Janet Madelle Feindel

Janet is certified with ATI (also as sponsor), AmSAT, STAT, RES, and ATC. She has had the good fortune to study with Lyn Charlsen Klein, Bruce Fertman, Michael Frederick, Martha Hansen Fertman, Barbara Kent, Anne Waxman, Elizabeth Walker, John Nichols, Frank Ottiwell and Judy Stern, among many others. 

Janet’s book, The Thought Propels the Sound (Plural Publishing), is available from Mouritz.org, along with her articles, published by STAT in several Congress Papers.  She also contributed a chapter “Alexander Technique and Strategies to Address Vocal Tension” in The  Performers’ Voice, Plural Publishing. 

Janet is also a voice/dialects expert, having co-coached and trained with Cicely Berry, OBE.  She is certified in the Fitzmaurice Voice work and a Designated Linklater Voice teacher.  She has coached hundreds of sought after actors including Disney Legend Josh Gad, Golden Globe recipient Matt Bomer, Tony Award nominee Denée Benton, Academy Award recipient F Murray Abraham (also his Alexander Technique coach) and Academy Award nominee Leslie Odom Jr.   She serves as Professor Emerita, Voice/Alexander Technique, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.  She was Voice Module Leader at the Institute of the Arts, Barcelona.  She has coached for Theatre for a New Audience/Royal Shakespeare Company, the Stratford Festival (including the Birmingham Conservatory), Canadian Stage, Shaw Festival, Pittsburgh Public, Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Rep and Showtime’s Queer as Folk.  Her play, A Particular Class of Women, is published by Lazara & Canada Playwrights Press.  She led workshops and presented internationally including at Freedom to Act, NYC, Care of the Professional Voice Symposium, Philadelphia,  numerous ATI conferences and Congresses in Oxford, UK & Lugano, Switzerland.