Loyd Williamson is the founder and Artistic Director of Actors Movement Studio. He is the creator and author of the Williamson Physical Technique, and of The Williamson Advanced Period Style Project, "The Salon" (TM)

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He was the principal Movement Professor at The School of the Arts, Rutgers University from 1979 to 2001; served on the faculty of HB Studio for eleven years; visiting professor at the Tish School of the Arts for three years; for The Juilliard School; and the Princeton Shakespeare Festival. He has taught classes and coached actors on Broadway, and in Feature Film, Television, Regional theaters, and many conservatories.

He has served as coach for such actors as Elizabeth Ashley, James Gandolfini, Nastassja Kinsky,  Kevin Kilner, Jody Foster, and others. He has been artistic consultant for Broadway productions of Suddenly Last Summer, and Holliday; ­for feature films Maria's Lovers (assistant to the director) Andre Koncholovshy director, with Robert Mitchem, Keith Carrodine, Natassja Kinsky; Alphabet City with Zora Lambert and Vincent Spano, Amos Poe director; for stage, Othello with Delroy Lindow , Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival; with Avery Brooks for the Folger Theater in Washington DC, Hal Scott, director; for The Beggars Opera at the Juillard School , Michael Langham, director;  for Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, She Stoops to Conquer, The Piano Lesson, for the Rutgers School of the Arts; for the original productions of Extremities, and Woolgatherer , John Bettendender, director.

Partial list of acting roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar, H. Adrian Reiner, director; Troilus,Troilus and Cressida, Dennis Carey, director (first director Bristor Old Vic); Oberon, Midsummer Night's Dream, Gene Frankel Theatre; Charles Condomine, Blythe Spirit, Reiner, director;. Arch Bishop of Reims, Saint Joan, Hal Scott, director; Narrator in L' Histoir du Soldat (Broadway production) Anna Sokolow, director;,and Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guilderstein are Dead, Angus Bowmer, director.  Melcoir, On the Razzle, Hal Scott Director.

His acting training was with Sandford Meisner in his two year professional classes, with Harold Clurman, and with Michael Howard. His mentor in actor's movement training was Anna Sokolow, with whom he trained for 12 Years, and he performed in her Players Project.  He received and MFA degree from the School of Theater, University of Georgia, specializing in scene and lighting design with a major in Directing.

Andrew Wade was Head of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 - 2003.

Catherine Fitzmaurice teaches voice and text to private clients in New York City, as well as around the United States and internationally. She has taught voice and text at Yale School of Drama, Harvard/A.R.T., the Juilliard School, NYU's Graduate Acting program, ACT, UCLA, USC, London University, the Central School of Speech and Drama, in workshops and seminars, and in theatre and medical conference presentations for voice professionals. She is Professor of Theatre at the University of Delaware, where she teaches acting to undergraduates. Catherine has been voice, speech, text, and dialect coach and consultant for award-winning directors Frank Galati, Mark Lamos, JoAnne Akalaitis, Des McAnuff, Michael Langham, Stan Wojewodski, Robert Wilson, and Ivo van Hove, at such venues as ACT, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Stratford/Canada, Hartford Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival, and New York Theatre Workshop. She coached Haing Ngor's Academy Award-winning performance in The Killing Fields. MA (Theatre Studies) and BA (English Literature), University of Michigan; Graduate of Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England (3-year program); Certificate International Phonetics Association; Certificates of completion from several bodywork and healing energy trainings. Certified Somatic Therapist.

As a film actress, Mala is best known for the role of "Roxanne" opposite Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac. Her leading roles in the theatre include appearances in Hogan's Goat, Night of the Iguana, Bus Stop, The Far Country, and in the Broadway production of Absence of a Cello. She has starred in more than 100 television shows in addition to her co-starring role opposite Anthony Quinn in the series, The Man and the City. She will soon be seen in the recently completed independent film Hitters, starring Robert Davi.

Mala has written the Foreword and Afterword for Michael Chekhov's, On the Technique of Acting. She recently wrote Chekhov's biography for a new expanded version of his classic, To the Actor. Mala edited, produced and wrote the accompanying Course Guide for her latest project, a CD edition of Michael Chekhov's own Master Class recordings, On Theatre and the Art of Acting.

In 1985, he co-founded the Moscow Chamber Forms Theater, one of the first private professional companies in Russia. For eight years he served as Artistic Director, directing and performing in every production, and heading the company's conservatory. In 1991, he directed the Chamber Forms' co-production of The Death of Tarelkin, a satirical farce by Alexander Subkhovo-Kobylin, which was presented the same year in Moscow and Los Angeles in a bi-lingual American-Russian production.He has taught workshops in the Stanislavsky/Vakhtangov and Michael Chekhov acting methods for several training programs, and most recently served on the faculties of Catholic University and Villa Julie College.

He is a master teacher at the International Michael Chekhov Conference and is a board member for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). For STS, he co-directed and/or played leading roles in Kashtanka, The Miraculous Magical Balloon, The Little Tragedies, The Shadow, The Idiot, The Good Doctor, Le Malade Imaginaire, Faust, Don Quixote, Dead Souls, and Filumena. He is the author of a chapter, translation and commentary “A PRACTICAL GUDIE TO THE APPLICATION OF PHYCOLOGICAL GESTURE” in the recently published edition of Michael Chekhov's seminal book, To the Actor.. For STS's production of The Idiot, he received the 2000 Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Direction.

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GENE TERRUSO spent four years as Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s historic Provincetown Playhouse, where he staged A Mountain of Sundays with Oscar-winner Kim Hunter. While at the Provincetown, he developed that theatre’s New Play Series, involving the talents of such artists as Terrence McNally, Edward Herrman, and William Mastrosimone whose Asteroid had its debut at the Provincetown under Mr Terruso’s direction. His New York directing credits include Mamet’s The Blue Hour at Playwrights’ Horizons, The Actor’s Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius at the Nat Horne Theatre on Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row, the inaugural production of the American Ibsen Theatre, When We Dead Awaken, and Slices by Second City’s Barbara Hobart at the McCarter Theatre. He first appeared on Broadway with Colleen Dewhurst in Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been? and has since made numerous stage, film, and TV appearances including recurring roles in CBS’ Orphans, Waifs, and Wards and as Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales, broadcast on PBS. He served as founder and Artistic Director of New Jersey’s Atlantic Theatre Festival for which he directed Hobart’s Perfect for Meryl Streep, and the East coast premiere and first fully staged production of David Mamet’s The Disappearance of the Jews. Also with ATF, Mr Terruso directed the premiere of Bernie DeLeo’s award-winning Tales From the Concrete Beach. The company received a Best Play nomination for Disappearance of the Jews and another for the world premiere of John Ford Noonan’s Listen to the Lions. Mr Terruso also founded and served as Artistic Director of Chicago’s Summer NITE Theatre which presented the world premiere of The Chancellor’s Tale (recipient of Hollywood’s Julie Harris Award for Best New Play), the world premiere of John Tuttle’s Terminal Café, and the first national revival of A…My Name is STILL Alice. The company also produced Chicago premieres of Death Defying Acts by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May and of Catherine Butterfield’s Life in the Trees. Both received After Dark Awards for Best Ensemble and Death Defying Acts garnered the same award for Best Direction. In Fall 2003, he directed How I Learned to Drive with the Long Island Playwrights’ Project and this past season staged one of a series of presentations, which premiered across the country, of Tim Robbins’ stage adaptation of Dead Man Walking. He has performed, directed and conducted master classes with such renowned international companies as England’s National Theatre, the Berliner Ensemble, and the Hertfordshire International Theatre Festival. He studied acting in Hollywood with the legendary Sanford Meisner, and continues to act having created the role of Primo Levi in the world premiere of Nick Patricca’s An Uncertain Hour, which received Chicago’s prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award. He also toured England as Tennessee Williams in the U.K. premiere of Mr Williams and Miss Wood. During the 2001-02 season he portrayed Andy in Love Letters , Dukes Senior and Fredrick, as well as Corin the Shepard, in As You Like It with Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company, with whom he previously portrayed Sir Tony Belch in Twelfth Night. Other Philadelphia credits include Andrew Wyke in Sleuth and Henry II in The Lion in Winter at the Hedgerow Theatre. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival and as Chair for their Region III Playwrighting Award. He has taught at Rutgers University, the Pratt Institute, and Northern Illinois University (where he served as Director of the School of Theatre and Dance). He was the eighth President in the 114-year history of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He currently serves as Director of the School of Theatre Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University, was awarded a 1996 Fulbright Lectureship to Belgium, and in 1975 was inducted into the national honors society Alpha Sigma Nu.

Co-Artistic Director of Actors Movement Studio NYC. She is a Movement Specialist and certified teacher of Williamson Technique and Period Styles; Edwardian, Elizabethan and Restoration. She personally trained with Loyd Williamson, founder of the Williamson Physical Technique for Actors, certified to train teachers of The Williamson Technique and has recently trained with Anne Bogart, Tina Landau and SITI Company in Viewpoints, Suzuki and Composition. Currently teaching Michael Chekhov Technique for Actors, and has completed two years teacher training with the Michael Chekhov Association towards as a certificate of completion. She is on faculty at University of the Arts, School of Performing Arts, Philadelphia.

She has also taught Movement, Period Style, Viewpoints, Michael Chekhov Technique and Williamson Physical Technique in educational institutions and theater programs in USA and Europe including: Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers State University, Williamstown Theater Festival, De Lindenberg Centrum Voor Kunst Culture in the Netherlands, the State Theater School in Odense, Demark, and Opheila theater school in Copenhagen Denmark. Lehman College, New York State Summer School of the Arts, School for Film and Television NYC, Princeton Rep. Shakespeare Festival.

A Movement, Style Coach and Choreographer: Mirror Repertory Company, The Contrast, Princeton Repertory Shakespeare Festival, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Expanded Arts, Midsummer Night's Dream, Sonnet Rep, An Ideal Husband , Players Theater, The Misanthrope, Act One Company, Williamstown Theater Festival, Vassa Zheleznova . Co-Artistic Director of Echo Repertory produced and adapted new plays including: The Lost Art of Letters, Triangle Factory Fire, Dorothy Parker’s Telephone Call &The Waltz. Founding Member of Expanded Arts Theater Company and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot NYC.

Directing credits include: Adaptations of (The Brute) VODKA TANGO,and (Uncle Vanya), UNCLE VANYA'S DREAM, Dolores, Golden Boy, Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music, Fun and Nobody, The Rose Tattoo, A View From the Bridge, The Lysistrata Project. A Union member (SAG & AEA). Has performed in NYC; Off-Broadway, regionally and summer theater festivals including: The Hanger Theater, Elmwood Playhouse, Judith Anderson, One Dream Theater, Manhattan Class Company, Elmwood Playhouse, Expanded Arts, Shakespeare in the Parking-Lot, Princeton Repertory, The Mirror Repertory, Williamstown Theater Festival, Classic Stage Company, and Circle Rep lab. Recently Played the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet for Princeton Rep (out door) Shakespeare festival.

Students Trained: Tom Pelfrey, Guiding Light, Emmy Nomination 2004. Micah Alberti, All My Children Light, Wildfire Fox Family channel

Master Teacher, Movement Specialist, Physical Training for Actors and Period Style. Ted Morin has been working in the teaching profession since 1985. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Education Degree with a major in Secondary English and minor in Religious and Moral Education. He proceeded to teach English Literature to High School seniors for five years. During this time, Ted studied with The American College of Sports Medicine and became a certified personal trainer and has been working one on one with clients since 1990. Ted was a competitive aerobics champion winning both a Canadian Championship and a North American Championship in 1990. He represented Canada in the first World Cup Aerobics Championship in Tokyo in 1991.In 1992, Ted moved to New York to study acting with William Esper at The William Esper Studio and movement with Loyd Williamson at The Actor's Movement Studio, Inc. In his second year of training, Mr. Williamson invited Ted to apprentice to teach the technique. Under the mentorship of Mr. Williamson, he trained to instruct all levels of The Williamson Technique and began teaching in the fall of 2003 at the Actor's Movement Studio and at Rutgers University - Mason Gross School of the Arts in the MFA and BFA acting programs. He spent seven years teaching at Rutgers and continues to teach at The Actor's Movement Studio where he is acknowledged as a master teacher of The Williamson Technique and also trains new teachers who are interested in learning to teach the work. In addition Ted taught the Williamson Technique in the Meisner Extension Studio at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU in collaboration with master acting teacher Vicky Hart. He has also been on faculty with NYSSSA (New York State Summer School of the Arts), a summer acting conservatory for high school students. He studied Shakespeare with John Basil of The American Globe Theatre, New York, NY and has performed most recently in Measure for Measure (Duke), Hamlet (Claudius), Comedy of Errors (Dr. Pinch/Duke), Richard III, Macbeth, Richard II and As You Like It. Most recently, Ted co-directed Top Girls with Vikki Hart at NYU.

Jessica Cerullo serves on the board and as the Managing Director of MICHA. She appeared as an actor in MICHA's Master Class DVD Series. Ms. Cerullo has taught workshops in Chekhov's technique at The London Academy of Theatre, Prince Georges Community College, University of Colorado, Naropa University, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Albuquerque's Working Classroom, New York's Open Center, Professional Performing Arts School, the Actor's Movement Studio, the Stanislavsky Theater Studio in Washington, DC and at the Micro Theatre in Thesseloniki, Greece. A writer and performer, her solo and ensemble work includes Miracle Tomato, Five Marys: the life and imaginings of Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabth and Mary, and Signs and Symbols. This work has been performed at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, PS122 and at the Tin Shop where she was the artist in residence in 2007. She recently wrote for and played "Persephone" in The Persephone Project which premiered in Colorado and toured in Italy. Ms. Cerullo trained with the National Theater Institute in the USA, London and at the Moscow Art Theater in Russia. She earned an MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance at Naropa University, where she has appeared in performances directed by Meredith Monk, the SITI Company and Leigh Fondakowski of Tectonic Theater.

Scott Fielding is an itinerant director, teacher, and actor. In the United States, he is the producing artistic director of Alchymia Theatre and the director of The Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Chicago. Extensive recent work as stage director in Eastern Europe includes Aria Da Capo (Ormož, Slovenia), Mud (Zagreb Theatre for Youth), 4.48 Psychosis (Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb), and in collaboration with Slovenian director Tomi Janežic, King Lear (Atelier 212, Belgrade) and The Blind (Macedonian National Theatre). Recent U.S. productions include works by Garcia Lorca and Gertrude Stein (Stanislavsky Theatre Studio), and Robert Frost and Günter Grass (Alchymia Theatre), in addition to many others.

In Croatia, he was a guest professor at the Academies of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and Osijek in 2005-2006. In Europe, he has taught Master classes and workshops most recently throughout the former Yugoslav region including Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Belgrade International Theatre Festival (BITEF), as well as in England, Switzerland, Germany and Brazil. In the U.S., he has taught for the faculties of California State University Long Beach, Northeastern Illinois University, and the Speech and Drama Program of Sunbridge College. For the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), he is a Master Teacher on the faculty of the Teacher Training Program and International Workshop and Festival.

In New York, Mr. Fielding is a member of The Actors' Ensemble, with whom he has worked since 1988. As an actor, he has performed in New York theaters Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, as well as in Chicago and Los Angeles.

His Broadway credits include Zazu in THE LION KING, and Leggett in THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. He has also appeared in New York at Ensemble Studio Theater, Here, LA MA MA, St. Anne's Warehouse, and the NY Fringe Festival. Bill's regional credits include Berkshire Theater Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Rep of St. Louis, Northshore Music Theater, Two River Theater, Arkansas Rep,George Street Playhouse, Montana Rep, PaperMill Playhouse, the Denver Center, Tennessee Rep, Seven Angels Theater, and the Eugene O'Neill Center. Bill's latest play, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, has been produced at Berkshire Theater Festival and the Adirondack Theater Festival, with an Off Broadway run in the works. He is featured in the film TWO WEEKS NOTICE, and on television in Disney's OUT OF THE BOX, REMEMBER W.E.N.N., ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and ALL MY CHILDREN. Committed to introducing MIME to new audiences, Bill has toured his solo show UNDER A MONTANA MOON all over the U.S. This year alone he performed at numerous settings, including one room schools in Montana and Nebraska, an Amish Colony, the Flathead Indian Reservation, Homeless shelters in New Jersey, as well as The Kennedy Center in DC, and Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. Feature articles about his work have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE DAILY NEWS. Bill holds an MFA from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an Honorary PhD from his alma mater, Rocky Mountain College. He presently teaches at New York University, and is a teaching artist for the Paper Mill Playhouse, Urban Stages, and the Institute for Arts and Humanities Education. He regularly presents workshops and master classes, and has studied with the legendary Marcel Marceau.

Founding Artistic Director of internationally acclaimed mask & puppet performance company MaskWork Unlimited, Shelley has taught classes and workshops for NYU, Yale, Circle in the Square, Smith, Brown, Stella Adler Conservatory, The Actors Studio MFA Program, and Bard College, among many others. She worked with Jacques LeCoq, studied in Bali with Idi Bagnus Anom, and apprenticed for years to Pierre LeFevre of The Juilliard School. Shelley's recent directing and coaching credits include shows for Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Terrence McNally's A PERFECT GANESH at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Ms. Robertson is an Associate Professor, Head of the BFA Acting Program, and the Undergraduate Advisor for the School of Theatre and Dance at Northern Illinois University, an U/RTA, NAST program. She teaches movement in the BFA and MFA Professional Training Programs. She is also the Head of Movement at The Actors Center, Chicago. She has previously been on the faculties of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University, and the Actors Movement Studio in New York. She has taught workshops in New Zealand, London, at national conferences, residencies in university programs around the country, and at festivals and private studios nationwide.

Her work as a choreographer and movement coach has been seen internationally, in regional theatres, university productions, and on television. Most recently she choreographed a production of The Birds which was produced at the Moscow Art Theatre Studio, Moscow, Russia. As an actress and dancer, she has appeared on Broadway, National Tours, Off Broadway, industrials, regional theatres around the country, and on television.

She is an active member of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, of which she has served as Conference Planner for the national conference for two years, and created a Code of Ethics adopted by the organization. She is a member of the Michael Chekhov Association, Actors Equity and the Screen Actors Guild. She is currently working on the creation of a digital video documentary of Loyd Williamson and the movement training that he created.