Certified mVm Teachers

**Kai Bäckström**

Kai Bäckström is an actor (MA) and coach based in Helsinki, Finland, with professional experience in several theatres and dozens of tv-productions since 2009. Before venturing into theatre, he studied Economics (M.Sc). His coaching started as an amalgamation of these two paths, and has led him to coach mostly non-actors.
For Kai, Miller Voice Method serves him both as an actor and as a coach. For the actor, it has freed him from the substantial vocal constriction which held him back for years. As a coach, it provides a theoretical understanding of what makes up the core of an inspiring performance, and practical tools to help others towards it. http://kaibackstrom.com

**Andrew Bryce**

Andrew Bryce (he/him) is an AEA actor, director, and educator. He is the Theatre Arts Director at Colonial Heights High School in Virginia. Andrew has previously been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hampden-Sydney College and an Adjunct Instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University and Brightpoint Community College. As an actor Andrew's credits include La MaMa, Hartford Stage, the Metropolitan Playhouse, the Majestic Theater, and others. Andrew has directed for Virginia Repertory Theatre, Chamberlayne Actors Theatre, and multiple academic institutions. He holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from VCU and is a Meisner Institute Designated Teacher. www.andrewbryceactor.com

**Katie Burke**

Katie Burke is a multi-hyphenate artist (vocalist, actor, writer) most known for crafting stories in music and audio, her current credits include Ford, SONY, and Lionsgate. She is most excited to work with actors and untrained communicators who are in search of falling in love with their voice, healing chronic vocal fatigue, and unlocking a full life in auditions and performance.

**Grace Callaghan**

Grace is a young educator, actress and singer from NSW, Australia. She loves playing guitar, building LEGO and rewatching Disney classics. She first encountered the Miller Voice Method while studying abroad at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2018. She studied a Bachelor's of Creative Art majoring in Theatre at Wollongong university, and is now working in childcare in the Hunter Valley. She loves the energy, presence and authenticity that comes from working with children, and the challenges that come with employing mVm practices into her work with them. The mVm teaching certification has provided her confidence to enter the teaching world with authenticity and curiosity at the centre of her practice.

**Kyle Cameron**

Kyle Cameron is an internationally recognized actor with an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting program, where his journey with mVm began. He is proud to be a certified member of the mVm teaching family, and looks forward to helping clients develop their charisma, authenticity and vocal stamina through this engaging and effective method.

**Tania Chelnov**

Tania is a language, voice and text nerd who loves working with students to explore and reveal their unique presence and brilliance. She has been exploring and teaching Miller Voice Method for the past 13 years.
Tania currently teaches in the mVm Teacher Certification Program, as a private coach and at Purchase College beginning Fall 2023. Additional teaching credits include: Southern Methodist University (BFA and MFA), the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio New York, UNC Chapel Hill and The Drama League.
MFA: UNC Chapel Hill/PlayMakers Rep; BA: Smith College.
Additional Training: the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), the Moscow Art Theatre School, and the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio in New York.
For Private Coaching: tania@millervoicemethod.com
Website: www.taniachelnov.com

**Mason Cordell**

Mason Cordell (he/they) is currently a North Carolina-based singer, actor and speech-language pathologist. Always fascinated by the voice, language, and communication, Mason was drawn to study Miller Voice Method for its unique combination of scientific and personal investigation in training and its basis in breath work. Experienced working with individuals and groups from a wide variety of ages, backgrounds, and communication abilities, Mason is currently interested in the continuum of care between habilitation (learning, keeping, or improving abilities) and rehabilitation (regaining, maintaining, or compensating for lost or diminished skills).

**Nick Curnow**

Nick is (currently) an Australian-based actor, voice-over artist, director, voice & dialect specialist, seeking to relocate to North America. He was initially mentored in mVm by John Patrick during a residency at UNC Chapel Hill’s Professional Actor Training Program and PlayMakers Repertory Company, and was the first to introduce mVm principles to actor training in Australia. He undertook the formal Teacher Certification in 2021-22. Nick coaches voice & dialect for film, TV, national and local theatre companies such as the Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia, Company B Belvoir, Ensemble Theatre, Red Line, and New Theatre. He has taught for NIDA, Actors Centre, Screenwise, Actor’s Pulse, AFTT, the NSW Department of Education, and has just finished 3 years developing and co-ordinating the voice and dialect curriculum for the Bachelor of Music Theatre at ECMT in Adelaide, South Australia. For full coaching, acting and directing credits, head to www.nickcurnow.com. MFA (Voice) and Grad Dip Dramatic Art (Voice Studies), National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA); Grad Dip Humanities (Theatre Studies; Linguistics), University of New England; BA (Performance) with Distinction, Theatre Nepean, WSU.

**Kristi Dana**

Kristi Dana is an assistant professor of voice and speech at Southern Methodist University. She was a visiting assistant professor of voice and speech at SMU (AY 2018-2019), Penn State University (AY 2017-2018) and served as interim head of MFA Acting, Brooklyn College, CUNY (AY 2016 – 2017). Vocal coaching includes Liz Lerman’s *Healing Wars* and *Marie Antoinette* at Soho Rep. She is also an Equity actor and works regularly in small professional theatre in Dallas. Kristi was mentored by Scott Miller and Liam Joynt, hosted in part at the Graduate Acting Program at NYU | Tisch School of the Arts. She is certified in Knight-Thompson Speechwork and holds a Certificate of Completion from the Michael Chekhov Association. Her point of research, “Vocal Transparency,” investigates the efficacy of the integration of the Miller Voice Method and the Michael Chekhov Technique for actors. MFA, acting, Brooklyn College, CUNY; MA, theatre education, Emerson College; BA, theatre arts, Penn State University. Board Member, Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) (2018-2021).
kristi@millervoicemethod.com

**Ali Evarts**

Ali (she/her) is an actor, writer and teacher based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since 2019, she has worked as the General Manager of the mVm Miller Voice Method and Miller Communication Consulting. She has a BA in Dramatic Art and Global Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and that is where she first encountered mVm over 10 years ago.

Robert David Grant

Robert David Grant is an educator, coach, actor and director. He is currently a lecturer in Acting and Voice at Dartmouth College, as well as the Director of Education at Northern Stage Theater in White River Junction, VT. He has worked as an actor in New York and around the country, and holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama, where he studied Acting with Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis and Peter Francis James, Voice with Walton Wilson, Grace Zandarski and Beth Maguire, Movement with Fay Simpson and Erica Fae, and Alexander technique with Jessica Wolf. He is a member of The Actors Center and former member of The Bats.

Robert lives in New Hampshire with his wife Izzie and son Baz, who are totally awesome.

**Gretchen Hall**

Gretchen Hall is currently a faculty member at Seton Hall University, where she teaches vocal techniques and acting. Theatre Credits: Broadway: Stickfly. Off Broadway: Saturn Returns, The Seventh Monarch (Miriam). Regionally: A.C.T, The Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Theater Calgary, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, New Jersey Shakespeare Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Dorset Theater Festival, Shakespeare on the Sound, Center Stage and with the Continuum Company. Television Credits: FBI, The Blacklist, The Path, Elementary, Person of Interest, Gossip Girl, Law & Order and Lipstick Jungle. Film Credits: The Weekend and Almost in Love. Gretchen earned her BA from Fordham University and her MFA from NYU Graduate Acting. She lives in South Orange, New Jersey with her husband and three amazing daughters. Contact her directly at gretchen.s.hall@gmail.com.

**Julia Högnabba-Lewis**

As a trilingual Finn (Swedish, Finnish & English) Julia has worked for more than 10 years as an actor primarily based in Finland. She earned her MA in acting from The University of the Arts Helsinki 2016. Julia has worked in numerous of the country's theaters including The Swedish Theatre of Turku, Jyväskylä City Theatre and Helsinki Swedish Theatre. Julia has been living in the US with her husband Garry since 2020 and they recently relocated to the beautiful Bay Area from Kentucky. She immediately became interested in mVm during a workshop in Helsinki held by Scott and JP in 2015. Julia is excited to continue exploring the voice and how the human experience shows up in the voice.

**Katie Honaker**

Katie has been teaching speech for Tisch NYU first year students at Atlantic Acting School for 20 years. She is an actor, voice over artist and coaches privately. Learn more at www.Katiehonaker.com and contact her directly at kthonaker@gmail.com.

**Korey Jackson**

Korey is an actor, producer, director and teacher.
Korey has extensive experience with mVm, first as a student for three years while attaining his MFA degree in the Graduate Acting Program at Tisch/NYU and then later in a teacher apprenticeship program under Scott Miller in the same program.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Penn State University. As part of that degree he student taught high school and middle school music in one of the largest programs in the state of Pennsylvania. Since then he has devised curriculum and co-taught classes in a new program collaboration with the Hunts Point Alliance for Children at P.S. 42 in the Bronx, as well as substitute taught in the Newark Public Schools in New Jersey.
He is the co-founder of F.A.M. Creative Productions, a production company committed to making vibrant and compelling stories. As an actor, he has been seen on such stages as Signature Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Rep, and Two River Theater. On screen, he has been seen in such shows as Godfather of Harlem (Epix), Daredevil (Netflix), House of Cards (Netflix), Homeland (Showtime), and feature film 5 Flights Up (Focus).
He has been seen on such stages as Signature Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Rep, and Two River Theater. On screen, he has been seen in such shows as Godfather of Harlem (Epix), Daredevil (Netflix), House of Cards (Netflix), Homeland (Showtime), and feature film 5 Flights Up (Focus).
He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts Graduate Acting Program as well as a past recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Artist Fellowship. He frequently works with organizations such as The 52nd Street Project, Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), and Stories 4 Strength.
Korey is looking forward to working with any and all students who are interested in exploring and discovering their voices in a new way through this work. Who are open to personal transformation on a small and larger scale through the work of mVm.

**Liam Joynt**

Liam Joynt is the Associate Chair of the BFA Acting Program at the Conservatory of Theater Arts at Purchase College. He is a longstanding faculty member at the Graduate Acting Program of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he teaches voice and vocal coaches. He also teaches accents at Pace University’s Musical Theater BFA program. He is a Certified Teacher of the Knight-Thompson Speech and Accent Work. Previous faculties include Marymount Manhattan College, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Maggie Flanigan Studio. He taught in the BA program at Rutgers University, where he also received his MFA in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts.
As an actor he’s worked in mega-budget and no-budget films, daytime and primetime TV, Off-Broadway and Regional Theater. He’s produced world premiere productions for many playwrights, including Lee Blessing, Samuel Brett Williams, and Lia Romeo; in addition to various film projects.

**Tessa Keimes-Kim**

Tessa has studied mVm from Founder Scott Miller, privately, over the scope of eight years and has an extensive coaching background, including twenty years as a Certified Personal Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist with the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Over the last five years she’s also been in practice as a Nutrition and Sleep, Stress Management and Recovery Coach certified by Precision Nutrition.
Tessa holds an MFA, class of 2000, from the Actor’s Studio Program at the New School. Originally from Germany, Tessa attended the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen where she trained in dance with teachers from the Pina Bausch dance company.
She loves working individually with students to help them find their own unique path; be it for acting, to increase confidence and skill when speaking in public, or simply for personal growth. Tessa has worked with clients from all walks of life. Her style is to create a playful and improvisational atmosphere. Available for workshops and private students. tessakeimes@me.com

Sarah Koestner

Sarah is a coach and teacher. She has been a practitioner of the Miller Voice Method for over twenty years and a teacher for over ten. She was mentored by Scott, shadowing him for 2 years at NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. She currently teaches voice and speech in the BFA Acting Department at Montclair State University. Her other teaching experience includes stints at NYU Steinhardt, Rutgers University, and New York Film Academy. Sarah earned her BFA in Acting from Emerson College and her MFA from Rutgers University where she trained with William Esper and Lloyd Richards among others. Sarah is also a certified professional coach in private practice. She specializes in supporting highly sensitive people navigate transitions with more ease, breath, and less anxiety. She partners with her clients to get underneath their fear, so that they can access the gold beneath. She lives in Montclair, NJ with her awesome son and husband. For more about her please visit: www.sarahkoestner.com

**Matthew Mastromatteo**

Matthew Mastromatteo (He/They) is a NYC-based actor, director, producer, and educator. Matthew has previously been a Visiting Assistant Professor at LIU: Brooklyn and an Adjunct Instructor at LIU: Post, Marymount Manhattan College, as well as Sarah Lawrence College. Matthew is an integrationist whose approach and focus aims to unlock individual presence through command of body, voice, and self. They hold their MFA in Theatre Performance: Acting from Long Island University: Post. mattmastromatteo.com mamastromatteo@gmail.com

**Becca L. McLarty**

Becca is a teacher, actor, improviser, and mom. A graduate of MFA Acting at Brooklyn College, Becca has been teaching voice and speech for 10 years and has been trained and mentored in the MVM work for almost as long. Currently, Becca is an adjunct professor of Voice and Speech at Montclair State University. She has also taught at Brooklyn College, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, PACE University, Marymount Manhattan College, and Improvolution. Breath, collaboration, curiosity, and a sense of humor are central to Becca’s practice as both a teacher and a storyteller. She currently lives in NJ with her husband, two kids, and scruffy rescue dog. www.beccalmclarty.com

**Rachel Mewbron**

Rachel is an actress, writer and producer living in Atlanta, GA. She wrote and produced COHAB, a web series currently making the festival circuit. She attended The Graduate Acting Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, studying under Mark Wing-Davey, Janet Zarish, Lisa Benavides, Richard Feldman, Deb Hecht, Shane-Ann Younts, Scott Miller, Jim Calder. Since graduating she has worked at Hartford Stage, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, BAM, Shakespeare Theater of DC, 59E59, the Edinburgh Fringe.

**Scott Miller**

Having spent forty years as a coach, trainer and teacher, Scott blends a lifetime of exceptional experience into his work with others. His diverse life paths include two sports at the professional level, a law degree from George Washington University, clerking at DC’s Public Defender Service, time as a producer, actor, director, a trainer of lead teachers, husband, father of three and training in counseling and holistic practices. He has been, for the last fifteen years, a Professor at NYU, Tisch’s Graduate Acting Program, considered one of the elite training programs in the world. These differing experiences and the approaches they provide have tempered a professional approach that is both accessible and specific.
Scott is the founder of the mVm Miller Voice Method® and through decades of field and scientific research has developed a transformational and repeatable way to embody presence and empathy for peak performances that sustain both the audience’s and speaker’s attention.
Scott has trained a wide range of professionals from Boardroom Executives and Managers at Fortune 500 companies to Oscar/Tony/Emmy Award winners/nominees to Olympic athletes to news anchors to the unheralded individuals simply seeking improvement and fulfillment. Scott has been received in corporations, theaters, law firms, sets, recording studios and workshops around the world training groups, teams and individuals from over fifty countries. His work is geared toward those who seek to discover, embody and/or sustain peak performance in their chosen lives.

**Patrick Mulryan**

Patrick Mulryan is a queer director, actor, teacher, and voice and dialect coach based in New York City. The focus of his work is on expanding one’s expressive palette and sense of self through freeing one’s authentic voice and through that process expanding our capacity for empathy.
Patrick recently joined the Voice and Speech faculty at the Juilliard School. He also serves as Dialect Associate for *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* on Broadway.
Past coaching credits include *Lost in Yonkers* at Hartford Stage (co-directed by and starring Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason) and *Sweat* at the Huntington Theater Company for which the cast received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Ensemble.
Directing credits include *Indian Ink, Raison d’être: an Evening of Pirandello* (also adaptor), and *Goblin Market* (JJewell Productions) which he directed in New York at 59E59 and abroad at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival.
Acting credits include Menier Chocolate Factory (London), Roundabout Theatre, EST, Barrow Street/TFANA, La MaMa, McCarter, Old Globe, Trinity Rep, and the Guthrie.
Patrick has taught at Brooklyn College, the New Group, NYU, Wesleyan, Pace, SUNY Purchase, Fordham, and the Tom Todoroff Studio. He has developed work with Tectonic Theater Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Page 73, Ma-Yi, TFANA, Fiasco, Bay Street, Lark, New Georges, and at the O'Neill Center (NMTC).
Patrick received his MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep. Other training includes: Moscow Art Theatre (NTI), Oberlin College (BA), and Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training (GEx 13).
Patrick is a member of the Actors Center workshop company, the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, VASTA, the Dramatists Guild, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is a certified teacher of the Miller Voice Method (mVm) and is a student of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. He is the recipient of an LA Drama Critics Award.

Megan Noble Haratine

Megan Noble Haratine is an Acting Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington with a specialization in Speech & Voice. She is also certified in Knight-Thompson speechwork and currently works as an actor & director in the DFW metroplex. She has recently undergone training to become a Gynecological Teaching Assistant, an extension of her work as a Standardized Patient for medical students in Texas. Megan is passionate about integrating her mVm training both in her own acting classrooms and in helping the medical profession understand the importance of empowering & educating their patients in the exam room. She is also the proud mother of 4 boys!

**John Patrick**

John is Co-Founder of mVm Studio and JP Communication Consultants. He served as an associate professor, Head of Voice & Speech for the MFA Professional Actor Training Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Resident Vocal Coach for PlayMakers Repertory Company (2011 – 2018). JP has coached for the Guthrie Theater, Trinity Shakespeare Festival and is currently the Company Vocal Coach for Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, Florida (2012 – Ongoing). John taught for NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, NYU Steinhardt School; Southern Methodist University; the National Theater School of Finland at Helsinki; Queen’s College and the Lyric Theater in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Rutgers University, & New York Film Academy.
John was mentored as a teacher by Scott Miller hosted in part at the Graduate Acting Program at NYU | Tisch School of the Arts. As an actor he trained under William Esper, Deborah Hedwall, and Lloyd Richards at Rutgers University where he received his MFA. He received his BFA in Acting from TCU and also trained in the methodologies of Knight Thompson Speech (Erik Singer), Patricia Fletcher (Ms. Fletcher), Skinner & Linklater (Margaret Loft), and Fitzmaurice (Beth Maguire).
JP lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife, Erin, his teacher of unconditional love and correct usages of past-tense. Together they host two Resident Teachers of Patience, Hazel & Sebastian.

**Amanda Quaid**

Amanda has 15 years experience teaching speech, dialects, and language skills to actors and other speakers from around the world. Her approach to dialect work is holistic to the actor’s whole performance, using accents to support and stimulate the broader process of creating a character. In addition to her coaching on plays and films, she maintains a thriving private practice, is on faculty at HB Studio and Freeman Studio, and is featured as an accent expert on WNYC. As an actor, Amanda has worked on and Off-Broadway, regionally, and in film and television. Learn more at www.talkshopnyc.com and contact her directly at talkshopnyc@gmail.com.

Jeff Raab

Jeff has been a practitioner of the Miller Voice Method for over a decade, having studied with Scott and JP, and shadow-taught at NYU with Scott. He has performed as an actor all over the country in projects ranging from musical theatre to Shakespeare, and taught at numerous youth theaters in the New York Metro area, Education: GWU/Academy of Classical Acting (MFA) NYU/Steinhardt (BM), Dell’Arte International, and Circus Warehouse. www.jeffreymichaelraab.com

**Joshua David Robinson**

Joshua David Robinson is an educator, vocal coach, and actor. He has coached accents and dialects for productions at Rattlestick, The Acting Company, and for national tours. Joshua has worked with numerous graduate and professional acting students, preparing them for the voice and accent demands of the twenty-first century, both on stage and on screen. His most recent appointments being at the Juilliard School and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

Echo Sibley

Echo Sunyata Sibley has an MM in Voice Performance and an MFA in Acting from the University of Arkansas. As an Actor, Singer, Writer and Educator she has presented or performed at various festivals and venues including, but not limited to, the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Crisis Art Festival, Lilith Culturale Festival, Festival Internazionale di Valle Christi, SETC, Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point and the Jazz & Wine Festival in Cavi Borgo, Italy. She is a founding member of the international, feminist, clown-noir Troupe, Women From Mars, whose show Silent Reflections toured Italy and will be featured in The National Women’s Theatre festival in June 2023. She taught Acting Techniques for Musical Theatre, Voice & Speech and Acting at Centro Formazione Artistica di Luca Bizzarri in Genova, Italy. She was a Recording Artist, Voice & Acting Coach (Opera, Musical Theatre and Contemporary Voice) and the Translator for Orange Home Records in Leivi, Italy for over a decade as well. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at West Texas A & M University where she specializes in Devising Techniques, Voice & Movement, Acting, Musical Theatre Repertoire and Improvisation. She is a member of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association and has been a member of the Golden Key Honor Society and the National Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda, since 2001. In 2022 she was a Co-Assistant Director of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association (Vasta) Converging Pathways Conference. It was there that she was first introduced to mVm work and the incredible mVm community. She is thrilled to be pursuing her certification in Miller Voice Method and to integrate it into her pedagogy so that her acting and music students will be able to benefit from this expansive breathwork. Echo’s devising work can be enjoyed this summer at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is taking 11 students from WTAMU to Scotland to perform their collaborative creation, Still Life: A Gallery in Motion.