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Teachers Bios
Our classes are led by a repertory of renowned theatre professionals.
They
specialize in techniques of Voice, Movement and Text,
and are proud to pass
their insight and experience on to both
the beginner and seasoned professional.
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SUSAN ANGELO
(Scene
Study, Monologues & and Scansion)
Susan
Angelo,
Theatricum's Education Director, oversees the
theatre's Academy of the Classics and Classroom Enrichment programs, serving
more than 12,000 children, teens and adults each year. She has directed and
taught Shakespeare for over 25 years at hundreds of Los Angeles public and
private schools and also guest teaches at many colleges, including UCLA, NYU
and Cal Lutheran. Ms. Angelo utilizes a highly visceral, energetic approach
to Shakespeare with an equal emphasis on scansion, rhetoric and Elizabethan
history. As an actress, she has played many of Shakespeare’s ingénues and
leading ladies and has directed countless Shakespeare plays for young
people, as well as mainstage productions in Theatricum’s professional
repertory season and at The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival. Her stage
credits include performances at Theatricum Botanicum, A Noise Within, The
American Players Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, Indiana Repertory,
Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, William Inge Theatre, New York Actors
Ensemble, the Odyssey and Los Angeles Repertory. She has also appeared in many
films and television shows, including Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Law
& Order: CI, Desperate Housewives and Heroes. Susan has a BFA from Cal Arts
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ALAN BLUMENFELD
(Scene
Study & Monologues)
Alan Blumenfeld has been a professional
actor for 30 years and has been privileged to work at Theatricum
Botanicum for the past 20-something years, playing such Shakespearean clowns as Falstaff, Autolycus,
Touchstone, Peter Quince, Gremio,
Trinculo, Dogberry as well as Shylock , Kent and
Friar Lawrence. He has been in over 50 plays throughout the country,
including Broadway, South Coast Rep, Berkshire Theater Festival, A
Noise Within, the Odyssey Theatre,
ACT, PCPA and the San Francisco
Opera. Alan has guest starred in more than 200 television shows, including Heros,
CSI,
The Mentalist and
Without a Trace, as well as
many films. Alan is the co-founder of ACT of Communication where he
teaches trial advocacy, witness preparation and case strategy for
lawyers. Currently, he is a lecturer in the Theater Department at Pomona
College in Claremont. He has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an
MFA from American Conservatory Theatre.
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LINDA BRENNAN
(Voice & Speech)
Linda Brennan is
on the faculty of American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Voice and Speech
Department Chair) and South Coast Repertory. Film and TV credits include
American Pie, The Scorpion King,That’s Life (CBS), The Hughleys (UPN),
For
the People (Lifetime) and Sonny (Nicholas
Cage, director). Besides individual coaching, production theatre coaching
includes A Streetcar Named Desire (South Coast Rep), The Crimson
Thread (Pasadena Playhouse), Arms and the Man (A Noise Within), Old Times
(El Portal Center for the Arts) and The Nibroc Trilogy (Actor’s Co-Op).
Linda has an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University, and an MA in Clinical
Psychology from Antioch University. She is a member of VASTA (Voice and
Speech Trainer’s Association). Her article “T’s and Sympathy: Adventures in
the Hollywood Dialects Trade” appears in the VASTA Journal, “Essays on
Voice and Speech.”
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ADELE CABOT
(Linklater Voice)
Adele Cabot is a designated Linklater Voice
teacher, trained and certified by Kristin Linklater. She
served as Dialects/Vocal Consultant for Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. for
four years, as well as at many other theatres (A Noise Within, Actor’s Gang)
and on film and television sets. A
company member at Shakespeare & Co. in Lennox, MA, Adele has also performed
and/or taught at The Shakespeare Project, African Continuum Theatre, Cal
Arts, Cal State Northridge, University of Maryland, Southern California
Shakespeare Festival, and is currently on the faculty at UCLA. She
was in residence twice at Shakespeare’s Globe in London,
first as an actor and then as a Master Teacher and Program Director for the
Teaching Shakespeare through Performance program.
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JANET CROUCH-SCHULMAN
(Alexander Technique)
Janet Crouch
Shulman trained as a teacher of The Alexander Technique at the Alexander
Technique Studio in London, England, and at the Alexander Training
Institute, Los Angeles. She is currently professor of Alexander Technique at
California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and also gives workshops and
classes at various institutions throughout the Los Angeles area including
The California Institute for The Arts (CalArts), the Antaeus Theater Company
and the Will Geer 'Theatricum Botanicum' in Topanga.
Janet works closely with Elizabeth Howard, vocal teacher and founder of the
'Vocal Power' method, and offers private Alexander coaching from her studio
in Topanga. With thirty years of experience as a professional cellist, she
takes a particular interest in working with performers of all kinds. She is
one of only a handful of Alexander Technique teachers in the United States
with an advanced certification to teach Jessica Wolf's 'The Art of
Breathing'.
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MADELEINE DAHM
(Laban Movement)
Trained at the Old Vic and Royal Court theatres in
London, Madeleine Dahm garnered a coveted scholarship to study under Martha
Graham and spent 20 years performing in international theatre and modern
dance, including works at the Royal Salders Wells Theatre, Covent Garden
Opera House, and The National Theatre.
As artistic director of critically acclaimed physical theatre
company,
Gärung, she has created
expressionistic theatre works for major international performing arts
festivals and concert theatre venues across Europe and the U.S.
Madeleine, who holds a post-graduate diploma from the Laban Institute
for Movement Studies in London, was a guest faculty member at USC for three
years and is a Master Teaching Artist with the Music Center, Performing Arts
Center of Los Angeles County.
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MILAN DRAGICEVICH
(Rhetoric)
Milan Dragicevich currently serves as
Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He
formerly taught Rhetoric at UCLA and privately in Los
Angeles. He
has performed with numerous regional theater companies, including The
Hartford Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Pasadena Playhouse, as well
as a ten-year stint with Theatricum Botanicum, where he received a
Drama-Logue award for his portrayal of Richard III. Milan is
drawn to vibrant, compelling theater, where the spoken word intersects with
dynamic physicality and bold design. He
is currently completing a book on the “electric” use of language in the
theater, looking at the adventurous ways contemporary actors can harness
super-charged verbal tools can be used to create character and energize
audience listening
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