Guest Presenter
I give lectures, present at conferences and give master classes around the world. Some topics are: Training Transgender Performers, (offering workshops in both the politics and the pedagogy); Contemporary Commercial Voice Techniques (Pop-Rock stylings in styles from Punk to Motown to Country); Introduction to Alexander Technique; AT and Neuroscience Tools for Performance Anxiety; among many others.
2021
Special Guest Presentation: May 2, 2021
Training Transgender Singers: The Politics and the Pedagogy
Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance VOICE with Deonté Warren.
Special Guest Presentation: February 13, 2021
Training Transgender Singers: The Politics presentation
National Association of Teachers of Singing Master Class Series. (Part 1 of a two part series to continue in September, 2021)
Special Guest Presentation: February 13, 2021
Oklahoma City University CARE LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Town Hall
Guest Panelist on training transgender performers.
2020
Co-Host Academic Discussion: November 18, 2020
Co-Host Pre-talk Discussion of the work of Ibram X. Kendi at the request of the Dean of The College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State University as a representative of the College Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
With Naomi Pitamber. Research for this conversation resulted in a blog for the College Arts and Design Research Incubator titled “Reason to Hope.”
Podcast Guest: August 9, 2020
How Musical Theatre Educators are Coping with Online Teaching and Learning
Cause An Effect Podcast, Rock the Audition.
Conference Presentation: August 8, 2020
Training Transgender Singers
Penn State Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy Webinar.
Conference Presentation: August 8, 2020
Teaching Voice Online: Best Practices
Penn State Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy Webinar.
Conference Presentation: August 7, 2020
Alexander Technique Tools for Singers and Their Teachers
Penn State Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy Webinar.
Special Guest Presentation: July 15, 2020
Race, Equity, and Inclusion in Musical Theatre Webinar
Co-presenter with Marty Austin Lamar. Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance.
Conference Presentation: June 22 & 23, 2020
Alexander Technique Tools for Performing Artists
Summer Theatre Artistic Training Experience (S.T.A.T.E.), Penn State University School of Musical Theatre.
Special Guest Presentation: June 10, 2020
Solutions and Tools for Moving Your Voice Studio Online
Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance Webinar.
Podcast Guest: May 21, 2020
Epigenetics and Anxiety
Dream Factory Coaching Podcast, NYC
Special Guest Presentation: April 9, 2020
Alexander Technique Tools for Performing in Difficult Times
Slippery Rock University
Special Guest Presentation: April 6, 2020
Alexander Technique Tools for Performers
Nazareth University
Special Guest Presentation: April 7, 2020
Training Transgender Singers
Nazareth University
Special Guest Presentation: April 2-5, 2020
Alexander Technique and Contemporary Commercial Vocal Techniques Master Classes
Texas State University
Invited Guest Webinar: March 28, 2020
Alexander Technique and Neuroscientific Solutions for Living in Difficult Times
No Marking Society - Online Professional Theatrical Consortium, No Marking - Kate Lumpkin - New York City.
Guest Lecturer: March 9, 2020
Alexander Technique and Somatic Tools for Healing Trauma
New York City Artist Lab.
Conference Presentation: January 5, 2020
Diversity in the Voice Studio with David Jiles, Jr.
Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance Annual Conference, San Diego State University.
Conference Presentation: January 3, 2020
Training Transgender Performers: What They Want You to Know
Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance Annual Conference, San Diego State University.