Valerie Clayman pye (SHE/HER)

Classical and heightened texts, emergent actor training

New York City
www.valerieclaymanpye.com

Valerie Clayman Pye, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Management at LIU Post, where she teaches acting, voice and speech, and Shakespeare in Performance. Valerie’s research focuses on actor training pedagogy, 

Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare tourism, and on practice-as-research (PaR). Valerie is a professional actor and director whose work has reached audiences in over twenty countries. Her book, Unearthing Shakespeare: Embodied Performance and the Globe (Routledge 2017) is the first book to consider what the unique properties of the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s theatre can contribute to both the training of actors as well as to the performances of Shakespeare’s plays. She is the co-editor of Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice: Perspectives on Activating the Actor (with Hillary Haft Bucs; Routledge December 2019), and the forthcoming volume, Shakespeare and Tourism (with Robert Ormsby; Routledge 2021). A 2018-20 LabWorks Artist at the New Victory Theatre in NYC, Valerie has been developing "Shakespeare’s Stars", an immersive, multi-media, multi-sensory performance for babies and their caregivers, along with Spellbound Theatre, featured in The Wall Street Journal. Like so many other projects, the full production of “Shakespeare’s Stars” has been postponed due to COVID-19.