Corinna May
Designated Linklater voice teacher since 2003.
Voice/Acting/Shakespeare teacher.
Voice, text & presence coach for actors, lawyers, academics/teacher, clergy and business people.
Feldenkrais Method Awareness Through Movement teacher, soon to be Guild-certified Feldenkrais Practioner.
A graduate of Circle in the Square’s 2-year professional actor training program: has studied with luminaries Kristin Linklater, Tina Packer, Robert Neff Williams, Andrea Haring, Nikos Psacharapoulos, and David Zemach-Bersin, among others.
A 20-year member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA where she is a leading actress, and core faculty member in the Company’s internationally-renowned Training and Education programs.
Also currently on the Voice and Speech faculty of the Actors Studio MFA program in New York City, and has taught voice and/or text at the National Theatre Institute at the O’Neill Center, Circle in the Square, Syracuse University, Smith College, M.I.T., SUNY (Albany and New Paltz), Simon’s Rock College, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Australian Bar Association’s Advanced Trial Advocacy Course.
Acting: starred recently in the independent features SPLIT ENDS. Two years on the Broadway tour of The Graduate with Jerry Hall/LindaGray/Lorraine Bracco/Kelly McGillis/Morgan Fairchild. NYC: Red Fern, Theatre of the Open Eye. Regional: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, Capitol Rep., Rep. Theater of St. Louis, Studio Arena Theatre, Virginia Stage Co., Philadelphia Theatre Co. Shakespeare & Company: Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Enchanted April, Macbeth, Jack and Jill, Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, House of Mirth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and many more. Other film: Speck’s Last; Rain Without Thunder. Television: “Bourbon Street” (pilot); “Law & Oder”; “PBS: Evening at the Pops”. Playwright: Dancing With The Czar.
Corinna is proud to be a union member: AEA, SASAG, AFTRA, Dramatist’s Guild. Also a member of VASTA, FDC, SAFD.