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Volume 4, Issue 6
November/December 2008

Table of Contents:

A Message from the President
From the Editor
2009 Conference Announcement
Member News

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Beth McGee

Hello friends,

Those of us in the United States are enjoying a much-anticipated respite from the two-year Presidential campaign.  But what a feast of language, rhetorical salvos, and regional dialects it gave us!  For our international members, I hope you enjoyed the show.  I imagine it will begin again in another two years.  Fasten your seat belts.

Here in Cleveland it's hard to think of much but the impending snow and the dark days of winter.  Makes me wish for the time to hibernate and wake refreshed in the spring.  But there's too much happening in VASTA right now for any kind of long winter's nap.  The Board and Officers are gearing up for their fall board meeting next week, plans are well underway for the 2009 and 2010 conferences (more details soon, I promise!), ATHE VASTA proposals are being vetted, VASTA awards are being considered, VASTANS are being mentored, the VASTA Voice and Speech Review is being edited, VASTA Fellows are donating time and expertise for theaters, and always, always, the VASTAVOX is there for anyone who has a question, wants to provoke discussion, or has something they'd like to share.  Just take a look at our member news in this issue to see how prolific we all are!

As announced in the last VOICE, but worthy of reiteration, is a hearty thanks to VASTA member Paul Meier, who is donating a portion of the profits of his new eBook, Voicing Shakespeare to the VASTA Clyde Vinson Scholarship Fund for "junior" voice professionals.  As part of that effort, nine of the performers in the book agreed to donate their performance fees to the Vinson Scholarship, as well, to the total of $452.19.  These generous performers and VASTA members are:  Eric Armstrong, Leslie Bennett, Amy Virginia Buchanan, Geraldine Cook, Tavia Gilbert, Dudley Knight, John Staniunas, Marina Tyndall, Elizabeth Wiley

A very special thanks to all of you for your contributions.  I invite VASTA members to contact them and thank them as well.

Here's to warm and happy holidays and a peaceful and productive new year.  See you in New York in August!

Beth McGee
president@vasta.org

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FROM THE EDITOR

Jeff Morrison

VASTAns,

Greetings! This issue is the Fall/Winter Member News Issue. The VASTA Voice, twice a year, gathers news from its members and makes it available to you.  These issues are historically our most popular ones, which is a testament to the strength of the voice-teaching community, now worldwide, that VASTA serves, and the interest that our members have in each others’ work. Our members are engaged in a staggering number and variety of creative and professional activities; the member issues, as inspiring as they are, I am certain only scratch the surface of what everyone is up to. When people ask me “what is it that voice teachers do, exactly?” or when “traditional” academicians subtly challenge the validity or rigor of our work, I am often tempted to wave these issues around and say (with good breath support), “Just look!”

These issues are also our most labor-intensive, and would not happen without the hard work and dedication of a number of people, who I want to personally thank and recognize here:

Michael Barnes, Director of Technology and Internet Services
Guy William Molnar, Associate Newsletter Editor
Linda Cartwright, Regional Editor, International
Dawn McCaugherty, Regional Editor, Canada
Peter-Jack Tkatch, Regional Editor, Northeast (ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, PA, RI, NJ, DE, MD, D.C.)
Tracey Moore, Regional Editor, New York
Vivian Majkowski, Regional Editor, Southern (AL, AR, LA, MS, OK, TX, TN, KY)
Mandy Fox, Regional Editor, East Central (OH, MI, IN, WI, IL)
Daydrie Hague, Regional Editor, Southeast (WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL)
Holly Rocke, Regional Editor, West Central (MN, IA, MO, ND, SD, NE, KS, MT, WY, CO, NM, ID, UT, NV, AZ)
Evelyn Case, Regional Editor, Western (WA, OR, CA, AK, HI)

Thanks to you all.

I would also like to mention here another service that VASTA provides to its members: the online bibliography or “webliography.” I take special interest in this resource, as I spearheaded and oversaw the beginning of the transition from the old paper bibliography, which some of you may remember, to the current searchable database of annotated bibliographical entries.  The online bibliography is now in the capable hands of Brad Gibson and has been for several years; he has smoothed out the early kinks and is now working to move the resource forward with new entries. If you read your VOX, you will know he recently posted some information about it, which I will reinforce here:
 
The "webliography" is an excellent resource made up of over 500 books, articles, and media resources that have been vetted by VASTA members.  The really great thing about this resource is that it’s searchable just like an online card catalog. It’s incredibly useful, but it appears from usage reports furnished by the bibliography website that few VASTA members use it or (possibly) even know about it. So go check it out: go to the VASTA website, click on Resources, then Online Bibliography, then click the link to go VASTA’s bibliography page… or just follow this link: Webliography.

Until next time,
Jeff Morrison

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2009 VASTA Conference Announcement

Michele Cuomo

VASTAs 2009 Conference is entitled Original Voices: Vocal Methodologies from the Source. It will be held August 2-7 inNew York City. Save the dates for this singular opportunity to encounter our most eminent presenters: Catherine Fitzmaurice, Kristen Linklater and Patsy Rodenberg. Arthur Lessac will deliver the keynote address. VASTA will continue its tradition of VASTA Member Presentations. More information will soon be available at VASTA.org, through Vastavox and through direct member email.

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Member News

INTERNATIONAL
Linda Cartwright, Regional Editor
 
BETSY ALLEN (London, U.K.) has been teaching Fitzmaurice Voicework and Improvisational Singing in various training institutes in London since 2006.  She is composing and performing a new musical theatre piece in the AdHoc concert series, 2008, and is also working as a professional Voice Over Artist for radio, television and online games in the U.K. and U.S.

FLLOYD KENNEDY (Queensland, Australia) continues work on her PhD Thesis,”Towards a Theory of the Voice in Performance” with the University of Queensland.  This year she has presented “The Fall of June Bloom:  Practice is Research” at the ADSA Conference in N.Z., “Vocal Performance Text as Historiography” at SIBMAS in Scotland, and “The Fall of June Bloom: A Modern Invocation” (work in progress) at Performing the World in New York.  She is presently in New Jersey, providing online coaching via her website http://www.being-in-voice.com, and developing “The Fall of June Bloom” for full production in 2009 (see http://www.thundersmouththeatre.com).

CHRISTINA SHEWELL (U.K.) will see her book about voice work along the normal-abnormal continuum, Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices published in January.  She is part of a RADA/LAMDA research project for which the collection of recordings from a three-year training course has been completed and the analysis about to begin.   The VRS Review have accepted an article about her perceptual voice scheme, “The Voice Skills Perceptual Profile”.  She will be teaching on the MA Voice Studies course at London’s CSSD and, through the Australian Voice Association, she will be doing a teaching tour of Australia next year.

D’ARCY SMITH (Wellington, New Zealand) recently moved to New Zealand to take up the position of Head of Voice and Speech at New Zealand’s National Drama School, Toi Whakaari.  Before leaving the U.S., D’Arcy hosted a VASTA Workshop at Wright State University.  He recently finished coaching Choice Cuts and Unity (1918) in New Zealand and he is scheduled to begin coaching Catfish Moon in Ohio in December.  He has also recently been invited to contribute an article for the upcoming NewZATS (New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing) Newsletter.

PANTHEATRE (Paris & Malérargues, France) - Last September Pantheatre directed a training and performance project in Haiti : Sharing the Salt, with a cast of twenty . . . plus four hurricanes!
For 2009:
Paris, “Voice and Music Performance” workshop: March 9 – 20, directed by Linda Wise and Enrique Pardo with composers and musicians – a workshop emphasizing the performance aspects of the voice in relation to music. New York, PanNYC Workshop: May 18 – 31 – the first of yearly professional training intensives.
Malérargues, June residencies for directorial and teacher training, plus performance projects.
Malérargues, The Myth and Theatre Festival : “Philosophy & Emotion”, July 1 – 12. Bilbao, Summer University project with the Basque Country University, end of July. Paris, Annual Professional Workshop (training and performance projects), nine weeks: September 28 – November 29.

CANADA
Dawn McCaugherty, Regional Editor
 
ERIC ARMSTRONG (York University, Toronto) is back at work as Acting Area Coordinator after his 08-09 sabbatical. As a VASTA Fellow, he presented at the South Carolina Theatre Association in November. He has continued to do small coaching gigs for the TV show The Border. He was recognized for his service work for families with Autism by the University of Toronto, Department of Occupational Therapy. He presented on "Embodying Meter" at the VASTA conference and his article on the same topic should appear in this summer's VSR. Eric continues as chair of the VASTA Endowment Grants and Awards Committee. Awesome.

HEATHER CHETWYND (Voice to Word Consulting Inc.) is the founder and director of Voice to Word Consulting. The company specializes in refining the communication skills of internationally trained individuals with a focus on pronunciation and culturally appropriate behaviour. In January 2008, Heather opened an office in downtown Toronto where she has been running one-on-one pronunciation classes. She has launched a new website and quarterly newsletter and is in the process of expanding services to include on-line training. Heather is also currently on contract two days a week with Sheridan College in a work-study program teaching workplace culture and pronunciation to advanced ESL students.

MARK INGRAM (Toronto Film School) is experiencing major shifts in his life in the next six months. His job at the Film School officially ends in January, as his campus has been shut down by “head office”. So after three and a half years there, the search for life after TFS has been a dusting-off of his freelance skills. Most exciting prospect on the horizon, Mark is coordinating/teaching in a six-week workshop in Mumbai in March/April. He is really looking forward to traveling to this part of the world and to getting a bit of insight into the Bollywood actor.

SHANNON MARENTETTE (University of Winnepeg) successfully completed the M.F.A. in Theatre Voice Pedagogy program at the University of Alberta in April, and is currently teaching at the University of Winnipeg.  This past summer, she was awarded the Clyde Vinson Memorial Scholarship through VASTA.  While at the conference, Shannon presented the peer-reviewed paper “Qualitative Inquiry and the Vocal Coach: Ways of Knowing”.  She is currently working on publications for the upcoming Voice and Speech Review and is serving on the Pedagogy Committee as well as helping out with Membership.  Shannon is looking forward to getting married in July 2009.

CATHERINE MARRION (Theatre Performance Program, Humber College, Toronto) is happily back on the job after a sabbatical during which she attended the "Giving Voice Festival" in Wales, including a five-day workshop with Kristin Linklater. She also undertook Graduate studies in Expressive Arts Therapy in Toronto (ISIS Canada) and Switzerland (European Graduate School).  Exploring other art forms has led to great insights into the nature of creativity and has strengthened her own practice, performance work and teaching.

DAWN McCAUGHERTY (University of Calgary) serves as Graduate Coordinator and teaches directing, acting, and voice at the university. In the winter term she will be coaching a graduate thesis production of Hamlet, as well as participating in an associated symposium. This spring will find her once again in Vancouver on faculty for Canada’s National Voice Intensive.

BETTY MOULTON (University of Alberta) taught and coached for the Citadel/Banff professional training program in the beautiful setting of Banff this past summer. The show was a world premiere of a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and opened the Citadel Theatre season. Also in Edmonton, she coached the world premiere of Catalyst Theatre's Nevermore, a tale of Edgar Allen Poe, which will travel next June to the Magnetic North Festival in Ottawa and the Luminato Festival in Toronto. She'll be on sabbatical for the winter term!

DAVID SMUKLER (York University) - After the rainiest summer in the books and all of Toronto suffering allergies, now an early winter and preparing for next spring's Canada’s National Voice Intensive.

DANIELLE WILSON (Brock University) continues to teach voice and acting at Brock University where she has been for the past two years. She just finished acting and voice coaching an adaptation of Medea set in a modern day talk show environment. She also vocal coached Albertine in Five Times and last spring acted for the first time in three years as Denise in Problem Child for Lyndesfarne Theatre company in St. Catharines. This past summer, she attended the Michael Chekhov International workshop for the second summer and is continuing to develop her work as a voice teacher by  incorporating the Chekhov work into her teaching.

NORTHEAST
Peter Jack Tkatch, Regional Editor

NANCY HOUFEK (Head of Voice & Speech, A.R.T./Harvard University) continues to teach voice, speech, dialects and texts to both graduate and undergraduate students garnering her third consecutive award for excellence in teaching at Harvard.  She coached Copenhagen (dir. Scott Zigler), Julius Caesar (dir. Arthur Nauzyciel), and The Communist Dracula Pageant (dir. Anne Kaufmann) for the A.R.T., and The Lacy Project (dir. Scott Zigler) and Pinter's The Room/Celebration (dir. Roman Kozak) for the Institute.  Nancy also continues her work with professional organizations and private sector clients throughout the country presenting workshops on presentation, negotiation, and leadership skills using theatre techniques.

MARYA LOWRY (Brandeis U., Actors Shakespeare Project, Boston) remains in her p-t position at Brandeis allowing her more freedom to pursue teaching Shakespeare to incarcerated youth and acting. She served as personal vocal coach to Anna Deaveare Smith for her new show, Let Me Down Easy, at the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge and is currently developing an all-girl production of The Merchant of Venice with incarcerated girls.  In November, she offered her 2-day workshop, "Shakespeare: Flesh, Blood and Bones" to a sold out group of Boston area teachers, through the Teachers As Scholars program. She begins rehearsals in December for The Duchess of Malfi for a January opening.

NATALIE McMANUS (George Mason Univ., VA) continues teaching the speech and voice classes at GMU.  She also vocal coaches the Theatre Department's shows.  During the summer she acted in a one-act comedy, The Sabbatical. Her Shakespeare Education company, Puck's Pals, has already contracted a full season for this upcoming spring's schedule of workshops and performances in middle schools.  She will also be teaching a speech presentation workshop with the American Heart Association's convention in March.
 
SALLY MORGAN (NYC, independent), author of the groundbreaking Vocal Technique for Contemporary Music Singers (used as a text at the U of Texas, Austin), has completed the 2nd Edition of Morganix Method.™ The workbook and 4-CD practice set helps you teach your students how to "Sing Like You Speak: Simply and Naturally." She can be reached at Sally@MorganixMethod.com.

PAMELA PRATHER (Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT) was invited to Gardzienice, Poland, for 10 days in September to continue her research in “Laughing Voice.”   While there, she had the opportunity to train actors from 15 countries in using “Laughing Voice.”  She is currently pursuing her advanced life coach certification and has collaborated in teaching two workshops combining life coaching and the voice:  “Claiming Your Voice” in Esalen, California and NYC.  She just finished voice & dialect coaching Happy Now? at the Yale Rep. Theatre.  She and her husband, Travis, are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new family member due on April 23rd (Shakespeare’s Birthday, too!) Her website is at http://www.pamelaprather.com.

RUTH ROOTBERG (Amherst, MA) recently gave a voice & Alexander workshop at Amherst College to the Language of Movement Students. She presented at the "Voice Foundation" last June.

KAREN RYKER (University of Connecticut, Storrs) is having a wonderful time on Fulbright/Sabbatical in Dublin where she just directed a production of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute".  Well received.  You can see a clip of opening night along with a clip of the coming documentary about the production at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3wMZlx3UM

LEIGH WILSON SMILEY (University of Maryland College Park) taught in Greece at Theatre of Change this summer; presented a workshop on the Vowel Ladder at VASTA in Ashland; this Fall coached Leiutenant of Inishmore at Signature Stage; played Volumnia in an Original Practices production of Coriolanus; and is coaching Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre.  Thank you to all organizers and participants for a wonderful VASTA Conference.

NEW YORK
Tracey Moore, Regional Editor
 
LINDA CAROZZA (Ph.D., CCC-SLP, St. John's University) gave a presentation at the 2008 National Aphasia Association Conference in June, and is the co-author of a book due out in Spring 2009: Supervision and Mentorship in Speech-Language Pathology.

AMY STOLLER (Freelance, New York City) - 2008-09 season (so far): Dialect Design/Coaching for world premiere of Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas at Long Wharf; Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy at American Repertory Theatre; Summer and Smoke at Boomerang; world premiere of Irena’s Vow for Invictus Theater/The Directors Company; The Glass Cage at the Mint; Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! Coming up at the Mint: The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd.  She joined International Dialects of English Archive as Associate Editor for New York City.

LUCILLE SCHUTMAAT-RUBIN (Ph.D.  Professionally Speaking/Circle in the Square Theatre School, NYC)  modified many accents and local regionalisms. Coached corporate clients for executive presence, vocal styling, expressive voice, organization and delivery skills, dismissing stage fright and relaxation techniques as well as an MBA player for clean articulation and an executive coach for selling her “pitch.” Other requests included voice-over skills and elimination of nasality and sibilance. Stage actors requested tune-ups, character voices, vocal endurance, and safe screaming techniques. Current and former clients appeared onstage in Homecoming, Speed the Plow, Rent, November, Edward Albee’s Occupant, Crimes of the Heart, and Irena’s Vow; on film in "Synecdoche," "Traitor," and "Swing Vote"; on TV in "ER," "Kath & Kim," "Law & Order, CSI" & CNN news and Today; on radio’s American Public Media and 1010 WINS; in cabaret at Feinstein’s. This summer I coached presenters at “The Care of the Professional Voice Symposium,” saw slides of my stage debut at my high school reunion and enjoyed family celebrations with photos and speechmaking.

JOAN MELTON - In 2008, Joan led two very successful workshops, “Speaking and Singing with the Same Voice,” at New Dance Group Performing Arts Center in New York City. In July/August, she coached Misalliance for New York Classical Theatre, in Central Park.  Fall semester, she teaches in the Musical Theatre program at Wagner College, covering for David McDonald, who is on sabbatical, and in January she will teach at UCLA while Janet Feindel coaches at Stratford. In addition, she is heading a groundbreaking research project with collaborator/physiotherapist Jane Grey. The work, begun in London, now moves to Australia as it focuses on common denominators between voice work and dance.

KRISTA SCOTT (VASTA Treasurer; University of Connecticut Dept. of Dramatic Arts) spent the past summer in Normal, Illinois as the Voice and Text Director for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, where she worked on productions of The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (adapted for children). At the VASTA Conference in Ashland, OR, she conducted a workshop with Nancy Saklad (SUNY New Paltz) on “Fitzmaurice Fusion.” This fall she coached The Skin of Our Teeth for Connecticut Repertory Theatre.

BARBARA ADRIAN (Associate Professor, Marymount Manhattan College) -  Publications: Actor Training the Laban Way: An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement, New York: Allworth Press, 2008. Conferences and Workshops: “Your Most Sweet Voices: Coaching Shakespeare” (VASTA) Ashland, Oregon; “Laban Memoriam Conference: Connecting Past/Present/Future” (EUROLAB) Berlin, Germany; “Beyond Body Language Symposium” Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, New York City.  Coaching:  A Month in the Country and Major Barbara at MMC; Cymbeline at New York Classical Theatre. Interviewed for Associazione Laban Bartenieff Italia.

SOUTHEAST
Daydrie Hague, Regional Editor
 
JANET RODGERS (Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University) spent the spring semester in Greece where she worked on a book that she is writing with co-author, Frankie Armstrong.  The book deals with Archetypes: techniques for embodying them and using them in performance. VCU's  MFA is Voice and Speech Pedagogy is going very well and will offer certification as well as an MFA starting in 2009.  If you know of anyone who is interested in pursuing an MFA in Voice and Speech pedagogy, have them contact Janet at jrodgers@vcu.edu.

DEBRA HALE (Designated Linklater Teacher, Associate Professor, Head of Performance, Florida State University) was awarded an FSU grant to work towards certification as a teacher of Viniyoga by Gary Kraftsow with her colleague in acting, and is halfway through the two-year course.  She directed A Gift of Peace, a series of monologues with music by LA playwright Stacey Martino, in three different sold-out venues earlier this year to bring awareness to legislature before Congress to create a Department of Peace.  She taught at UCSD this past summer and coached Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Yerma at FSU this fall.

BONNIE RAPHAEL (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has spent fall semester coaching PlayMakers' Repertory Company productions of Pericles, Blue Door, and The Little Prince and preparing for a long-awaited sabbatical leave which will begin in January.

WEST CENTRAL
Holly Rocke, Regional Editor

IAN BORDEN (University of Nebraska Lincoln) has had a trying year after the death of his wife Tracy, but has happily landed as the new Assistant Professor of Practice in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at UNL. Since last checking in, Ian also played Bottom and Macbeth for Pigeon Creek Shakespeare, directed Cymbeline for the Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival, and choreographed fights for several plays. With Hannah Gaff, he published Translating Cultures: Bridging the Ancient and Modern through Trans-adaptation and Performance for The Mercurian.

SUE KLEMP coached Irish dialect for The Weir by Conor McPherson with a budding community theatre in Reno, NV. Great fun!

GAIL SPRINGER (College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico) - This fall Gail sang and recorded Matapolvos: Suite for soprano, English horn, viola & cello by Ron Strauss, text from El Siglo del Viento by Eduardo Galeano; she directed The Baker's Wife; and she sang J.S. Bach’s Cantata #202 with Serenata of Santa Fe at the historic Santuario Guadalupe.  Gail is a Master Teacher of Estill Voice, and will assist at an Estill course in San Diego in January, directed by Juliette Singler and taught by Kimberly Steinhauer.  In February Gail will sing with Canticum Novum, and in the spring she will direct the music for Sweet Charity.

JOHN KENNETH DeBOER (Missoula, MT) was appointed Assistant Professor of Acting/Directing at the University of Montana. He is in charge of the BFA/MFA Voice and Speech curriculum as well as teaching acting in the undergrad and MFA programs. Earlier this year he completed his MFA in Voice and Speech Pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University where he was serving as a sabbatical replacement for Janet Rodgers.  While in Richmond he also performed the role of Mitchell in the Mid-Atlantic premiere of The Little Dog Laughed at the Barksdale Theatre, his first role as an Equity Actor.

WESTERN
Evelyn Case, Regional Editor

MARY E. BAIRD (freelance Designated Linklater Voice Teacher) is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Nevada County; Nevada City, CA. Recently played Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt at Cape May Stage, Cape May, NJ.  Reviewed in the Wall St. Journal.  Is currently working for Kaiser Medical Facilities as an actor.  Free lance voice, speech, dialect, and acting coach.

JOEL GOLDES (freelance, Los Angeles) coached English actress Julia Ormond in American accents for "Che," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", and "Kit Kittredge - An American Girl."  Plays coached include The School of Night at the Taper, The Lady With All the Answers and Looped at Pasadena Playhouse, Educating Rita at the Colony and the new musical Memphis at La Jolla Playhouse. He coached on the TV show "Numb3rs," as well as coaching on-camera on MTV’s "From G’s to Gents" and Bravo’s "Chef Academy."  He coaches his British client, Mark Aiken, in his American accent by phone for ITV’s "Trinity," as well as coaching clients in Spain and Australia via webcam.

JESSE MERZ (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI) - After graduating with his MFA in Acting from UC Davis, Jesse is now an Assistant Professor of Acting at Wayne State University/Hilberry Repertory Theatre teaching acting in the BA, BFA and MFA programs. He also is producing The Gospel According to Tammy Faye directed by Mindy Cooper and starring Tony-nominee Sally Mayes, which recently received a reading at the Manhattan Theatre Club Studio. He has also begun registration for his 13th summer as Artistic Director of the Columbia Gorge School of Theatre. He has begun work on a book entitled The Meisner Interviews. His third daughter, Charlotte, was born on October 19th, 2008, joining sisters Alana and Josephine.

LISA WENTZ (MA, AmSat San Francisco Voice Center) - After returning to the USA from a year in London, Ms. Wentz has founded the San Francisco Voice Center with VASTA Member Rebecca Root. The SFVC will be holding an inaugural voice workshop at the San Francisco LGBT Center entitled "Transgender Voice Adaptation." Lisa will be teaching a workshop entitled “Voice & Alexander Technique” in June 2009 at the Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Alexander Technique Teachers. She will also be coaching RP, Dublin, and California accents for the Diablo Actors Ensemble’s  production of Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me this December for Director Clive Worsley.

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