DESIGNATED LINKLATER VOICE TEACHERS

AUSTRALIA
Bondi | Brisbane | Paddington | Sydney

CANADA
Toronto

EUROPE also visit visit www.linklater.eu

FINLAND

Helsinki

GERMANY

Barcelona, León, Madrid

UNITED KINGDOM

AUSTRALIA

LUCY CORNELL

AUSTRALIA

SOUTH EAST ASIA

lcornell@bigpond.net.au
www.VoiceCoach.net

M.App.Sc., B.A.B.ed., L.T.C.L.
The Loft
1a Victoria St
Paddington, NSW 2021
Australia
T: (+ 612) 9361 5677
M: (+ 61) 0416 100 885

Lucy Cornell is an Australian based voice coach. Her voice studio, Voice Coach offers training and workshops across Australia and throughout South East Asia. Voice Coach provides coaching in performance, voice and the spoken word with professionals who work on stage, screen and radio and with corporate and business executives.

Lucy has trained in voice extensively in Australia, London and the USA with teachers such as Kristin Linklater, Cicely Berry and Isobel Kirk. She holds a Masters of Applied Science in Voice Research (University of Sydney, Aust.), Bachelor of Arts and Education (University of NSW, Aust.) and a Licentiate Diploma from the Trinity College of London. Lucy is on the Board of Inscription, which develops the voice of Australian playwrights, actors and directors.

For Voice Coach workshops, classes and general voice news, please go
to: www.voicecoach.net.

BONDI

ISOBEL KIRK
isobel@hotkey.net.au

Isobel Kirk BDA NIDA, Master Voice Teacher
Executive Voice
Speaker and Executive Coach in Performance and Communication
4/30 Ashburner Street
Manly 2095
NSW
Australia
Phone: + 612 9977 25 23
Mobile: 0414 567 899
Email: isobel@executivevoice.com.au

Web: www.executivevoice.com.au

One of a handful of Master Linklater teachers, Isobel divides her time between Australia and the USA.
For more than 25 years Isobel has been one of Australia's leading voice experts, and for the past 15, through her business “Executive Voice”, an international voice and performance authority in the theatrical and business worlds.
Credits include A/Professor of Voice and Acting at the University of Pittsburgh; Voice/Acting Teacher for Shakespeare & Co.'s workshops in Massachusetts and Professor of Theatre Studies on the “Semester at Sea” University Ocean Liner taking students around the world.
A graduate of Australia’s premier drama school (NIDA), she has spent a lifetime in the entertainment industry in Australia, London and Europe - as a professional actor in theatre/film/TV/ radio – also as a writer, director, producer/presenter, news reader, announcer.
She has been a performance consultant on many films and TV series; originated and headed NIDA’s post-graduate Voice Studies Course and is a personal performance coach to some of Australia's top decision makers. She is Head of Voice at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art, teaches at The Actor’s Centre; the Actor’s College of Theatre and Television and The National Institute of Dramatic Art.

BRISBANE

ROB PENSALFINI
r.pensalfini@uq.edu.au

Brisbane, Australia
(07) 3892 3850 (from within Australia, from the US dial 011 61 7 3892 3850)

I am an actor, director, musician and linguist as well as being a voice and acting teacher. He received a PhD in theoretical linguistics from MIT in 1997, and has taught linguistics at the Universities of Chicago and Queensland. I am currently a junior text teacher at Shakespeare and Company (Massachusetts), Co-Artistic Director of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (Australia), and a lecturer in linguistics and drama at the University of Queensland.

I offer private coaching in voice and acting (especially Shakespeare/classical), and through the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble I offer classes in speaking classical verse, text analysis (particularly using the First Folio), voice, movement, and acting.

PADDINGTON

SYDNEY

ROWENA BALOS
rowvoice@aol.com
www.rowenabalos.com

June-August based in Sydney, Australia
(Also Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide)
(02) 6680-3161
0403 559 351

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September-May based in US
West Hollywood, California
(310) 659-1691

After more than three years’ study with Kristin -- as an acting student at LAMDA, privately as an actress in New York and then as a participant in Kristin’s initial Teacher-Training program, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation--I became a Teacher of Voice.

I was on the faculty of the Graduate Theatre Program, NYU School of the Arts, for 14 years and was honored to fill Kristin’s shoes, as Head of the Voice Department, when she moved on.

In 1973, at the invitation of the Government’s Arts Council, I was proud to introduce the Linklater Technique to the Australian Theatre community with a series of Master Classes. Since that time I continue to spend at least 3 months a year downunder, conducting workshops in Voice, Standard American accent and Shakespeare.

I have taught in theatre companies and training institutions around the world, including: Andre Gregory’s Theatre of the Living Arts; Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada; all major Australian Companies, including Bell Shakespeare and Sydney Theatre; UCLA; NIDA (Sydney); VCA (Melbourne); Actors Workshop (Brisbane); Howard Fine’s Studio (LA) and Terry Schreiber’s Studio (NYC), to name a few.
Full list: http://www.rowenabalos.com/

My work focuses on freeing the entire being from all unnecessary and inhibiting tension, making it open, sensitive, toned and ready to respond to all the subtleties of thought and feeling. I believe that—rather than the mindless making of sound—all techniques and exercises relate directly to a connected need to communicate. Thus, the Voice/Acting Connection is the center of my work.

I maintain a studio in Los Angeles where I teach individually and in small groups. For more info: http://www.rowenabalos.com/

CANADA

TORONTO

CHRISTOPHER VON BAEYER

cvonbaeyer@torontoplayback.com

20A Lavinia Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA m6s 3h7

office: (416) 537 9595
home: (416) 761 1696
fax: (416) 761 7428

Offerings: individual coaching and classes for actors, business professionals and students in:
-Voice for Actors
-Public Speaking
-Presence and communications skills training for business leaders and managers -Shakespeare for actors
-Non-scripted improvisational theatre

DAVID SMUKLER
dsmukler@yorku.ca

46 Westmount Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6H 3K1
Home 416-654-8899
Office 416-736-2100, ext 33998

DAVID SMUKLER is Director of the Canadian National Voice Intensive held each May in Vancouver and is on the faculty of York University's Department of Theatre where he supervises the Voice Teacher Diploma Program.

After training at Carnegie-Mellon and Columbia University, David was in the first group that Kristin trained. This initial training program was under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. He was fortunately to spend his first four years as a teacher working alongside Kristin at NYU. Subsequently, he has worked with such companies as: Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival, Alberta Theatre Projects, Canadian Stage, The Royal Alex, The National Arts Centre (Canada); the Tyrone Guthrie and the Open Theatre (United States), the Royal Court and the English Opera Group (England); as well as the Apple, Centrum and Globe theatre companies in the Netherlands. He has taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, LAMDA, the Toneelschool (Amsterdam), as well as the National Theatre School, the Native Theatre School, Simon Fraser University, The University of Calgary and other actor training institutions across Canada.

As a voice coach in Canada, England, the Netherlands and the United States, he has worked in the entire range of theatre from Shakespeare to opera, musical theatre, film, television, radio, contemporary and experimental theatre and music. David Smukler has coached on over sixty films and television programs and regularly coaches for various Canadian broadcast companies.

Teaches at York University, Toronto Ontario
Teaches professional classes at Equity Showcase Theatre (416-533-6100)

CHRISTOPHER VON BAEYER
CVonbaeyer@aol.com
www.arielgroup.com

Senior Consultant
The Ariel Group
Direct Line: (416) 537 9595
Fax: (416) 761 7428

CHRISTOPHER von BAEYER, M.A., is an actor, educator and consultant who specializes in the integration of theatre and human development. He has designed and delivered theater-based programming for actors and non-actors in voice, acting, leadership, and professional communication for a wide spectrum of clients across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Over the course of his 20 year career he has coached thousands of men and women in the art of public speaking, emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication, Shakespeare and voice. He has taught at Emerson College, Boston College and the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago, the Columbia University Senior Executive Program in NY, the Ariel Group, Inc and Corporate Scenes. His corporate clients have included Merrill Lynch, Société Générale, Lucent Technologies, Deloitte & Touche, Sandia National Laboratories, the Boston Consulting Group, the Canadian Government and the Hearst Corporation.

A member of Actor's Equity, Christopher has trained, performed and directed with theaters including the Roy Hart Theatre in France, Geese Theatre for Prisons in New Hampshire, Boston Playback Theatre and Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, where he has served on the faculty since 1993. He currently serves as the Artistic Director for the Toronto Playback Theatre Project, which he founded with the mission of providing dynamic audience-interactive issues-based theatre in the Toronto area. As a designated Linklater Voice teacher he ran the Linklater Voice Studio in Boston for five years. He recently created and performed his one man show, an exploration of the mother/son relationship called Mother's Basement, at venues in Boston and New York. He
has also maintained a long term interest in Men's Work, and been a founding member of men's groups in Boston, the Berkshires and Toronto He holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard University and an M.A. in Theatre Arts and Vocal Communication from Lesley University Graduate School. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada with his wife and young son.

SARAH WEATHERWAX

sweatherwax@rogers.com

139 Ashdale Ave.
Toronto, ON
M4L-2Y8
416-466-5710

Prefers contact by phone.

Originally from the U.S., SARAH WEATHERWAX has an honours BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston, Mass. She now works as an actor & voice teacher in Toronto, Ontario. Sarah does private voice/audition coaching with actors, singers and public speakers and she teaches group classes at local studios. Sarah has also helped people with challenges such as mumbling, stuttering, timidity in group settings, confidence in workplace meetings, etc. She has taught voice classes at Humber College and at Workman Arts, a unique company devoted to fine arts training for people struggling with addiction and/or mental illness. She has done voice over work and background voice work on numerous shows and movies, including HEARTLAND, TRADERS and BLUE MURDER. The last play she produced, MUD by Maria Irene Fornes, received four out of five Ns from NOW Magazine, the city’s primary arts paper. On-set voice coaching and working with high school students on understanding Shakespeare’s text from within make up the rest of her diverse career. One of Canada’s few Designated Linklater teachers, she was the recipient of a generous grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to complete her training with Kristin Linklater. Sarah is also a creative writer.
Available for: Private voice lessons/audition coachings for actors/singers/public speakers/people with communication challenges; group classes for actors, singers, public speakers, teachers, etc.; on set voice coaching for television and theatre; organizing groups of actors for background voice work; leading company warm ups.
Member: Canadian Actors’ Equity Assoc. (CAEA) and the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television & Radio Artists (ACTRA)

FINLAND

HELSINKI

TUULI-MARIIA NILSSON
FM/M.A., Teacher of Speech Communication
University of Helsinki, Finland
GSM +358 40 8237459
e-mail: tuuli-mariia.nilsson@helsinki.fi

Tuuli Nilsson is a Speech Communication Teacher and Designated Linklater
teacher in Finland. At the moment she is teaching speech communication
and voice at the Helsinki University. Tuuli graduated with an MA in
Speech communication from Jyväskylä's University, Finland, where she also
studied educational drama. She has also studied drama and speech
communication at Western Washington University, WA. She has practiced
Linklater voice work both in New York and Germany, and finished her
Linklater Designation in the summer of 2007. She is available for voice
coaching in Finland and, occasionally, in New York City.

GERMANY

BERLIN

THOMAS BUTS
tbuts@gmx.net

Choriner Strasse 43
10435 Berlin
Germany
+49304406611

born in 1959, Designated Linklater Teacher in 2003, actor, director and performance-artist,

lives in Berlin and Cologne

teaches voice and acting at acting schools (Bochum, Hannover) and coaches tv-productions, gives private lessons and offers workshops on voice/acting.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL

Haerry Kim
New York
1-917-535-2223

Seoul, South Korea
82-10-9466-3556

haerrykim@hotmail.com
haerryat@yahoo.com

Haerry Kim is a New York and Seoul(South Korea) based actor and Linklater teacher.
She is the only designated Linklater teacher in Korea. She holds M.F.A in Acting from Columbia University where she studied with Kristin Linklater. As an actor, she performed in NY and various cities in the US as well as countries include Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, and Norway. Some of the most recent acting credits include, world première of "All is Not" by Melisa James Gibson, "Songs of Dragons Flying to Heaven" by Young Jean Lee, and Alma in "Summer and Smoke" at the Seoul Arts Center. She taught voice at PACE University(NY), and teaches acting and voice at Hanyang University(Seoul), Kookmin University(Seoul), and Kyunghee University(Seoul).
AEA, SAG member.

SPAIN

BARCELONA

LLUÏSA SALA

Phone: 636714342

lluisala@yahoo.es

Lluïsa Sala is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher from the 2007 training program. She graudated from the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona) in 1982 and has a Master in Arts Escèniques from the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. Lluïsa works as an actress, as a voice teacher for actors and actor-puppeteers, and as a coach for professional productions and workshops. She performs and teaches in both Catalan and Spanish.

LEON

NURIA CASTANO GUTIERREZ
Av. Lancia, 21, 1º D
24004 León España
Spain

Tel:
In Spain (+34) 630 356727
In Italy (+39) 338 3165613
In US (+1) 917 293 8853
nuriacasgut@hotmail.com

Nuria has a music diploma in Piano from the Conservatory of Lugo (Spain). She also holds a degree in Dramatic Art from the Drama School of León (Spain) and in Law from the University of Vigo (Spain). Nuria has held several European Art fellowships granted from the Sócrates and Leonardo Da Vinci Programs and the Spanish Royal Academy of Arts in Rome. She spent one year in New York focusing on her own artistic development thanks to a fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Nuria has been working as an actress and singer and has been teaching music and voice since 1994 in Spain and Italy.

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Nuria ha concluido diversos programas oficiales de formación con las mejores calificaciones: es Diplomada en Piano en el Conservatorio de Música de Lugo (España), Licenciada en Derecho por la Universidad de Vigo (España) y se diplomó en la Escuela de Arte Dramático de León (España).

A lo largo de su carrera artística ha disfrutado de varias becas de la Unión Europea, como el Proyecto Sócrates y la Beca Leonardo da Vinci. El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional financiaron el desarrollo de su proyecto de investigación “El cuerpo de la voz” en la Real Academia de Arte de Roma. Recientemente ha contado con la colaboración del Ministerio de Cultura de España para continuar su formación en la ciudad de Nueva York (USA).

Tanto en el marco de dichos proyectos como por su propia cuenta, su dedicación al trabajo profesional de la voz la ha llevado a estudiar con profesionales de reconocido prestigio en diversos centros especializados en España, Italia, Alemania, Canadá y Estados Unidos. Ha publicado además diversos artículos sobre la voz. Su trabajo como actriz de doblaje acaba de ganar el prestigioso premio “Prize of excellence for Lifelong Learning” de la Comisión Europea.

Desde 1994 desarrolla habitualmente su labor como cantante, actriz, actriz de doblaje y entrenadora vocal en numerosas compañías y centros de investigación y enseñanza en España e Italia. Ofrece (en inglés, español o italiano) clases grupales y sesiones individuales en España, Italia y, ocasionalmente, Nueva York.

MADRID

LETICIA FERNANDEZ-RUA ( artistic name :Leticia Santafé)
leticia.rua@terra.es

Crta de pozuelo 9 piso 3 A
28220 Majadahonda
Madrid Spain
phone: (34) 91 638 06 05
mobile: (34) 630 31 97 98

Training Background:1997 graduated from the National Drama School in
madrid (RESAD: Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid)
1998/00 Fulbright Scholarship/New York
2003 designated Linklater teacher
Offer private/group sessions in Spanish or English

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON

JOANNA WEIR OUSTON
jo@joannaweir.com
joanna@vocalprofile.co.uk

www.joannaweir.com

www.vocalprofile.co.uk

phone: + (44) (0)7770 606 356

Joanna Weir Ouston is a voice, text and dialect coach of international repute. She is Head of Voice at the Oxford School of Drama, a guest lecturer on the MA in Voice Studies programme at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and teaches on the Florida State University London programme.

Joanna also works as a voice coach for theatre and film/television, and does one-to-one coaching with actors and business people. Through her management training company, Vocal Profile, she runs courses and does individual coaching for many blue chip companies and and non-profit organisations, including the BBC.

A Designated Linklater teacher since 1991, Joanna has taught voice and text for over twenty years in the UK, Australia and the USA. She also works as a director, actress and writer, and is regularly invited to lead workshops and speak at conferences in the UK and internationally.

She is based in London and Buckinghamshire.

UNITED STATES

CALIFORNIA

ROWENA BALOS
rowvoice@aol.com
www.rowenabalos.com

September-May based in US
West Hollywood, California
(310) 659-1691

June-August based in Sydney, Australia
( Also Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide)
(02) 6680-3161
0403 559 351

I was on the faculty of the Graduate Theatre Program, NYU School of the Arts, for 14 years and was honored to fill Kristin’s shoes, as Head of the Voice Department, when she moved on.

FRAN BENNETT
f.bennett@sbcglobal.net

Los Angeles, CA
(661) 291-3009

After completing an M.S. degree and work toward a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, I was trained by Kristin Linklater in her initial Voice Teacher Training Program under a Rockefeller Foundation Grant. I also received a Ford Foundation Grant and another Rockefeller Foundation Grant to study movement with the late Litz Pisk at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England. Upon completion of Linklater training, I was hired by the late Peter Zeisler as Voice and Movement Coach (later Director) for the Guthrie Theatre (then called the Minnesota Theatre Co.) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I held that position, as well as actress with the company, for twelve years.

Leaving the Guthrie for California Institute of the Arts, I was Head of Acting/Director of Performance for seven years. I continue on the faculty teaching Voice Production and coaching shows.

I teach private sessions to countless professional actors and others at all levels in my studio in Los Angeles. I have taught voice production classes and workshops in many places including: LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts); Fisk University; University of Minnesota and the Showboat Theatre; Academy of Dramatic Arts at Oakland University in Michigan; University of Wisconsin at Madison; The Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis; Carnegie Mellon; the University of California at San Diego; and The Working Theatre in New York with Kristin Linklater. I also have been a Master Teacher with Shakespeare and Co.; a member of Company of Women; and currently a founding member of Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Co.

I am a working actor in TV, film and theatre.

LINDA BISESTI
lfbisesti@csupomona.edu
franreidy@msn.com
www.csupomona.edu/~lfbisesti

Head of Voice,Head of Acting
Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Theatre Department, BDLG. 25,
3801 West Temle Avenue
Pomona, CA. 91768
office phone: 909-869-3954

At Cal Poly, I teach Voice 1, Advanced Voice, Dialects, Acting and Direct at least one mainstage production per year.(California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.)It is an undergraduate B.A. in Theatre Arts. Have taught previously: at California State University Long Beach in the MFA and BA program.
University of Massachusetts, Boston/ B.A. program
Regis College/B.A./program

Master of Fine Arts: from Boston University, College of the Arts Professional Actor: Currently a working actor working in TV, Film,and regional
Theatre. Sundance Film Festival
Trained with Shakespeare and Company
Worked with other Linklater Master Teachers: Fran Bennet,Cal Arts/ Natusko
Ohama,privates/ Brent Blair, USC

Professional Organizations: VASTA,AEA,SAG,AFTRA
Theatre: Board of Directors: Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company.
Go to LAWSC.net for their website.

I offer private coaching as well in Los Angeles. I have coached dialects for TV,Film and for theatre, including dialect coaching for Broadway(NYC)shows.
Dialects: Boston,American Southern,Texan,Standard
British,Cockney,French,Irish, Italian

ADELE CABOT

Website: www.lavoicejoy.com
Email: acabot@lavoicejoy.com

Los Angeles, CA

818-800-0301

Performance Faculty, Department of Theatre, Film, & TV: UCLA

Currently on the performance faculty at the School of Theatre, Film, and Television at UCLA, Adele has been teaching Voice for Actors for over 10 years (designated 1998) and teaching acting for over 25 years. Adele has an extensive private, individual coaching practice in Los Angeles. Her primary clientele is television, film and theatre actors who she coaches in voice, acting, all forms of audition preparation, dialects, accent reduction. Adele also works with business and corporate professionals to improve interview skills, speak more clearly and effectively about who they are, their work, and to communicate their vision with more confidence, clarity, spontaneity, and vocal energy. Adele works with therapists and other healers or people interested in a journey of personal exploration through voice.

She teaches classes, works individually, conducts one day group workshops and seminars. She is available for on set work for voice, dialogue, or dialects coach. She co-teaches a class with Michael D. Frederick, master teacher of The Alexander Technique, combining The Alexander Technique with Linklater Voice and Acting.
Adele specializes in helping actors to become aware of and to release ongoing habits and blocks preventing them from acting and speaking from a deep place of reality and clarity. She is known for her creative yet practical approach integrating voice and acting choices.

Adele has taught all over the world including Shanghai Theatre School in China, Seoul Institute for the Arts, in South Korea, and Shakespeare’s Globe in London. She performed on the famous stage at Shakespeare’s Globe and later returned as the Master Teacher and Program Director for Shakespeare Through Performance. She was the Voice and Speech Consultant at Arena Stage in Washington DC for four years and has taught at the Shakespeare & Company Month Long Intensive Workshop. Adele holds an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Areas of specialization: Voice, Acting, Audition Preparation, Shakespeare Text, Dialects & Speech, Accent reduction

Some students work with Adele as their private coach for years. Other actors work with Adele for coaching while shooting their television series, for audition preparation (professional and graduate school), or to work on specific vocal issues or dialects. Adele is a director, actor (AEA/SAG/AFTRA), and writer. She is the past co-founder and past co-Artistic Director of two theatre companies. She works out of her newly renovated studio on Los Angeles’ west side. She is the founder of LaVoicejoy, the Acting, Voice, and Speech Connection. See website for more info.

URSULA MEYER
umeyer@ucsd.edu

2064 Winsome Way
Encinitas, CA. 92024
( 760 ) 632-8441
Cell ( 760) 613-6150

Ursula Meyer has been teaching voice, coaching productions, and acting since 1982. She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London in 1990-91 in their Voice Studies program and became a designated Linklater Teacher in 1993. She is currently teaching Voice and Text at the University of California, San Diego in their professional actor training program and working in the summers at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a Voice and Text Director for their company. Ursula has also taught at the Yale School of Drama ( four years), at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the University of Washington. Other coaching credits include the Guthrie Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, the Old Globe, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz where she was an actress and Voice Coach for eight seasons and is a former Associate Artist. Her recent
credits include working with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz on his new play "Lorca in a Green Dress" and on August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson". She is married to actor James Newcomb and has a three-year-old miracle named Daniel who makes every minute worthwhile.

NATSUKO OHAMA
breathnatsuko@aol.com

Los Angeles 818-754-2400
NewYork 212-460-8959

Trained by Kristin Linklater at the Working Theatre, and Shakespeare & Co. (founding member), teaching credits include Cal Arts, Sundance, New Actor's Workshop, Stratford Festival, Director of Training National Arts Center Canada (contact breathnatsuko@aol.com for complete list), and has coached countless individuals at all levels of experience.

Freeing the Natural Voice and the work of Kristin Linklater is the bedrock of my teaching. In private, group classes, and workshops, people have the opportunity to experience the connection of their intellect, emotions, body, and the vibration of their human voice through excercises and exploration. In my work with actors, I have found a profound source to be, and have therefore called my work, BREATH.

HEIDI YUDIS
yudisacres@hotmail.com

5365 Dockweiler Place
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Phone # 323-937-2655(home)
323-251-5533(cell)
323-937-2655(fax)

Heidi is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher and actress living in Los Angeles, and is presently teaching at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Hollywood. Originally from Philadelphia and New York City, Heidi has taught at New York University, New Actors Workshop, The Gene Frankel Theatre, Circle In The Square, The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, Living Voices Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company and KidsOnstage. She is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania and Circle In The Square Theatre School.

Designated Linklater Voice Teacher- designated in 1998.

CONNECTICUT

ROBERT H. DAVIS
rdavis@hartford.edu

Professor of Voice and Acting
The Hartt School -- Theatre Division
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
office: 860-768-5696

Voice and Speech Training
Specialist in Shakespeare performance. Dialect Training. Workshops offered for secondary schools and universities. Private coaching For information on undergraduate training programs in acting and music theatre at The Hartt School see the web site at www.Hartford.edu/Hartt

WALTON WILSON
walton.wilson@yale.edu

Work:
Yale School of Drama
POB 208244
New Haven, CT 06520
(203) 432-8811

Home:
POB 34
Lenox Dale, MA 01242

Walton Wilson serves as Head of Voice and Speech and Associate Chair of Acting at Yale School of Drama. He was trained and designated as a voice teacher by Master Teacher Kristin Linklater and was certified as an associate teacher by Catherine Fitzmaurice. He has also studied voice with Richard Armstrong, Meredith Monk, Patsy Rodenburg, and various members of Roy Hart Theatre. He has served as vocal coach for productions on and off-Broadway including the world premieres of Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project, Eric Bogosian's Humpty Dumpty, David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, David Rabe's The Black Monk, and Len Jenkins' adaptation of The Birds. His regional credits include voice and text work on productions at Actors' Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre. He has taught in professional actor training programs both nationally and abroad and has led workshops for community activists and prison inmates. As an actor, he has appeared in productions off-Broadway and in regional theatres and Shakespeare festivals across the country.

WASHINGTON, DC

FLORIDA

BRIDGET CONNORS
bconnors@fau.edu

Florida Atlantic University
Department of Theatre-AH114 777
Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561)297-3810

Bridget Connors is an Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University. Previously, she taught at Miami University in Ohio, Chapman University in Southern California, and has taught voice and text workshops at various professional theatres. She received her BFA in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan, her MFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts, and her Designation as a Linklater Voice teacher in 2003. She teaches voice, speech, and acting, and serves as a vocal coach and director in the production program. Acting credits include South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Portland,Indiana Repertory,Arizona Theatre Company, New Mexico Repertory,PCPATheatrefest, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival and A Noise Within. In South Florida she has performed at New Theatre (Company Artist,Text Coach), Gable Stage, Florida Stage, Mosaic Theatre, and Broward Stage Door. She is a member of AEA and SAG, and teaches private voice lessons.

DEBRA HALE
dhale@fsu.edu

Florida State University
239 Fine Arts Bldg,
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1160
850-644-0312

Designated Linklater Voice Teacher
Special interests: Acting, Directing, Shakespeare, Dialects, Coaching in Regional Theatre, Certification in Synergestic Acupressure, Current research: Chi Nei Tsang (ancient healing technique using sound)Oriental bodywork

GUY WILLIAM MOLNAR
501 Blairstone Rd Apt 1524
Tallahassee FL 32301
850-459-6451
gwmolnar@gmail.com

Guy William Molnar has taught voice and acting at Interlochen, North Carolina School of the Arts, the Webster Conservatory of Theatre in Saint Louis, and the Florida State University School of Theatre where he is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance. He has acted and/or directed with The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Michigan Ensemble Theatre, the Arizona Theatre Company, Riverside Shakespeare, and others. He is a singer and pianist as well as an actor and director, holding a Master of Music degree as well as an MFA in acting.

ILLINOIS

CHRISTINE ADAIRE
adairetalk@earthlink.net

Chicago, Illinois
726-3691

Master Teacher Designated Linklater Voice Teacher since 1987
Train Linklater Teachers
Areas of Expertise: Voice /Shakespeare /Text /Dialects

Teaching
Currently tenured faculty at The Theatre Conservatory at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University

Previously on the faculties of: The National Theatre School of Canada (Montreal), DePaul University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Ithaca College

Workshops Taught
Shanghai Theatre Academy (Shanghai, China)
Institut del Teatre and Escuela Eolia (Barcelona, Spain)

Master Teacher at Winter Intensive at Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA)
Yale University, Notre Dame University, Smith College, Harrt School (Hartford, CN)

Professional Voice/Dialect Coaching (over 100 Professional Productions)

“Mary Poppins” National Tour (January 2009)
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (17 productions)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Goodman Theatre (Chicago)

Milwaukee Repertory The Court Theatre (Chicago)

Theatre for a New Audience (NYC)
Shakespeare Santa Cruz (10 productions)

Shakespeare and Company

Past Clients and Students:
Deanna Dunagan (2008 Tony Winner, Best Actress)

Marlo Thomas, Matthew Modine, Rebecca Mornay, Keeanu Reeves, Ricki Lake, Judy Greer, Paula Cale, Jeff Donovan, Veronica Hammel, Kate Wilson, Chuk Iwuji, Silas Weir Mitchell, Stephen Ouimette

Training

Apprenticed directly with Kristin Linklater for 5 years
Workshops with Patsy Rodenburg, Cicely Berry, David Carey, Jane Boston, Richard Armstrong

M.F.A. - Acting, University of Washington (Seattle)
B.A. Cornell University

CLAUDIA ANDERSON
claudia_anderson@comcast.net (home)
cander11@depaul.edu (work)

The Theatre School
DePaul University
2135 N Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL 50514
phone: (773) 736-6123 (home)
(773) 325-4661 (work)

Currently Claudia is an associate professor at the Theatre School, DePaul University, where she teaches voice and speech, directs and coaches productions. She taught vocal music in the 1970s, after graduating with a music education degree from Miami University. After earning an M.A. at Bowling Green State University and an M.F.A. in acting from the University of South Carolina, she taught voice and speech in professional actor training programs, including Northern Illinois University, CalArts and S.M.U. She became a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher in 1991. Claudia is a founding member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and served on its Board of Directors. Her dialect coaching credits include the Court Theatre productions of MY FAIR LADY and THE DEAD, ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE at Next Theatre and HALCYON DAYS and THE LION IN WINTER at TimeLine Theatre, RACE at Lookingglass Theatre, and SOCIAL SECURITY at the Raven in Chicago. In Los Angeles she worked with A Noise Within, Rubicon Theatre and Mark Taper Forum. Her performance credits include cabaret performances at Balliwick and Royal George in Chicago, Gardenia and Cinegrill in Los Angeles and Don't Tell Mama in NYC.

special skills: dialects, singing, phonetics pillows, speech, classical text including Shakespeare
private lessons and classes offered occasionally

REBECCA COVEY
1900 W. Ainslie #2
Chicago, IL 60640
773-744-1644
chezcovey@aol.com

Rebecca Covey is a designated Linklater Teacher and actress in Chicago. She currently teaches Voice and Speech at DePaul University and at Columbia College. Rebecca graduated with BFA in Acting from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in Acting from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. As an actress, Rebecca has performed in California, throughout the Midwest, in Scotland, Australia and France. She is a member of Actors Equity Association and VASTA and bilingual in French and English. She is particularly interested in Shakespeare, Dialects, and International Theatre. She is available for private coaching as well as dialect coaching for film and theatre.

TRUDIE KESSLER
tkessler@depaul.edu

The Theatre School/DePaul University
2135 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, Il. 60640
(773)-325-4989

.I am a designated Linklater teacher from the 1991 training. I am an Associate Professor at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.I received my BA in theatre in 1973 at SUNY Binghamton where I studied with Arthur Lessac and Sue Ann Park.My MFA was from the University of California, Irvine in Acting and Directing in 1975. I became a Linklater convert in 1989 after attending Shakespeare and Company and being invited by Kristin to join the teacher training program. I have never looked back.If you need additional bio info. please let me know.

INDIANA

DIANE TIMMERMAN
dtimmerm@butler.edu

Associate Professor of Theatre
Designated Linklater Teacher
Butler University
4600 Sunset Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46208
317-940-9875

Diane is a freelance actor and director whose credits include: Indiana Repertory Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Human Race Theatre Co. (Ohio) and Chicago's Court Theatre. Diane teaches acting and voice at Butler University where she has directed five of her 90-minute Shakespeare adaptations. Diane's affiliations are: Equity, SAG, AFTRA, VASTA.

IOWA

GWENDOLYN SCHWINKE
Theatre Department
262 Communication Arts Center
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0371

(319) 427-1860 (mobile)
(319) 273-5949 (work)

GSchwinke@gmail.com

Gwendolyn has taught voice for actors at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Shakespeare & Company, CAP-21 (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU), School for Film & Television (NYC) and Illinois Wesleyan University. She has taught movement for the School for Film & Television, St. Olaf College and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and acting at Macalester College and Illinois Wesleyan University. She holds an MFA in Acting from Illinois State University and has worked as an actor with theatres in NYC and the Midwest. Her voice and movement coaching experience includes professional and university theatre. Gwendolyn has been a Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Movement Teacher since 1997, and has taught the Feldenkrais Method in professional theatres, universities, health clubs, senior centers and continuing education programs in the U.S. and the Czech Republic. She currently serves as Vice President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America.

Private Instruction offered in Voice work and Feldenkrais Functional Integration®
Feldenkrais® classes and workshops for groups
Voice and movement coaching for productions

KENTUCKY

TIMOTHY DOUGLAS
tdouglas@actorstheatre.org
TDuggz@aol.com

Associate Artistic Director
Actors Theatre of Louisville
316 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 584-1265
tdouglas@actorstheatre.org

291 Cumberland Street
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 781-4728
TDuggz@aol.com

TIMOTHY DOUGLAS, designated in 1993, now serves as the Associate Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville where he has directed numerous productions including ART, THE PIANO LESSON, CRIMES OF THE HEART and three world premieres for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. As a voice instructor he has served on the faculties of University of Southern California, American Conservatory Theatre, National Theatre Conservatory, The Theatre School at DePaul University, Shakespeare & Company and New Zealand Drama School, and has conducted numerous workshops including intensives for clergy, as well as those seeking recovery through 12 step programs. Other directing credits include IN THE BLOOD (Guthrie), ASSASSINS (Berkshire Theatre Festival), THE CRUCIBLE, JITNEY, A LESSON BEFORE DYING (Syracuse Stage), BOCON (Mark Taper Forum), MULES (Downstage, New Zealand) and numerous others. He divides his time between NYC and Louisville, KY, and although primarily a director, Timothy continues to conduct actor workshops focused on the immediate practical applications of this voice work in the rehearsal process.

MARYLAND

NATALIE MCMANUS
natvoice@aol.com

9212 Bentridge Ave.
Potomac, MD 20854
USA
301-610-9313

I am a Designated Linklater Teacher (2003) and a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist. I also coach a Forensics (Speech) Team and teach acting skills to young children. I work with private clients in my home and am available for workshops and adjunct voice positions at area colleges and universities (MD-DC-VA). My company, Puck's Pals, LLC, teaches Shakespeare workshops in middle schools.

LEIGH SMILEY
lsmiley@umd.edu
leighsmiley@att.net

Visiting Assistant Professor, Voice and Acting
University of Maryland
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2821
College Park, MD 20742-1610
H - 301-565-4301
W- 301-405-6683
fax - 301-314-9599

Education/Training: Designated Linklater Voice Teacher 1998; Bachelor Arts Marlboro College (Vermont) 1982; studied voice with Kristin Linklater, Richard Armstrong, Rene Toussaint, Cecily
Berry; acting with Bill Hickey, Michael Howard, Tina Packer, Carla Belver

Areas of Specialization: Voice, Acting, Shakespeare

Professional Affiliations: Member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA, VASTA .

Representative Productions: Director, Stop Kiss, University of the Arts 2003; Actor in Beloved, Philadelphia, Twelve Monkeys, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart; Lady MacDuff, Macbeth, Adriana/Juliet/Pucelle, Shakespeare’s Other Women; Lucretia, The Cenci; Emilia, Two Noble Kinsmen, Geraldine, What the Butler Saw; Marianne, The Miser.

Ms. Smiley has taught voice for the actor and acting in University, Conservatory, and professional environments, including Fordham University - Lincoln Center, University of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Emerson College, Walnut Street Theatre, Peoples Light and Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Arden Theatre Company, New Theatre Conservatory, and Linklater Studio. She has served as a voice/dialect/text coach for many professional and educational theatres, including Arena Stage, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, Olney Theatre Center, Open Eye Theatre, Red Heel Theatre, The Catholic University of America, and Eastern College. Leigh is also professional actor and a member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA, and VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association).

MASSACHUSSETTS

ARIEL BOCK
arielbock@aol.com

PO Box 1825
Lenox, MA 01240
(413) 637-0777

Ariel Bock has been and actor, director and voice teacher at Shakespeare & Company for more than 20 years, and an Artistic Associate there since 1995. She has also been on the faculty as an acting or voice teacher at Dartmouth College, Smith Colllege and MIT and has led many workshops both for professional and pre-professional actors and for those interested in Theater-in-Education.
She makes her home in Lenox, Massachusetts with her sons Nate and Tiger Coleman, Benjamin Epstein, and her husband Jonny Epstein. She is available as a production vocal coach and for individual coaching.

AMELIA BROOME
amelia_broome@emerson.edu

Amelia Broome lives in the Boston area and works full time at Emerson college. She teaches voice, speech, dialects, and musical theatre performance. She is a certified Linklater voice teacher and has an MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University.

DAVE DEMKE
Shakespeare & Company
70 Kemble St
Lenox, MA 01240
413-637-1199 x124
demke@shakespeare.org

Dave Demke has taught voice, acting, and movement for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA as well as at Boston University, Emerson College, and Brandeis University. In addition he has taught at various companies and institutions including Tecumseh, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, and Corning Community College. He is currently the Associate Director of Training for Shakespeare & Company. He has also acted and/or directed with Shakespeare & Company, Purdue University, the 8th St. Theatre Project in New York City, New Rose Theatre and Tygres Heart Shakespeare Theatre in Portland, OR, among others. From 1992 to 2000 he was the Artistic Director of Stark Raving Theatre in Portland, OR.

ANTONIO OCAMPO-GUZMAN
ocampito68@gmail.com

111 Perkins St. #164

Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 676-8408

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman originally trained as an actor with the Teatro Libre in his native Bogotá, Colombia, and after further studies in voice and physical theater in England, he spent three years with the renowned Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Antonio trained as a voice teacher with Kristin Linklater (author of Freeing the Natural Voice and co-founder of The Company of Women), and received his designation in 1998. Since 2003, Antonio has been adapting this popular practice into Spanish and has offered both bilingual and Spanish-only training here in the US, as well as Colombia, Panamá, Mexico and Spain.
Antonio trained as a director at York University in Toronto, Ontario, under the guidance of David Rotenberg, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing in 2003. He concurrently furthered his training in voice under David Smukler, receiving a Graduate Diploma in Voice along with his MFA. He has directed plays by such diverse authors as Shakespeare, Carlos Manuel, Michel Tremblay, Horton Foote, T. Berto, Ariel Dorfman, Victoria Goring, Sarah Kane, Jean-Claude von Itallie, John Herbert, Euripides, Leo Cabranes-Grant, William Luce and Alan Ayckbourn for Teatro Libre, Arizona State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee Little Theatre, York University, Emerson College, The Theatre Offensive, Stages Theatre Company, The Pato Farsante Company, and The British Council.
Antonio joins the faculty at Northeastern University in 2007 as Assistant Professor of Theatre. He has also been on the faculty at Arizona State University, Florida State University, Emerson College and Boston College. He has taught workshops and master classes at Shakespeare & Company, The Linklater Studio, The Andrea Southwick Studio, The New Theatre Conservatory, Exiles Theater (Cork, Ireland), the Canadian National Voice Intensive (Vancouver, BC), FSU/Asolo Theatre Conservatory, the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, the Concord Players, Working Classroom and the Hampshire Shakespeare Company. Internationally, he has worked in Ireland, Greece, Sweden, Mexico, Spain, Panamá and Colombia.

CHRISTINE HAMEL
Boston, MA
617.230.5287 (mobile)
617.353.4498 (office)
christinehamel@comcast.net, chamel@bu.edu

Professional Actor and Voice/Dialect Coach: Member of Actors’ Equity, VASTA.

Specialties:
Voice/Speech, Phonetics, Dialects, Singing, Shakespeare/Text

Teaching:
Currently serving as Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech, Boston University School of Theatre; also teaching in professional training program at Huntington Theatre Company. Also taught at Emerson College, Walnut Hill School, Longy School of Music, StageSource. Classes Taught: Voice & Text, Speech, Sound & Movement, Shakespeare, Singing for Actors, Acting for Singers, Dialects, Voice in Scene Study.

Education:
MFA in Theatre Ed, concentration in Voice & Speech, Boston University
Graduate Diploma in Voice, Boston Conservatory
BA in English/Art, Williams College
Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, 2007

Additional Training:
Roy Hart Voice (Richard Armstrong), Ecstatic Voice/Lamentation (Marya Lowry), Primitive Voice (Paula Langton), Classical Singing (Penny Bitzas), Improvisation (Keith Johnstone), Phonetics/Dialects (Louis Colaianni), Shakespeare & Company

DENNIS KRAUSNICK
dennis@shakespeare.org
www.shakespeare.org

Director of Training
Shakespeare & Company
70 Kemble Street
Lenox, MA 01240
413-637-1199

Areas of Expertise:
Designated Linklater teacher
Shakespeare Acting
First Folio/Quarto work
Structure of the Verse
Available for University residencies (short term)
Available for Shakespeare/Voice component of MFA Acting programs
Private Classes: possible

PAULA LANGTON
BeYouVoice@aol.com

Newton, Massachusetts
(617) 332-1122

Master Teacher
Designated Linklater Voice Teacher since 1991
Voice/Acting/Shakespeare/Improvisation

Acting: Company of Women - Artistic Directors Kristin Linklater & Carol
Gilligan
Shakespeare & Co., The Kennedy Center, Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare
Company, NY Theatre Workshop, Hasty Pudding, Charles Playhouse, Boston Theatre
Works, Nora Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Coyote Theatre, Blackburn Theatre,
Gloucester Stage Company, Counterpoint Theatre

Teaching: Head of Acting - School of Theatre Arts at Boston University - College of
Fine Arts
Mentor for BU Graduate Students in the MFA Theatre Education Program - Voice
Worked directly with Kristin Linklater for five years at Emerson
College assisting in the development of the BFA Acting curriculum and teaching
acting and voice as a Guest Artist. Trinity Rep Conservatory, University of
Massachusetts, Wheaton College, Shakespeare & Company.

Training: Apprenticed directly with Kristin Linklater for 3 years. Studied
improvisation extensively with Keith Johnstone, Roy Hart - Richard Armstrong,
Carol Mendelsohn, Primitive Voice - Jean-Rene Toussaint & Anne-Marie Blink
Intensive Actor & Teacher training with Shakespeare & Co.

Education: BA - Theatre Arts - University of Massachusetts
MFA - Theatre Education - Boston University

CRAIG MATHERS
Boston, MA
(617) 506-1511 (home)
(646) 221-8686 (cell)
craig_mathers@emerson.edu

craigorsamsa@aol.com

Teaching:
Craig is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College where he teaches Voice, Text, Ensemble and Scene Study. Craig has taught voice and speech at NYU’s Cap 21 and Scene Study (Meisner/Stanislavsky) and audition technique at AADA.

Education:
MFA Yale Drama School
Diploma, Neighborhood Playhouse
BA in Philosophy, Bates College
Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, 2007

Additional Training:
Shakespeare & Company month-long intensive, text workshops and teacher training
Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA) teacher training and international workshops

CORINNA MAY
goamaying@aol.com

c/o shakespeare & company
70 kemble street
lenox,MA 01240
917-202-5391

member of shakespeare & co. since 1990 (performer, teacher, director). graduate of Barnard College and Circle-in-the-Square.
teaching: Shakespeare & Company, MIT, Circle in the Square, Simon's Rock College, SUNY (New Paltz and Albany).
Private work with individuals; workshops; text work, especially shakespeare. currently on national tour of THE GRADUATE; available to teach in many cities across america. email for info.

PATRICIA RIGGIN
patricia.riggin@bc.edu
riggin@comcast.net

Department of Theatre
Robsham Theatre
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
W: 617-552-4592
H: 617-243-9859

Designated Linklater Teacher. Acting Teacher (William Esper Trained/Meisner Technique). Director

Patricia Riggin works in the theatre as a director, teacher and actor. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Cornell and MFA from Brandeis, she continued her training in New York City. Here she studied voice with Natsuko Ohama, Andrea Haring, and Kristin Linklater whom she was also blessed to follow while she taught at Emerson College. Patricia was designated as a Linklater teacher in 1991.

Patricia teaches voice and acting at Boston College and coaches actors in both areas. Other teaching credits include Circle in the Square, Hunter College, University of Maine, and Emerson College. She has also trained extensively in the Meisner technique with William Esper at his New York studio.

Patricia has directed over thirty productions in professional and academic settings. She is currently the Playwriting Chair for the New England region of KCACTF, working to encourage and promote student playwrights. She is also a member of Actors’ Equity, SAG, and VASTA.

RUTH ROOTBERG
RRootberg@comcast.net
http://movingvoices.us

Amherst, MA
413-687-7566 (cell)

Specific teaching: voice & Alexander Technique (AmSAT certified), plus Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis
special skills: e.g. singing, speech, dialects, Shakespeare: classical singer
Offers private lessons and classes

MISSOURI

LOUIS COLAIANNI
colaiannil@umkc.edu

5511 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
(816) 419-6915

Louis Colaianni is internationally recognized for his work in Voice, Speech and Phonetics. His unique approach to phonetics and stage accents is used by dozens of theatre schools. For fifteen years he has taught Voice and Speech in the nationally ranked Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Colaianni has also served on the faculties of Trinity Repertory Theatre/Conservatory, (Ann Bogart, Artistic Director); Hunter College; The New Actors Workshop; American Conservatory Theatre; University of California; Ohio University; Dartmouth College; University of Pittsburgh and University of South Carolina. For fifteen seasons, Colaianni has been Voice, Speech and Text Coach at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, formerly, the Missouri Repertory Theatre. He was also Voice/Speech/Text Coach at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Festival of St Louis and the Milwaukee Reprtory Theatre. Born in Paterson New Jersey in 1959, Colaianni trained as an actor at The Boston Conservatory. He studied voice with Kristin Linklater and became a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher in 1987. He is the author of The Joy of Phonetics and Accents (Drama Publishers, 1994), Shakespeare's Names: A New Pronouncing Dictionary (Drama Publishers,
1999) How to Speak Shakespeare, with Cal Pritner, (Santa Monica Press, 2001), and Bringing Speech to Life with Claudia Anderson(Joy Press, 2002), a companion workbook to The Joy of Phonetics and Accents.
Colaianni served as Associate Editor of The Voice and Speech Review, a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal(Applause Books), and as Missouri Editor for the International Dialects of English Archive. As an actor, he toured the U.S. with Shakespeare & Company, and appeared at various regional theatres, the American Shakespeare Theatre, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association, The Screen Actors Guild, The Association for Theatre in Higher Education, The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and The Educational Theatre Association. His biography appears in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

JAMES GOODWIN RICE
james.g.rice@dartmouth.edu

Dartmouth College Theater Department
Hopkins Center
Hanover, NH 03755
603-646-3499

James Goodwin Rice is an actor and teacher of acting and voice. He was designated by Kristin Linklater in 1991. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Theater at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. James is available to train or coach interested students in the Vermont/ New Hampshire region.

James trained in NYC with Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen and has acted in NY and regional theater extensively. He has been associated with Shakespeare and Company since 1986 and frequently acts and teaches with the company. During the fall of '03 he is completing thesis work on a master's degree in Theater at NYU's Gallatin School entitled "The Actor's Voice."

NEW YORK

CRAIG BACON
eggsbacon@earthlink.net

New York, NY (Manhattan)
(212) 749-1986, (917) 309-5552

Craig Bacon is a director and a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher who is based in New York and London. He is currently Head of Voice and Text at the Mercury Theater, Colchester, UK, where he directed The Tempest, The White Devil, and Three Sisters. His production of Macbeth opens there in March 2004. In New York he staged The Merchant of Venice at Synchronicity Space and has been AD on numerous productions including the US premier of Roberto Zucco at Cucarracha. He has taught voice and text for The Actors Centre in London, and in New York City for the Atlantic Theater Company, Circle in the Square, NTI, and NYU.

Teaching: Linklater Voice Progression, Acting (modern and classical texts)
Specialty: Shakespeare Text, Audition Preparation
Private Sessions Available
Contact for ongoing small group classes

MARY BAIRD
meb44@earthlink.net

66 West 88th St. #3A
New York, NY 10024-2524
212 799 5209 NYC
510 888 4084 VM Calif. part-time

Splits time between New York and Northern California (Bay Area to Sierra Foothills). She has been teaching since 1993. Working professionally as an actress since 1970's. Currently teaching acting in Grass Valley, CA and acting in a new play MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY at the B St. Theatre. She does Take Five for Keisar, The Sierra group - speaker training skills for Dr.'s, nurses, and Psychiatrists, and also private or workshop Linklater sessions all ages.

Linklater Voice Teacher, Acting Coach, Text Work
Speech, dialects, Shakespeare
Private
Payment sliding scale

ANNE BRADY
abrady@binghamton.edu

55 Rotary Avenue
Binghamton, NY 13905
Home Tel: (607) 729-2039
Work Tel: (607) 777-4780
VoiceMail: (212) 358-3642

Education: MFA, Acting, Brandeis University
Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, 2003

Specialties: Incorporating voice work into scene and monologue work;
Vocal Coaching Productions (classical and modern, especially
Shakespeare, Chekhov, Shaw, Pinter, Williams, Fornes, Churchill, Shepard, McDonagh)

Classes Taught: Voice, Voice & Text, Shakespeare, Voice & Movement
for the Actor, Scene Study

Private Instruction Offered: Voice & Acting Coaching

REBECCA DUMAINE
RLMDuMaine@aol.com

Office:

147 Front Street, Suite 313

Brooklyn, NY 11201
mobile: 917-523-2152

Rebecca DuMaine is a New York based actress and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She has acted onstage in New York, regionally, on television, film and radio. Rebecca has taught Voice and Speech at Rutgers, The New Actors Workshop, Circle in the Square, SUNY Purchase, The William Esper Studio, NYU and Pace University. She is currently on the faculty at the Actors Studio MFA Program, The Linklater Center for Voice and Language and in the Graduate Theatre Division at Columbia University. Ms. DuMaine also coaches actors and corporate clients privately, in dialects, accent reduction and text. Rebecca also sings professionally with the Dave Miller Trio.

PATRICIA FLETCHER
pfletchervoice@aol.com

409 East 64th Street, Apt. 3F
New York, New York 10021
212-517-2862

Patricia Fletcher has a Masters of Arts Degree in Voice and Speech from Antioch University and has taught Voice, Speech, Dialects and Accent Reduction in many professional acting programs in and around New York City including: Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts (MFA and BFA Programs), The New School University (Actor’s Studio, MFA Program), Brooklyn College (MFA Program), The William Esper Studio (since 1993), and New Actors Workshop. She has worked as Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach on Broadway, film and television productions and has appeared as an actress on Broadway, Off Broadway and in regional theatre, film and television. She was Associate Producer of the nationally aired PBS series: Health Smart Cooking, featuring Arlyn Hackett.

In addition to her teaching, performing and producing, Patricia maintains a private coaching practice for individual and corporate clients working with established and up and coming theatre/film/television artists and business professionals including: Harvey Keitel, Drea De Matteo, Elias Koteas, Mark Collier, Tia Marie Zorne, Omar Rodriguez, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Deloitte and Touche, TIAA-Creff, Goldman Sachs, among others. Her handbook and CD, Classically Speaking, which details the use of American speech for classical text, is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2004.

Current Faculty: The New School University, The William Esper Studio.
Private coaching available in: Linklater Voice, Dialects, Speech and IPA, Accent Reduction; Audition Preparation for Film, Stage and Television.

NURIA CASTANO GUTIERREZ
Av. Lancia, 21, 1º D
24004 León España
Spain

Tel:
In Spain (+34) 630 356727
In Italy (+39) 338 3165613
In US (+1) 917 293 8853
nuriacasgut@hotmail.com

ANDREA HARING
AHaringVoice@aol.com
ahjkzc@aol.com

Andrea Haring
166 East 96th St. #2B
New York NY 10128
212 427 0379

A director, actress and teacher, Andrea has worked professionally in the theater for over twenty years. She is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company (in Lenox, Mass.) and has acted, directed, vocal coached the equity productions, and taught in the company workshops. She is the vocal coach for the Labyrinth Theater and a member of the Holderness Group. As a voice teacher trained by Kristin Linklater, Andrea is currently on the faculty at Yale School of Drama, Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts, Circle in the Square Theater School, and Fordham University. She has also been on faculty at The New Actor’s Workshop, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Dartmouth College. Andrea’s clients have included Bernadette Peters, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Angela Bassett, Garry Marshall, Calista Flockhart, Kristen Johnston and Christian Mehta.

Some Broadway and Off-Broadway vocal coaching credits include: Our Lady of 121st Street (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Labyrinth Theater) Dirty Story(written and directed by John Patrick Shanley), Jesus Hopped the A Train (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman),Where’s My Money?( John Patrick Shanley) The Shadow Box (Mercedes Ruehl, Marlo Thomas, Jamie Sheridan, Rafael Sbarge), The Rose Tattoo (Mercedes Ruehl), Wrong Turn At Lungfish (Jamie Gertz, Tony Danza, George C. Scott), Uncle Vanya (James Fox), Search and Destroy (Griffin Dunne, Paul Guilfoyle), Endangered Species (directed by Martha Clarke, with Paul Guilfoyle, Judy Kuhn).

Other credits: As You Like It (at The Long Wharf Theater, directed by John Tillinger), The Hope Zone (Olympia Dukakis) and The Tempest (Andre Gregory, Keanu Reeves, Rocco Sisto). Directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Museum, The Crucible, Well, Here We Are! (An Evening of Dorothy Parker) and Westward Journeys – Stories of the Pioneers. As an actress, Andrea’s roles have included: Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Mary in Vanities, Guenivere in Camelot, Henriette in The Learned Ladies, Delia in The Old Maid, Sabina, in The Skin of Our Teeth, Margaret in The Lady’s Not For Burning, The Queen in Cymbeline and Moretta in The Rover. Andrea is the Coordinator of Teacher Training for the Linklater Community and has been responsible for the training of over seventy voice teachers in the Linklater Technique. She graduated with a BA from Smith College.

Faculty:
Columbia University, Theatre Division School of the Arts, NY
Yale School of Drama
Circle in the Square Theatre School, NY
Fordham University, NY

Broadway vocal coach Open class: Tuesdays 6:30 - 8pm NY ($20)
Co-ordinator: Linklater Teacher Training

ELIZABETH INGRAM
ejingram@mailbox.syr.edu

Associate professor at SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Syracuse University
Drama Department
820 East Genessee Street,
Syracuse, New York, 13210
315 443 2669

Home:
310 Cornwall Drive,
Syracuse,
New York, 13214.
315 445 1585

I am at present, until June 2004, teaching in England at The Syracuse University Centre in London.

MARGARET JANSEN
jansentiger@yahoo.com

917-617-9446

Margaret Jansen is based in Brooklyn NY, teaches at NYU's Experimental Theater Wing and is available for private coachings.

HAERRY KIM
New York
1-917-535-2223

Seoul, South Korea
82-10-9466-3556

haerrykim@hotmail.com
haerryat@yahoo.com

CECIL MACKINNON
cm8@nyu.edu

20 Paradise Ave
Piermont, NY 10968
(This is in the NYC area)
845-359-5988

I teach at NYU, Tisch school, under grad drama, Experimental Theatre wing.

Cecil MacKinnon(BA Wellesley College, MFA NYU Grad Acting) is a designated Linklater Voice Teacher, and actress , director and circus performer. She has performed extensively both in NYC and regional theaters and has been a company member at Shakespeare and Co. for 23 years where she directs and acts. She has performed with both the Pickle Family Circus and Circus Flora, a one-ring tent show that tours the US. Most recently she directed Romeo and Juliet with twentyfive actors and the Norfolk Symphony for the Virginia Festival of the Arts, Man of Mode at NYU ETW mainstage, and opened the Spoleto Festival USA in Circus Flor's new production Da Capo for which she also served as theater director. Ms. MacKinnon is married and has two children.

SUSAN MAIN
smain@nyc.rr.com
www.susanmain.com

Susan Main is an actress and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. Currently based in New York City, she is serving on the faculties of the Actor’s Studio MFA program at Pace University, the Linklater Center for Voice and Language, and the Larry Singer Studios. Susan has taught voice and/or movement on the faculties of NYU Cap 21, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston Conservatory. Susan is also a vocal coach in NYC and abroad-she is currently voice coaching a piece for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s 25th anniversary season debuting in 2008 at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her students include politicians, corporate executives, Broadway, film and TV actors. She regularly conducts voice workshops in Italy and Australia, and has served as a voice and movement coach for theatre companies in Italy and Portugal. In 2005, she helped produce and served as script supervisor/assistant director on the documentary, Giving Voice, filmed in Stromboli, Italy and featuring Kristin Linklater. Susan holds an MFA in Theatre Education specializing in voice and movement from Boston University.

TOM MARION
tmarion@nypl.org

250 mulberry st. apt.12
new york, ny 10012
212-925-2465

bfa: ithaca college
mfa: Rutgers university - with Bill Esper
Certificate of Vocal Training, National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Vocal Coaching Internship, Royal Shakespeare Company, with Cicely Berry and Andrew Wade Assistant Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework member AEA, VASTA

Teach voice production, speech (using "phonetic pillows;" also trained in Skinner speech work), and Shakespearean text work.

Currently teaching at:
Marymount Manhattan College, NYC (voice and speech for bfa students) CUNY York College, NYC (voice and diction; oral interpretation of poetry)

Have taught at: Philadelphia School of the Arts, American Musical and Dramatic Academy
(NYC) , Actors' Center (NYC), New Actors' Workshop (NYC), National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped (NYC), Freehold Theatre Lab Studio (Seattle)

ELENA MCGHEE
EEMCGHEE@aol.com

Actor & Linklater Voice Instructor.
161 West 106 St. #3E
NY, NY 10025
212-330-7050 (VM)
212-866-6420 (Home)

Affiliation: Fordham University, Shakespeare & Company
Specific Teaching: Vocal Coach for Theatre and Film. Shakespeare & Classical Text coach. Linklater Voice Instructor: Private Lessons, Workshops, and ongoing classes.

TUULI-MARIIA NILSSON
FM/M.A., Teacher of Speech Communication
University of Helsinki, Finland
GSM +358 40 8237459
e-mail: tuuli-mariia.nilsson@helsinki.fi

NATSUKO OHAMA
breathnatsuko@aol.com

NewYork 212-460-8959
Los Angeles 818-754-2400

Trained by Kristin Linklater at the Working Theatre, and Shakespeare & Co. (founding member), teaching credits include Cal Arts, Sundance, New Actor's Workshop, Stratford Festival, Director of Training National Arts Center Canada (contact breathnatsuko@aol.com for complete list), and has coached countless individuals at all levels of experience.

LISA ANNE PORTER
lisaanneporter@yahoo.com

214 Revere Road
DeWitt, NY 13214
(315) 449-1052 home
(315)443-3213 office

BA Wesleyan University
MFA American Conservatory Theatre
Linklater certification 2003

BA in Theatre and American Studies, Wesleyan University
MFA in Acting, American Conservatory Theatre
Linklater certification 2003
Professional Equity actress with thirteen years of regional theatre and
Shakespeare festival experience.
Assistant Professor in BFA program at
Syracuse University. Teaches Freshman Voice, Voice/Verse, Advanced
Voice/Verse, Dialect. Coaches voice and dialect for numerous
productions both at university and professionally. Directing BFA
production of TWELFTH NIGHT Voice/Text faculty for Shakespeare and
Company, 2 week intensive in Fresno, CA.
Available for private coaching, production coaching and classes in voice, text, acting and dialect. Special emphasis on Shakespeare.

SUSAN SCHULD
10 Overlook Terrace #1A
NY, NY 10033
917-687-9862
babersue@aol.com

Designated Linklater Teacher 2007
MFA, Acting, Rutgers University - with Bill Esper
BA, Theater Arts, University of Washington

Faculties Include:
Rutger’s University Mason Gross School of the Arts BFA program, NYU
Tisch CAP 21, Maggie Flanigan Actors Studio, Circle in the Square
Theatre School, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, the Professional
Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, and served as the Director in
Residence at Shakespeare's Globe, London for Mason Gross School of the
Arts in 2003-4.

Classes Taught:
Voice Production, Dialects, Speech (Louis Colanianni’s Phonetic
Pillows, Patricia Fletcher’s “Classically Speaking” and Skinner speech
work) Accent Reduction, Audition Preparation, Voice and Movement for
the Actor, Shakespeare, Text Analysis, and Vocal Coaching for
Productions.

New York based actress and founding member of Theatre Lila.

CHRISTINE WHITLEY
cwhit_98@yahoo.com

212-946-1845

Graduate of University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music. Designated as a Linklater teacher in 1998. Resides in New York City.

Private voice coaching offered

BEVERLY WIDEMAN
Wideman11@juno.com

P.O.Box 562
Lenox Hill Station
New York, New York 10021-0034

Beverly Wideman is a Linklater Voice Technique teacher, a singer and an actress. She currently teaches at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts. She has also taught at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, at Beit Lessen Theater in Tel Aviv, Israel and at Exiles Theater LTD. in Cork, Ireland. Her last theatrical performance was as the Duchess of York in "Richard III" directed by Tina Packer at Shakespeare & Company on The Mount in Massachusettes. She also sings in the soprano section of the Christian Cultural Center's Chorale in Brooklyn, New York. She offers private Linklater Voice Lessons to those who are committed to freeing and opening up their voices for their chosen profession. All sessions are one on one tutorial style. If you would like to have a session, please write or e-mail me expressing your interest and requesting an appointment. Only written requests will be considered if a time slot becomes available.

Master Teacher of Voice at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Teaches private lessons by appointment only - Contact by E-Mail or Letter. No Phone calls please.

NORTH CAROLINA

MARY IRWIN
mirwin@ncarts.edu

Head of Voice & Speech
School of Drama
NC School of the Arts

GEORDIE MACMINN
136 Piedmont Ave.
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336) 631-7989
geordie647@mac.com

Geordie trained as an Alexander Technique teacher at the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles, earning his certification in 2001. He has earned two post-graduate teacher certifications from the American Center for the Alexander Technique, NYC: The Art of Breathing with Jessica Wolf, (2003) and The Carrington Way of Working with John Nicholls, (2004). In Los Angeles, Geordie taught voice at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Stella Adler Academy of Acting, as well as originating classes in the Alexander Technique into both of the curriculums. He also taught Alexander to classical singers in the OperaWorks summer training program at Cal State Northridge. As an actor, he attended the LA City College Theatre Academy, and earned his BA in Acting from California State University at Fullerton. He has trained and performed with Shakespeare & Company, and has acted in roles in theatre and television, including Murder, She Wrote and Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 2003, Geordie joined the faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Drama teaching Alexander and Linklater Voice. In North Carolina, he has presented workshops in the Alexander Technique to singers and musicians, and maintains a private practice teaching Linklater Voice and Alexander Technique to people from all walks of life. Member of SAG, AFTRA, VASTA, AmSAT.

PENNSYLVANIA

CONNIE KOPPE
cjkoppe@verizon.net

444 W. Clapier Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144

215-482-4393

Connie Koppe resides in Philadelphia, PA and teaches both Linklater speech work and singing for actors using the Linklater Work as a base for her work. She is currently teaching at the University of the Arts and at her private voice studio.

Ms Koppe holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education, (with a concentration in voice) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Music in Opera Performance from Temple University. She attended the 1998 Linklater Designation Workshop.

Connie also directs opera in the Philadelphia area and leads song writing workshops in schools as an arts educator through Arts for Anyone (an organization she helped found).

Current positions: Sr. lecturer, teaching speech for the actor at the University of the Arts
Singing Voice Teacher – Private studio
Guest Artist – Lyricist – Arts for Anyone – Living Bookshelf Project

Degrees: B. S. in Music Education, voice concentration: Indiana University of PA, 1973
M. Music in Opera Performance: Temple University, 1977
Linklater Designation 1998

RHODE ISLAND

VERMONT

KEELY EASTLEY
KeelsEast@aol.com

PO Box 118
Marlboro, VT
05344

802-258-4816

Designated in 1987, her resume of teaching and vocal coaching includes:
Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale School of Drama, NYU, Circle-in-the-Square, Classic Stage Co, New Actors' Workshop, MIT, The Boston Conservatory (opera division),
Shakespeare & Co
Syracuse University
Trinity Rep Conservatory
Internationally-
Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School
Takitimu, School of Maori Performing Arts

Vocal/text coaching with a particular love of Shakespeare; AEA, SAG, AFTRA.
Private coaching available to those with a serious commitment to exploring the journey of freeing yourself through your voice.

JAMES GOODWIN RICE
james.g.rice@dartmouth.edu

1294 TURNPIKE ROAD
Norwich, Vermont
Phone: 802-649-1567 (H)
603-646-3499 (W)University (if any) DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
Specific teaching: VOICE, ACTING
Special skills: PERSONAL COACHING
private lessons: YES
Classes offered: YES

VIRGINIA

MARY COY
marycoy16@hotmail.com

1867 Hickory Creek Road, Faber, VA 22938
434-263-8802
Mary Coy
1993 Designee
1867 Hickory Creek Road
Faber, VA 22938
434-263-8802

Private coaching available in voice and text specializing in Shakespeare and his contemporaries;1993 Linklater designated teacher; MFA in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance

WASHINGTON

JUDITH SHAHN
jshahn@comcast.net

University of Washington
Professional Actor Training Program
Office: 206-685-1118
Cell: 206-650-6270
Website: www.vibrantspeaking.com

Voice/speech, dialect specialist
Actor/director, Shakespeare's text
Ensemble singing
Private Lessions
Vocal coach for theatre & film

Judith Shahn has been a teacher and coach in the Northwest for the past 25 years. Besides twenty years at The University of Washington, Judith is a leading dialect/vocal coach for Seattle area theatres, including Intiman, Seattle Repertory Theatre and A Contemporary Theatre. She has coached at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Utah Shakespearean Festival and Shakespeare & Co. In addition, her business, VIBRANT SPEAKING serves people of all professions who do public speaking or presentations.

KIMBERLY WHITE
kwhite3218@aol.com

Seattle, WA
(206) 417-0819

Kimberly White is a teacher, coach and director. She has been teaching freelance as a Designated Linklater Teacher for the past 12 years. She has worked at the University of Washington, University of B.C., Otterbein College, Seattle Children's Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Company, Seattle's Young Shakespeare Workshop, Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival (Founding Artistic Director) and Internationally at the Korean University of the Arts.

Training: BFA, California Institute of the Arts; Shakespeare & Company; Linklater Designation '93; Greek Chorus/Lamentation w/Mirka Yemendzakis; Primitive Voice; Alexander; Clown & Mask.

WEST VIRGINIA

KATE UDALL
kate.udall@mail.wvu.edu

569 Princeton Avenue
Morgantown WV 26505
(304) 598 -2752

Kate Udall received her BA from Yale University and her MFA in Acting from University of California, San Diego. She has a Postgraduate Diploma with Merit in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She was designated as a Linklater Teacher in 2003.

She taught for six years at West Virginia University as an Associate Professor of Voice and Speech. She has also taught at Unversity of Oklahoma, and at East 15 Drama School in London.

She has performed regionally as an actor at theatres such as Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Cincinnati Repertory. She is the Artistic Director of One Hundred Monkeys Theatre which recently performed at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival.

Background: designated in 2003. Trained at Yale, UCSD, and Central School. Teach Linklater privately and in classes.