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Ines Buchli
INES BUCHLI is a theatre director, dramaturg, film maker and writer. She holds an MFA in Directing from York University. Ines is the former associate artistic director of Necessary Angel Theatre and associate artist for Theatre Direct. She has over 35 years of theatre experience in directing, dramaturgy and collective creations. Her films Exposure, Ministry and Keeper aired nationally and screened in numerous international film festivals. She is a graduate of the directing lab at the Canadian Film Centre.
Her award winning short, Foxy Lady, Wild Cherry premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and has screened around the world. Ines adapted and directed the Canadian premiere of Big Love by Charles Mee and the North American premiere of Comedy of Vanity by Elias Canetti at York University. She is actively involved in using theatre as a tool for community outreach work, working in Kenya with young girls rescued from the sex trade. Ines directed a sold out production of Macbeth for Shakespeare in Action. She was a member of the Tarragon Playwright’s Unit and is actively developing her play, Skin to Skin. Ines directed the world premiere of the multimedia production of The Secret Doctrine by Patricia Gruben at the Wong Theatre in Vancouver. She directed and dramturged The Living, by Governor General Award winner Colleen Wagner, for SummerWorks, garnering awards for Best Direction and Best Production.
Ines taught acting and directing for many years at York University, where she served as both Chair of the Department and the Graduate Programme Director. She is currently continuing her creative research in emotion and its application to acting as a Senior Scholar at York. In 2013 Ines began training in the Emotional Effector Patterns under the guidance of master teacher Laura Bond. She is currently an Emotional Body Instructor and a certified Alba teacher. Ines is also a member of the Association of Acting Coaches and Educators (AACE), and the Actors Wellbeing Facilitators Collective (AWFC).
Tom Stroud
With over 40 years of experience in the field TOM STROUD is a choreographer and director known for his integrated approach to theatre and dance. A graduate of the Simon Fraser University School for the Performing Arts, he has performed and toured with companies across the country and his works have been commissioned and presented by companies, festivals, and presenters coast to coast.
In 1991 Tom was appointed as the Artistic Director of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD) where, during his 14-year tenure, Stroud created numerous works for the company and spearheaded national and international collaborations that resulted in residencies and performances in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In 2002, he was awarded the prestigious Choo San Goh Award for choreography.
In 2005 Stroud joined the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg teaching complement included movement, embodiment for actors, image-based theatre, acting, as well as directing productions for the department. He currently holds the position of Senior Scholar at the Department of Theatre and Film. His research examines emotion science, embodiment, and the actor’s creative process in contemporary performance practice.
In 2012 Tom began training in the Emotional Effector Patterns under the guidance of master teacher Laura Bond. He is currently an Emotional Body Lead Instructor and a certified Alba teacher. Tom is also a member of the Association of Acting Coaches and Educators (AACE), and the Actors Wellbeing Facilitators Collective (AWFC).
Gayle Murphy
GAYLE MURPHY has specialized in breath and the speaking voice for actors and other professional speakers for forty years. She has led voice workshops in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and throughout Canada; and was a core faculty member of Canada’s National Voice Intensive. Gayle is an Associate Professor Emerit at the University of British Columbia where she taught Voice in the BFA Acting program in the Department of Theatre and Film. She has also taught at Studio 58 and SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.
Prior to specializing in voice, she acted professionally across Canada and completed an MFA in Theatre Performance at York University. Her studies over thirty years in Judith Koltai's Embodied Practice® shaped the foundational principles of her teaching practice. In 2013 she became a certified teaching practitioner of Breathexperience (formerly Middendorf Breath work) and is a director of Breathexperience Canada. www.breathexperience.ca
Her creative research focuses on the integration of vocal and physical practices for actors. She has presented her collaborative research at numerous conferences including the American Dance Therapy Association Conference (Minneapolis), Voice and Speech Trainers Association Conference (Montreal), International Arts Symposium: Artists of Conscience (Victoria), Wellspring Conference: Encounters with Trauma, Hope and Healing (Vancouver), and the International Myth and Theatre Festival’s VOICES at the Roy Hart International Centre (Malérargues, France).
Her introduction to the Emotional Body was as a co-investigator through an SSHRC-funded research project with Ines Buchli, Tom Stroud, and master teacher Laura Bond. Currently she is an Emotional Body apprentice instructor.
Laura Bond
Research Consultant
LAURA BOND is an internationally recognized master instructor and teacher trainer in the emotional effector patterns, and the Emotional Body® courses. She is a master teacher of Alba Emoting™, having studied an intensive teacher-training path in Chile with its founder, Susana Bloch. Laura is a full professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville and a certified master teacher of the Estill Voice™ technique. She teaches physical emotion regulation methods in university classes, private lessons, and through national and international workshops. She is the author of two books: TEAM for Actors: A Holistic Approach to Embodied Acting, and The Emotional Body: A Method for Physical Self-Regulation.
