is a Certified Lucid Body Instructor who began her work with Fay in 2004. A senior instructor at the Lucid Body Institute, she teaches the Institute’s classes for actors as well as training new teachers in the Lucid Body Teacher Certification program. She has served on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama, Brooklyn College MFA Drama Program, The New School College of Performing Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, Stella Adler Studio, and the Actor’s Center. Katherine has also served as a Guest Lecturer at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, Suffolk University, and St. John’s University.
Katherine completed her MA in Somatics, Neurobiology and Acting Training at NYU, Gallatin, where she created an acting training technique focusing on the actor’s post-performance process, called Releasing the Character.
Katherine has collaborated with fellow Lucid Body teacher, Ashley Kleinman Martinez, on Lucid Body techniques for drama and expressive therapies. They have presented their work with the North American Drama Therapy Association, the Expressive Therapies Summit, and the NYU Drama Therapy program.
Katherine also works as an acting and career coach (trained in International Coaching Federation methods), and specializes in Lucid Body and Releasing the Character techniques for the individual.
Katherine acts, directs, and devises original physical theatre productions with the Lucid Body Impact Theatre Company. Favorite productions include Impact’s Veterans Project (Leaving Theater and Homecoming), as well as Scotty, an adaptation of the Raymond Carver short story, “A Small Good Thing” which performed at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in partnership with the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement Theatre and Dance.
email: katie@lucidbody.com
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