Finding Your True Voice Workshop with Midori Nakamura

About This Workshop:

Dates & Times: Saturday, January 6th from 1-3pm ET & Sunday, January 7th from 1-3pm ET

In this workshop, students will learn some of the basics of the Linklater Voice Technique. The Linklater Technique focuses on the discipline and tactile pleasure of stretching and elasticizing one’s body, of freeing the breath, and gathering the resonance of the sound vibrations in the bony hollows of the body; of undoing specific tensions in the jaw, tongue and larynx; and waking up the sweep of one’s vocal range, and engaging the lively economy of the articulators; may seem on one level as the routine of little actions, but on a deeper level it is carving out time and space in our busy day to meet ourselves – to be present in our whole being.

You will recieve the Zoom Link Closer to the Workshop date.

Midori Nakamura Bio:

Midori Nakamura is a Brooklyn-based teaching artist and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She teaches voice for the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, The Linklater Center in New York, the Maggie Flanigan Studio, and NYU Tisch at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. She has also taught for Columbia University’s Social Impact Fellowship, LAByrinth Theater’s Intensive Ensemble, Molloy/CAP21, New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts, and the New York Film Academy, as well as coaching private clients in both acting and voice.

As an actor, she has worked in film, TV, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, for Shakespeare in the Park, at the Kennedy Center, at the RSC, and in regional Theatre —working with George C. Wolfe (three times), Philip Seymour Hoffman (three times), Alec Baldwin (two times). She has also acted alongside Anthony Hopkins, Patrick Stewart, Angela Bassett, Bill Irwin, Keanu Reeves, Michael C. Hall, Liev Schrieber, Karen Allen, Del Close, Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Anniston. Directors she has acted under include Morgan Freeman, Lena Dunham, Barry Levenson, Peter Sellars, Nicholas Hytner, Austin Pendleton, James Lapine, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe Chaikin.