Janet Madell Feindel
Alexander Directed for Actors
The goal of this workshop is to help guide Alexander teachers who work primarily with actors to find creative and practical ways to present the AT work designed for an acting curriculum. The course will explore imaginative ways to present the AT ideas and how to apply these to text and acting issues, in ways that encourage flexibility, self observation and ease. Janet will also present ideas on how to build a supportive atmposphere of inquiry, rather tha one of judgmentalism.
Finding your Voice as an Alexander Teacher
Alexander created his approach initially as a way to deal with his vocal hoarseness as an actor. Many Alexander teachers are uncomforable about their own voice use and particularly when teaching or addressing groups. This workshop is designed to find creative ways to deal with this issue and help teachers become more comfortable as they embody their own voice, enabling them to talk about the technique with intelligence and passion.
Janet Madelle Feindel served as voice/text coach, alongside Cicely Berry, O.B.E, on the "The Jew of Malta" and "The merchant of Venice", starring F. Murray Abraham, who received a Drama League nomination for his work. She recently coached for Martha Henry, Director of the Conservatory for the Stratford Festival January 2008. Her chapter on voice and the Alexander Technique appears in "Performers' Voice" by Plural Publishing and her book "The thought propels the sound", a voice/at guide for directors, will be published in spring 2008, also by Plural. Janet Madelle has coached many professional actors including Megan Follows, Fiona Reid and Brian Bedford. She has also taught for Soulpepper Theatre Company's Training program in Toronto.
Professor Feindel presented two workshops at the International Congress on the F.M. Alexander Technique in Oxford, England and her paper is published in the Congress Papers, STAT, UK. She led two workshops at the Alexander Technique International Conference in Budapest, Hungary and has given workshops on Voice/AT in Germany, Toronto and Quebec.
Janet Madelle has an MFA from Carnegie Mellon, a BA from the University of Toronto and an Honors Diploma from George Brown College School of Theatre.
She is certified with Alexander Technique International and Alexander Alliance. She is also a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and certified as a Fitzmaurice Associate. She completed a teacher training with David Smukler and has trained with Cicely Berry, Andrew Wade; Francis Thomas; also assisted Richard Armstrong at the Banff Center; studied IPA/dialects/accents with Jeremy Dix-Hart, Bill Meilen (University of Alberta) and colleague Don Wadsworth.
Janet Madelle's play "A particular Class of Women" played in Rome in Italian at the Teatro Colesseo and the Teatro Della Bugia; in English, in Rome at the Teatro Inglese. Her play was featured at both the First and Second International Women Playwrights Conferences. It has played in theatres in Canada and the US.
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