Sita is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Theater and Head of Movement for the Graduate Acting Program at Columbia University School Of The Arts. She is a physical theater artist who performs and creates original work. She was a founding faculty member of The Studio New York and has taught for The Actors Center Workshop Co, The National Alliance Of Acting Teachers,David Geffen School Of Drama at Yale University, The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Mark Morris Dance School, Feldenkrais Institute, Herbert Berghof Studio and Scott Freeman Studio. Her original works have been shown at The First Asian American Theater Festival in New York, BAX, Evolving Arts Theater, Interboro Repertory Theater, One Arm Red, Riverside Church, Lucid Body House and at The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in India. She was a 2015 artist in residence at Herbert Berghof Studio and as a dancer and performer has been on the professional stage for twenty-seven years Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway and in India. She received her training at Alvin Ailey Dance School, The Feldenkrais Institute New York,The Actors Center/TDP and Hagen Lab Teacher Training.

Ilse is a certified Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, a dancer, choreographer, bodyworker and vocal coach. She coaches actors, dancers and singers for stage, film, opera and television. Her creative collaborations include award winning filmmaker Glenn Holsten, choreographer Kevin O’Day, dancers with the Pennsylvania Ballet, Rennie Harris Pure Movement Company, DJ King Britt, and radio artist Gregory Whitehead. She conceptualized and produced I Gaze At The Prairie And See Things and Mix, both were aired in part by PBS in Philadelphia. Ilse was honored as a Pew Fellowships in the Arts Discipline Winner in Choreography and Dance-based Performance Art. Her teaching credits include a trainer in the two-year international Fitzmaurice Voicework® certificate Teacher Training program. Further teaching credits of vocal production at the Atlantic Acting School, NYU, The Studio Conservatory NYC, HB Studio and The Hagen Core Training. She has taught at the Actors Center as well as various universities as resident guest artist in the US and Europe. Born in Germany, she holds Graduate Diplomas from the Royal Academy of Dancing, Graduate Diplomas Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London.

Lucas is a proud member of The Studio/New York faculty and also teaches at The Juilliard School, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the NYU Meisner Studio. In the past Mr. Rooney taught at The Actors Center; University of San Diego; The Old Globe Theatre; The Public Theater Shakespeare Lab; Case Western University; California State University, Long Beach; and The University of Southern California. Lucas apprenticed Christopher Bayes in Clown and Physical Comedy, and received additional training with Phillippe Gaulier in London. He received his MFA from the Old Globe Theatre's professional actor training program at University of San Diego. He credits most of who he is as an artist and actor to the years he spent in The Actors Center, studying with Chris Bayes, Ron Van Lieu, Per Brah, Frank Deal, Felix Ivanov, David Bridel, and Catherine Fitzmaurice. Lucas's clown show Creation had a successful run Off-Broadway at the Mint Theatre.

On Broadway, Lucas played opposite Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in Mike Nichols’s production of The Country Girl. He was also strewn among the dead in Jack O'Brien's Henry IV at Lincoln Center. Other New York credits include Stuart in Yellow Face at the Pulbic Theater, Diggory in She Stoops to Conquer at the Irish Repertory Theater; Aaron in Mimesphobia at the Beckett Theatre, and understudying Father Flynn in Doubt at Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional credits include Charlie in Dirty Blonde at the Pittsburgh Public Theater and Trinculo in The Tempest at the Franklin Stage Company. At the Old Globe Theatre, Lucas played Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, directed by Jack O'Brien; Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Kyle Donnelly; Frank Lubeyin in All My Sons, directed by Rick Seer; and Thomas Killigrew in Complete Female Stage Beauty, directed by Mark Lamos, The Orphans’ Home Cycle at The Signature Theatre Company as well as New York Theater Workshop’s production of Red Speedo for which won an Obie award.

Fay is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a somatic process for actors which connects a psychophysical awareness of the body with the ancient Hindu wisdom of the chakra energy centers. She is Head of Movement at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY and Speechless). The Lucid Body House opened in March of 2013, in midtown Manhattan. Fay has taught at The Yale School of Drama, The Studio/NY, The New School, Michael Howard Studios, and Marymount Manhattan College.

Fay has received a Fellowship from the Likhachev Foundation for research in St. Petersburg, Russia,Fox Foundation Fellowship, which enabled her to serve as an Assistant at the New Globe Theatre in London under the artistic directorship of Mark Rylance and is the recipient of the Amy and Eric Berger National Theatre Essay Award for development of her book, The Lucid Body; A Guide for the Physical Actor. The 2nd edition was published in 2020. This book was hailed by Drama Book Shop as “one of the ten most essential books for the actor.”

Faculty: The Juilliard School, since 1996; The North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA), 1991-1996; The Stanislavsky and Nemerovich-Danchenko Drama School of the Moscow Art Theatre, 1985-1991; The Lunacharsky State Theatre University, 1989-1991; and The Gnesin College of Fine Arts (Puppet Theatre), Moscow, 1979-1981. Visiting Instructor: The University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts, 1990; The Academy of Fine Arts School of Drama, Maastricht, Holland, 1989. As an actor, Felix has played in several Moscow Drama Theatres and toured the former Soviet Republics with folk and puppet theatre groups. He has also worked as an actor and musician for Russian motion pictures and television, drama, and music albums and animated features. His choreography of stage movement, fighting, and dance in Russia has appeared in over three-hundred drama and puppet theatres and cinema and TV productions, including the Russian premiers of Jesus Christ Superstar and M. Butterfly. He has choreographed stage fighting in New York for productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, and Henry V. Founder: The Wheel Theatre (Kaleso in Russian), Moscow, 1987; The American Wheel Theatre Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1992-1996. B.A., The Stasov Musical School, Moscow Russia. M.F.A., Moscow Drama School of the Vakhtangov Academy Theatre, Russia.

Rob was educated at Oxford University and was first an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before being recruited to be a Staff Director at the U.K. National Theatre to work specifically on Shakespeare. Becoming increasingly interested in differing approaches to working with Shakespeare’s texts, he returned to Oxford to complete a doctorate in the subject and has since become an internationally recognized Shakespeare specialist. His published work on the variant texts of King Lear was recognized by the Bibliographical Society of Great Britain and was awarded the prestigious biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize by the U.S. Society for Textual Scholarship.

He has worked in numerous actor training institutions within the U.K. and established the MA Classical Acting course at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, which he also led for its first three years. He has since directed and/or taught Shakespeare in Ireland, Austria, Germany, Australia, China and the U.S. He was sponsored by the RSC to a special research fellowship at Warwick University, where he also taught. In the U.S. he has been visiting faculty at CSU Los Angeles, CSU Long Beach, USC, UCLA, University of Illinois Chicago, The Juilliard School, Yale, Brown and NYU Tisch (both graduate and undergraduate programs). He has worked regularly at the NYC Actors Center, the Academy for Classical Acting in Washington, D.C., and with the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, for whose ensemble he provided specialized verse and text work for Tina Landau’s production of The Tempest. He recently directed Troilus and Cressida for UCLA. Current plans include developing a fully professional production of King Lear to tour to underserved communities within and around Los Angeles, in collaboration with Pasadena Playhouse and the Shakespeare Center, Los Angeles, with whom he also recently worked on a Shakespeare-based creative writing program for U.S. veterans entitled Voices of the Warrior.

During the ongoing pandemic, Rob has built and now runs an extensive portfolio of online Shakespeare workshops and coaching through his personal website.

Richard studied with Jacques Lecoq, and also at Rose Bruford College, London. He is a founding member of the internationally-acclaimed New York physical theater ensemble The Flying Machine and played for two years on Broadway in War Horse. He also played the lead in the off-Broadway hit show Slava's Snowshow from 2004-2006 and has directed clown work for Cirque du Soleil including Dralion, MJ1 (Vegas) and the newest Cirque show, Volta. He is an award-winning director whose projects have included a Commedia dell'Arte version of Petrushka at Carnegie Hall; The Bourgeois Gentlemen at the UMN/Guthrie and Comedy of Errors at TheatreWorks, Colorado Springs. He also performed in the 2002 OBIE Winning [Sic] at Soho Rep., NYC, and as the lead in La Jolla Playhouse's groundbreaking The Adding Machine in 2007. Richard has been teaching for the past twelve years in London, Paris, Santiago, Montreal and New York. In the U.S. he has taught Neutral Mask, Commedia dell'Arte and Lecoq Technique at NYU/Tisch, SUNY Purchase, Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, The Actor's Center, Marymount Manhattan, Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, Michael Howard Studios, The Stella Adler Studio, and the University of Minnesota. He is currently on the faculty at PACE University and Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Jane is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and is a voice and speech specialist and dialect coach.

She has coached accents and dialects for productions on Broadway as well as Lincoln Center, American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Primary Stages, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater. She has coached dialects for various film and television productions produced by HBO, ABC, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Participant Media, Amazon, Netflix, and Production One.

As a voice teacher, she has trained in several major vocal techniques including Fitzmaurice, Linklater, Roy Hart, and Chuck Jones. Her background in speech training includes both Knight-Thompson and Skinner methodologies. Jane is certified by Catherine Fitzmaurice as an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Her previous teaching appointments include positions at the MFA training programs at the Yale School of Drama, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, and the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University.

Jane is the recipient of three certificates of distinction in teaching from Harvard University. She has worked with numerous graduate and professional acting students, preparing them for the voice and accent demands of the twenty-first century, both on stage and on screen. She earned her MFA in Voice and Speech Pedagogy from ART’s Institute for Advanced Theater Training, at Harvard University, where she studied under Nancy Houfek. She earned a BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Theater from Eugene Lang College at New School University.

Jane Nichols is a teacher, director, and actor who has been teaching Clown for over 25 years. Her work brings together skills and techniques of Improvisation, Mask, Le Jeu, Physical Comedy, Clown, and Fool. She has studied with world-renowned Clown Master Philippe Gaulier, Avner Eisenberg (Avner the Eccentric), Clive Mendes (Theatre Complicite), Ronlin Foreman (DellArte School of Physical Theatre), Michael Kennard (co-founder of Canada’s acclaimed Mump & Smoot, and Master teacher of the Richard Pochinko native American mask/clown technique), Bolek Polivka, Antonio Fava, Davis Robinson, Keith Johnstone, and Merry Conway. She has taught at Brown University, Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, Harvard University/Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at American Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Stella Adler Conservatory, University of Washington, University of Utah, Emerson College, Simon’s Rock College of Bard, Actor’s Center in NYC, and Shakespeare & Co in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Lesley College Graduate School.

She is the founder and artistic director of the Crosswalk Theater in Boston. Her acting credits include roles at En Garde Arts, New Georges and SoHo Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, Gloucester Stage, Shakespeare & Co., the Lyric Stage, Nora Theater, and Berkshire Public. Jane has performed for film and television in School Ties, Heights, Law & Order: SVU, Ed, America’s Most Wanted, and Rachel’s Dinner with Olympia Dukakis.