Kelley Schoger

Kelley Schoger is a theatre artist and educator with over twenty years professional experience. She is an actor, director, movement specialist, intimacy director, nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT, 2014), and certified Art of Breathing Instructor. She is a tenured Associate Professor of Acting/Movement in the graduate and undergraduate theatre programs at The University of Alabama (UA). She has worked as an actor in New York and regionally, including off-Broadway at the historic La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Theatre for the New City, and The Culture Project. Previous regional directing and movement direction credits include productions at Arena Stage, Virginia Rep, Warehouse Theatre NC, Richmond Symphony. At UA, she has movement/intimacy directed and coached numerous productions as well as directed plays including The Imaginary Invalid and The Servant of Two Masters. Kelley also creates and performs original works of physical theatre, including Her Destined Port, performed at New York City’s La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, and Beauty, Identity, Release at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. She was named the 2022 Alabama State Council on the Arts Theatre Fellow, allowing her to complete much of her Intimacy Direction training through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC). Kelley holds an MFA in Theatre/Movement Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BA in Theatre from Virginia Tech, with additional training from Circle in the Square in NYC, Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland, Complicite in London with Marcello Magni, Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE), Pandemonium Studio with Chris Bayes, and Ecole Internationale de Mime Corporel Dramatique in Paris, France. Kelley’s work and teaching is rooted in uncovering the vulnerable, available, playful self, and creating dynamic, embodied storytelling with an emphasis on revealing our vast inner landscapes through the body and breath.