“This is the central conviction of the theater—that by listening closely to the lives of others, we will know ourselves more fully, and locate ourselves in a more generous world. ”
Kathleen Lisa Clarke
SAG/AEA
Associate Professor of Theater: Acting and Voice
University of New Mexico
A graduate of Oberlin College (BA) and the University of Washington (MFA), I have been seen on both small and regional stages in New York, Seattle, Edinburgh, Denver, San Francisco, Cleveland, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Moscow, ID. Previously, I have taught Acting, Movement and Voice at Oberlin Theater Institute, The University of Washington, Tulane University, CUNY Hunter College, and Juniata College.
I am currently an Associate Professor of Theater at the University of New Mexico, specializing in Voice and Speech and Acting. For four years, I served as head of the Theater program at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA. I am an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and am a narrator for audiobooks with ACX/Audible. I am also the creator of the Vibrant Channel Breathwork™ modality of holistic actor training.
From 1990 to 2000 I was a company member of Annex, an award winning not-for-profit theater in Seattle, whose mission was to provide an artistic home for emerging artists, and a forum for new work. From 2007-2011, I was a company member of The Gravity Project, a devised theater company based in Huntingdon, PA.
Directing- Pippin, Bat Boy, Polaroid Stories, Angels in America, Part I: Milennium Approaches,Twelfth Night,The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Metamorphoses, Arcadia, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Middletown, The Samuel Beckett Circus, The School for Scandal, Macbeth, Threepenny Opera, Linnell Festival, Under Milk Wood.
Specialties: Teaching pedagogy: Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Open Source Forms, Lucid Body, Skinner Releasing Technique, Viewpoints, Suzuki, Stella Adler and Meisner studio work, Linklater, Shakespeare, Musical Theatre, Singing, Dialect Coaching, Aerial Dance.
Photography by joanna degeneres and andrew belser
