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| Experience | |||
| Edge Studio (2008 - present) - Voiceover Coach/Producer at Edge Studio NYC. Private coaching focusing on voiceover technique, speech issues and accent reduction/acquisition; and group classes, including 'Let's Get Physical: Understanding How the Voice Works (and Why It Sometimes Doesn't)', 'Articulation Fast & Furious', ‘Learn Control: Conquering Common Speech Issues,’ ‘Diction, Diction, Diction,’ ‘The Ringer’ (an audition workshop), and ‘Addressing Your New York Accent.’ | |||
| Voice/Speech Coach (Ongoing) - Private work stresses the fundamentals of voice production: vocal fitness, relaxation and awareness, breath and support, sound production, resonance, articulation, range. Emphasis is on physical release of sound. Advanced work in character and movement in relationship to vocal choices and the acting impulse. | |||
| Dialect Coach (Ongoing) - Private work includes dialect fundamentals: consonant and vowel substitutions, pitch patterns and musicality, rhythm, as well as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Also addresses muscular difficulties inherent in making sounds that are foreign to the speaker. Emphasis is on full integration and ease of use. Advanced work in character and movement in relationship to dialect choices. | |||
| Corporate Presentation Coach (Ongoing) - Private work includes physical awareness and relaxation, articulation, humor and ease of presentation, flexibility and range | |||
| Classes/Workshops—previous class/workshop offerings include: | |||
| Inventing a Dialect: Ongoing exploration of the physicality of a dialect. Group work addressing initial dialect fundamentals (International Phonetic Alphabet, consonant and vowel substitutions, rhythm and placement), and moving further into physical studies of sound and character—discovering how an accent affects your body, where it lives, how the voice follows particular physical shifts in rhythm. | |||
| The Corporate Presentation: A six-hour intensive for senior-level design and marketing consultants, focusing on the nitty-gritty of the portfolio review for prospective clients. Topics included physical awareness and relaxation, articulation, humor and ease of presentation, flexibility and range. | |||
| Finding Your Voice: A six-week workshop covering the fundamentals of vocal production for actors. Topics included: physical awareness, breath and relaxation, sound and vibrations, voice and movement, articulation. Emphasis on physical release of sound. | |||
| Performing Outdoors: A two-day intensive addressing the special challenges an actor faces when performing in an out-door setting. Topics included: physical awareness and release, authentic power, breath and support, articulation. | |||
| Production Coach—selected production work includes: | |||
| Voice/Language Consultant | |||
| The Country Wife | dir. John Ficarra | HoNkBarK!/Vital Theatre Company | |
| 'Maid (author Erik Ehn) | dir. Rebecca Novick | Crowded Fire Theatre Company | |
| Tailings (author Erik Ehn) | dir. Steve Cosson | Smart Mouth Theatre | |
| Prospect (author Octavio Solis) | dir. Octavio Solis | Magic Theatre | |
| Twelfth Night (author William Shakespeare) | dir. Joe Vincent | California Shakespeare Festival | |
| True West (author Sam Shepard) | dir. Frank Condon | River Stage | |
| Victims (author Antony van Zyl) | dir. Michael Meyer | Organic Theatre (Chicago) | |
| Dialect Coach | |||
| Shakespeare's Slave (author Steven Fechter) | dir. Eric Parness | Resonance Ensemble | |
| Ghost on Fire (author Michael Weller) | dir. Eric Parness | Oberon Theatre Ensemble | |
| Sherlock Solo (author Victor L. Cahn) | dir. Eric Parness | Resonance Ensemble | |
| Shiloh Rules (author Doris Baizley) | dir. Michaela Goldhaber | Flying Fig Theatre Company | |
| The Gut Girls (author Sarah Daniels) | dir. Michaela Goldhaber | Flying Fig Theatre Company | |
| Book of Days (author Lanford Wilson) | dir. Robert Zick | New World Theatre Company | |
| Me and My Girl (Rose/Furber) | dir. Lee Sankowich | Marin Theatre Company | |
| A-A-America! (author Edward Bond) | dir. Christine Young | Crowded Fire Theatre Company | |
| Top Girls (author Caryl Churchill) | dir. Rebecca Novick | Crowded Fire Theatre Company | |
| Greensboro (author Emily Mann) | dir. John Warren | Unconditional Theatre Company | |
| My Fair Lady (Lerner/Lowe) | dir. Liz Carlin | University of California, Davis | |
| Training | |||
| BFA Acting: Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (cum laude and departmental honors) | |||
| Month-long Shakespeare intensive: Shakespeare & Co., Lenox, MA | |||
| Singing (private, ongoing): Aaron Hagan, New York, NY | |||
| Voiceover: Edge Studio, NYC; Voicetrax, Sausalito, CA; Voice Media, San Francisco, CA | |||