Karen Braga & Susan Pourfar

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

​Karen Braga has been a signature voice-over artist for 20 years, branding national television campaigns for "viewers like you," advertising everything from dish soap to President Clinton. She has voiced documentaries, industrial films, and appeared on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion." She teaches actors at NYU's Open Arts Studio as well as workshops for singers, seniors, yogis, authors, and coaches privately. Her gentle hands-on technique encourages students from all walks of life to embody their voice and speak from their heart. MFA Acting Temple University, Certified Alexander Technique Teacher, ATI, Certified Motherhand Shiatsu.

Susan Pourfar. Theatre credits include: Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, directed by David Cromer; Obie Award, Theatre World Award, and the Clarence Derwent Award from Actors Equity); When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater); In the Wake, The Singing Forest, The Poor Itch (Public Theater); Ivanov (Lake Lucille); Swimming In The Shallows, The Dear Boy (Second Stage Uptown); The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company). TV: “House of Cards,” “Mr. Robot,” “Scandal” (recurring), “Black Box,” “Elementary” (recurring), “Power,” “The Good Wife,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Numbers,” “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order: CI,” and “Law and Order: SVU.” Film: Irrational Man (dir. Woody Allen), Alex of Venice, Emelie, No Beast So Fierce, Christine (dir. Antonio Campos), and the Academy Award winning Manchester by the Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan).