Ellen M. Rooney, PhD, developed Memory Acting based on her doctoral research on the neuroscience of memory at Bowling Green State University. As a seminar leader-acting coach she has taught internationally in South Korea and China and has presented her research at academic conferences in the UK and US. She is an acting instructor at Cleveland State University, School of Film and Media Arts. Her acting credits span film, theater, and television in New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland. Degrees earned: PhD in Theater from Bowling Green State University, Ohio; MFA in Dance and MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU: BA in Dance from Denison University, Granville. Ohio.