INTERARTS-TRAINING.ORG - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Teacher of Ideokinesis, Creative Body Alignment
- TEACHER, IDEOKINESIS
Andre Bernard, the foremost teacher of the Todd work, studied for ten years with Barbara Clark, one of Todd's most gifted students, following an educational background in engineering and mathematics and a professional career in acting and dancing. He has taught body alignment as a member of the New York University faculty since 1966.
Job Titles:
- Actress and Producer
- ACTRESS, PRODUCER
A native of South Africa, Anna has been studying acting with Bill Smith at The Acting Studio since 1996. She has also studied with Alan Osburn at the Denver Center Theatre Academy, and continues to study with Lee Massaro and Terry Dodd. Anna also brings to acting her training in Greek dance and modeling, and her current studies in both singing and tap dance.
Lissa Tyler Renaud is an award-winning actress, a recognized director, a master teacher of acting, voice and movement, and a published writer-scholar.
Ms. Renaud is Founder and Teacher of InterArts Training, which provides cutting-edge professional training locally and master classes nationally: the Voice Training Project (since 1975), the Actors' Training Project (co-founded in 1985) and the FUNdaMENTALS Body Project (since 2000). She has also taught Acting, Voice and Movement at UC Berkeley and in Japan; she has taught Master Classes and done coaching for stage and film productions in Acting, Voice and Movement-separately and integrated-in New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and California. Since the ‘70's, Renaud has developed her signature teaching style, training theatre artists in acting, voice, movement, dramatic literature, writing and cultural history as a seamless whole. Teachers and artists of many disciplines have traveled to observe her work from across the country and from abroad. Ms. Renaud was a founding member of the international Network of Cooperating Studios in 1999; she served on the Admissions Board for the Oakland School for the Arts in 2001/2. She is an Active member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and her independent voice studio is recommended by SAG. Feature articles on her teaching have appeared in the international Scene4 Magazine (August 2000) and in Contra Costa County's Montclarion Newspaper (April 2001). Her students are working internationally in all media.