Professional Acting Training
I am a movement and physical acting educator and coach. I primarily teach the Lucid Body method-- a physical process that offers actors an alternative way of thinking about character embodiment.
“The Lucid Body is a psycho-physical process that offers the fundamental building blocks of a new language, a new insight into character diagnosis and embodiment.
We are ultimately offering the acting student or anyone interested in self-expansion, a way to embody the given circumstances of a character with a deep visceral truth by rearranging the energy in their own body”
~Fay Simpson (Lucid Body Founder)
“This class provides me with the safe space to explore my character. I get the chance to explore my character’s vulnerability through the Lucid body tools. Katie always gives me various creative directions to work on. I’m so pleased that I got the chance to take her class and I’ll continue to take her class again in the future. ”
“I continue to return to class with Katie because she is fiercely creative and exceptionally kind. She is keenly sensitive to the delicate work of an actor and has a way of connecting the imagination to the physical instrument that allows me to create as my best artist self.” ”
Bring me to your Institution or Theatre Company for a Lucid Body Workshop
A Lucid Body workshop drops in the basic physical language and awareness that will benefit actors in a training program, as well as a cast throughout the rehearsal period. A Lucid Body experience begins with the yoga and modern dance based Lucid Body Warm-Up. The students are then taken through a variety of physical exercises designed to open awareness of their alignment and personality habits; exercising the areas that most challenge them-- whether they be unknown, or over-used aspects of personality. This process is individually catered to the needs of each student. Lastly, the students apply their new-found avenues of expression toward creating deep, revealed characters, and connecting more fully and impulsively to their scene partners.
Who is using Lucid Body?
Lucid Body has been and is being taught at top institutions including:
New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program
Yale School of Drama Graduate Acting Program
The New School, College of the Performing Arts
Brooklyn College Graduate Acting Program
Marymount Manhattan College
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
The Actor’s Center
The Studio New York
Italia Conti
Drama Studio London
Arts Ed London
Actors Space Berlin
Workshop Format
Movement for the Actor
Deep yoga-based physical warm-up and breath work.
Physical exercises for expanding self-awareness and acting range.
Dynamic Scenework skills building
Physical exercises for scene partners-- honing full-body listening and sensitivity to the partner.
The Body of the Character
Physical exercises to diagnose and deepen the layers of a character.
