Upcoming classes and workshops

Fall 2025 Vancouver

Introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework at Bard Studio.

Monday Oct 6, 2-5pm

at BMO Theatre Centre

Part of Bard On The Beach’s Bard Studio series, this workshop will introduce you to the foundational aspects of Fitzmaurice Voicework with a focus on breath and Tremorwork®. Registration opens in September. Please go here, to register.

Fitzmaurice Voicework® Practice and Play

Saturdays Oct 11, 18, 25, Nov 1 10am-1pm

at Morrow, 910 Richards St, Suite 204; Vancouver, BC V6B 3C1

Designed for people who have some prior experience with Fitzmaurice Voicework®, these classes are like workout sessions to get your voice and body tuned up for presence and play. Bring your monologue or song or half-formed thoughts to this class and work it out! We will review the principles of Fitzmaurice Voicework: Tremorwork®, Destructuring, Restructuring, Presence and Play and apply them to your material.

To register, please send me an email at leesufeh@gmail.com

About me as a teacher

Born and raised in Malaysia, my early training began with a mix of traditional and contemporary South-east Asian dance and theatre. Since then, I have studied contemporary performance in Europe and North America with a variety of teachers and have, along the way, developed a somatic approach to interdisciplinary performance deeply influenced by my lifelong studies in Chinese martial arts, Qigong and Daoism. I am also deeply committed to the task of understanding and nurturing an inclusive space that acknowledges the existence of power asymmetries and hegemonic structures in and around ALL bodies. I don’t know everything, but I am invested in learning.

The foundation of all my work can be found in this set of instructions:

Follow pleasure,

Yield around obstacles,

Observe consequences in and around the body.

Repeat.

Apply to everything.

Since 2010, I have been a student and practitioner of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, becoming a certified Lead Trainer and member of the Advisory Group of the Fitzmaurice Institute. I participate actively in the international community of Fitzmaurice Voicework® teachers.

About Fitzmaurice Voicework®

Fitzmaurice Voicework® is a whole-body approach to voice that, in founder Catherine Fitzmaurice's words, "explores the dynamics between body, breath, voice, the imagination, language and presence." The method integrates adaptations of classical voice training with modifications of yoga, bioenergetics and other body-centered disciplines to harmonize the voluntary and involuntary aspects of the nervous system and breath. This integration cultivates voices that can communicate intention and feeling without excess effort.

Fitzmaurice Voicework® supports the full spectrum of vocal expression—whether for performance, public speaking, singing, voice with movement, vocal rehabilitation, or simply developing greater presence and connection to yourself.

Fitzmaurice Voicework® focuses on the whole human voice - https://www.fitzmauriceinstitute.org/

As a Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher, I am guided by the 8 Values of the Fitzmaurice Voice Institute, which I am proud to have had a role in articulating.