Name: Mandy Fox, MFA, The Yale School of Drama

Email Address: fox.393@osu.edu

Current Affiliation: Ohio State University, Department of Theatre

Rank: Assistant Professor

Training: Shakespeare & Company Month-Long Intensive
Shakespeare & Company Weekend Intensive
Phonetics with Barbara Somerville (YSD)
Voice with Ursula Meyer & Ruth Rootberg (YSD)

Selected Work Experience: Ohio State University
Ball State University
Arlington Center for the Arts
The Columbus Museum of Art
The Alliance: Men's Barbershop Chorus
Red Herring Theatre Company
Contemporary American Theatre Company
ATHE
MATC

Areas of Specialization: Dialects, Creation of New Work, Text coaching, Shakespeare, Voice, Acting, Directing

Professional Organizations: VASTA, ATHE, AEA, AFTRA

Statement of Philosophy: Teaching young actors how to speak onstage is a bit like teaching people to fix air conditioners and a bit like teaching people to whistle.

To fix air conditioners you need a concrete understanding of the mechanics of a machine and the tools of the trade that will allow that machine to run smoothly even in the most adverse climate.  Teaching whistling suggests a scene many of us have experienced as children, where we stand beside the would-be-whistler and practice.  We provide hints and encouragement to aid the future whistler. This also suggests a period of failure, a time when it seems the pupil will never be able to get it, but we sit together and blow and blow until one day, at last, we re whistling together.