Melinda Little, MA

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Melinda Little,
MA

Biography

Ms. Little is a teacher, actor, and writer who specializes in movement-based work. She has taught at the Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory, the University of Waterloo, the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts, Sheridan College and acted as a movement coach on many professional productions. She has experienced a wide variety of movement modalities in her twenty years of performing and while pursuing her Masters at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Ms. Little draws on Laban Movement, Viewpoints, Grotowski-based River Work, Chekhov Technique and Movement and Sensory Awareness in her work. She embraces a somatic approach to teaching – guiding students toward discovering and inhabiting how they move in order to ground themselves in the work and ignite their imaginations. Ms. Little has written two plays and is currently devising a third entitled Flow. She is a member of CAEA, ACTRA, the Association of Theatre Movement Educators and the Theatre Ontario Talent Bank.

Academic Credentials

Module 1, Michael Chekhov Acting Technique Certified Teacher Program, University of Mount Union/ Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium, 2017

MA, Movement: Directing and Teaching, Central School of Speech and Drama/ University of London, 2012

BA, Theatre (Specialized Honors), York University, 2011

Certified Movement Analyst, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, 2004

Areas of Specialization

Movement for Actors

Acting

Devised Theatre

Playwrighting

Dramaturgy

Movement Direction

Movement Coaching for Business Professionals

Career Highlights

2005-2016: Teacher, Randolph Academy for The Performing Arts

2016: Resident Artist Educator, Young People’s Theatre

2015/16: Professor (part time), Sheridan College

2010-2015: Teacher, Stratford Festival, Birmingham Conservatory

2015, 2013, 2010: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo

2014: Movement Coach, The Thing Between Us, McGuffin Co./Theatre Passe Muraille

1988-Present: Actor (including work with Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille Mermaid Theatre, Theatre Beyond Words, Theatre Rusticle, CBC Radio Drama, Commercials and Industrials)