Billy Siegenfeld

Billy Siegenfeld is a former jazz and rock drummer; a present-day vocal-rhythmic theatre-movement artist; a director of the performance and teaching company, Jump Rhythm®; a faculty member in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University where he is a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence; an essayist and playwright; and an environmental activist.  His most recent play, What Do You Want To Be When You Give Up?, has had successful 2019 premieres in New York City at the Mark O’Donnell Theater and in London at the Bathway Theatre.  (See “Reviews” under “What’s Playing.”)  He is the creator of a unique system of voice-and-movement learning for peoples of all backgrounds and abilities called Jump Rhythm®.  Informing every aspect of this technique is the injury-preventive, mind-body healing concept called Standing Down Straight®, or SDS.  SDS uses gravity-guided release into the earth as the source of postural, motional, and spiritual health; of living a more environmentally respectful life; and of offering an unmannered, less-is-more approach to moving, speaking, singing, and simply being, whether in performance or in everyday life.