* Banner image: Sheila teaching Movement at Shakespeare & Company's Month-long Intensive*
I offer a wide variety of training modalities that enhance the actor’s creative storytelling, physicality and personal connection. I am skillful at meeting each actor where they are and incorporating presence based practices into the rigorous demands of heightened language texts, physical theatre, devising & classical acting. I am an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, yoga instructor and am trained in Lecoq based physical theatre techniques.
Acting Coach
Sheila offers text work to two actors working on Julius Caesar.
Workshops and Individual Coaching in:
Audition Preparation
Character Work
Shakespeare
Alexander Technique
Mask-work & Physical Acting
Devising
Faculty & Guest Artist appointments include: New York University Gallatin, FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, Dell’arte International (former Head of the Professional Training Program), Middlebury College, Brooklyn College, Rider University, Shakespeare & Company (former Director of Actor Training), The Linklater Center, Emerson College, the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Breakthrough Studios, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (former Head of Movement).
Connect more deeply to your work. My approach will enhance your presence, physical connection & emotional depth as an actor for theatre and on camera work.
Contact me today to schedule a complimentary consultation or to build a specialized workshop for your organization.
Selected workshops:
The Shakespeare Audition Crash Course
Shakespeare & Company online
A six week course to get a Shakespeare monologue in shape for the summer season, graduate school auditions and more. Sheila created this class and teaches it seasonally.
Devising Shakespeare
Shakespeare & Company, July 2025
A weekend intensive course in applying devising techniques to Shakespeare. Participants were led through a variety of ensemble based movement explorations, vocal and physical improvisation, and provocations for narrative story,
Performance and Identity: Past and Present Voices Meet
California State University Summer Arts, August 2021
Sheila taught movement and coached student artists with Marie Ramirez Downing, Natsuko Ohama, Octavio Solis and Lisa Wolpe for CSU’s Summer Art's program. The focus of the workshop was creating original material inspired by a deep investigation of the self.
AT Yoga: The Chakras
AT Motion Center for Actors, New York City, Fall 2019
ATyoga is a Vinyasa style yoga class infused with principals of the Alexander Technique. Verbal direction and hands-on adjustments lend ease, clarity and depth to the postures. In ATyoga we flow, breathe, center, and meditate.
Movement for the Actor
Baardar Akademiet, Oslo Norway, August 2019
Sheila designed and taught a series of master classes introducing movement for the actor to the students and faculty at the Baarder Academy, a conservatory specializing in Musical Theater in Oslo, Norway.