Penny O'Connor
Penny O'Connor is a member of the Society of Teachers of the FM Alexander Technique. She worked for ten years in theatre as a writer, performer, director, before re-training in the Alexander Technique under David Gorman and Margaret Edis. Following her certification, she assisted on the training for three years and set up a consultancy Awareness and Development to take the Technique into the workplace, organising conferences, leading workshops, and giving individual coaching for companies such as BACS, Whitbread plc, Eagle Star, Emap Women?s Group, Reuters, Standard Chartered Bank and the Royal Mail.
For the last 12 years Penny has been teaching theatre students at Arts Educational London Schools on the BA and MA courses in Musical Theatre and Acting. She designed the AT curriculum and runs a mentoring scheme for newly qualified AT teachers at ArstEd. She has also taught at Guildhall School of Music and Drama , Central School of Speech and Drama, the London Musical Theatre School, Graeae educational theatre programme and with Mind the Gap theatre project.
Penny is visiting lecturer at several Alexander trainings in London, and has taught internationally : in Thessaloniki, Athens, Haifa, Istanbul, New York, the Ionian University in Corfu and led workshops at the International Congress of Alexander Technique in Oxford 1994, in Lugano 1998. She has been teaching on Alonnisos in the summer since 1999, helped by her dog Spiros and partner Mo. Other interests include gardening, NLP, Chi Kung, writing plays, singing and playing guitar.
Penny is a Member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
http://www.alexanderpen.co.uk/