Max is an actor, director, voice coach, acting coach, and a teacher of the Alexander Technique. He has taught his particular blend of voice & performance at NYU Tisch, AADA, AMAW, Drew University, The American Conservatory, and The Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique. He studied voice, text and Shakespeare extensively with renowned master voice teacher Patsy Rodenburg, and is a Rodenburg Registered Teacher (RRT) of voice & text.
Patricia Powers
Patricia Powers is an Advanced Yamuna Method Practitioner, trained in Body Logic, Body Rolling, Face Ball, Foot Fitness and Table Treatment. She is also certified in Stott Pilates, Prana Yoga, Tai Chi Chuan and Usui Reiki. Prior to developing an extensive background as a mind/body wellness practitioner, Patricia has over 20 years of experience as a performing artist, dancer, choreographer and creative movement instructor to people of all ages. She has an ability to honor each person’s uniqueness through extensive study of astrology, philosophy and psychology.
Marya Spring Cordes
Marya Spring Cordes has made a career of a blissful blend of performing, teaching, and directing. She studied The Alexander Technique with Martha Hansen and Bruce Fertman and has been a certified teaching member of ATI since 2006. Marya is an Associate Professor and Head of Acting at Wright State University and brings the work into the Acting and Movement curriculum.
Kyra Miller
Kyra Miller is an actor, singer and writer, with a long prior background as a dancer. She is also a teacher of the Alexander Technique. Though her training and credits are greatly varied, including solo work and devised theater, she is primarily an actor by orientation, and the greatest chunk of her professional work happens in musicals, or shows that otherwise include singing.
Belinda Mello
Belinda is a senior level Alexander Technique teacher and movement specialist in practice since 1989 and founder of AT Motion Center for Actors and co-founder of the Freedom to ACT Conferences. In addition to her ongoing classes and lessons at AT MOTION, she currently teaches at The Barrow Group and the Terry Knickerbocker Studio in NYC.
Cathy Madden
Cathy is Principal Lecturer for the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program, Director of the Alexander Technique Training and Performance Studio in Seattle, and Associate Director/Research Director for BodyChance (Japan). Cathy’s well-known abilities to observe and analyze movement in relationship to artistic performance has made her a popular coach in Seattle and internationally for musicians and dancers, speakers and teachers as well as actors
Kari Margolis
Kari is an award-winning director, playwright, actor, master teacher, lecturer, published author and artistic director of the international touring MB ADAPTORS founded in NYC in 1984. She has created 18 critically acclaimed productions that have toured nationally and to Europe, Asia, South America and Canada. Kari has been Master Teacher at the national Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for 14 years, and runs the Margolis Method Center in New York and Barcelona.
Sheila Bandyopadhyay
Chelsea Pace
Chelsea (SDC) is an intimacy choreographer, educator, movement specialist, and devisor working in Baltimore. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, President of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and a founder of Theatrical Intimacy Education. She has developed a comprehensive approach for actors, directors, and choreographers to efficiently, effectively, and ethically stage theatrical intimacy.
Laura Rikard
Laura (SAG-AFTRA/AEA) is a director, actor, stage movement specialist, intimacy choreographer, Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of South Carolina Upstate and a founding member of Theatre Intimacy Education. She has worked in film and television, NYC, regionally, on national tours, internationally and devised solo performance productions. She has been coaching and teaching for 18 years.
Wolfgang Weiser
Wolfgang trained in England and Germany from 1993-1997 and is a member of ATVD, STAT and ATME. He is an internationally recognized Alexander Technique teacher, working at training courses as well as giving workshops for teacher development all over Europe. He has taught Alexander Technique at the Theatre University of Stockholm and worked with actors, dancers and musicians all over Sweden.
Dana Calvey
Dana has been in this work for 12 years, teaching and presenting both nationally and internationally, in varied settings. Dana's greatest value is facilitating student's experiences to bravely uncover deep layers of themselves. She uses the Alexander Technique principles to shine a light on students' endless possibility within; to unleash their creativity, and open into more humanity and deepen their personhood.