FALL 2025
Workshops
VOICE & text weekend WORKSHOP
Teacher: Dianna Cortez
September 20 & 21
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm (ET)
Fee: $280
Location: TBA (In-Person in NYC)
Find more vocal freedom and clarity and link that into a very practical approach to text!
Each day will start a vocal warm-up: releasing physical tensions, freeing breath, developing more vocal resonance, and undoing tensions in the jaw and tongue. You’ll then wake up the vocal resonating ladder to find more freedom, expressiveness, and strength.
We then translate these exercises into the dynamics of speaking and articulation with a series of group exercises and individual coaching, for you to find an embodied and clear expression with your text. You’ll explore the process for bringing expressiveness into the storytelling with an authentic connection to the imagery and circumstances of your text, while seeing how it plays through to the actions of the character moment by moment.
This workshop is terrific preparation for cold readings, developing audition material, and getting ready to rehearse a play! Please hve two monologues ready to explore.
VOICE LEVEL 2 WORKSHOP
Teacher: Sara Buffamanti
October 18 & 19
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm (ET)
Fee: $280
Location: TBA (In-Person in NYC)
This workshop is meant for those who have taken voice before and would like to strengthen their full range of resonance, expand their breath capacity, and wake up their articulation in order to find a bridge to speaking their text in a clearer, and livelier way. Each session will take you through an embodied warm-up geared towards freeing and opening your voice that releases throat, tongue and jaw tensions, develops more breath capacity, and strengthens your full vocal range.
Then you’ll focus on invigorating the muscles of your mouth that contribute to economical articulation, and connect to the tactile sensation of consonants by playing with tongue twisters so you are ready to speak your text clearly and expressively.
ADVANCED VOICE CLINIC
Teacher: Andrea Haring
November 15 & 16
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm (ET)
Fee: $240
Location: TBA (In-Person in NYC)
“Those whose aim is to share what they feel with an audience will allow emotional energy to activate the breath and generate vibrations. These vibrations, reinforced by all appropriate resonating feedback, will flow out through the body, gathering a mix of sinus, cheekbone and nasal vibrations as they travel through the face, creating sound waves with a carrying power faithful to the initial aim. Communication is the byproduct of desire, intention and freedom.” Kristin Linklater
The Advanced Voice Clinic is for performers and speakers who have previously learned the Linklater Voice Progression and are interested in taking a deeper dive into the intricacies of the method. It’s ideal as well for those who teach voice at the university level or are training to teach voice.
In this workshop we’ll explore the full progression of exercises developed by Kristin Linklater - focusing particularly on the sections in the later parts of the progression. After going into the details of each exercise, we’ll look at the reasoning and purpose in how each section builds upon the one before and prepares the way ahead. The purpose is for you to experience ways to open your unique natural voice that connects to your inner life in a rich, authentic, and meaningful way, and then develop more vocal range, strength, and variety to meet the demands of your text.
This Advanced Voice Clinic will explore the energy that is sparked by the Breath capacity and liveliness exercises that can energize the extroverted upper range of your voice. You’ll go onto strengthening your vocal range with triads and arpeggios while freeing your physical tensions with swings. Finally, play with the elements that contribute to a more imaginative and tactile experience of language that is embodied in vowels and consonants. We’ll see how all of this can be translated into a spoken text of your choice.
Space in this workshop is limited.
THE SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP
Teacher: Benjamin Moore
December 6 & 7
Saturday & Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm (ET)
Fee: $280
Location: TBA (In-Person, in NYC)
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A workshop for actors and other theater artists interested in forging a passionate, imaginative, embodied relationship with Shakespeare and his characters. Through each actor's choice of monologue, we will engage in a variety of approaches to Shakespeare's text, looking at structure of the verse, elements of language, and the use of rhetoric, while considering personalization, characterization, and the actor-audience relationship. Whether you wish to begin or continue exploring a particular character or develop a monologue for auditions, this is an opportunity to expand your physical, emotional, and intellectual responsiveness to the demands and joys of playing Shakespeare.
Please choose and learn by heart a monologue which piques your curiosity and sparks great interest to speak these particular words. \