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Catherine
Fitzmaurice has taught Voice and Text for the Theatre at the Juilliard
School, New York University, Harvard University / American Repertory Theatre,
American Conservatory Theatre, UCLA, USC, London University, and the Central
School of Speech and Drama, and currently at the Actors Center and privately in
New York City. She has worked extensively as voice and text consultant for
award-winning directors Des McAnuff, Frank Galati, Mark Lamos, JoAnne Akalaitis,
Michael Langham, Stan Wojewodski, Robert Wilson, and Ivo van Hove, and many
others, at such venues as ACT, La Jolla Playhouse, the Guthrie, the Goodman,
Stratford / Canada, McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre,
Arena Stage, Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival, and the New York
Theatre Workshop. She coached Dr. Haing Ngor's Academy Award-winning performance
in The Killing Fields, and has worked with many other award-winning
professionals.
Catherine teaches national workshops for voice professionals in her
method of training, known as Fitzmaurice Voicework (or Destructuring -
Restructuring) which is taught by her past students at Harvard University's and
Yale University's graduate acting training programs as well as many others.
Catherine has been invited to lecture and conduct workshops for theatre and
medical colleagues at numerous American and international universities and
symposia, most recently at the Moscow Art Theatre and the Slavic Institute in
Moscow, Russia; also as Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer in Drama at the
University of California - Irvine; at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski in
Pontedera, Italy; at the Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC) at University
Hospital in Regensburg, Germany; at the International Society for the Study of
European Ideas (ISSEI) in Haifa, Israel; and numerous times at the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Voice Foundation Symposium in
Philadelphia.
She has acted for Robert Wilson as Goneril in Lear at Metromedia Studios
in Los Angeles, in the company at the American Conservatory Theatre for three
years, on the national tour of Whose Life is it Anyway? with Brian
Bedford, and with Ann Baxter at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and many
other venues. She has also performed in film, television, and radio, and has
directed Shakespeare and contemporary works in London, California, and New York.
Catherine's research interests are in the areas of breath, voice, and sound. Her
article, "Breathing is Meaning," is published by Applause Books in The
Vocal Vision, ed. Marian Hampton, New York, 1997. She holds a Diploma from
the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, the Certificate of
the International Phonetics Association, and a B.A. in English and an M.A. in
Theatre Studies from the University of
Michigan. She was Professor of Theatre at the University of Delaware and
is Director of ProVoice LLC.