Marina Gilman

Marina Gilman holds a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University, Master of Music from Ithaca College, and a Masters of Art in Communication Disorders from Northwestern University. She graduated from the Montreal Feldenkrais Training in 1996. In 2022, she received the Pan American Voice Association’s Recognized Vocologist designation.

Marina is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, singing teacher, performer, and licensed speech pathologist with specialization in voice. Now retired, she taught voice at Cornell University, Syracuse University, and in the Theater School at DePaul University Chicago, as well as the School at the Steppenwolf Theater Company summer program. In her capacity as a licensed speech pathologist Marina was part of the interdisciplinary teams at The Voice Institute, Loyola Medical Center, the Bastian Voice Institute, and the University of Chicago Voice Center in Chicago, Ill, most recently as part of the interdisciplinary voice team at the Emory Voice Center, Department of Otolaryngology, in Atlanta, Georgia. Her interest in the somatic aspects of voice training began with her personal struggle with body tension. Over the years she has worked to bring the Feldenkrais work into her clinical, academic, and studio teaching. 

Marina presented Feldenkrais workshops for actors, singers and voice therapists, at professional voice and medical conferences including the Voice Foundation Annual Symposium, The Fall Voice Conference and the British Voice Association Conference Choice for Voice. She has published research on voice in peer reviewed medical voice journals and is the author of Body and Voice: Somatic Re-education.