Fay Van Alstyne Simpson Is the Founder of the Lucid Body. Informed by her 20-year career in dance and theater, Fay created The Lucid Body, a psycho-physical process of introspection, exertion, and mental challenge which empowers actors and dancers to express their fullest potential. She conducts private classes and workshops at her Manhattan studio, Lucid Body House, and coaches actors on TV, stage and screen. She has a Teacher Training Institute, which has certified close to 20 teachers who teach Lucid Body around the world. The 2nd edition of her book The Lucid Body; A Guide for the Physical Actor (Allworth, 2008) was released in August 2020. Fay is an Associate Arts Professor in the Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. 

As an Intimacy Director and Choreographer, Fay's show credits include Hound Dog by Melis Aker at Ars Nova, NYC, A Song of Songs by Agnes Borinsky at El
Puente, NYC, Marys Seacole by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Shubert Theater, NYC, Gage County, NE filmed by Nanfu Wang, directed by Cecilia Rubino, House of Blue Leaves by John Guerre, NYC, and Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, NYC.

Fay founded The Veterans Project, working with a company of Veterans and actors to devise works that speak to the needs of the returning soldier. Director of this not-for-profit company, co-founded in 1990 as a collective of physical theater artists devising work with a social bite. Her latest physical theater piece, The Saga of Sage is in development. She adapted Raymond Carver’s short story, A Small Good Thing, into a piece called SCOTTY, co-produced with the Harold Clurman Theatre. She directed Speechless, by Frederick Johntz, which is a portrait of a white male teenage gunman. Lucid Body House hosts monthly Performance Salons, giving voice to artists from all mediums of visual and performance art.