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Kelley Schoger is an actor, theatre director, intimacy director, nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT Virginia, 2014), and certified Art of Breathing Instructor (Jessica Wolf, 2023). She has been a member of AmSAT's CATPA Committee since 2016. She was a tenured Associate Professor of Acting/Movement in the graduate and undergraduate theatre programs at The University of Alabama (UA) for ten years, and is now Assistant Professor of Acting at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). This change has allowed her to live in a city with a vibrant arts scene and expand her professional work in the Atlanta area. 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 and UAB, she has directed, intimacy directed and coached numerous productions. 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. In 2025 she was awarded an NEA grant with her collaborative team and in 2022 she was named the 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. 

Kelley Schoger is an actor, theatre director, intimacy director, nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT Virginia, 2014), and certified Art of Breathing Instructor (Jessica Wolf, 2023). She has been a member of AmSAT's CATPA Committee since 2016. She was a tenured Associate Professor of Acting/Movement in the graduate and undergraduate theatre programs at The University of Alabama (UA) for ten years, and is now Assistant Professor of Acting at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). This change has allowed her to live in a city with a vibrant arts scene and expand her professional work in the Atlanta area. 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 and UAB, she has directed, intimacy directed and coached numerous productions. 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. In 2025 she was awarded an NEA grant with her collaborative team and in 2022 she was named the 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.