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Christine Adaire is a Voice, Speech and Dialect Specialist who works with actors and other professional
speakers. She was designated in 1987. In addition to being a teacher and coach, she is also an actor and
director in professional as well as educational venues. She has been on the faculties of The Theatre
School at DePaul University, The National Theatre School of Canada, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Ithaca College. She has also taught workshops at Yale University,
the Shanghai Theatre Academy in China and Escuela Eolia in Barcelona, Spain. Regional theatre work as
a voice/dialect coach includes: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory, Chicago Shakespeare
Theatre, Court Theatre (Chicago), and Theatre for a New Audience (NYC). She has been a core member of
Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts since 1983. Past clients and students include: Marlo
Thomas, Veronica Hammel, Rebecca DeMornay, Keannu Reeves, Ricki Lake, Judy Greer, Paula Cale, Jeff
Donovan and Kate Wilson. She offers workshops in Voice, Text, and Shakespeare in addition to
private coaching.

Ariel Bock has been an 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 College and MIT had 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 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.

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

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 Shakepespeare 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

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.

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.