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Denise Mader

About Me

Fitness
&
Performance

Certifications, Education, Training, Experience, and Bio
FITNESS TRAINING: 
* Certified Yoga Teacher 200 hours (Heart Yoga) 
* Certified Personal Training Specialist: CanFit Pro 
* DTS Fitness Education Exercise Coach Level 1 Certification 
* Internship at Fortis Fitness (Main focus on squat, deadlift, bench press, and overhead press lifting technique and programming)
​* CPR - A 
* MFA in Acting along with over 15 years of physical, breath, voice, and performance training and experience in various methodologies including Alexander Technique, Suzuki, Viewpoints, Batdorf Technique, Linklater Voice Technique, Fides Krucker Emotionally Integrated Voice Technique, among others.
* Background in dance (ballet) training

FITNESS WORK EXPERIENCE:
* Private personal trainer, yoga, movement, and lifestyle coach
* Barre instructor: Pop Physique 
* Personal Trainer; Fitness instructor: Philosophy Fitness, Soul Fuel  
* Fitness instructor: Dynamic Fitness and Retreats, Soul Fuel

BIO

I completed my yoga teacher training in Nelson B.C. with Karuna Erickson and am also a certified personal trainer. My passion for movement work took me to Chicago for a training intensive in Suzuki technique with P3East Theatre Company and I have also studied Suzuki and Viewpoints with the New York based SITI Company and with Master Suzuki teacher Kameron Steele. 

I hold an M.F.A in Acting from York University as well as a B.F.A in Music Theatre from the University of Windsor. I have created two diverse solo shows. 
This One, an autobiographical journey through love, loss, and baking,  and Someday, a short comedic piece in which seminar leader Pamela Steel deftly guides participants towards a cutting edge psychological technology called Someday, but then unexpectedly encounters an unplanned, unorthodox, and unexplainable lesson of her own. 

I produced and performed the original twenty-five minute version of This One at the 2013 Hamilton Fringe Festival. I then expanded the show into an hour and produced it in Toronto. I was nominated for a My Theatre Award for Best Solo Performance. This One was then picked up by Port Stanley Festival Theatre for which I expanded it again into it's current and complete two-act version.

THIS ONE Promo Video
I have been seen in film festivals throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe in the award winning film Falling For Caroline in which I play the title character. 

Selected credits include The Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival of Classics), Steel Magnolias (Port Stanley Festival Theatre), South Pacific (Sunshine Festival Theatre) as well as appearing on the CTV series Dan For Mayor. 

I grew up on a farm in South Western Ontario and live in Toronto. ​​
Acting Resume
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