Julia Proctor is an educator, collaborator, and community builder. She is the Founder and Director of Clown Gym, NYC’s home for clown and physical comedy training. She devises and performs her own material, and loves collaborating with artists on smart, funny, and innovative theatre. Her training includes a BA from Middlebury College, MFA from the Academy for Classical Acting, The PIT, Ecole Philippe Gaulier, and a pedagogical apprenticeship with Christopher Bayes. Julia currently teaches Physical Acting at NYU’s New Studio on Broadway and was Beanie Feldstein’s personal Clown Coach for the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

Jen is the founder and Artistic Director of Jen Waldman Studio (JWS), New York’s premier training center for Broadway actors. Her clients have appeared in nearly every Broadway musical in the last 15 years, giving her a unique perspective on creativity and the skills needed to succeed. The studio is known for its innovative and holistic approach to acting training, which emphasizes connection, collaboration, and personal agency. She began her own career as a Broadway actor, most notably appearing in Wicked as Nessarose, the Wicked Witch of the East.

In addition to her work with JWS, Jen is a sought-after speaker and consultant on topics related to leadership, creativity, and communication. She has worked with a wide range of organizations, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, helping them to build stronger teams, develop effective communication skills, and build a culture of creativity.

Encompass Collective is a community engaged in principled struggle* for a liberated actor practice. We cultivate a better future for global majority storytellers in the theater, film, and TV industry. We offer affinity space^ actor training that is brave and revolutionary at accessible sliding scale prices for Global Majority artists.

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NADINE MOZON is an actor, poet, dramatist, and teaching artist whose work has been produced for the stage.  Such work includes her  current performance piece, “Delta Rhapsody,” her one-woman show, “Confirming the Search: That Girl’s Still Here Somewhere,” which received critical recognition in New York and Los Angeles, and  “I.D. Please,” an ensemble theatre piece commissioned and presented in New York.  Other acting credits include regional theatre, film, and television (Esther in “ Intimate Apparel,” Rose in “Fences,” Lily in “Crumbs from the Table of Joy,”Shaft, Two Weeks Notice, guest appearances on Friday Night Lights, Law & Order, Third Watch and One Life to Live).  Her poems have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies, among them, Essence, Ms., Clarity, Lungfull, and A Gathering of the Tribes.  She has been a featured artist and collaborative partner with dancers, choreographers, singers, and musicians in New York venues from TriBeca Performing Arts, Nuyorican PoetsCafé  to Lincoln Center; around the U.S. and Bermuda, at festivals, and hosted as guest artist at colleges and universities.  Ms. Mozon continues to facilitate poetry and theatre workshops for arts organizations, museums, universities, and participants of all ages.  While her book of poetry, Kiss it Up to God remains available online and in stores, Ms. Mozon is working on a new collection of poetry and essays.

She currently resides in Austin, TX., and is an assistant professor in the Theatre and Dance department at Texas State University (San Marcos), where she teaches acting, movement for actors, and a lab/course designed to help actors find their voice and develop original work.

Sam Hood Adrain (he/him) is an actor, director, and producer based in New York City. As a theatre artist, Hood Adrain has worked on stage and off at companies across the country including Trinity Repertory Company, Infinity Theatre Company, Dramatist Guild Foundation, Missoula Children’s Theatre, Ithaca Shakespeare Company, HERE, IRT, MITU580, The Flea, Theatre Row, Strongbox Theater, and Audible to name a few. He is the recipient of the 2021 BroadwayWorld Best Director of a Regional Production for his direction of The 39 Steps at Strongbox Theater. He is a published playwright whose works have been called “heartbreaking ….complex…and thought-provoking” (Theatre is Easy), have been presented in NYC at HERE, The Nuyorican Poéts Cafe and IRT Theatre, toured to Providence and Toronto and produced as a radio play by the Cleveland Radio Players. Recent TV credits include “Search Party” and “Law & Order.” Sam is proudly a Co-Artistic Director of WWTNS? BFA NYU: Tisch School of the Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing. www.samhoodadrain.com.

James Clements (he/him) is a Scottish writer, performer, theatermaker and arts educator based between New York and Scotland. Clements has performed at venues including La Mama E.T.C., HERE and MITU580, and has been on the creative team for projects at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Lincoln Centre LCT3 and the 92nd Street Y. His source-based experimental plays include “The Diana Tapes” (2016), “Four Sisters” (2017), “Beauty Freak” (2018), “MEDEA/BRITNEY” (2019), “Ellis Island” (2021) and “Brothers in Arms” (2022). These plays have been described by critics as “magnifying” (TimeOut), “intricate” (BroadwayWorld), “compelling” (The Guardian), “affecting” (Playbill) and “intellectual” (Theatre is Easy), and have been performed in cities across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He has taught at CUNY Queens College and the Wuhan Institute of Design and Science and is an Affiliated Instructor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He is Co-Founding Artistic Director of What Will the Neighbours Say? and an Artist-in-Residence with the Brooklyn Arts Council and Culture Lab. His work has been recognised by the Queens Council for the Arts, DCLA, NYFA, A.R.T./NY and Creatives Rebuild New York, amoungst others. www.james-clements.com.

Eli Bosnick is a career coach, comedian, and has taught transitioning into the industry at various performing arts schools and private studios all over the country including New York University and The Studio NYC. He believes that it is not just possible but necessary for drama and acting programs to prepare our students on how to get work as an actor. In his spare time he tells jokes on the internet.

Rebecca Rich (Becca, she/her) – is the Director of the Theatre Program / Associate Professor of Theatre at Elmira College. In addition to classroom teaching and School leadership, she has directed college level production musicals, cabarets, and special performances, worked as a dialect/voice coach and in casting. She specializes in the Michael Chekhov Technique and gives private acting and performance workshops for groups and individuals.  Prior to joining academia, Becca called New York City home for 15 years and enjoyed an extensive performance career, crossed the country in a National Tour of Guys and Dolls, originated roles in Off-Broadway musicals, such as Zombie Prom (original CD cast recording), appeared in numerous productions for LORT/regional stages all around the country, and was engaged in a handful of television and film contracts. Becca served as the Production Manager and Memberships Liaison for MICHA-The Michael Chekhov Association from 2013-2019 and since January of 2021 has proudly served as the Newsletter Editor for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers’ quarterly Alliance publication. She attended the NAAT’s Teacher Development Program as a participant in 2018 and returned as an observer (and teacher assistant/Zoom classroom facilitator) in 2020 and 2021.  Becca holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College, and an MFA in Acting from Temple University.  She is actively engaged in anti-racist practice and empowering her students’ creative individuality.

Jennifer Schulz is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique (AT) teacher in Los Angeles. She is an adjunct faculty member at Pomona College where she teaches AT, and at Cal State San Bernardino where she teaches Acting, Movement, and Criticism of Plays in Performance. Most recently Jennifer has joined the faculty at The Howard Fine acting studio in Hollywood where she teaches AT courses for actors, both in person and online. Her specialty is melding acting pedagogy with Alexander Technique to foster emotional resilience, move actors towards psychophysical action with full freedom, and promote wellbeing in actor training.

Previously, Jennifer has taught Advanced Movement for the BFA Screen Actors as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Theatre at Chapman University and presented her work in imaginative play at the 2018 International Alexander Technique Congress in Chicago. Recent masterclasses for actors have been held in the theatre department at Pasadena City College, in the theatre department of Cal Poly Pomona, and in Los Angeles at The Road Theatre Company, The William Alderson Acting Studio, Intentional Acting with Loren Chadima, iActing Studios, Keep it Real Acting Studios with Judy Kain, and with the Neo Ensemble Theatre Company.

Before becoming an AT teacher, Jenifer was an actor based out of New York. She is a graduate of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles, holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Penn State. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and the Actors’ Equity Association.