SUMMER 2026
CLASSES
“The actor must crave insecurity, the unknown, the uncharted boundaries of imagination, because traveling along that edge leads to the promised land of creativity.”
Kristin Linklater – Freeing the Natural Voice
DROP-IN WARM-UPS
Saturdays 10 am - 10:50 am
(Eastern Time Zone, USA)
June 27 - August 22
(No class on July $)
8 Sessions
Fee: $20 per session - pay as you go
Location: Online
Taught by: Andrea Haring/Other Faculty
Designated Linklater Teacher
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The discipline and tactile pleasure of stretching and elasticizing one’s body, of freeing the breath, and gathering the resonance of the sound vibrations in the bony hollows of the body; of undoing specific tensions in the jaw, tongue and larynx; and waking up the sweep of one’s vocal range, and engaging the lively economy of the articulators; may seem on one level as the routine of little actions, but on a deeper level it is carving out time and space in our busy day to meet ourselves – to be present in our whole being.
Come warm up with us – to prepare for an audition or a show, to care for vocal strain, or just to keep in vocal tone. Want to spend a few minutes each week investing in yourself and strengthening your craft? This series of exercises is designed to free your voice, mind, and body to find your authentic self, and to become more expressively present in the world.
accelerated voice level 1 - The Essentials
Teacher: Dianna Cortez
Designated Linklater Teacher
Tuesdays 6 pm - 7:40 pm
(Eastern Time Zone, USA)
June 23 - July 28
6 Sessions
Fee: $240
Location: Online
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”Maximum effect with minimum effort” is the hallmark of great art. Great art is rooted in truth. Minimum effort demands a commitment to inner processes of imagination and emotion that stimulate the body and voice to truthful expression from inside out. In order to develop a voice that will create maximum effect with minimum effort and therefore be truthful, actors must exercise the vocal musculature in a way that conditions the voice to respond to imaginative and emotional stimulus.” Kristin Linklater
Relaxation and release is essential to opening, freeing and ultimately strengthening your voice. In this initial class, you are becoming aware of how your voice and body carry habitual tensions and beginning to undo them. This is the start to freeing your breath and vibrations of sound. As your voice begins to loosen up, the next step is to develop resonance by sensing and spreading the vibrations through the bony hollows of your body.
Once this connection is established we can move onto addressing deep tensions that develop in the jaw, larynx, and tongue and encourage your sigh to find a free and focused pathway beyond those tensions that filter your message. By giving your sigh of sound a clear passageway from the lower body all the way up through the mouth, you will be ready to begin to strengthen the voice and activate more expressiveness with the resonating ladder. In Voice 1 you will contact the chest, the mouth, and the teeth resonators and blend to find a warm, relaxed and focused connection between your thoughts, feelings and your voice.
ACCELERATED VOICE Level 2 - activating breath and vocal range
Teacher: Andrea Haring
Designated Linklater Teacher
Wednesdays 6 pm - 7:40 pm
(Eastern Time Zone, USA)
June 24 - July 29
6 Sessions
Fee: $240
Location: Online
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“The link between breath and inner energy is forged in sensitivity and depends on sensitivity for its continuation through the largest expression. The essential attributes for an actor’s voice are range, variety, beauty, clarity, power, and volume, but sensitivity is the quality that will validate all the others…Then they come to life, becoming the range of feelings, the variety of the mind, the beauty of the content, the clarity of the imagination, the power of the emotion, the volume of the need to communicate.” Kristin Linklater
This class is meant for those who have taken voice before and would like to develop more vocal ability to meet the demands of their text by strengthening their full range of resonance, expanding their breath capacity, and waking up their articulation in order to find a bridge to speaking their text in a clearer, livelier and more effective way. Each class will take you through an embodied warm-up geared towards freeing and opening your voice that releases throat, tongue and jaw tensions, develops more breath capacity while enlivening breath responsiveness, and awakening your full vocal range for greater expressiveness.
Then you’ll focus on invigorating the muscles of your mouth that contribute to economical articulation and connect to the tactile sensation of consonants by playing with tongue twisters, so you are ready to speak your text clearly and expressively.
Please have some text ready to play with.