Bernard Vash, a 2010 - 2012 graduate of the Flying Actor Studio, studying Neo-Classical Clown and Mime, with James Donlon and Leonard Pitt, is currently developing new material with Leonard Pitt. He has been studying Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, was Voice Coach for the Marin Shakespeare Company, and recognized as Outstanding Theatre Performer – 2014 by Bay Area Dance Watch. He has studied Knight-Thompson SpeechWork with Phil Thompson and Dudley Knight. In 2009, he spent the Fall Semester observing Kristin Linklater at Columbia University. He spent 13 years from 1970 to 1988 at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco under William Ball and Allen Fletcher, as a founding member of the Young Conservatory and later an actor and as instructor of Phonetics and Ear Training, Voice, and Acting. Bernard has also taught at Temple University and San Francisco State University, and has coached dialects for Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Bernard studied at Carnegie Mellon University with Timothy Monich, and Edith Skinner, and at ACT with Anne Lawder, Donna Snow, Rick Winter, Robert Chapline. and Edith Skinner. In 1980, he assisted Edith Skinner teaching and was trained by her to teach her method. Recently (as Tucker Sonoma) he has trained with Shakespeare and Company both as a teacher trainee and as a participant. He has also trained in stage combat and fight choreography with Gregory Hoffman at Dueling Arts International, and he attended their 2007 Teaching Symposium.
Languages: English Specializations: Acting, Movement, Presence, Private Coaching, Public Speaking, Shakespeare, Speech & Dialects
