Your Body Knows: A Movement Guide for Actors

About Jana TiftMeade AndrewsMFAPhD

Meade Andrews PhD is an internationally recognized senior teacher of the Alexander Technique. She is a certified member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSat) and Alexander Technique International (ATI). She teaches Movement for Actors to students and professionals and has served as a movement coach for over 40 theatrical productions. She is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique and has also done an extensive study of the work of Rudolf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff with Carol Boggs CMA. Former director of the Dance Program at American University in Washington DC Meade also taught at the Studio Theatre in Washington DC for 20 years offering classes in acting improvisation and Alexander Technique. With her colleague Jeanne Feeney she won the Helen Hayes Award for choreographing the Studio Theatres 30th anniversary revival of HAIR. She currently teaches and coaches performers at Rider University and the Westminster Choir College located in Princeton NJ. She has taught numerous workshops in the Alexander Technique for actors dancers singers and musicians throughout the US Europe and Asia.Jana Tift MFA has taught movement for actors in academic and professional settings for over 20 years. Certified to teach the Alexander Technique the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique and Amrit Yoga she has led workshops and coached actors and singers throughout the US and abroad. Ms. Tift taught movement in the graduate Acting program at Florida Atlantic University for ten years. She also served on the faculty at New World School of the Arts. A student of Rudolf Labans work for many years Ms. Tift is a founding member of the Labanites of South Florida a collective of movement specialists dedicated to the study and promotion of Labans work. An award-winning director she has been a Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Hendrix College and an artist-in-residence at The Ragdale Foundation. She is a teaching member of Alexander Technique International (ATI) and a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Ms. Tift holds an MFA in Theatre from Florida State University.