Natsuko Ohama is one of the premier voice teachers in the country. Trained under legendary Master Kristin Linklater at the Working Theatre, she is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare and Company Lenox, Mass., and senior artist at Pan Asian Rep New York. She has taught at numerous institutions all over the country including the NYU Experimental Theater Wing, Cal Arts, Columbia University, the Sundance Institute, New Actors Workshop, the Stratford Festival, and was the Director of Training at the National Arts Center of Canada. She also has an extensive workshop and private teaching practice. A Drama Desk nominated actress, she has portrayed roles ranging from Juliet to Lady Macbeth from Hamlet to Prospero (Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company) from action films to the cult series "Forever Knight" and American Playhouse on PBS. She has been seen on screen in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 , and on stage at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Dogeaters as Imelda Marcos. As a director, she and USC actress Chastity Dotson mounted Little Book of Battles at the New York Hip Hop Theater Festival at the Public Theater, and Ms. Ohama's play Geisha of the Gilded Age-Miyuki Morgan , was staged at the Ventford Theater in Massachusetts. Last year, she portrayed Angustias in The House of Bernarda Alba for NATTCO, directed by Chay Yew, had a recurring role on the television series “In Case of Emergency” and was certified as a Joy of Phonetics teacher trained by Louis Colaianni in New York. Most recently, she directed the USC Visions and Voices presentation of The Press, in conjunction with playwright Professor David Lloyd and Brent Blair, co-directed Othello at Boston Court in Pasadena for LA Women’s Shakespeare Company, and appeared on stage as Mom in Luis Alfaro’s Hero for Playwright’s Arena, where she will be honored on May 6th.