Phonetic Pillows won the inaugural ArtsHub People’s Choice Award for Innovation in the arts.

The ArtsHub Awards recognize contributions to Australia’s vibrant arts scene. Thank you, Leigh Pyman for popularizing Phonetic Pillows in Sydney!

Master Linklater Voice Teacher, Natsuko Ohama’s 5 Day Voice Workshop
June 18-23, 2012
The Celebration Barn, ME

“One of the finest teachers I have ever trained.” –Kristin Linklater
“A gifted and caring teacher with a wonderful sensibility.” –Peter Brook

Free your voice no matter who you are! Through relaxation, imagination, vocal and physical exercises, connect with your body/voice/feelings/thoughts to express who you are with the speaking voice. Undo the inhibiting tensions that restrict the actor’s emotional and creative freedom. This 5 day progression covers Physical Awareness, Breath Awareness, Vibration Awareness, Amplification, Freeing The Channel For Sound (Jaw, Tongue, Soft Palate), Developing Resonance, Articulation and Text.  Free your voice, Free yourself!

Natsuko Ohama trained under Kristin Linklater, Peter Kass, Trish Arnold, and Joseph Chaikin at the Working Theatre in New York and she is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare and Company Lenox, Mass. She has taught at numerous institutions including NYU, Cal Arts, Columbia University, the Sundance Institute, NYU, the New Actors Workshop, the Stratford Festival Ontario, and was the Director of Training at the National Arts Center of Canada. She also has an extensive workshop and private teaching practice and is a certified Joy of Phonetics teacher trained by Louis Colaianni. A Drama Desk nominated actress, she has portrayed roles ranging from Juliet to Lady Macbeth from Hamlet to Prospero (Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company), from action films Speed and Pirates of the Caribbean 2, to the cult series Forever Knight and American Playhouse on PBS. She heads the voice progression for the MFA Acting Program at USC.