Studio NiceBody/Voice Training for Performance and Life.
nices@uncw.edu
(910) 962-7896
Scott Nice is a Certified Associate Fitzmaurice Voicework ® Teacher (www.fitzmauricevoice.com) and also serves the University of North Carolina’s Department of Theatre as Assistant Professor of Voice and Movement training (www.uncw.edu/thr). Scott has taught in the theatre departments of the University of Northern Iowa, Northern Illinois University School of Theatre & Dance’s BFA and BA Acting Program as well as Kalamazoo College and the Department’s of Theatre at Western Michigan University’s. With over 10 years of experience training professional actors and over 20 years of working as a professional actor, Scott Nice has set up his newest actor training studio “Studio Nice” here in Wilmington.
Scott Nice has an MFA in Acting from Northern Illinois University School of Theatre & Dance. He holds a BA in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University’s Department of Theatre and is a graduate from the American Musical Dramatic Academy in NYC. He has been a certified combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors since 1987 and is a Fitzmaurice Voice Work Instructor. Mr. Nice coaches for stage and screen and is the Resident Voice and Movement Coach for Master Meisner Acting Teacher, Kathryn Gately’s actor training program, “The Actor’s Intensive (www.theactingintensive.com). Scott Nice is fully trained in several voice and movement processes including the Kristin Linklater and Arthur Lessac voice techniques, and the movement process of Jacque Lecoq, Jerzy Grotowski, mime, masks and the Commedia dell’Arte as well as receiving teacher training in the Loyd Williamson Movement and Rudolph Laban Movement Process.
As a voice specialist, Scott Nice trains students in dialect reduction, stage dialects, speech coaching, text-work and voice and speech techniques. As a movement specialist Scott instructs students in circus skills, physical character work, period styles and body relaxation techniques. As a stage combat instructor, Scott Nice specializes in all weapons techniques both armed and unarmed as well as firearms and as a Fight Director with over 50 productions under his belt, Scott instructs beginning and advanced combatants in choreography techniques and specialized weapon skills.
Scott Nice’s philosophy in the design of Studio Nice is to provide both immediate and holistic training techniques which free the breath. All gestures, both physical and voiced are powered and empowered by breath. We breathe both without thinking about it and by imposing our will to shape and control our breath for a desired expression. Often times, when one is stressed or in “unfamiliar territory,” the breath is held or restricted. As the freedom of the authentic breath is restricted, the potential for one’s expression is limited as well. Studio Nice explores holistic practices and techniques in order to promote a fuller access to the potential for human behavior, both spontaneous and crafted. These techniques are not only helpful for those who are training and working in performance but for those in fields dealing with the public, it is also; “good human being training.” Studio Nice celebrates the exploration of the voice and physical gesture to promote a potentially happy, healthier and more productive life.