professional development

ANTI-OPPRESSION AND EDI STRATEGIES

2024 
Muscle Music Certification, Inaugural Group: The Fox Method Nervous System Regulation for Performers (6-month course), January-June (online, in process)

2022-2023  
Inaugural Inclusive Pedagogy Summer Institute, Boston University Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

2022 
Workshop: “Best Practices,” (Chelsea Pace), Theatrical Intimacy Education, 9 July (online)
Workshop: “Culture of Consent: Creating Community Agreements” (Kim Shiver), Theatrical Intimacy Education, 10 December (online)
Workshop: “Freeing the Neuro-Divergent Voice: Equity in Teaching,” (Daron Oram) Kristin Linklater Voice Center (on-demand, online)

2021
Workshop: “Inclusive and Equitable Strategies for Speech, Accent, and Dialect Training” (Daron Oram), The Voice Centre, UK, 1 October (on-demand, online)
Workshop: “Gender Affirming Voice Course” (Christine Adaire and Zoe Chen), 17-18 July (online)
Workshop: “Healthy Curriculum Eco-Systems, A 2-Part Workshop” (Kathy Takayama) 26-28 January (online)
Workshop: “Anti-Racist Theatre: Conscientious Theatre Training” (Nicole Brewer) 28 January (online)

2020 
Training: “Faculty Search Committee Diversity Training,” (Crystal Williams), BU Diversity and Inclusion, 15 October (online)
Workshop: “Anti-Racist Theatre: A Foundational Course” (Nicole Brewer), 18 & 25 August (online)
Workshop: “Anti-Racist Theatre: A Foundational Course“ with (Nicole Brewer), ATHE, 30 June (online)
Workshop: “Finding the Keys: Antiracist Approaches to Radical Recruitment in the Arts, “ ArtsEquity, 16 November (online)
Workshop: “Intersections of Race and Acting Pedagogy” (Kaja Dunn), MICHA, 20 June (online)
Anti-Oppression Panel (Nicole Brewer, Leslie Ishii, and Kaja Dunn), VASTA, 10 October (online)
Community Conversation, “Designated Linklater Teachers: The Next Chapter” (facilitated by Timothy Douglas), 27 June and 9 August (online)
Public Conversation, “Mental Health, Race, and COVID-19,” BU Diversity & Inclusion, 4 June (online)
Public Conversation, “Social Class and COVID-19—Impacts and Considerations in Higher Education" BU Diversity & Inclusion, 16 June (online)
Public Conversation, “Anti-Racism Community Building: Listening Post – Individual Artists” StageSource and Anti-Racism Collaborative, 24 October (online)
Public Conversation, “Decolonizing Speech and Accent Training,” (Joy Lanceta Coronel, Josh Moser, Jacqueline Springfield, and Amy Mihyang Ginther), HB Studios, 23 November (online)

2019 
Workshop: “Diversity 101: A 3-Part Workshop“ (Shari L. Johnson), BU Diversity and Inclusion, Boston, MA

ARTISTIC & PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING

2024
Workshop: Emotions and Passions (Merry Conway), 13-22 July, Jacona, NM

2021
Workshop: Critical Response Process (John Borstal), BU Center of Teaching and Learning, 1-day (online)
Workshop: Chekhov Technique and Your Character (Joanna Merlin and Ted Pugh), Michael Chekhov International Workshop and Festival, 2-hour (online)

2020
Workshop: Pure Movement (Merry Conway), 1-day (online)
Michael Chekhov International Workshop and Festival, Advanced Directing Track (Sinéad Rushe), 5-day, MICHA (online)
Workshop: “Devising: Theatre-making and Creating from the Michael Chekhov Perspective” (Sinéad Rushe), 1-day, MICHA, New York, NY

2019 
Certification Workshop, Divine Sleep Mindfulness and Mediation Teacher Training (Jennifer Reis), 40-Hour CE, Arlington, MA
Michael Chekhov International Workshop and Festival, Advanced Acting Track, MICHA, 1-week, New London, CT

2017
Michael Chekhov International Workshop and Festival, 1-week, MICHA, New London, CT

2016
Michael Chekhov Actor Training Intensive, Michael Chekhov School (Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan, Ragnar Friedank), 5-day, Hudson, NY
Michael Chekhov International Workshop and Festival, Advanced Rehearsal Track (Lenard Petit, et al), MICHA, New London, CT

2015
Michael Chekhov Teacher Training Workshop (Dawn Arnold, Joanna Merlin, Marjo-Rikka Makela), 5-day, MICHA, Long Beach, CA
Michael Chekhov International Workshop and Festival, Advanced Rehearsal Track (Scott Fielding, et al), 1 week, MICHA, New London, CT

2014
Advanced Teacher Training Workshop: Michael Chekhov Teacher Training (Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan, Ragnar Friedank), 1-week, MICHA, Hudson, NY
Michael Chekhov Teacher Training Workshop on “The Dynamics of Space in Relationship to the Full Body” (Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan, et al), 5-day, MICHA, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Workshop: “Linklater Meets Chekhov” (Lenard Petit, Andrea Haring), 2-day, Linklater Center for Voice and Language, New York, NY
Workshop for Designated Linklater Teachers (Kristin Linklater), 2-day, Linklater Center for Voice and Language, New York, NY
Michael Chekhov International Festival and Workshop (Chekhov Technique, Acting for the Camera: Joanna Merlin, et al), 1-week, MICHA @ Southampton Arts, SUNY Southampton, NY
Michael Chekhov Fundamentals (6-week workshop: Scott Fielding), Michael Chekhov Actors’ Studio, Boston, MA

2011
Workshop: “Investigating, Exploring, and Creating Character” (Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan), 2-day, MICHA, Boston, MA

2010
Michael Chekhov Workshop (Anne Gottlieb), 1-day, Orfeo Group, Boston, MA

2008
Voice Workshop: “Text: The Haiku” (Kristin Linklater), 2-day, Linklater Center for Voice and Language, New York
Acting/Movement Week-Long Intensive Workshop: “The Four Humors Embodied”, (Merry Conway), 1-week, New York, NY

2007
Five-Week Linklater Voice Designation Workshop (Kristin Linklater), Syracuse, NY
Speech Workshop: “The Joy of Phonetics” (Louis Colaianni), 1-week, Syracuse, NY
Movement Workshop: Trish Arnold’s “Pure Movement,”Lecoq’s “Levels of Play”, and Emotion-Sensation Work (Merry Conway), 1-week, Syracuse, NY
Alexander Technique Workshop on Carl Stough Breathwork (Jessica Wolf), 1-day, Syracuse, NY
Alexander Technique/Acting Workshop: “Acting with the Alexander Technique,” (Judy Braha, Betsy Polatin) 1-day, Boston, MA

2006-2007
Weekly Scene-Study Class, Stanislavsky Approach (Ted Kazanoff), Boston, MA 

2006
Voice Workshop: “Ecstatic Voice/Lamentation” (Marya Lowry), 2-day, New York, NY
Certification Workshop in Reiki System of Natural Healing - 1st degree (Marianne Quirk), 2-day, Beverly, MA
Voice Pedagogy Workshop: “The Anatomy of Song” (Steven Zeitels, Sharon Daniels), 1-day, Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA
Voice Seminar on Singing (Faculty of Mass Eye and Ear VoiceLab), 1-day, Boston, MA

2005-2021 
Ongoing private sessions in Alexander Technique (Betsy Polatin, Sara Goldstein, Jessica Webb), Brookline and Cambridge, MA

2004-2006
Eight 1-Day Teacher Training Workshops: Teaching Linklater’s “Freeing the Natural Voice” (Andrea Haring), NYC

2005
Voice Workshop: “Advanced Accents and Dialects” (Louis Colaianni), 2-day, New York, NY
Singing Workshop: “The Human Voice” (Richard Armstrong), 2-day, New York, NY
Workshop: “Improvisation” (Keith Johnstone), 1-day, New England Theatre Conference, Natick, MA
Workshop: “Experiential Anatomy” (Erika Berland), 1-day, Linklater Center for Voice and Language, New York, NY

2004
Month-long Actor Training Intensive (Tina Packer, et al), Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, MA
Voice Workshop: “Dangerous Voices: Primitive Voice” (Paula Langton), 2-day, Waltham, MA

2003
Voice Workshop in Shakespeare/Linklater Voice (Natsuko Ohama), 1-day, Boston, MA
Weekend Intensive Shakespeare Workshop (David Demke), 3-day, Shakespeare and Company, Waltham, MA

2002
Workshop in Directing (Rebecca Taichman), 1-day, Theatre Offensive, Boston, MA

2000-2002
Performer’s Certificate Examination Training: approx 150 contact hours (Nanette Savides, sponsor), Trinity College, London, Boston, MA, and Baltimore, MD     

2001 
Course, Intermediate Acting (Nanette Savides), 8-week, Actor’s Workshop, Boston, MA                

2000
Two-Week Opera Performance Workshop (Richard Crittenden, et al), Boston, MA

1999
Two-Week Opera Directing Workshop (Richard Crittenden, et al), Washington, DC

1996
Two-Week Opera Performance Workshop (Donna Roll, et al) Opera at Great Woods, Mansfield, MA

1988-2018
Private Voice Studies (Penelope Bitzas, Sara Goldstein, Maria de Stephano, Elisabeth Suderberg)