Midori Nakamura

Studio Voice 5

Midori Nakamura [she/her] is a Brooklyn-based teaching artist and actor. She is a Patsy Rodenburg Associate and a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She teaches voice, text, and Shakespeare. She is the head of Voice and Speech at the Maggie Flanigan Studio and currently teaches for the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, as well as for the New Group at Long Island University. She has also taught for Marymount Manhattan College, The Linklater Center in New York, The Actor’s Center, Columbia University’s Social Impact Fellowship and Obama Scholars Foundation, and LAByrinth Theater’s Intensive Ensemble, as well as coaching private clients in both acting and voice. She has directed for NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing. As an actor, she has worked in film, TV, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, for Shakespeare in the Park, at the Kennedy Center, at the RSC, and in regional theater. She has acted alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Patrick Stewart, Angela Bassett, Bill Irwin, Keanu Reeves, Michael C. Hall, Liev Schrieber, Karen Allen, Del Close, Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Anniston. Directors she has acted under include George C. Wolfe, Morgan Freeman, Lena Dunham, Barry Levenson, Peter Sellars, Nicholas Hytner, Austin Pendleton, James Lapine, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe Chaikin. Midori co-directed, co-produced, and co-edited T'an Bakhtale, a documentary about the Russian Roma, which received awards from the American Association of Anthropology and the Royal Anthropological Institute.