Jean-Louis Rodrigue has worked in Los Angeles and New York in theatre, film, television, and digital media.
23 Facts About Jean-Louis Rodrigue
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue has been a faculty member at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the past 34 years.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue was born on May 23,1951 in Casablanca, Morocco and was raised in Milan, Italy.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue then stayed three more years to train at the American Center for the Alexander Technique, San Francisco.
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In post-formal training, Jean-Louis Rodrigue studied with Alexander Technique teachers Marjorie Barstow, Walter Carrington, Patrick McDonald, and Dilys Carrington.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue is a certified teacher of Jessica Wolf's The Art of Breathing.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue provides private instruction, training, coaching, group classes, and workshops in Los Angeles, New York, and other cities.
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From 1998 to 2005, Jean-Louis Rodrigue was part of the faculty of Verbier Festival.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue has taught masterclasses at the Howard Fine Acting Studios in Los Angeles and Australia.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue founded the Alexander Technique program at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he taught for six years.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue has worked with circus artists of Cirque du Soleil's Ka at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue had reportedly been hired in by the FBI to teach stress management and respiratory control for agents infiltrating Middle Eastern terrorist cells.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue collaborated with director Ang Lee and screenwriter David Magee in the development of the tiger movement for the film Life of Pi.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue choreographed the period movement for the film The Affair of the Necklace.
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Since 2009, Jean-Louis Rodrigue has conducted several workshops at the Berlinale Talent Campus program.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue has coached at several Los Angeles locations throughout his career.
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At the Geffen Playhouse, Jean-Louis Rodrigue was the movement coach on Nine Parts of Desire in 2005 and on Long Day's Journey into Night in 2017.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue was awarded a fellowship grant from the Montalvo Arts Center to develop and direct a play adaptation of the novel, The Reader.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue coached Chris Pine in The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Mark Taper Forum.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue has coached with Rita Maffei and Larry Moss in an Italian production of The Syringa Tree at the Teatro Stabile di Innovazione in Udine and at Il Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue is known for helping actors develop characters through animal movement studies.
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Later in his life while studying at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Jean-Louis Rodrigue studied with Mazzone-Clementi who introduced him to the application of animal behavior and movement to character development.
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Jean-Louis Rodrigue was awarded a fellowship grant in 2008 from the Montalvo Arts Center to develop and direct a play adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader.