An Introduction to Laughing Voice and a Warm-up for Executives
Care@Work
Times Center, New York, NY
June 2011
A dynamic warm-up and an introduction to “Laughing Voice” for over 100 top HR executives.

UnEarthing Archetypes In Shakespeare’s Text: A Magical & Impulsive Journey

Using Fitzmaurice Voicework, Laughter Yoga and Imaginative Acting Techniques
Los Angeles, CA
April 2011
A transformational workshop for actors with Carolina Barcos

Laughing Voice: Dynamic Exercises Connecting to Breath, Voice, and Character

VASTA Conference
Mexico City, Mexico
August 2010
Working with an international group of voice and speech professionals.

Claiming Your Voice: An Urban Retreat

Essential Therapy Spa, New York, NY
October 2008
Collaborative workshop with Meredith Haberfield using Life Coaching, Vocal and Yogic techniques to help participants identify and break through old patterns and create new ones.

Laughing Voice: Using Laughter Techniques for Breath, Voice and Health

Yale School of Drama Alumni Weekend
New Haven, CT
October 2008
Experiencing Pamela’s “Laughing Voice” work to open up the individual’s body, voice & soul

Laughing Voice Techniques for Actors in Gardzienice, Poland

Gardzienice Poland
Sept 2008 – 10 day intensive
Guest teaching artist at Gardzienice Theatre Training Program in Poland. Worked with actors from Japan, Australia, Iran, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Ireland, England and the US on laughing techniques to open up the actor and investigating the “dialects of laughter” in relation to Iphigenia in Aulis.

Claiming Your Voice

Esalen, Big Sur California
August 2008
Collaborative workshop with Meredith Haberfield using Life Coaching, Vocal and Yogic techniques to help participants identify and break through old patterns and create new ones.

UnEarthing Archetypes in Shakespeare’s Text

An Intensive Investigation of Voice, Movement & the Musicality of Text
Diaspora in Glasgow, Scotland, March 2008 – 10 day intensive
AuBrana Institute, France, July 2007 – one week intensive
Collaborative work with Anna-Helena McLean using Shakespeare’s Text, Gypsy Music, Movement, Fitzmaurice Voicework and Chakra work

The Lear: A Deconstruction of King Lear

South Street, Reading, England
February 2006
1 week intensive
Collaborative work with Anna-Helena McLean using Shakespeare’s Text, Gypsy Music, Movement, Fitzmaurice Voicework and Chakra work to investigate the sister’s in an adaptation of King Lear

UnEarthing Archetypes: An Intensive Voice, Movement & Text Investigation

New York, NY
December 2006 & November 2007
Collaborative work with Anna-Helena McLean of Gardzienice Theatre using Greek text and music Movement, Fitzmaurice Voicework and Chakra work to investigate individual characters in Shakespeare’s plays

Kinesphonetics Module 1

New York, NY
November 2006 & May 2007
Collaborative original work on “Body Shaping Sound” with Beth McGuire, Yale School of Drama Colleague

Sounding the Unsound Body: An Intensive Exploration of Movement, Theatre, & Voice

New York, NY
November 2005
Continuing collaborative workshop with Djalma Primordial Science

International Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference

London, England
July 2005
Presented paper with colleague: Kinesphonetics: An Experiential Anatomy of Phonemes for the Actor

Sounding the Unsound Body: An Exploration of Butoh and Voice

New York, NY
November 2004
Developed a collaborative workshop with Djalma Primordial Science to explore the somatic interplay between Butoh & Fitzmaurice Voicework for actors and dancers.

Butoh, Voice & Mask: An Experiment for Actors

Brooklyn, New York
October 2004
Created a collaborative experiment with Butoh Master, Ko Murobushi and Balinese Mask expert, Per Brahe that took actors through a 3-day intensive delving into breath, body & voice.

Guest Teacher Fitzmaurice Voicework Teacher Training

New York, NY
July 2004 & July 2008
Synthesis of Fitzmaurice Voicework with KinesPhonetics exploration of Home-base American Vowels as they relate to text.

Guest Presenter, VASTA Conference: Diversity

Philadelphia, PA
June 2004
Collaborated with colleague from Yale to present a workshop exploring the questions surrounding diversity and speech through dialects.

Dudley Knight SpeechWork & KinesPhonetics: 2 + 3 = 5 in NYC

New York, NY
August 2003
organized a collaborative 5-day workshop with Dudley Knight, Phil Thompson, Beth McGuire and me. The first 2 days, Beth and I taught “KinesPhonetics” a physical approach to speech and dialects using the IPA and Dudley Knight’s Detail Model and Phil and Dudley taught the final 3 days.