Fay Simpson, founder of the Lucid Body and NYU Grad Acting faculty, and Kevin Isola, actor and fellow NYU Grad Acting faculty member, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in March for a series of artist development workshops focused on movement work and clown.
Fay Simpson is the Founder of the Lucid Body, a somatic process for actors which connects a psychophysical awareness of the body with the ancient Hindu wisdom of the chakra energy centers. She is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has been the Artistic Director and co-founder of Impact Theatre since its creation in 1990 (D-Train, Degas’ Little Dancer, Marital Bliss of Francis and Maxine, Kurt’s Wife: A Story of Lotte Lenya, Grey Gone, and most recently, SCOTTY). The Lucid Body House opened in March of 2013, in midtown Manhattan. Fay has taught at The Yale School of Drama, The Studio/NY, The New School, Michael Howard Studios, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Actors Center.
Fay is a coach and movement director for stage, TV, and film. She also co-founded a Theatre for Social Change summer program in Tanzania for Yale Drama students, as well as the Veterans Project in New York. She has a two year teacher training program with Lucid Body teachers now working around the world. The 2nd edition of her book, The Lucid Body; A Guide for the Physical Actor was published in 2020 and hailed by Drama Book Shop as “one of the ten most essential books for the actor.” www.lucidbody.com
Kevin Isola has been on the faculty of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program for the past 14 years where he teaches Shakespeare’s Clowns in the first year and Advanced Theatre Clowning Techniques in the third year. Additionally, he’s been invited to teach at The Actors Center, Fordham University, Wagner College, Muhlenberg College, Red Bull Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and The 52nd Street Project.
Kevin is a professional actor who for the past three decades has performed in most every facet of the entertainment industry. He is also a co-creator of the clown show The New Bozena with Rainn Wilson (The Office), David Costabile (Billions, Lincoln), and Michael Dahlen (Blue Man Group) which ran for five months Off-Broadway, continued regionally, and was sold to Twentieth Century Fox.
