Meet the Faculty and Directors

Pamela Blank photo Pamela Blanc, certified to teach the Alexander Technique, ACAT-San Francisco, 1979 and a Director of ATI-LA from 1988–1997, currently has a private practice in West Los Angeles, works with the South Bay Children’s Choir, is on the faculty of OperaWorks since 1999 and is an integral part of the Music Conservatory of Chapman University teaching there three days per week. Pamela studied The Art of Breathing in NYC with Jessica Wolf in 2002-2003, was invited back to assist teaching other Alexander teachers in 2006 and 2010. Pamela oversees Continuing Education Programs for ATI-LA; hosts the Alexander Book Study Group; and is an active member of AmSAT and recipient of their Certificate of Merit Award. www.PamelaBlanc.com
 
Lyn Charlsen Klein photo Lyn Charlsen Klein has a BA in English from UCLA where she also studied for a Masters Degree in Dance. She was certified to teach the Alexander Technique in 1977, training with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas. Lyn is currently the Director of Training at ATI-LA. She taught the Alexander Technique at the USC School of Theater from 1980 to 1995 and for the California State University at Los Angeles from 1989 to 1999. Lyn has given lecture/demonstrations and conducted courses for Alexander training programs and the general public on a national basis. She maintains a private practice in Van Nuys.
   
Michael D. Frederick photo Michael D. Frederick is an internationally recognized teacher in the field of Psycho-physical Re-education. He trained as an Alexander Technique teacher in England with Walter Carrington and in America with Marjorie Barstow, both master teachers trained by F. M. Alexander. Michael studied in the U.S. and Israel as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and has extensive Yoga training in both the us and India. He is the founding director of the first three International Congresses on the Alexander Technique and has organized over 150 workshops in the U.S. and Europe since. www.alexandertechniqueworkshops.com.
   
Sydney Laurel Harris photo Sydney Laurel Harris, educated as an actor and creative drama teacher, was certified at the American Center for the Alexander Technique in San Francisco in 1977. She continued as an assistant trainer in the training course until 1984. Although her primary teachers were Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas, she had the opportunity to do post-graduate work with Margery Barstow, Patrick MacDonald and the Carringtons. In addition to her private practice, Sydney has taught the Technique at pain clinics in San Francisco and Oxnard, CA, and numerous academic and arts institutions including the music department of the University of California at Santa Barbara and The Music Academy of the West. www.alexanderusa.com
   
Babette Markus photo Babette Markus was certified as an Alexander Technique teacher at the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT), New York, in 1979. She completed a year-long post-graduate course through ACAT, The Art of Breathing, taught by Jessica Wolf of Yale University in 2006. She is the director and founder of Bio-Ergonomics/Alexander Technique (the BEAT Training). Babette is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Theater at both USC and California Institute of the Arts. She also heads up the Alexander Technique program in the Music School during the Interim session at Cal Arts. She has taught at UCLA Extension and the University of Judaism, and maintains a private practice in Los Angeles. She has an extensive dance and movement background.www.babettemarkus.com
   
Frances Marsden photo Frances Marsden trained at the Constructive Teaching Center in London with Walter and Dilys Carrington. She did two years post-graduate work at the Alexander Technique Center Urbana, directed by Joan and Alex Murray. She teaches at USC, Occidental College, and California State University at Los Angeles. She also teaches for Shakespeare at the Huntington and IntimateOpera Company. She maintains private practices in North Hollywood and Pasadena, California. www.artofmovement.com.
   
Jean-Louis Rodrigue photo Jean-Louis Rodrigue trained with Frank Ottiwell and Marjorie Barstow, the first teacher to be trained by F.M. Alexander in 1931, and has been teaching for the past 30 years. Since 1988, he has been a member of the faculty at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Jean-Louis has taught at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, Verbier Festival & Academy, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and New World Symphony. He has trained and coached actors at the Berlinale Talent Campus, Royal Shakespeare Company, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse and on Broadway. Jean-Louis has worked with the artists of the Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouvelle Experience” and “KA” on improving their performance and preventing injuries. Recently, he was awarded a fellowship grant from the Montalvo Arts Center to develop and direct a play adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s best-selling novel The Reader. Jean-Louis has been part of the faculty of continuing medical education at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLArts and healing, and the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine. www.alexandertechworks.com.