Come, discover the freedom and power of your voice and transform the way you communicate.
The 6-Day India Intensive is an in-person workshop designed to introduce the practice of Fitzmaurice Voicework® for an in-depth experience of voice, breath, and body. It is also suitable for those already familiar with the practice and looking to deepen their engagement.
Dates:
- 5th to 10th August, 2025
Time:
- 10am – 5pm
Venue:
- B- unit no 424, Laxmi Business park, Laxmi Industrial Estate, Suresh Nagar, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400053
Cost:
- INR 67000/-
Early bird 25% discount for those who register before the June 10th 2025. Hurry!
Fitzmaurice Institute in-person workshops build hours towards eligibility for teacher certification.
Limited places, which will be reserved on first come first served basis.
About the Workshop
Participants will explore the fundamental techniques of Fitzmaurice Voicework®: Destructuring to widen range of breathing and voice for fuller self-expression, and Restructuring to practice the most physiologically efficient way to breathe for communication and performance. We will also work with text, speech-work, and song. You will finish the experience with a practice for enhancing the somatic-vocal relationship that integrates breath, body, voice and imagination.
You will learn to:
- organically engage body-breath-imagination to speak or sing with a deeper sense of connection and authenticity
- identify habitual body tensions that compromise posture and breathing
- expand your breath, resonance and range
- address issues of vocal health, repair and maintenance for sustainable, long-term voice use
- take quick, easy steps towards nervous system regulation
The workshop will be taught by 2 leading FV teachers Rachel and Mallika who bring their specific talents and expertise to the work. They will guide you through this life-affirming work towards communicating with presence power and a sense of play!
About Fitzmaurice Voicework®
Fitzmaurice Voicework® is recognized as the global leader in voice training for performance because of its wide-ranging impact on physical and mental well-being, personal and community empowerment, and its commitment to diversity and inclusion. Through their ongoing development of the work, the Fitzmaurice community of teachers impacts thousands of students and professionals seeking more dynamic, expressive, and powerful voices.
Fitzmaurice Voicework is taught at Yale School of Drama, Harvard University/American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, the University of California-Irvine, and hundreds of other institutions around the world. There are approximately 300 certified Fitzmaurice teachers across six continents.
About the Teachers
RACHEL FINLEY is a voice, text, and accent coach, director, actor, intimacy director/coordinator, and Arizona State University professor. She earned her BFA at Carnegie Melon University and MFA at Florida Atlantic University. Professor Finley is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and Knight Thompson Speechwork. She has trained in Intimacy Direction with ICOC, TIE, and IDC. Her work, which includes film, theatre, performance art, devised theatre, motion capture, voice over, spoken word poetry, and new media, has appeared on stages, in studios, and on sets from Miami to Los Angeles and Canada to New Zealand. Rachel has recently worked on productions for Netflix, Xbox Studios, Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, ANDTheatre Co in New York, Zoetic Stage and Gable Stage in Miami, Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Indiana Repertoire Theatre, The Repertoire Theatre of St, Louis, Virginia Stage, Orlando Shakespeare Company, Southwest Shakespeare Company, Phoenix Theatre Company, Arizona Opera, The Vortex, and several indie film and theatre companies.
MALLIKA PRASAD is a multi-award-winning performer, writer and director. She is the Founder/Creative Director of Actors Ensemble India Forum – a practice-led arts research and theatre company. She is also Regional Coordinator for South Asia for the Fitzmaurice Institute and an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. The holistic practice of Vāchikā Voicework she has developed helps performers integrate body, breath, imagination, voice, language and emotion. Mallika has a distinguished career in film, television and theatre including a landmark production of Brian Friel’s Translations and an award-winning solo performance Hidden in Plain Sight. She has starred in seminal films such as Devi Ahilya Bai directed by Nachiket Patwardhan, and Kanooru Heggadathi by Girish Karnad. Her recent film credits include memorable performances in Killer Soup for Netflix and Aspirants Season 2 on Amazon Prime. She is an alumnus of the National School of Drama (NSD) and has an M.A. in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has taught voice and performance at the NSD, NINASM and University of Hyderabad, University of Calicut in India, and at LASALLE, ITI and NAFA in Singapore.
