Winter 2000 p. 8

REGIONAL NEWS

INTERNATIONAL
LISE OLSEN has just completed dialect coaching Phyllis Nagy’s The Strip and will be directing The Tempest and Anna Karenina in the new year. She has also coached dialects for Cameron Mackintosh’s new West End musical, The Witches of Eastwick. Lise will also be appearing (as herself) as one of the finalists on BBC’s Masterchef, the British Grand-Prix of amateur chefs
cooking American regional specialties.
SOUTH EAST
WENDY HAGENOW, Virginia Commonwealth University, in her second year of graduate study, coached Lonely Planet in the fall, and during the
winter coached Betrayal, both at VCU. Also at VCU, she performed the role of Jacques in As You Like It last fall, and will perform Mary L in Time Of Your Life in the spring. She also appeared in the HBO miniseries The Corner, as a parent.
ELISA LLOYD, Emory University, coached Chess and A Christmas Carol, both directed by David H. Bell, and Shadowlands, directed by Susan V. Booth, at the Alliance Theatre. She coached the world premiere of He Looks Good in a Hat at the Alliance Studio, and Romeo and Juliet at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. At Theatre Emory, she coached two evenings of Beckett one-acts, and played Mrs. Solness in a new adaptation of The Master Builder, directed by Vincent Murphy. Other coaching during the winter included the world premiere of Robert Schenkkan’s Handler (his first full-length play since The Kentucky Cycle) directed by Chris Coleman at the Actor’s Express, and
Lonesome West, directed by Jeff Adler at the Horizon Theatre Company.
CAROL PENDERGRAST, UNC-Wilmington, again sends news of yet
another move. For those who want to contact her, Carol’s e-mail is still the same:<HYPERLINK“mailto:pendergrastc@uncwil.edu” <pendergrastc@uncwil.edu>. She is teaching for both the Theatre and
Communications Studies Departments at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and living one block from the beach. She attended the ITI
conference in January, on international theatre practices. Carol also played Olga Katrina in You Can’t Take It With You under the direction of Frank Capra Jr. in February.

BONNIE RAPHAEL, UNC-Chapel Hill, will be playing the role of Zofia in a StreetSigns Theatre production of Tongue of a Bird in February in Chapel Hill. It will give her a chance to brush up her Polish accent! At the same time, she will be coaching PlayMakers productions of The Glass Menagerie and Wit at the University of North Carolina.
JANET RODGERS, Virginia Commonwealth University, as Head of Voice and Speech, has been supervising the work of 4 MFA students who are
working in the area of Theatre Pedagogy with an emphasis in Voice and Speech. She has received a Faculty Leave Grant for spring of 2000 to work on the VASTA Voice and Speech Exercise Book, that will be published by Applause. She will be asking you all for exercise contributions. In May she will take a group of 12 students to Romania, Greece and England to work on vocal
extension on mountaintops, amphitheaters and in castles. In England, they will spend a week working on vocal archetypes with Frankie Armstrong.
EAST CENTRAL
R. TERRELL FINNEY, University of Cincinnati, will direct As You Like It as part of UC’s 1999-2000 main stage season. In addition, he recently served as a consultant to the Theatre Department of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
LINDA GATES, Northwestern U, finally has her book Voice for Performance in the bookstores (published by Applause). She’s just coached Hysteria at Steppenwolf Theatre which was directed by John Malkovich and she’s now working on Desire Under the Elms in an inter-racial production directed by Walter Dallas from The Freedom Theatre in Philadelphia. The Freedom
Theatre and the Court Theatre in Chicago teamed to co-produce the show that will appear in both theatres. The dialects are African/American and Southern Georgia where it has been set. She’s also coaching Orson’s Shadow at Steppenwolf, a new play by Austin Pendelton, based on the true story of a production directed by Orson Welles of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in the l960’s staring Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. The real challenge is trying to get the voices of current actors to sound like the real Olivier, Plowright, Wells, Vivien Leigh and Kenneth Tynan.
TIM GOOD, Elmhurst College, is the new Director of Musical Theater at Elmhurst College. Tim wrote the curriculum for the major, which was just approved for Fall 2000, including intensive courses in Voice and Movement for the Actor. He is taking a group of students to New York in January as part of the course in avant-garde theater. Most have never been, so it will be a new adventure for them! We should all plant some trees we’ll never sit under.
DEBRA HALE, Indiana U, vocal coached Pygmalion at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Suddenly Last Summer, Woyzeck, and Midsummer Night’s Dream at I.U. in Bloomington. She brought in Dennis Krausnick of Shakespeare and Company to work with the actors and directors and she directed the last studio show of the university season, Top Girls.
MICHAEL KACHINGWE, Northern Illinois, during this past year received tenure at NIU thanks to fellow VASTA members Kate Burke and Arthur Lessac. February 26, 1999 brought the third child—Kudzai Michael— to his family. For Iowa Summer Rep. he acted in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He also directed Fences in Iowa’s first Equity
summer festival. Earlier in the year he directed Flyin’ West at New American Theatre in Rockford, IL. This spring he will be performing the role of Cassio in Othello at New American Theatre. He wishes to dedicate his performance to the passing of his father Ernest in December.
SANDRA LINDBERG, Illinois Wesleyan University, on August 9, 1999 had a 9 lb 1 oz. baby boy named Isaac Gustav Galewsky (father, Sam Galewsky). Five weeks later she began rehearsals for Hair for Illinois Wesleyan’s School of Theatre Arts main stage. The show ran for six performances in October. Sandra will be presenting a paper about directing this show at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in St. Louis in March. Also, she’ll play Mary Todd
Lincoln in a new play focusing on Mary’s life after the president’s death to tour Illinois in July.
BETH MCGEE, Associate Professor Case Western Reserve University,
dialect coached productions of A Kiss for Cinderella at the Cleveland Play House and Brigadoon at the Willoughby Fine Arts Center. She once again acted in the Great Lakes Theater Festival’s production of A Christmas Carol.
CHUCK RICHIE, Kent State, had a fabulous time at his first VASTA
Conference and then was swept right into a very busy Fall teaching a full class load at Kent State, including dialect coaching Chay Yew’s Porcelain at Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre. And on a more mundane level, Chuck dealt with how to get rid of the billions of leaves that collected all over the three acre yard of his new house! He is looking forward to another dialect coaching job at Dobama, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (thanks Rinda Frye, Jack Horton, Ginny Kopf and Susan Coromel for help and tapes), and will be doing all the voice and text coaching for Kent’s production of Hamlet, as well as playing the role of the First Player.
KAREN RYKER, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is just returning from sabbatical. During the semester of R&R, she joined Liz Wiley and Lise Olson (and Rocco dal Vera in
absentia) in presenting panel and workshops on “Voice in Violence” at the Paddy Crean Fight Workshop, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Karen found collaborating with these voice colleagues and sharing their work with the British Fight
Society and International Order of the Sword and Pen
inspiring. She also took a terrific week’s voice and movement workshop with Frankie Armstrong and Darien Pritchard at Kinnersley Castle in England, and a 10-day workshop with Mirka YemenDzakis (who hopefully will present a sample of her work at our 2000 VASTA conference) in Monemvasia, Greece. She looks forward to serving the VASTA
membership as a new board member, and enjoyed her first Board meeting in November. She also managed to re-build the garage, paint bubbles on the barn, and spend some
quality time at home, so domestic life was not ignored.
TYNE TURNER coached King Lear, Troilus & Cressida, and Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Utah Shakespearean
Festival summer of ’99. Fall ’99 she coached The Game of Love & Chance Adapted/Translated/Directed by Stephen Wadsworth at Seattle Repertory Theatre. January ’00
returned Tyne to Seattle where she coached As You Like It for the Rep as well as Arizona Theatre Company. She
returned home to Milwaukee in February to coach and act in The Winter’s Tale and Pygmalian for the Milwaukee
Chamber Theatre; then it’s back to Utah for the ‘2000
season. Five year old Chris and Elizabeth and seven year old Teddy are holding up well, despite Mom’s absences, thanks to the greatest Daddy on earth.
WESTERN
FRAN BENNETT, Cal Arts, was chosen as a guest star on the first and third episodes of “City of Angels” which
appeared on CBS, January 16 and 26, 2000. Fran was also a guest star on the January 20, 2000 episode of “Chicago Hope”.
LINDA deVRIES recently directed the Road Theatre
production of The Importance of being Earnest, and CSU-Northride’s production of Cymbeline. She also
choreographed The Marriage of Figaro at CSU-Northridge as well. Linda continues her vocal coaching and recently completed Tainted Blood for the Road Theatre (in Los
Angeles) and Gardenia for CSU-Northridge.
KATHLEEN DUNN is currently working with a colleague, Mary Thomas Sala, in developing a coaching business called “Vibes”. The service will include coaching in the following areas: voice, speech, movement, audition techniques, and acting.
KRISTEN LOREE has been having babies for the last few years and also running a small theatre in Albuquerque. Her latest creative performance endeavor is Ursonata by Kurt Schwitters (it is a gymnastic piece for the month, a phonetic poem in German). Kristen will be performing the piece in Albuquerque in February and then touring it to Baltimore in March.
KATHRYN MAES just recently completed dialect
coaching the Charter Horse Company’s production of A View From The Bridge (in Denver). Kathy will be vocal coaching the world premier production of Robert Vaughn’s play,
Praying for Rain with Curious Productions (Denver). Kathy will also be returning to St. Petersburg, Russia in May to conduct voice workshops in the drama department at the St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Science.
JOAN MELTON coached Once in a Lifetime, Oklahoma!, Deviant Craft, and Six Degrees of Separation for Cal State Fullerton during the fall semester, and did a workshop for actors and singers with Catherine Fitzmaurice in New York City, December 17-21, 1999. She participated in a NATS workshop on Belting in Miami in January, and taught in the Fitzmaurice workshop, also in Miami. She was guest artist in the International Programme at the Central School of Speech and Drama, teaching workshops for the Voice course and the Musical Theatre Programme. She is taking the
certification course in Pilates-based work and will complete the training in June, 2000.
WEST CENTRAL
PAUL MEIER, University of Kansas, has been coaching Caryl Churchill’s Fen, researching the East Anglia dialect required for that show with the help of his former RADA student, Joan Washington, the play’s original dialect coach at the Royal Court. IDEA, which he founded and directs [see page 4], now has in excess of one hundred dialect samples. In his position as Associate Editor for Pedagogy for The Voice and Speech Review he has been busy preparing for the first
issue. Many of his books on tape can now be accessed on line at <HYPERLINK http://www.audiohighway.com <www.audiohighway.com> by searching for the publisher, Knowledge Products. Paul voices the characters of Plato, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Nietzsche and other historical figures in the Audio Classics series. He also is busy dialect and text coaching Henry IV Part 1. Ride With the Devil, that Paul dialect coached, opened nationally in
theatres to good reviews over Christmas.
FRED NELSON was resident voice coach for Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Staunton, Virg. for their Summer/Fall 1999 productions of Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing.
SOUTHERN
LOUIS COLAIANNI, U. Of Missouri, has been appointed Associate Editor of Pronunciation, Phonetics, Linguistics, and Dialects for The Voice and Speech Review. He taught this summer for nine weeks at the American Conservatory
Theatre Summer Training Congress. He is coaching the
Missouri Repertory Theatre’s production of Gross Indecency. He has recently coached productions of The Beauty Queen of Lennane and The Judas Kiss at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City. Louis’s biography was included in the
millennium edition of Who’s Who in the World.
LYNN METRIK joined the faculty of the newly formed Dallas Summer Musical’s School of Musical Theatre, where she teaches acting, voice/speech, accents and dialects. She is also teaching at the Dallas Children’s Theatre in their
“Simply Shakespeare” program. She served as a cantorial soloist at Temple Shalom in Dallas, TX and at Beth El
Congregation in Fort Worth, TX. Aa a part of the
contemporary Jewish folk duo “Lisa and Lynn,” she
performed in Columbus, OH, Los Altos Hill, Oakland, CA, Fort Worth, TX, and Westfield, NJ. “Lisa and Lynn” just
released their second recording “In the Light”, 12 original songs of peace, healing, love, and freedom. You can check it out on their website: <HYPERLINK “http://www.lisaandlynn.com”<www.lisaandlynn.com>
NEW ENGLAND
NANCY HOUFEK, Head of Voice & Speech, American
Repertory Theatre, Harvard University, coached Ivanov with Debra Winger and Arliss Howard, The Idiots Karamazov directed by Karin Coonrod, Loot directed by Andre Belgrader, and Full Circle directed by Robert Woodruff for the A.R.T. Mainstage. For the Institute for Advanced Theatre
Training, she coached All My Sons and Sarita. Nancy has also created a program for The Institute’s first M.F.A.
candidate with voice emphasis, Patricia Delorey, who will study with her at the A.R.T. and travel to Moscow in Spring ’01 for a residency at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
MARYA LOWRY, Brandeis U., played the title role in a
radio dramatization of Sarah Oren Jewett’s, The Flight of Betsey Lane, for broadcast on National Public Radio, as part of the award winning Scribbling Women Series.

NEWSLETTER REGIONAL EDITORS
The regional editor for your area should contact you at appropriate times to invite you to submit your professional news for publication in the Newsletter. Feel free to contact her or him at any time.

NEW ENGLAND (ME, VT, NH, CT, MA, RI)
Marya Lowry
60 Tolman Street
West Newton, MA 02465
Home phone: (617) 244-7838 Work Phone: (781) 736-3341
Fax: (617) 244-2487
lowry@brandeis.edu

MID-ATLANTIC (NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD D.C.)
Donna Snow
Department of Theatre
School of Communications & Theatre
Temple University
1301 W. Norris St
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6075
Phone & Voice-mail: (215) 204-8652 Fax: (215) 204-8566
dsnow@unix.temple.edu

WESTERN (MT, WY, ID, UT, CO, NV, AZ, NM, WA, OR, CA, AK, HI)
Kathryn Maes
Dept. of Theatre, Film & Video Production
College of Arts and Media,
University of Colorado,
Campus Box 166
P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
Phone: (303) 556-4797 Fax: (303) 556-2335
kmaes@carbon.cudenver.edu

CANADA
Anne Scrimger
Mount Royal College
Dept of Theatre and Speech
4825 Richard Rd S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T3E—6K6
Phone: (403) 240-8940 Fax: (403) 240-6215
ascrimger@mtroyal.ab.ca

SOUTH EAST (WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, FL, TN, KY)
Christine Anne Morris
Duke University Drama Program
Box 90680
Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-3348 Fax: (919) 684-8906
cmorris@duke.edu

EAST CENTRAL (OH, MI, IN, WI, IL)
Karen S. Ryker
Dept. of Theatre and Drama
6173 Vilas Hall,
821 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-2329 Fax: (608) 263-2463
ksryker@facstaff.wisc.edu

WEST CENTRAL (MN, IA, ND, SD, NE, KS)
Shawn Muller
2116 W 15th #6
Lawrence, KS 66049
Phone: (785) 840-0115
shawnm@sunflower.com

SOUTHERN (MS, LA, MO, AR, OK, TX)
Deborah Kinghorn
University of Houston
School of Theatre
Houston, TX 77204-5071
Phone: (713) 743-2915 Fax: (713) 749-1420.
dkinghorn@uh.edu

COUNTRIES OTHER THAN US AND CANADA
Linda Cartwright
7 Raines Ave.
Forrest Hill, Auckland
New Zealand
Home phone: (64-9) 410-8243 Work phone: (64-9) 815-4337 x 7106
Fax: (64-9) 815-4347
cartwright@unitec.ac.nz

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