Class Type Open
Dates May 16-17
Times Noon-5pm
Location JJ Gym, 6232 Mary Ellen Ave, Valley Glen, CA 91401
Instructors Natsuko Ohama
Cost $375

Natsuko Ohama is one of the world’s premier voice teachers and exponents of the Linklater Voice Technique. In this two-day workshop, she will work with performers of all stripes to offer a warm-up that can be learned and repeated, address the physiological needs of the voice, increase alignment between body and voice, explore emotional connection through vocal exercises, and deepen an understanding of the personal relationship between form and content, performance and human being.

Don’t miss this stunning opportunity.

Natsuko Ohama trained under legendary Master Kristin Linklater at the Working Theatre in New York. She is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Mass.), a senior artist at Pan Asian Rep NewYork, a certified Joy of Phonetics teacher trained by Louis Colaianni and was the Director of Training at the National Arts Center of Canada. She has taught at numerous institutions all over North America, including NYU, Cal Arts, Columbia University, the Sundance Institute. Internationally has taught in Stromboli Italy, Istanbul Turkey, Zurich Switzerland, Shanghai China as well as in Orkney Scotland at the KVLC. She has an extensive workshop and private teaching practice in Los Angeles and has coached numerous productions at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and the Wallis Annenberg Theatre. 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). Film and TV appearances include the action film Speed, the cult series Forever Knight, and Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Favorite stage roles: Imelda Marcos in Dogeaters, Winnie in Beckett’s Happy Days, and she was in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Company 2018. Ms. Ohama’s play Geisha of the Gilded Age was performed by her at Summer Arts 2019. She heads the voice progression for the MFA Acting Program at USC.

Ages 18 and older.

Prerequisite: None