STUDIO Pneuma

 

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Public/Poetic Speaking

Voice/Dialect Coach & Acting Teacher (+ Shakespeare)

School Tutor (Grades 6-12)

 

 

Christina is an academic tutor, professor/teacher, audition coach, and dialect coach.

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Theater

Christina has taught Theatre History I, Audition Technique, Theatre Appreciation and directed Theatre Production-Anton Chekhov's THE SNEEZE as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau.

 

She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.  

 

Christina worked as Education Associate at Perseverance Theatre coordinating a Shakespeare-in-Schools HAMLET teaching-artist program.  She directed six teenage girls in a moving STEEL MAGNOLIAS and guided the Young Company in collaboratively writing and performing an original play, A FISH OUT OF WATER.

 

She has coached high-school seniors on their audition monologues for placement in college programs such as Nebraska Wesleyan University and St. Olaf College.

 

Voice, Dialects & Public Speaking

Christina hosted NPR's All Things Considered on KTOO from 2016-18.  She enjoys coaching adult actors and youth in small groups or one-on-one in voice and dialects.

 

Christina has coached large casts (CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, The 99 STEPS, WEST SIDE STORY, CASABLANCA) in mainstage productions at Perseverance Theatre, the Orpheus Project and for Juneau Lyric Opera and also a Juneau mayoral candidate!  Her methods are based on Cecily Berry's work with the RSC, Kristin Linklater, Fitzmaurice Voicework, Alexander Technique, Lamperti's Vocal Wisdom, and Knight-Thompson Experiencing Speech and Experiencing Accents. Christina utilizes the International Phonetic Alphabet and promotes listening to recordings of authentic regional speakers as much as possible.

 

Math/English

Christina holds a Masters in Teaching-Secondary Education in English and Theatre from the University of Alaska Southeast which she gleaned in tandem alongside a 9-month practicum in Drama and 11th grade/12th grade AP English at Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau.

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Christina has successfully tutored content and test-taking strategies to students preparing for the Math SAT through Stanford Coaching in NYC. 

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She has classroom experience as a 10th grade Special Education English Resource Teacher with multicultural and diversely abled populations.   

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Christina has taken Beginning and Intermediate workshops in Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing focusing on freeing the body of stuck trauma.  

 

Christina has worked as a Graduation Coach for Juneau School District's HOMEBRIDGE and continues to tutor young people (6-12 grade) in reading, creative writing and math while paying special attention to the whole student.

 

Please contact Christina for hourly private or group rates on any of the above.

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