American Society for the Alexander Technique
Complete Story
07/21/2021
Ruth Rootberg, Member at Large
- AmSAT Board, Member-at-Large, July 2021–present
- AmSAT Membership Committee, 2000–present
- AmSAT Chair of Professional Conduct Committee, 2013–2018
- AmSAT News, AmSAT Journal, Advisor, Editor (Associate and Interim), Production Manager, Proofreader, staff writer, 2004–2018 (not all at once!)
- AmSAT Distinguished Service Award: 2017
- AmSAT Certificate of Merit: 2014, 2011
- AmSAT Policy and Procedures Project, 2010–11, 2016
- AmSAT Credentials Review Committee, 2006–2007
- AmSAT Marketing Committee: Archivist, 2003–2009
- AmSAT Raising More Money Team, 2003–2004
- AmSAT Florence Office Volunteer, 2000–2003
- Author: “Handing the Experience to the Pupil” and other articles, AmSAT News/AmSAT Journal
- Author: Living the Alexander Technique, Volumes I and II (2015; 2018)
- Alexander Technique School of New England, Amherst, MA: Certified 2003
- Laban Movement Analysis, certified 2000
- Group Leadership Training, 1997–98
- Associate Professor, Yale School of Drama, 1995–2000
- Adjunct Faculty, Theatre School of DePaul, 1993–1995
- Adjunct Faculty, Northern Illinois University, 1992–1993
- Linklater Voice Training, designation 1993
- M.A. and M.E.d. in Interdisciplinary Arts in Education, Columbia College, 1918, 1983
- Professional singer, puppeteer, clown
- Zurich International Opera Center, student and professional opera singer in Switzerland, 1974-1976
- M.M. voice, New England Conservatory of Music, 1974
- B.M. voice, New England Conservatory of Music, 1972
- B.A. Tufts University, Magna Cum Laude, psychology and music, 1971 (AT with Frank Pierce Jones)
- Interests: writing, reading, theatre, film, family, Sudoku
(photo photo credit: (c) Clive J. Mealey)
