Amy PellAlexander Technique Instructor
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Sherman Oaks Studio
Amy
Pell is a graduate of the American Center for the Alexander Technique, class of ’79, under the direction of Judy Leibowitz. Specializing
in the performing arts, Amy has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School and at the Stratford Festival Theatre in Canada.
She continued her Alexander studies with Patrick MacDonald, Walter Carrington, Marge Barstow and Pearl Ausubel. Amy
assisted in training classes at the American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York and was a guest lecturer and visiting
teacher at Boston University, York University, Columbia University, University of California, Irvine and CSUN Northridge.
Amy studied at the University
of Michigan and England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Besides teaching the Alexander Technique, she
managed many Broadway productions including: Singin' in the Rain, On Your Toes, Showboat, The Petition (with
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), and Macbeth (with Glenda Jackson and Christopher Plummer). Amy assisted in
producing the Cablevision/Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Universal Amphitheater and served as a consultant for the Mandalay
Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, in connection with the opening of The Mandalay Bay Theatre and its inaugural production of
the musical Chicago.
Amy was Senior Vice President of Production at Warner Bros. Feature Animation and
was also the executive in charge of animation production for the film Space Jam. She served as a creative
consultant for Nickelodeon Animation, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and produced an animated pilot for MTV. Amy co-produced
Walt Disney Pictures' Aladdin, one of the top grossing pictures of all time.
Amy teaches the Alexander Technique
in Sherman Oaks and at our Mid-Wilshire Studio.
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