Janice Orlandi is a Movement Specialist in Psychophysical Techniques and Character Transformation, including: Williamson Technique, Period Styles, Period Dance, and Physical Dramaturgy. Williamson Period Styles specialities include Regency, Victorian, Edwardian, Elizabethan, Restoration, Classical, and 1920s-1950s. She is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique and has trained with Mary Overlie, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau and SITI Company in Viewpoints and Suzuki. She has additional training in Rasaboxes, Alba Emoting, and Laban Fundamentals.
Movement Director credits include The Other Mozart (London St James Theatre, Here Arts Festival, Cherry Lane Theatre Solo Festival, Berkshire Fringe Festival), The Contrast (Mirror Repertory Company), An Ideal Husband and Tartuffe (Sonnet Repertory). Movement Consultant for Red Velvet (Lantern Theater Company).
Directing credits include Mozart & Salieri and The Brute (Westside Theatre), Evening with Stephen Crane (Manhattan Rep, Crane House Museum), Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, St. James Theatre, Theater Row, Laurie Beechman, 59E59 Theater), Garbo Dreams (Red Room), Uncle Vanya (Expanded Arts Theatre), and The Three Sisters (New Vaudeville Theater).
Orlando teaches at Atlantic Acting School, HB Studio, Rose Bruford College (UK), New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and Tom Todoroff Conservatory. She has taught around the country and world at institutions including University of the Arts, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Williamstown Theatre Festival, BAM, De Lindenberg Centre (Netherlands), State Theatre School (Denmark), Ophelia Theatre School (Copenhagen), and New York State Summer School of the Arts.
Founding Member of Expanded Arts & Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. Featured in Backstage and American Theater Magazine on the current trends of movement training in theater education.
Member of SAG/AFTRA, AEA, SSDC Associate.