Jean-Louis Rodrigue(I)

Jean-Louis Rodrigue is an acting and character movement coach. He began his actor training in 1969 with Herbert Berghof at the HB Studio in New York. Subsequently, William Ball awarded Rodrigue a full scholarship to study in the Advanced Training Program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. During his training and performing at ACT, Rodrigue discovered the Alexander Technique. He spent three more years training as an Alexander teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas at the American Center for the Alexander Technique. He also trained with F.M. Alexander's first generation of master teachers, including Patrick Macdonald, Marjorie Barstow, and Walter Carrington. Rodrigue has taught the Alexander Technique for the past forty-two years. His unique approach to movement education and improving performance has gained international recognition. In the music world, he has taught for the Verbier Festival and Academy, a music and theater festival in the Swiss Alps, and the UCLA Department of Music. He founded the Alexander program for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute and taught young musicians and conductors for six years. In theatre, he has collaborated with Larry Moss and Pamela Gien on the vocal and character movement aspects of the Obie Award-winning play "The Syringa Tree." at Playhouse 91 in New York and the national tour. Rodrigue prepared actor Bo Eason in his one-man play "Runt of the Litter" at the MCC Theater in New York, also directed by Moss. He has coached actors working at the Pasadena Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, the Geffen Playhouse, and on Broadway, as well as the artists of the Cirque du Soleil improving their performance and preventing injuries. He teaches regularly for the Larry Moss Studio, the UCLA Department of Theater, and the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. His unique style of movement training and choreography can be seen in many films, including Barbie (2023), with Margot Robbie, Babylon (2022) and I, Tonya (2017), also with Margot Robbie, Vice (2018), with Christian Bale, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), with Ke Huy Quan, Life of Pi (2012), collaborating with Ang Lee, "The Time Machine" (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), with Elizabeth Banks. He has worked with many actors, including Zoey Deutch, Helena Bonham Carter, Juliette Binoche, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Tate Donovan, Julia Sweeney, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Baker, Joely Richardson, Sally Kellerman, and Courtney Thorne-Smith.

Rodrigue is considered a Senior Teacher of the Alexander Technique. He founded the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles. He is a certified Teacher and an active member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT).