Pace University (current)
Instructor
Speech for the Stage; Dialects
Skinner Technique, IPA
Fundamentals of Voice for the Stage: Basic breath, resonance, and vocal production and application to text.
American Academy of Dramatic Art (current)
Two-year conservatory program
Voice and speech: Skinner Technique, IPA, text work
Shakespeare
New York Film Academy (current)
Two-year professional training program
Speech: Skinner Technique, IPA; Dialects
Marymount Manhattan College Adjunct Professor
Voice and Speech
IPA, Fundamentals of Voice for the Stage: Basic breath, resonance, and vocal production and application to text.
Breakthrough Studios Conservatory
Voice and Speech, Head
IPA, Fundamentals of Voice for the Stage: Basic breath, resonance, and vocal production and application to text.
New Actors Workshop (1998-2010):
Two-year conservatory program
Skinner Technique, IPA; Shakespeare, verse and elevated text; Dialects
Advisor to Masters Candidates
TADA! Ensemble
After school pre-professional training program – students ages 10-17
Voice and Diction; poetry and Shakespeare; acting through text
Theatre Conservatory of Webster University, St Louis, MO (Visiting Professor)
Shakespeare Master Class
Acting Styles
VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association) Conferences (Presenter)
2013 “Giving Voice to International Students”
Panel with Amy Mihyang Ginther, Sue Klemp, Joanna Battles
2015 Interview with David Thorpe, director of “Do I Sound Gay?”
Florida Community College, Jacksonville (Guest Teacher)
Directing Shakespeare
Creative Seed Network – Workshop
Key In To Speech a part of the Excellent Service Series
Shakespeare Workshop
Annual summer intensive focusing on “letting the text act through the actor.”
Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Voice and Movement Master / 3 seasons)
National Teacher Training Institute, Jacksonville, FL (Keynote Speaker)
Directing as a Model for the Classroom (WNET sponsor)
ADAPT, NYC (Workshop)
The Theatrical Choice
A participatory workshop on what makes something “theatrical” and the nature of “theatricality”.
Society for the Advancement of Judaism, NYC (Teacher)
The Dybbuk
A three week class on the play, its role in Jewish Theatre, and the religious, mythic and elements of superstition in the text
West End Synagogue, NYC (Lecturer)
Two Faces of Shylock
A lecture on Shakespeare’s villain and Wesker’s hero of The Merchant.
DIALECT, TEXT, VOICE COACH/TEACHER
The American Guest (HBO)
Secret Garden (David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center)
Blacklist (NBC TV)
Billy Elliot (Ogonquit Playhouse)
Peccadillo Theatre, NYC
Loss of Roses
Another Part of the Forest
American Academy of Dramatic Arts:
Laramie Project
Machinal
The Cripple of Inishman
Rabbit Hole
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
Pace University:
Queens Blvd
Bent
Importance of Being Earnest
Look Back in Anger
A View From the Bridge
Translations
T. Schreiber Studio:
Escape From Happiness
Orpheus Descending
Yentl (Beautiful Soup Theatre Collective, NYC)
Importance of Being Earnest (Sink or Swim Repertory Theatre, NYC)
Venus Observed (Boomerang Theatre Company, NYC)
Knickerbocker Holiday (York Theatre)
Giant (Signature Theatre, VA)
New Music (Mint Theatre Co., NYC)
Merchant of Venice (w/ M. Carnovsky) (Halle Theatre, Cleveland, OH)
Pickings (Film, Usher Morgan, Producer/Director)
Classes at Pace University, New York Film Academy, T. Schreiber Studio, NYC
Private Client List available on request
PUBLICATIONS
We’ve only just begun: reflections and insights “Giving Voice to International Students” roundtable from the 2013 VASTA Conference in Minneapolis
Sue Klemp, Amy Mihyang Ginther, Joanna Battles, Lester Thomas Shane
Voice and Speech Review
pp. 1-9 | DOI: 10.1080/23268263.2015.1080894
Abstract | PDF | Full text HTML
- Published online: 12 Sep 2015
MEMBERSHIPS
UNIONS: SDC, AEA; SAG-AFTRA
VASTA The Players Club, The Bernard Shaw Society; The Shakespeare Society, Mystery Writers of America, Editorial Freelancers
Association
TRAINING
BFA Program; Carnegie‑Mellon University
Speech & Dialects: Edith Skinner; Directing: Lawrence Carra;
Columbia University:
Director’s Forum with Jerry Zaks, Judith Malina, Andrei Serban, Simonne Benmussa
Shakespeare:
John Barton, Patsy Rodenburg
Elevated Text Workshop:
Louis Sheeder, Shane Ann Younts, Robert Neff Williams
Voice Methods Workshop (Fitzmaurice/Linklater/ Lessac):
Phil Thompson, Jeff Morrison, Louis Colaianni, Nancy Krebs
Roy Hart Workshop
Mayra Lowry
Middendorf Breathing Workshop
Jeurg Roffler
Alba Method for Emotions
Rocco DalVera