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- KIRBY
WAHL (05)
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 Assistant
Professor- Elon University
- Department of
Theatre
- Elon
NC
- tel:
336-278-5684
- e: kwahl@elon.edu
Kirby Wahl is an
actor, director, voice/text/dialect coach, and
fight director. He previously taught acting,
voice, and movement courses at the University of
Toledo where he also recently performed as
Richard in Richard lll. He has also
studied with Patsy Rodenburg and Richard
Armstrong, and at the London Academy of Music
and Dramatic Art. His professional acting
credits include performances with the Riverside
Shakespeare Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Arizona Theatre Company, Forestburgh Playhouse,
Allenberry Playhouse, Illinois Shakespeare
Festival, and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,
among others. He has also traveled with numerous
tours, including the national tour of Phantom
of the Opera. He currently resides with his
wife and two sons in Greensboro NC.
MFA University
of Arizona-Tucson; BFA Webster
University.
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- ASHLEY
WARD (02)
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 Instructor- American
InterContinental University
- Los Angeles
CA
- tel:
310-617-0725
- e: awardvoice@yahoo.com
Ashley Ward has
also taught at the University of
California-Irvine, and as the voice specialist
at South Coast Repertory's Youth and Teen
Conservatory program. She is an actress
(sometimes credited as Ashley Fuller) and has
developed a one-woman show based on the life of
Dorothy Parker to be staged in Los Angeles.
Favorite roles include Olivia in Twelfth
Night, Isabella in Measure for
Measure, Fanny in On the Verge, and
Marisol in Marisol. Ashley is a member of
Screen Actors Guild. She is also the founder and
director of The Haven Theatre Company in Los
Angeles.
MFA University
of California-Irvine; BA California State
University-Stanislaus.
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LYNN
WATSON (98)
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 Associate
Professor, Chair- University of
Maryland-Baltimore County
- Department of
Theatre
- 1000 Hilltop
Circle
- Baltimore MD
21250
- tel:
410-455-2892
- fax:
410-455-1046
- e: jwatson@umbc.edu
- web: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre/faq/dept_bios.html
Lynn Watson
presented a workshop at the 2005 VASTA
conference in Scotland, and also presented at
the Voice Foundation's Voice Symposium in June
2003--"Fitzmaurice Voicework for Actors." She
previously presented the work to speech
pathologists in Maryland. For the past four
seasons she has consulted on voice, speech,
dialects, and text at Arena Stage in Washington
DC. The Washington Post said of The
Misanthrope: "beautifully spoken . . . the
production boasts the level of the classics one
used to encounter in places like the Stratford
Festival in Ontario." Other credits include four
seasons at South Coast Repertory, A.C.T. in San
Francisco, Mark Taper Forum, Maryland Stage
Company, and private consultation for stage,
film, and television. Her acting credits include
Off-Broadway in New York at the American Place
Theatre. She has also performed at the Los
Angeles Theatre Center, toured nationally, and
played leading classical roles in regional
theatre. Her writing and articles appear in the Voice and Speech Review, The Complete
Voice and Speech Workout, the survey Teaching Breathing, and the online
magazine Acting Now. She is an associate
editor for the International Dialects of English
Archive (www.ku.edu/-idea), and previously
taught acting and MFA voice classes at
University of California-Irvine.
MFA University
of California-Irvine; BFA Ohio
University.
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- WALTON
WILSON (98)
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 Associate
Professor, Head of
Voice and Speech- Associate
Chair, Acting Program
- Yale School of
Drama
- P.O. Box
208244
- New Haven CT
06520
- tel:
203-432-8811
- fax:
203-432-9668
- e: walton.wilson@yale.edu
- web: www.yale.edu/drama
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- Walton Wilson
is also a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and
has also studied voice with Richard Armstrong,
Meredith Monk, Patsy Rodenburg, and various
members of the Roy Hart Theatre. He has served
as vocal coach for productions on Broadway, Off-
and Off-Off-Broadway, and at major regional
theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville,
Denver Center Theatre, McCarter Theatre,
Shakespeare & Company, and Yale Rep, working
on the world premieres of Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project, Eric Begosian's Humpty Dumpty, Martha Clarke's Endangered Species, and David Rabe's The Black Monk. He has taught in numerous
actor training programs, including NYU/ETW,
ART's Institute, National Theatre Institute, and
Southern Methodist University, as well as
internationally, and has led workshops for
community activists and prison inmates. His
acting credits include productions Off-Broadway
and in regional theatres and Shakespeare
festivals across the country.
BFA Southern
Methodist University.
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- KATE
WISNIEWSKI (02)
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 Instructor,
Associate Partner- Freehold
Studio/Theatre Lab
- 1525 10th
Ave
- Seattle WA
98122
- tel:
206-323-7499
- e: kwisniewski@earthlink.net
- www.freeholdtheatre.org
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- Kate Wisniewski
also coaches voice, speech, and dialects
privately in Seattle. As an actor Kate has
appeared throughout the Seattle area and at the
American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge MA where
she first studied Fitzmaurice Voicework with
Nancy Houfek.
Graduate Diploma
American Repertory Theatre Institute at
Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA Millersville
State University.
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- LOU
ANNE WRIGHT (04)
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 Associate
Professor- University of
Wyoming
- Department of
Theatre and Dance
- Center for the
Fine Arts
- P.O. Box
3951
- Laramie WY
82071
- tel:
307-766-2425
- fax:
307-766-2197
- e: lawright@uwyo.edu
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- Lou Anne Wright
is an actor, dialect coach, and professor of
acting, voice, speech, dialects, and theatre
history, and a writer. She has served as
voice/dialect coach for such companies as the
Denver Center for the Performing Arts,
Playmakers Repertory, the Shadow Theatre, and
the West Coast Ensemble. Lou Anne was seen on
television as Judy Shepard in HBO's The
Laramie Project and she has most recently
performed on stage in The Last Night of
Ballyhoo and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, both in Denver. As a playwright,
she authored the play Kabuki Medea which
won the Jefferson Award for Best Production in
San Francisco. It was also produced at the
Kennedy Center. She is co-author of PLAYWRITING:
FROM FORMULA TO FORM published by Harcourt Brace
and is currently working on SETTING THE STAGE, a
new Introduction to Theatre book for Wadsworth
Publishing. Her screenwriting credits include
the film adaptation of Eudora Welty's The
Hitch-Hikers, which featured Patty Duke and
Richard Hatch (and for which she was nominated
for the Directors Guild of America's Lillian
Gish award.)
MFA National
Theatre Conservatory/Denver Center for the
Performing Arts; BA California State
University-Northridge
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