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MEET OUR
ASSOCIATE TEACHERS!

  • High school age and up

  • Beginners through professionals

  • Vocal Health & Wellness

  • Speaking Voice Training

    • Accent Modification

  • Classical, Musical Theater, Pop/Rock

Olivia
Sophie
Geddy
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Olivia Boddicker
MS, CCC-SLP

Sophie Adickes
MM, MPsych

Geddy Warner
PhD Candidate, MM

Vocal Health Specialist

Mind & Body Wellness Coach

Vocal Distortion Specialist

Speech Pathologist & Singing Teacher
Personal Trainer and Performance Anxiety Coach
Singing Teacher & Researcher
  • High school age and up

  • Intermediate through professionals

  • Vocal Health & Wellness

  • Singing voice rehabilitation

  • Speaking Voice Training

    • Accent Modification

  • Classical, Musical Theatre, Pop/Rock

  • Fitness Training

    • One on one virtual personal training

    • 4 week posture training program

  • Performance Anxiety Training​​

    • Performance pressure

    • Imposter syndrome

    • Work-life balance

    • Burnout

  • Late teens and up

  • Beginners through professionals

  • Growls, Screams, Vocal Distortion

  • Speaking Voice Training

    • Voiceover acting

    • Character voices

  • Pop/rock, Musical Theatre, Classical, R&B, Jazz, and more!

Olivia is a voice teacher and certified speech-language pathologist who is passionate about all things voice and vocal health! She earned her Bachelor's in Vocal Performance with a minor in Spanish at University North Carolina in 2017. After recovering from her own voice difficulties in her senior year, she found her passion for helping injured voices. She went on to receive her Master's degree in Speech Pathology from the George Washington University. She completed her fellowship at the Grabscheid Voice and Swallowing Center of Mount Sinai, where she currently practices as a Voice-Specialized Speech Language Pathologist and contributes to research. In her clinical work, she rehabilitates individuals in English and Spanish with a wide variety of voice, swallowing, and upper airway disorders, including singers with nodules, polyps, and muscle tension dysphonia.  In her work with SKB Voice Studio, she enjoys training a wide variety of singers from across genres and experience levels. She incorporates her knowledge of anatomy and physiology from her work as a speech pathologist with the experiences and knowledge from her singing background to demystify the process of improving the voice. She holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Language Pathology, is certified in Estill Levels 1 and 2, and regularly completes additional professional development courses in singing instruction to strengthen and maintain her skill as an instructor.

Sophie is a certified personal trainer and a performance anxiety coach, training performers in both physical and mental strength. With her unique background of vocal performance, fitness, and psychology, Sophie understands the difficulties of functioning within a high-stress/high-performance environment. She works with clients to address the everyday stressors of work-life balance, performance anxiety, burnout, and imposter syndrome. Sophie emphasizes a holistic, client-first approach, acknowledging that there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution. Her coaching style draws from the researched-backed techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy, and positive psychology. As most anxiety comes from a preoccupation with the past or future, Sophie helps to redirect to the present moment and encourages action steps to help clients move toward a brighter future, using each client’s unique set of strengths and values as a strong foundation for growth. Emphasizing the mind-body connection, she provides her clients with mental and physical techniques to calm the nervous system and decrease chronic stress. In addition to coaching, Sophie has worked for 7+ years as an in-home and online personal trainer and a group fitness instructor. Her training style centers around building functional fitness and core strength. Routines focus on core training, balance, alignment, and building the major muscle groups. Her goal as a trainer is to help you move throughout your day pain-free. Sophie holds a Master's degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University, a Master's degree in Vocal Performance from New York University, and a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory. She is a certified Personal Trainer (National Academy of Sports Medicine), a certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist (National Academy of Sports Medicine), and a certified Corrective Exercise Specialist (National Academy of Sports Medicine).

Geddy is a singer, voice teacher, voice researcher and distortion specialist currently pursuing a PhD in Voice Research at New York University and is a graduate of the NYU Steinhardt Master of Music Program in Classical Vocal Performance with an Advanced Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy. As a pedagogue, Geddy’s focus is on utilizing tactile vocal tasks and tools that address both airflow and resonance to reduce vocal effort and improve vocal output regardless of voicing style. With experience working both privately and as a Graduate Adjunct Voice Faculty Professor at NYU Steinhardt, Geddy has taught many genres of singing including Metal, Jazz, Musical Theater, R&B, Hip-Hop, Classical and more. He has additionally gained notable vocal rehabilitation and habilitation training and experience as a Singing Voice Specialist working with voice clinics in the New York City area. These clinics include the Sean Parker Institute for the Voice at Weill Cornell, the NYU Langone Voice Center, the Columbia University Irving Medical Center for Voice and Swallowing, and the Grabscheid Voice and Swallowing Center of Mount Sinai. Geddy’s research focuses on distortion and the vocal mechanisms used in distortion for both performance and rehabilitative purposes. His research has been presented at voice conferences that include the ASHA Fall Voice Conference, The Pan American Vocology Association Symposium, and The Voice Foundation Symposium. Along with the voice team at the NYU Langone Voice Clinic, utilizing Geddy's research, a protocol is in development for teaching ventricular vocal fold phonation to clinical patients who have lost use of their true vocal folds through distortion methodologies. This experimental protocol has already found success in clinical practice and the findings were presented at the 2022 Fall Voice Conference in San Francisco.

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Carrie Lyn Brandon
BFA, Musical Theatre

Diana Rose Becker
MS, CCC-SLP

Caitlin Finnie
BM, Vocal Performance

Performance Specialist

Vocal Health Specialist

Performance Specialist

Singing Teacher & Active Performer
Speech Pathologist & Singing Teacher
Singing Teacher & Active Performer
  • Ages 13+

  • Beginners through professionals

  • Musical Theatre vocal styles

  • Folk, country, rock, pop and more

  • Audition Preparation and Song Interpretation

  • Actor Musicianship

    • Singing while self-accompanying on instruments

  • Late teens and up

  • Intermediate through professionals

  • Singing Voice Specialist (SVS)

  • Speaking Voice

    • Public Speaking​​

    • Theatrical Speaking

    • Accent Modification

  • Classical & Musical Theater

  • Ages 13+

  • Beginners through professionals

  • Musical Theatre & Classical

  • Acting through song

  • Audition preparation

Carrie is a New York City based voice teacher and active Musical Theatre performer with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Penn State University, where she studied the Bel Canto/Can Belto curriculum under Mary Saunders-Barton. She is trained in vocal pedagogy through the Institute for Vocal Advancement, and is a certified Vocal Health First Aider through VHE. She is committed to growing and staying current as an educator and regularly attends conferences and courses through organizations such as One Body/One Voice and Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance. Carrie has a decade of experience teaching voice, and for the last four years has run a full time studio as well as continuing her performing career. Carrie has been on the National Tours of Once the Musical (Girl Cover) and A Charlie Brown Christmas, performed at regional theaters all over the country, and traveled the seas as a featured singer on a cruise line. She enjoys a wide variety of music and has been a soloist with multiple symphonies, played with jazz and rock bands, and sung her own original folk music while accompanying herself with one of the seven instruments she plays. Favorite credits include Ring of Fire at North Carolina Theatre, Big River (Mary Jane) at Sharon Playhouse, The Spitfire Grill (Shelby) at Oregon Cabaret Theatre, and Mamma Mia (Sophie) at Sierra Repertory Theatre. In the studio, Carrie is passionate about bringing together vocal technique and artistic expression/interpretation, and believes that both must be present to cultivate a truly balanced instrument. She teaches both online and out of her home studio in New York City.

Diana is a Speech-Language Pathologist who specializes in voice, upper airway, and swallowing disorders. She received her Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh and bachelor’s degrees in classical vocal performance and music education from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. She received specialty training in the evaluation and treatment of laryngeal disorders during her clinical fellowship at the Emory Voice Center. Ms. Becker has extensive performance experience. Prior to pursuing her training in speech-language pathology, she spent 10+ years as a NYC-based artist, performing musical theater and opera repertoire throughout the US and Europe. Clinical interests include working with the professional and singing voice, as well as making voice therapy accessible and relatable to those who are less comfortable working with their voice.

Caitlin is a voice teacher and active Musical Theatre performer with a Bachelor’s of Music in Voice and Opera from Northwestern University. In addition, she is a Meisner trained actor studying under Laura Henry and she loves to incorporate acting through song into her technical instruction—as they often serve each other. Caitlin started her career at The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of The King and I while in undergrad at Northwestern. After graduating, she moved to New York City and left shortly after to tour with the North American tour of Les Misérables which she performed in for over two years as the Cosette understudy and in the ensemble. She then left Les Misérables to be the Christine Daaé alternate on the Phantom of the Opera World Tour, which was the only major English speaking production to run in the world during the pandemic in 2020. She recently released her debut album, “So This is Love | C’est ca l’amour” and it is now available for streaming on all platforms. Caitlin just finished performing at Riverside Theatre’s production of Man of La Mancha as Antonia and is now teaching in New York.

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Diana
Carrie
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Genevieve Ellis
BFA Musical Theatre

Rachel Weinfeld 
MM, Vocal Performance

Acting Specialist

Performance Specialist

Performance Specialist

Acting Coach & Singing Teacher
Singing Teacher & Active Performer
Singing Teacher & Active Performer
  • Late teens and up

  • Beginners through professionals

  • Acting through song

  • Musical Theatre Vocal Styles

  • Audition Preparation and Song Interpretation

  • Ages 13+

  • Beginners through professionals

  • Musical Theatre Vocal Styles

  • Acting through song

  • Audition preparation

  • Ages 13+

  • Beginners through professionals

  • Musical Theatre & Classical

  • Acting through song

  • Audition preparation

Alex (he/him) is an acting and voice teacher, writer, and professional performer based in New York City. He received a BFA with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, studying drama with a specialization in clowning and mask work. He has continued to train in the city with Upright Citizens Brigade, Bob Krakower, and JJ Perez. Alex has an extensive musical theater performance background that greatly informs his teaching expertise. He was a member of the original Broadway casts of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Spongebob SquarePants, and Pirates! The Penzance Musical. He also received a Lucille Lortel nomination for his performance as Henry in Dave Malloy’s Octet at Signature Theater. Other New York credits include performances at La MaMa ETC, Atlantic Theater Co., Transport Group, The Billie Holiday Theater, and Egg & Spoon. Other regional credits include The Alliance, The Old Globe, Barrington Stage, The Guthrie, and Berkeley Rep. As a vocalist, Alex has performed with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (Disney on Classic), Adele (Live at Radio City Music Hall), and for television shows (Schmigadoon! seasons 1&2). His television credits also include "Doom Patrol" and "The Beast in Me." In the studio, Alex believes in cultivating a supportive and positive environment. He works with all levels of acting experience and is happy to work on both short term goals (such as prep for a specific audition) or long term goals. By grounding his work in scene/song analysis and practical physicality, Alex seeks to help foster acting work that is spontaneous, honest, and enjoyable.

Genevieve is a teaching artist based in New York City, most recently seen on the road with the National Tour of Les Misérables. After graduating from SUNY Fredonia's BFA in Musical Theatre program, she underwent voice surgery, which inspired her to learn more about the vocal mechanism as a whole. After a successful surgery and recovery, Genevieve studied vocal pedagogy through Sonaura, where she learned how to better assist herself and her students through research-based theories in voice development, acoustics, anatomy, and physiology. She received her certificate in Advanced Vocal Pedagogy in 2021 and has been a bona fide voice nerd ever since! Genevieve has had the privilege of exploring a wide variety of theatrical roles, both in musicals and straight plays. She toured with Les Misérables for two years as a member of the ensemble and a Fantine cover, and she has performed regionally throughout the U.S. and Canada. Some of her favorite credits include: Noises Off, Into the Woods, Songs for a New World, Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Something Rotten!. Outside of performing, Genevieve is also actively pursuing her Grief Coach certification through IOPGC. Because of her own first-hand experience with vocal trauma, Genevieve understands how frequently we as performers tend to attach our own self-worth to our instrument—and just how debilitating that mindset can be. She strives to be a source of encouragement for her students, reminding them to always approach their own practice with grace. We are all a work in progress! Genevieve teaches both online and in person in NYC.

Rachel (she/her) has found a home for herself as a versatile crossover singer in the opera and musical theatre worlds. Noted for her “outstanding comedic timing” and “heavenly soprano” Rachel has had the opportunity to perform some of the genres’ great leading ladies including Amalia Balash in She Loves Me, Marian Paroo in The Music Man, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Phoebe D’Ysquith in Gentleman’s Guide, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. Last year, she was a semi-finalist in the prestigious Lotte Lenya Competition and made her Ohio Light Opera debut as Maria in the Sound of Music. On the concert stage, Rachel has sung “The Bench Scene” from Carousel alongside Nathan Gunn, and has also sung as a guest soloist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. She will return this summer to Ohio Light Opera to perform Julie Jordan in Carousel and Fiona MacLaren in Brigadoon. Rachel has maintained a private voice studio since 2019 and has also been an adjunct voice teacher at the University of Vermont since 2021. Her goal as a voice teacher is to help each individual singer find their own unique voice. Blending vocal pedagogy with the psychology of singing, including trauma-informed and gender-affirming teachings, she works personally with each student to help build a genuine and lasting connection with their instrument. Rachel specializes in musical theatre and classical techniques, helping to build the bridge between healthy and sustainable vocal production and storytelling.

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