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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

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 Repertory 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.

Rebecca DuMaine is a New York based actress and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She has acted
onstage in New York, regionally, on television and radio. Rebecca has taught Voice and Speech at
Rutgers, The New Actors Workshop, Circle in the Square, The William Esper Studio, SUNY Purchase,
NYU and is currently on the faculty at Pace University, The Actors Studio MFA Program, and in the MFA
program at 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. She holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA in Acting from Rutgers, Mason
Gross School of the Arts.

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.

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 Hoffman, 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: Mondays 6:30 - 8 pm NY ($20)
Co-ordinator: Linkater Teacher Training

Cecil MacKinnon has worked extensively in New York in downtown theater companies such as the
Manhattan Project, Section Ten, the Shaliko Company and the Working Theater and is a senior company
member of Shakespeare and Co. Credits there as an actress include The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
She directed Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and The Comedy of Errors for their
mainstage and numerous productions on their smaller stages. Regionally Ms. MacKinnon has appeared at
ACT, San Francisco, Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, and at Trinity Square, Toronto. Ms. MacKinnon also
works in circus, was a member of the Pickle Family Circus, and is now white face clown, ringmaster, and
director of Circus Flora’s with whom she tours nationally. She teaches at The Experimental Theater Wing
of NYU.

Susan Main is an actress and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She has taught voice and/or movement
on the faculties of The Linklater Center, NYU Cap 21, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston Conservatory, and Southwick Studios. Susan is a co-founder of the New York-based theatre company,
Butter & Flies, and is also an Artistic Associate with the Gypsy Mamas Artist Group based in Boston. She
holds an MFA in Theatre Education specializing in voice and movement from Boston University, and is currently
training to certify as a teacher of the Alexander Technique.

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)

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 exercises and exploration. In my work
with actors, I have found a profound source to be, and have therefore called my work, BREATH.

Lisa Anne Porter has been a designated Linklater voice teacher since 2003. She has a BA in Theatre and
American Studies from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the American Conservatory Theatre. She
is a professional Equity and SAG actress with years of regional theatre and Shakespeare festival experience.
She is currently teaching, coaching and acting in the Bay Area for the 2007/2008 academic year. She is an
associate professor of voice, acting and text in the BFA program at Syracuse University as well as teaching
on the STC and MFA faculties at the American Conservatory Theatre and the BA faculty of the Academy of
Art University. She has taught master voice and text workshops for Naropa University, California Shakespeare
Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Shakespeare & Company. In addition to acting and teaching, Lisa
is a professional director and vocal/dialect coach.

She is available for private coaching, production coaching and workshops in voice, text, acting and dialect.

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 Massachusetts. 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.