Our Team
Perry Piercy
Perry represents Fitzmaurice Voicework in Aotearoa New Zealand. Passionate about empowering people to access the full, embodied expression of their voices, She is a respected dialect coach for film and television, coaching on the Guardian ‘5 star’ reviewed feature ‘Nude Tuesday’, and the BBC / Working Title TV series ‘Luminaries’, for which she coached 35 different dialects.
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Micha Espinosa
Micha Espinosa is an Arizona-based artist, activist, professor, teacher, and voice, speech, and dialect coach. She has performed, lectured, and taught voice and speech around the world since 1992. She is a proud 30-year member of SAG/AFTRA and has performed in film, television, and regional theatre. Professor in School of Music, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University (ASU), affiliate faculty with ASU’s School of Transborder Studies & the Sidney Poitier New American Film School; Read more…
Amy Chaffee
Amy Chaffee is a voice, speech, and dialect coach for theatre, television and film as well as a playwright, actor and director. She is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting at Tulane University in New Orleans. Recent credits include The OA for Netflix, All is By My Side written and directed by Academy Award Winner, John Ridley, Main Street, Lay The Favorite, Welcome To the Rileys, City of Ember, etc.
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Beth Gudenrath
Elizabeth (Beth) Gudenrath has been working as a professional actress, as well as studying Fitzmaurice Voicework for over 20 years. She assisted Master Teacher Saul Kotzubei with his Introductory Weekend Intensives for over a decade, and held classes in her own studio in Los Angeles for over a decade. Beth has taught in Barcelona, Spain, Vancouver, Canada, Bogota, Columbia, and Dublin, Ireland, and Los Angeles USA.
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Fabio Motta
Fabio Motta is an actor, clown and teaching artist who had the fortune of performing and devising theatre in Australia, Italy and the United states. Notable theatre credits include; Three Sisters (New York Theatre Workshop), My Uncle Chekhov directed by Aleksey Burago (West End Theatre) and Pal Joey directed by Robert McQueen (HB Studios). Read more...
Jeremy Sortore
Jeremy Sortore, MM, MFA (he/him) offers collaborative instruction for actors and other performing artists seeking to connect to a sense of embodied artistry and communicate with others through movement, breath, and sound. As an educator/clinician with international experience and a coach for Tony Award-winning regional theaters, Jeremy is focused on actor-centered processes that emphasize agency, consent, curiosity, and discovery.
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Lilian Wouters
Lilian Wouters will be going into her 3rd and final year as a part of the UC Irvine MFA in Acting Program. Lilian currently is teaching FV at the undergraduate level and hopes to continue breathing and being vibrantly present with students for years to come. She both enjoys working in large group classes and in individual one-one sessions. Always a fan of the California sun, when she graduates Lilian plans on basing her practice out of Los Angeles.
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Petrina Kow
Petrina Kow is a Voice and Presentation Coach based in Singapore and works with clients as diverse as CEOs, Wildlife Experts, Corporate Executives, students and yoga teachers. She is also a much sought after voice actor for commercials, audio guides, online learning websites and animation. She was a radio deejay and talk show host on various top radio stations in Singapore and is also a popular emcee for corporate and family events.
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Rachelle Dart
Rachelle Dart is a performer, theatre maker, traditional storyteller and teaching artist currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona. She is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and is passionate about safe stage violence in education and performance. She performs and teaches improvisational comedy and directed local troupe, The Penguin Player, for four years.
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Robin Gordon
Robin Gordon teaches performance, directing, and dramatic literature courses and serves as director of the drama program at Warner Pacific College. Recent productions include Romeo and Juliet; Disaster/Relief, a devised theatre project; Almost, Maine, and Sophocles’s Antigone in a version by Bertolt Brecht. Previous directing, devising, and choreography projects include Three Sisters, Godspell, Oleanna, Journeys, I phel o a (I fell away), and The Yellow Wallpaper. Read more…
Budi Miller
BUDI MILLER is a Lead Teacher and Director of Advanced Training for the Fitzmaurice Institute. He is Co-Artistic Director of the Theatre of Others. He is an UNESCO designated master teacher of mask work. Budi was the Head of Acting, at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. He has been an actor-director-writer-teacher in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Australia, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia since 1992.
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Ellen Foyn Bruun
Ellen is Norwegian and based in Copenhagen, Denmark. After a long career as theatre practitioner, scholar and educator, she retired from her post as Professor of Drama & Theatre in 2023. Voicework has played an important role in her practice and research since the early 2000s and meeting Catherine Fitzmaurice and her work in 2007 was significant and made an indelible impression.
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Julia Moody
Julia Moody trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did her graduate work in Voice Studies at the National Institute for Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in Sydney. She has worked as a professional actor in theatre, film, television, and radio since 1975, primarily in Australia and also in the U.K.. As a voice teacher and consultant Julia has worked with The Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Ballarat, NIDA's Open Programme, SBS TV and radio.
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Lynn Watson
Lynn Watson has worked extensively as a voice, speech, text and dialects specialist at leading theatres. She has coached Oscar, Tony, & Emmy award winning actors. Her credits include Arena Stage Moon for the Misbegotten, The Misanthrope, M. Butterfly, A Time to Kill and others; Kennedy Center productions of The Glass Menagerie, & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ; Ford’s Theatre; Round House; Signature (VA); Maryland Stage Co.; Delaware REP; South Coast Repertory. Read more…
Mallika Prasad
Mallika Prasad is a multi-award-winning director and performer; she has produced a number of documentary films and starred in seminal films such as ”Devi” Ahilya Bai directed by Nachiket & Jayoo Patwardhan, opposite Shabana Azmi and Sadashiv Amraporkar (Hindi - 2002) and Kanooru Heggadathi which won the National Award for Best film in 1999 (Kannada).
Rachel Finley
Rachel Finley is a voice, text, and accent coach, director, actor, intimacy director/coordinator, and Arizona State University professor, who earned her BFA at Carnegie Melon University and MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Professor Finley is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight Thompson Speechwork. She has trained in Intimacy Direction with ICOC, TIE, and IDC.
Su-Feh Lee
Lee Su-Feh (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performance-maker and teacher of voice and movement. Born and raised in Malaysia, her early training began with a mix of traditional and contemporary South-East Asian dance and theatre. Since 1988, she has been based in Vancouver, Canada where she has created a provocative body of award-winning work that interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced histories and habits. Read more…