Jane Guyer Fujita, Head of Voice and Speech at NYU Grad Acting and voice and dialect coach , and Steven Epp, actor, writer, director, and Co-Artistic Director of The Moving Company, join The Actors Center for teaching residencies exploring voice, movement, and creation, and Molière.
Jane Guyer Fujita is the Head of Voice and Speech at New York University’s Graduate Acting Program. As a voice and speech specialist, she has coached voice and accents for productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at regional theaters across the country. She has also served as a dialect coach for both major film studios and independent film productions.
As a voice teacher, she has trained in several major vocal techniques, including Fitzmaurice Voicework, Linklater, Roy Hart, and Chuck Jones. Her background in speech training includes both the Knight-Thompson and Skinner methodologies. Jane is certified by Catherine Fitzmaurice as an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.
Her previous teaching appointments include positions in the MFA acting programs at the Yale School of Drama, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University, where she earned her MFA under Nancy Houfek.
Steven Epp is an actor and writer based in Brooklyn, New York and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Steven was the co-Artistic Director of Theatre de la Jeune Lune, winner of the 2005 Tony award for Best Regional Theatre. In his 25 years with Jeune Lune, Steven collaborated on the creation and performance of over 50 productions. Steven has been seen in New York and throughout the United States. He has played lead roles in everything from Hamlet, The Miser, Tartuffe, Figaro, and The Servant of Two Masters to Fiddler on the Roof, Treasure Island, and The Lorax. For Jeune Lune, Steven ́co-authored Children of Paradise, shortlisted for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the Outer-Critics Circle Award for best new play. Steven has received numerous acting awards including Helen Hayes, Norton, Ivey, Connecticut Critics Circle, Bay Area Critics, Fox Fellow, Beinecke Fellow, and Playwrights’ Center McKnight Theater Artist Fellow, and the Joe A. Callaway Award. Steven is currently the Co-Artistic Director of The Moving Company.
