Janet Madelle Feindel

Janet Madelle Feindel, MFA
Designated Linklater Voice, 1993
Voice/Speech faculty, Performance Program, Concordia University &
Voice/Speech Faculty, Professional Acting Program, John Abbott College, Montreal;
Consultant for Institute of the Arts, Barcelona

Feindel received an honorary lifetime membership to the Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation for her “exemplary contributions to the care and pedagogy of the artistic voice.”  Her book The Thought Propels the Sound, Plural Publishing outlines many of her successful approaches in pedagogy.  She has coached many outstanding actors including: Academy Award recipient. F. Murray Abraham: Golden Globe Award recipient Matt Bomer; Tony Award recipient Leslie Odom, Jr (Hamilton); Josh Gad (Frozen, Tony Award nominee Book of Mormon); Order of Canada Fiona Reid (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child) and many others.

 Her professional credits as Voice/Dialect and Alexander Technique Consultant include: Theatre for A New Audience, NYC/Royal Shakespeare Company  Complete Works, (UK); Stratford Festival, Canada, including the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; Canadian Stage Company  and professional theatres in Pittsburgh, including The Crucible, directed by DLT Timothy Douglas at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre.   Film/TV credits include Love and Hate, Street Legal, Old Guy (CBC); US Queer as Folk, Dream Team.

 She led master classes at the Canadian Voice Care Symposium and presentations at the Choice for Voice (Guildhall School/British Voice Association), London, UK;  the Care of the Professional Voice Symposium, Philadelphia;  Pacific Voice and Speech Conferences in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Krakow, Poland;  International Congress on the Alexander Technique in Oxford, UK; Lugano, Switzerland; and Chicago, USA; Alexander Technique International Conferences in Papen burg, Germany, Budapest, Hungary and Lugano, Switzerland.

 Her play A Particular Class of Women, is published by Canada Playwrights Press and has been performed in Canada, US and in English at the Teatro Inglese and then translated into Italian, in Rome, Italy.   She has published articles in the Book Section of Canada’s National Edition of the Globe and Mail, Canadian Theatre Review, and numerous articles on the intersection of Voice and Alexander Technique in the Congress Papers, published by Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, UK (2005, 2009, 2019); and a chapter in Performer’s Voice, Plural.

 Feindel is also a certified Fitzmaurice Voice teacher and certified as an Alexander Technique Teacher with Alexander Technique Canada (ATC/CanSTAT); Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, UK (STAT); American Society of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT), Alexander Technique International and Regroupement d’éducation somatique (RES).

 An experienced Equity actress, Feindel has performed at regional theatres across Canada and parts of the US.