Lee Soroko
Associate Professor,
Areas of Expertise:
- Certified Alexander Technique Teacher (Integrated Alexander Training for the Performing Arts with Cathy Madden)
- Movement (Viewpoints and Suzuki with Tina Landau, Anne Bogart and SITI Company), Feldenkrais and Laban)
- Mask and Period Styles
- Recognized Fight Director, Society of American Fight Directors
- Certified Teacher of Stage Combat, SAFD
- Certified Theatrical Firearms Instructor, SAFD
- Acting (Practical Aesthetics and Meisner)
Office: AL 9, RM 164, Boca Campus
Professor Soroko is a movement specialist whose Fight Choreography work has appeared on Broadway as well as at leading professional theatre and opera companies across the nation. Here in South Florida, he routinely works with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre (LORT B+), Florida Grand Opera (AGMA), Palm Beach Opera (AGMA), Miami New Drama (LOA), Palm Beach Dramaworks (LOA), Slow Burn Theatre (LORT D) and Zoetic Stage. Soroko earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for his work in character masks and was also trained as an Alexander Teacher under the nationally renowned Jim Hancock and Master Teacher Cathy Madden, founding member of Alexander Technique International. Professor Soroko is a proud member of the Actor's Equity Association who earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Texas and his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He is a Fight Director, Certified Teacher of Stage Combat and a Theatrical Firearms Instructor with the Society of American Fight Directors as well as having served on the Governing Body for six years. Professor Soroko has taught Stage Combat, Alexander Technique, Movement, Viewpoints and Acting at the following Universities: Yale University, New York University, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the University of Miami.