Francis Robert Perillo
Francis Robert Perillo is a Master Voice Teacher and has trained actors for over 30 years. He has worked at Binghamton University, Marymount College, The National Shakespeare Conservatory, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where he was head of the Voice Department. Mr. Perillo trains and coaches actors privately for performance and auditions; he has worked extensively with businessmen and women, writers, politicians, and singers and has given seminars and workshops to choral groups, readers of scripture, deacons, priests, and other teachers of voice and speech. He is a stage director and has directed playwrights as varied as Shakespeare, Coward, John Patrick Shanley, Tom Stoppard, and Charles Ludlam. He recently directed the musical The Spitfire Grill, and served as dramaturg/director for Aldo Pisano’s one-man show Judgement. He was vocal coach to writer and performer Lawrence Wright for his play The Human Scale directed by Oskar Eustis. Last autumn he was vocal and text coach for The Public Theater’s Love’s Labor’s Lost. In addition to serving on the faculty of The Public’s Shakespeare Lab, he has been a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University; at Stanford he was voice and text coach on three Shakespeare plays produced collaboratively by Stanford and The Public Theater. www.fperillo.com.
Francis Robert Perillo is a Master Voice Teacher and has trained actors for over 30 years. He has worked at Binghamton University, Marymount College, The National Shakespeare Conservatory, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where he was head of the Voice Department. Mr. Perillo trains and coaches actors privately for performance and auditions; he has worked extensively with businessmen and women, writers, politicians, and singers and has given seminars and workshops to choral groups, readers of scripture, deacons, priests, and other teachers of voice and speech. He is a stage director and has directed playwrights as varied as Shakespeare, Coward, John Patrick Shanley, Tom Stoppard, and Charles Ludlam. He recently directed the musical The Spitfire Grill, and served as dramaturg/director for Aldo Pisano’s one-man show Judgement. He was vocal coach to writer and performer Lawrence Wright for his play The Human Scale directed by Oskar Eustis. Last autumn he was vocal and text coach for The Public Theater’s Love’s Labor’s Lost. In addition to serving on the faculty of The Public’s Shakespeare Lab, he has been a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University; at Stanford he was voice and text coach on three Shakespeare plays produced collaboratively by Stanford and The Public Theater. www.fperillo.com.