, Drama
Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Conferences
“Speaking for Impact” workshop with Judy Grant
“Using Shakespeare?s Rhetoric Onstage” with Becky Kemper
UCSF Voice Conference, Hands-on Singing and Acting Workshop
“Changing Language of Anatomy” workshop at Applied Anatomy Institute
Voiceover Technique at Voice One
XVI Annual PVSF/UCLA Voice Conference
Speechwork Workshop with Dudley Knight and Phil Thompson
Middendorf Institute for Breathexperience with Juerg Roffler
Experiential Anatomy with Susan Bauer
Advanced Acting with Richard Seyd
Fitzmaurice Voicework with Saul Kotzubei
Voice workshop with Patsy Rodenburg
Ongoing yoga classes
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