Vol. 12 No. 3VASTA Fall 98 p. 16
 

New England

Eric Armstrong, Brandeis U.,co-presented the workshop, "Relishing Text," with Dawn Mari McCaugherty at the ATHE '98 conference in San Antonio. Eric's current challenge is updating The Voice + Speech Source website (located at <www.brandeis.edu/speech/>) and the VASTA website, while acting in The Heart of Art, and coaching Julius Caesar and Kindertransport, all at Brandeis this fall.

Kate DeVore recently served as voice/speech coach for the Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. outdoor production of As You Like It. This fall she will serve as dialect coach for Masterpieces at Emerson College, and will again offer a class entitled, "The Joy of Discovering your Speaking Voice." In September she will go to Santa Monica to study privately with Arthur Lessac to better incorporate his work into both theatre training and clinical voice/speech pathology. Kate passes the VASTA conference planning gauntlet to Candice Brown et al. with a little relief and a lot of love.

Gary Genard will co-present a workshop at NETC in November entitled, "Speech or Singing, It's the Same Voice." The workshop combines breathing, relaxation, and energizing of the voice, with approaches to the dialogue-to- belting techniques necessary for musical theater performance. Gary is putting the finishing touches on his dissertation, to defend in October.

Nancy Houfek completed her first season with the American Repertory Theatre, coaching The Bacchae dir. by Francois Rochaix, Peter Pan and Wendy dir. by Marcus Stern, The Taming of the Shrew dir. by Andrei Serban, In the Jungle of Cities dir. by Robert Woodruff, Nobody Dies on Friday dir. by

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Regional News

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For the name of your Regional Editor, see the list on page fifteen or contact
Craig Ferre,
Fine Arts Division,
Brigham Young University - Hawaii Campus,
55-220 Kulanui Street,
Box 1953,
Laie, HI 96762,
808-293-1857 (home),
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  was very excited to perform the dance of the old man, Topeng Tua, in three temple ceremonies and for Balinese Television. She will be remounting the opera Rasa that she directed and co-wrote for the Sonic Boom Festival at the Miller Theatre in NYC on October 25th, to be followed by a run at Holy Cross College.

Gillian Lane-Plescia, after coaching Ah, Wilderness! at the Huntington, spent the early summer at the Guthrie coaching The Importance of Being Earnest and A Month in the Country with the company, and Stags and Hens with the Guthrie Experience students. Gillian was then off to Europe where she taught voice for the NTI London Program and later spent five days in Ireland collecting accents for her second Irish tape (to be completed soon). She returned to coach Streetcar. . . at Hartford Stage and Playboy of the Western World at Long Wharf. Gillian will be returning to Chicago to diction coach Mourning Becomes Electra and Mahogany at the Lyric Opera. She will also continue work on Vol. 2 of "Accents of the American South."

Marya Lowry, Brandeis U, returned to France for a month this summer to serve as voice/text coach for the European Bacchae with members of the Roy Hart Theatre, Sweden's Itheca Theatre, and Denmark's Desdemona Theatre. Marya presented at the ATHE Conference on a panel discussing "extended" voice techniques in theatre training and performance. This fall, she will play the role of Heather in Merrimack Repertory Theatre's production of David Hare's Racing Demon.

Peter Jack Tkatch has been promoted to Associate Professor of Theatre with tenure at the U. of Vermont, effective this Fall term.

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    David Wheeler, and The Imaginary Invalid dir. by Andrei Belgrader. She also coached ten Institute productions (including Mistero Buffo dir. by Francois Rochaix and Women Beware Women dir. by Brian Jucha), and taught the 1st and 2nd year voice sequence. In the spring, Nancy presented a series of lecture/workshops to the Harvard faculty on "Teaching as Performance." In June, after teaching as an Associate at the Fitzmaurice Voicework five week intensive in New York City, Nancy received the designation of Master Teacher. She is in the planning stages of hosting the next Fitzmaurice Voicework week-long training next June at the A.R.T. in Cambridge.

Lynn Kremer, Holy Cross College, recently returned from South East Asia where she continued her research on Mask Dance and Vocal tradition. She

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