Teaching Biography
for
Stephanie Nash



Stephanie has been teaching for over 15 years. She teaches and/or has taught acting, movement,
Shakespeare, language skills, Body Unlocking™, circus techniques,
and on-camera commercials. Steph is also a Vipassana facilitator
and teaches mindfulness meditation and it's practical application in our lives. (See: meditation

In Los Angeles, Stephanie presently teaches
Directing II in the Film Dept at the Art Center College in Pasadena (a class which focuses on teaching
student directors how to cast, rehearse, and create effective work with actors
- also introducing the camera and quick 'guerilla-type' shooting - and editing - of original work.)
She has taught acting & movement (physicality of acting) at USC,
and also taught acting & comedy at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.

Stephanie graduated from the Yale School of Drama (MFA) and also studied in England
(with Toby Richardson, Maria Atkin, Simon Callow, Judy Dench, Derek Jacobi, Dame Edith Evans.)
She worked with Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, Mass.
Stephanie has a degree in Psychology & Drama from Duke University.

Stephanie trained in the Linklater Voice Technique at Yale, NYU, and Shakespeare & Company,
and also worked with personally with Kristin Linklater (totalling over 5 years of training experience
- although she is not a designated Linklater teacher and she can recommend some good ones.)

In New York she studied acting with Wynn Handman, Larry Moss, and Paul Austin
and taught privately (acting technique, Shakespeare, & on-camera commercial classes.)

As an actress, Stephanie has guest-starred on many popular TV shows (Weeds, Ghost Whisperer,
The Closer, NYPD Blue, etc.) and has performed on stage at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center,
Utah Shakespeare Festival & Off-Broadway, and in many one-person shows (NYC & LA),
in addition to several leading roles at the Odyssey Theatre (LA).
For more complete information: Acting Biography


other interesting stuff:

Also in New York, Stephanie explored Body/Mind Centering™ work with Tal Halevi, Patricia Bardi and others.
BMC Work, along with the work with Tina Packer & Kristin Linklater, and years of miscellaneous movement & health/healing oriented classes - plus mindfulness meditation techniques
(as taught by Shinzen Young) - were influences in the development of Body Unlocking™
(See: Body Unlocking™) which Stephanie taught for several years.
(And yeah, alot of personal exploration that factored in there, too.)


Stephanie has been featured in over 50 national & regional commercials and her on-camera commercial classes
are fun and insightful. Many of her students have become successful commercial actors. She has taught on-camera
commercial classes at the Theatre of Arts Academy, Women In Theatre workshops, Now Casting, & other LA wkshps.

Stephanie is also called upon as a Language Skills & Shakespeare Coach for various productions
(ex: Faust, The Dresser – both at the Odyssey theatre.) Her coaching is invaluable when actors
with little or no training need to speak heightened and/or classical text.
Her work helps them to be less intimidated by and more viscerally connected to the language and character,
learning to use the language as a spring board to the dramatic experience.

And, last but not least, Stephanie also worked closely with circus master, Hovey Burgess,
and can teach various circus techniques including juggling (balls, clubs, passing), trapeze, plate spinning,
rope spinning/lasso - alot better than she can do them.
(She was also in the Broadway/National Tour company of Barnum.)



Stephanie Nash info: HOME PAGE


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