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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.

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

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.

ANTONIO OCAMPO-GUZMAN is an actor, director and teacher from Bogotá, Colombia. He is based in
Boston, Massachusetts, where he serves on the faculty of Theatre at Northeastern University

Antonio trained as an actor with the Teatro Libre in his native Bogotá, Colombia. After further studies in
voice and physical theater in England, he spent three years as an actor and an artist-manager at Shakespeare
& Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. In 1998, Antionio completed his training as a voice teacher with the
renowned Master Teacher Kristin Linklater (author of Freeing the Natural Voice). He has adapted this popular
Practice into Spanish and hopes to publish his own book in 2009. He teaches annually at the Estudio Corazza
para el Actor in Madrid, Spain, and serves as a consultant for the Center for Voice Studies (CEUVOZ) in Mexico
City, where he runs a Linklater Voice Teacher-training Program.

He is a proud member of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and currently serves as its Director
of Membership and Chair of Diversity Committee. In 2007, he was selected as one of the eight inaugural VASTA
fellows.

Antonio earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing in 2003 from York University in Toronto, Ontario, training
under the guidance of David Rotenberg. He concurrently furthered his training in voice and speech under David
Smuckler, receiving a Graduate Diploma in Voice. He has directed plays by such diverse authors as David Valdes
Greenwood, Tennessee Williams, Shakespeare, 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
Aykbourn for Shakespeare Now!, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, Dixon Place, 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. He has also
worked with solo performers Jeff Mcmahon and Carlos Manuel.

Several of Antonio’s articles and essays about his experiences as a bilingual theatre artist have been published in,
among others, American Theatre Magazine, the Voice & Speech Review, the Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia,
Paso de Gato (Mexico), Back Stage East, Dramatics Magazine, and the online journal Borrowers and Lenders. He is
featured in Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives in Race & Performance, a collection edited by Dr. Ayanna
Thompson and published by Routledge in 2006. Recent acting work includes Sebastian in The Tempest and Salisbury
in King John, with Actors’ Shakespeare Project; and five roles in Dario Fo’s We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay, the
inaugural production of the Nora Theatre’s new space in Cambridge, MA. Antonio 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 Walnut Hill, Shakespeare & Company, The Linklater Studio, The Andrea Southwick Studio, The New
Theatre Conservatory, FSU/Asolo Theatre Conservatory, the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, the Concord Players, Working
Classroom and the Hampshire Shakespeare Company. Internationally, he has taught in Ireland, Canada, Greece,
Sweden, Panama and Colombia.

Dave Demke has taught voice, acting, and movement for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts
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 Street Theatre Project in New York
City, New Rose Theatre and Tygres Heart Shakespeare Theatre in Portland, Oregon, among others. From
1992 to 2000 he was the Artistic Director of Stark Raving Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

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 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),
Humors/Shakespeare (Merry Conway), Classical Singing (Penny Bitzas), Improvisation (Keith Johnstone),
Phonetics/Dialects (Louis Colaianni), Shakespeare & Company