Katie Bull
Katie Bull teaches Whole Body Voice© which she evolved from her work with the late great vocal coach Chuck Jones. Katie is also a Certified Fitzmaurice Voicework© Lead Trainer and a FGNA Guild Certified Feldenkrais© Practitioner. Credits in Universities: Brooklyn College graduate program, and the NYU/Playwright’s Horizon Studio; Vox Level I, II and III/advanced vocal production at Atlantic Studio at NYU/Tisch since 1999 where she was Head of Vocal Production from 2004-2020 and then led zoom and hybrid teaching during the pandemic until classes resumed in-person. 2023-2024 marked Katie’s 25th year Anniversary at Atlantic. In her career she has also taught in various professional studios in NYC including Michael Howard Studio, CayMichael Patten Studio, Larry Singer studio and The Gate studio. As a Fitzmaurice Lead Trainer she co-taught with Cynthia Bassham when the ’22 Fitzmaurice Certification was stationed in NYC, and teaches the culminating “singing day” as a co-teacher with Jeff Morrison in the Fitzmaurice 5-Day events at the Fitzmaurice Institute. She has coached over 50 NYU undergraduate productions and voice coached/directed conceived several NYU Tisch Drama mainstage projects including “Sweet Edible You” and “WORD.” Highlights from over 30 years of Private Voice Coaching include: Felicity Huffman in TransAmerica, Phoebe in Wonderland, “Desperate Housewives” (episodes), American Crime (audition), “Tammy’s Always Dying” and support for Huffman’s London performance in Hir; Kerry Washington on Broadway in “RACE” & “American Son,”; James Spader in “RACE”; Eden Regal in “All My Children” (Emmy season); Mime artist David Shiner as the Cat-In-the-Hat in Seussical (Richard Rodgers Theater); Jonathan Cake in his role as Coriolanus at the Old Globe in London; Bill Irwin in Waiting for Godot on Broadway (Roundabout Theater); Bradley Fleisher in the Broadway production of Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo; Maggie Kiley in Scarcity (Atlantic Theater Company); Mary McCann in the musical premiere of Spring Awakening (ATC); Kate Blumberg in The Syringa Tree (audition/Playhouse 91); Eva Longoria for a screentest/feature film; Karen Allen and Pamela Shaw in Summer Day at the Cherry Lane; Young Jean Lee in We Are All Gonna Die, at Lincoln Center, and many more. Katie is a published writer (Applause Books, Buddy’s Knife Press, NYTE Press, Lapidus Press) and journalist; she wrote the Vox News column for the NYC Jazz Record ’12-’15, and is also a professional jazz vocalist with six CDs, radio airplay and radio CMJ Top 10 charting; in 2011 she received short list Grammy nomination consideration for her album Freak Miracle on the Innova Label; and in 2015 she made the NPR Top Ten Jazz Critics Poll (#6) for her album All Hot Bodies Radiate, on her own Ashokan Indie label. Her new album of original compositions, The Hope Etudes, will be released on Ashokan Indie in 2024. Katie is also an environmental advocate and the founder of Climate Force, an inter-art producing organization to benefit the environmental movement. She has previously produced non-profit theater and music events for TheaterKore Inc. and the Improvisational Arts Ensembles, Inc. and is the Artistic Director of the Bull Family Orchestra (BFO), an inter-arts theater company. Katie holds a BFA in Theater Arts from SUNY Purchase, and an MA from New York University/Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she researched the phenomena of voice and vocal fry through an interdisciplinary lens including neurophysiology, neuroanthropology, sociology ,and social
psychology; she is a Certified IRB Graduate Researcher. She split her time between NYC and the Hudson River Valley where she has created a new Mountain Space for voice coaching. She lives in the Catskills with her partner Craig, a stoneworker, outdoorsman & outdoors writer. Katie is a mother of two young adults, Hannajane & Hudson, and the proud dog-mother to Jasper, a Louisiana Cataloula hound-mix rescue.