Editorial Team
Editor-In-Chief: Dr. Joe Alberti, The University of Oklahoma
Dr. Alberti is a tenured Associate Professor of Voice and Performance at the University of Oklahoma School of Drama. He attended the Yale School of Drama and wrote his dissertation as well as books and peer-reviewed articles on the acting methodology of Earle R. Gister, former Associate Dean of YSD.
His book, Acting: the Gister Method, is in its second printing and has been translated into Chinese, and is currently being sold in China.
He is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher, a certified Colaianni Speech and Dialect teacher, a certified Alexander Technique (AmSAT) teacher, and is currently completing certification in Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the AmSAT (Alexander Technique) Journal and is Editor-in-Chief of the international, OJS peer-reviewed The Alexander Journal. He is co-author, with Genoa Davidson, of the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed article, “The Other Side of Performance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Listening for Voice and Speech Trainers,” published in the international Routledge journal, Voice and Speech Review.
He has worked extensively at Shakespeare & Company, served as text coach at the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and has been voice, speech, dialect, and text coach on many theatre productions and film projects.
With Bob Lemon and Genoa Davidson, he wrote and directed the world-premiere production of The Trial (a modern play based on Franz Kafka’s novel) set in the context of surveillance capitalism and a radio-drama adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, The Transformation. Along with Genoa Davidson, he is writing a two-character play about the life of John and Abigail Adams, My Dearest Friend.
He has extensive coaching, directing, and acting experience. His coaching work includes training and empowering non-actors and is informed in part by his work with actor Alan Alda, whose Foundation trains and empowers non-actors in communication, presence, and leadership using acting methods and techniques. He recently completed speech and dialect coaching on the feature film The King of…, based on the life of internet genius Rob Ryan, co-wrote and directed a film adaptation of August Strindberg’s The Stronger, and played the role of Sir Hugh Evans in a film adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
UK Editor: Jamie McDowell
Jamie has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1984 and is currently Head of Training at Cumbria Alexander Training in the north of England. Originally Jamie became certified under the direction of Don Burton in London and has lived and worked in England and throughout Europe.
He is active with other European Alexander Teachers organizing events throughout Europe and attending annual gatherings.
In 2015, he gave the FM Alexander Memorial Lecture at the STAT Conference in London.
Jamie was previously a Congress Director at the 9th International Congress for the F M Alexander Technique in Lugano, Switzerland and the 11th in Chicago, USA. Currently, as the Editor of STAT news (the newsletter of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique) and Co-Editor of The Alexander Journal, Jamie has ongoing contact with a wide range of opinion-makers in the Alexander world and supports coherence and community in the Alexander Technique profession.
UK Editor: Paul Marsh
Paul has been teaching the Alexander Technique since qualifying in 2008 from the Brighton Alexander Technique College in England.
He has worked mostly on a one-to-one basis with clients seeking to address a variety of neurological, respiratory and musculoskeletal problems, and attempting to raise performance levels in a multitude of sporting, artistic and professional settings. He has conducted group workshops on running, for the general public, and has also presented workshops addressing specific occupational interests, including those of radiographers working in NHS hospitals in the UK.
Paul edited The Congress Papers for the 11th International Congress for the F M Alexander Technique, which took place in Chicago in 2018.
He has also worked as an editor of specialist publications in a number of fields.
US Editor: Genoa Davidson
Genoa Davidson is an actor, coach, voice teacher, Alexander Technique teacher (AmSAT), and writer who has attended The North Carolina School of the Arts, St. John’s College, and The Actor's Conservatory in Dallas.
She also completed the month-long actor-training intensive at Shakespeare & Company. She is the associate editor and production manager of The AmSAT (The American Society for the Alexander Technique) Journal and co-editor of the international, OJS peer-reviewed Alexander Journal.
She is certified as a Colaianni Speech Practitioner and is also in the process of completing her certification in Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing. She is currently co-writing several new plays, including an adaptation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, The Transformation.
She has published peer-reviewed papers on acting technique, interdisciplinary work, and numerous articles on the Alexander Technique.
In conjunction with Dr. Joe Alberti, she is currently at work on a new play about the lives of John and Abigail Adams, with a focus on the role of women in the Revolutionary War. Out of this work, she and Dr. Alberti were given a book contract on their work concerning reconstructed historical dialects.
She has just completed speech and dialect coaching on the feature film The King of Sunflowers, filmed on location in Serbia, and teaches an international weekly class on speech and dialects through the International Acting Studio.
After training with the actor Alan Alda, she and Dr. Alberti began to explore the use of actor training, especially improvisation, to work with non-actors who desire to improve their presence and vocal freedom. They now work in universities and corporations worldwide to help people become better communicators.
