Janice
Orlandi


Artistic Director of the Actors Movement Studio (trained by Loyd Williamson, founder of the Williamson Technique), she is a Movement Specialist, certified teacher of Williamson Technique and Period Style - Edwardian, Elizabethan and Restoration. Currently, she is on faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, School of Performing Arts. She has also taught Movement, Period Style and Williamson Technique in educational institutions and theater programs in USA and Europe. Union member of SAG & AEA, worked commercially in both Television and Film and has performed in NYC, and at numerous Regional and summer theater festivals and companies.




Loyd
Williamson


Founder/Director of Actors Movement Studio, Inc., Assc. Professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he is Head of Movement Training for the acting program. He taught movement at HB Studio in New York for 11 years and served as a visiting faculty member for the Juilliard School in 1985.

Mr. Williamson taught speech at the University of Georgia while he completed as MFA in scenery and lighting design. He was assistant to Alice Hermes in speech at HB Studio. He trained in acting under Sanford Meisner and Harold Clurman, and he specialized in movement work with Anna Sokolow joining her company The Players Project in 1973. He is the artistic director of Masque Ensemble Inc., a theater group specializing in performances involving music, poetry, mime and movement.

Mr. Williamson also served as actor's coach and choreographer for Andrei Koncholovsky's film Maria's Lovers with Nastassja Kinshy, John Savage, Robert Mitchum and Keith Caradine and Amos Poe's Alphabet City with Vincent Spano and Zohra Lampert. For stage he has served as actor's coach and as choreographer for Harold Scott's production of Saint Hoan, On the Razzle, Importance of Being Earnest; for John Bettenbender's production of As You Like It, Marathon 33, The Three Sisters, Romeo and Juliet; Bill Esper's productions of She Stoops to Conquor and Hamlet; and for Michael Langham's production of The Beggar's Opera.

(interview with Loyd Williamson)




Ted
Morin

Master Teacher, Movement Specialist, Physical Training for Actors and Period Style.Ted Morin has been working in the teaching profession since 1985. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Education Degree with a major in Secondary English and minor in Religious and Moral Education. He proceeded to teach English Literature to High School seniors for five years. During this time, Ted studied with The American College of Sports Medicine and became a certified personal trainer and has been working one on one with clients since 1990. Ted was a competitive aerobics champion winning both a Canadian Championship and a North American Championship in 1990. He represented Canada in the first World Cup Aerobics Championship in Tokyo in 1991.In 1992, Ted moved to New York to study acting with William Esper at The William Esper Studio and movement with Loyd Williamson at The Actor's Movement Studio, Inc. In his second year of training, Mr. Williamson invited Ted to apprentice to teach the technique. Under the mentorship of Mr. Williamson, he trained to instruct all levels of The Williamson Technique and began teaching in the fall of 2003 at the Actor's Movement Studio and at Rutgers University - Mason Gross School of the Arts in the MFA and BFA acting programs. He spent seven years teaching at Rutgers and continues to teach at The Actor's Movement Studio where he is acknowledged as a master teacher of The Williamson Technique and also trains new teachers who are interested in learning to teach the work. In addition Ted taught the Williamson Technique in the Meisner Extension Studio at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU in collaboration with master acting teacher Vicky Hart. He has also been on faculty with NYSSSA (New York State Summer School of the Arts), a summer acting conservatory for high school students. He studied Shakespeare with John Basil of The American Globe Theatre, New York, NY and has performed most recently in Measure for Measure (Duke), Hamlet (Claudius), Comedy of Errors (Dr. Pinch/Duke), Richard III, Macbeth, Richard II and As You Like It. Most recently, Ted co-directed Top Girls with Vikki Hart at NYU.