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FAY
SIMPSON
Fay
Simpson founded the Impact Theatre in 1990 (originally known
as Fay Simpson Dance Theatre) with executive director Lauren
B. Cramer. She has produced and directed numerous dance
theatre productions including D-Train, Take
Me Home, and Research and Development with
Manhattan Class Company. Other dance-theater presentations
include Raging Women and One Bad Man (produced
by SoHo Think Tank), and Kurt's Wife; and a portrait of
Lotte Lenya. In 1997, Impact Theatre produced The Marital
Bliss of Francis and Maxine, created in collaboration
with Liam Torres and Earl Wentz and presented at the Ohio
Theater. Her solo performance piece, Trapped In Seven
written and performed by Simpson, was developed and directed
by Ms. Deborah Kampmeier. Triptych was developed for its
premiere at Raw Space in 2002 with Ido Mizrahy.
Fay Simpson teaches THE LUCID BODY, a technique she has
developed to enable actors to listen to their instinctual
bodies through an in depth exploration of the seven chakra
areas. She is getting her Master’s at NYU’s
Gallatin School, writing her thesis on The Lucid Body philosophy
of performance and healing. She teaches this technique at
The Michael Howard Studios, Marymount Manhattan College,
as well as solo performance courses at Sewanee University
and Colorado College. She is the recipient of The Tennessee
Williams fellowship from The University of the South, a
Rockefeller Grant with Young Audiences of New Jersey and
the Fox Foundation Fellowship, where she he served as a
Directing fellow at the New Globe Theater in London under
the guidance of Mark Rylance during the 1999 season.
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