01/15/2022
Bios of instructors for Acting Chekhov:
Joe Alberti (PhD) is the head of Voice and Speech at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He attended the Yale School of Drama and wrote his dissertation as well as numerous books and peer-reviewed articles on the acting methodology of Earle R. Gister, former Associate Dean of YSD. He is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher, a certified Colaianni Speech and Dialect teacher, a certified Alexander Technique (AmSAT) teacher, and is currently completing certification in Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing. He is the Editor of the AmSAT (Alexander Technique) Journal, co-editor of the peer-reviewed, international Alexander Journal, US edition and has written many articles about the Alexander Technique. He is co-author, with Genoa Davidson, of the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed article, “The Other Side of Performance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Listening for Voice and Speech Trainers,” published in the international Routledge Journal, the Voice and Speech Review. He has worked extensively at Shakespeare & Company, served as text coach at the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and has been voice, speech, dialect, and text coach on many theatre productions and film projects. He just completed co-authorship and world-premiere production of The Trial, a modern play based on the Kafka novel set in the context of surveillance capitalism. He is currently co-writing several new plays, including a play adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, The Transformation, and a two-character play about the life of John and Abigail Adams, My Dearest Friend. He has directed several plays at OU, including Men on Boats. [email protected]
Genoa Davidson (acting under the name Arlette Morgan) is an actor, coach, voice teacher, Alexander Technique teacher (AmSAT) and writer who has attended The North Carolina School of the Arts, St. John’s college and KD Studio in Dallas. She completed the month-long intensive at Shakespeare & Company and after working with the actor Alan Alda, she and Dr. Alberti began to explore the use of actor training, especially improvisation, to work with non-actors. They work with companies world-wide to help people improve their sense of presence and vocal freedom. She is the associate editor and production manager and associate editor of The AmSAT Journal and co-editor of the international, peer-reviewed Alexander Journal, US edition. A member of the Dramatist’s Guild, she has published peer-reviewed papers on acting technique and interdisciplinary work, and numerous articles on the Alexander Technique. Ms. Davidson completed co-authorship with Joe Alberti and Robert Lemon of the world-premiere production of The Trial, a modern play based on the Kafka novel set in the context of surveillance capitalism. She is currently co-writing several new plays, including a play adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, The Transformation, and a two-character play about the life of John and Abigail Adams, My Dearest Friend. She is currently certifying as a Colaianni Speech Practitioner and will complete Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing in 2022. [email protected]
Alice Olsher was born in Chicago and raised in Hollywood, where she spent most of her teenage years immersed in acting, theatrical production, and singing. She moved to London and got a certificate in acting when she was 21, as well as continuing singing and theatrical production. In drama school, she was introduced to the Alexander Technique and had lessons for about fifteen years, until eventually deciding to train to become an Alexander teacher too. She trained with Walter and Dilys Carrington. Walter trained with and worked alongside FM Alexander and eventually took over as course director in 1955, when Alexander passed. Alice now lives back in San Diego, where she has trained four more teachers, worked with many post-graduate teachers, as well as continuing to give lessons to many actors, singers, and musicians. [email protected]
