Alessandro Fabrizi is a theatre director, actor and Designated Linklater Teacher. He teaches Voice at the “Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D’Amico”, the “Accademia Internazionale d’Arte Drammatica del Teatro Quirino” in Rome and at the Acting School of the Teatro Stabile di Torino, in Turin (Italy). Among his latest productions as theatre director are: "Bartleby the Scrivener" at the Blue Heron Arts Center in New York (Fall 2005), "Studio per Tre Novelle dal Decameron" for the Anagni Medieval Theatre Festival (Italy, July 2006), “My Name is Rachel Corrie” (Teatro Piccolo Eliseo, Rome 2009), “Musicaromanzo” with Nada Malanima (Teatro Vascello, Roma 2011). He has held seminars on "Movement & Text" at the University of Chicago, Dartmouth University, Butler University (Indianapolis), Columbia University in New York, University of Long Island and the Blue Heron Arts Center and the Actors Movement Studio in New York, USA. He directed the Actors' Thesis of the MFA program at the School of Performing Arts of Columbia University, New York (“Metamorphoses – Ted Hughes’ Tales From Ovid”, Fall 2006). As a filmaker he has directed the short film E se...(2001), and the documentary Giving Voice – Kristin Linklater, 15 actors and 7 Tales from Ovid (World Video Production). In cinema, he has collaborated with Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Tom Tykwer (Heaven) and Fatih Akin (Solino) as supervisor of the Italian dialogues of those movies and as dialect coach (for Jack Davenport, Giovanni Ribisi, Cate Blanchett and Barnaby Metsurat). As an actor he has played the role of Sergeant Baggio in “The Talented Mr Ripley” and the role of Inspector Alberto Cerutti in “The International” directed by Tom Tykwer. He has translated into italian Kristin Linklater’s text book “Freeing the Natural Voice” (elliotedizioni, 2008).
Susan Main Susan Main is an actress and a voice and movement coach based in New York City. She is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, certified by world-renowned voice teacher Kristin Linklater. Susan works actively as a private vocal coach in New York City and abroad, regularly conducting voice workshops and classes in New York City, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Susan's students include politicians, corporate executives, Broadway, film and television actors. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Stromboli Project, a summer theatre institute on the Aeolian island of Stromboli, Italy. Her recent credits include serving as vocal coach for the Off-Broadway production of Hedda Gabler, directed by John Gould Rubin and coaching the art dance piece, A Quarreling Pair, for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 25th Anniversary Season, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has taught voice and/or movement on the faculties of the Actor's Studio MFA program at Pace University, Accademia Silvio D'Amico in Rome, Italy, Zurich University of the Arts, the Linklater Center for Voice & Language, New York University, New Actor's Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, Boston Conservatory, and the Larry Singer Studios. She has worked as a voice coach for theatre companies in Italy and Portugal, and recently completed voice coaching a feature film starring Caitlin FitzGerald (It's Complicated, Newlyweds, Damsels in Distress). In 2005, she co-produced and served as script supervisor on the documentary Giving Voice - Kristin Linklater, 15 Actors and 7 Tales from Ovid, filmed in Stromboli, Italy. Susan attended the 2009 Santorini Voice Symposium and published an essay on the Santorini experience in the acclaimed Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, University of Manitoba, Canada. Upcoming coaching projects include vocal coaching Three Sisters directed by John Gould Rubin and Peer Gynt, in association with the Old Vic New Voices. As an actress she has appeared in film and theatres including Joe's Pub, LaMama, the Culture Project and Blue Heron Arts Center. She holds an MFA in Theatre Education specializing in voice and movement from Boston University. Susan is the Resident Voice Coach of The Private Theatre.