Vol. 12 No. 3VASTA
Spring/Summer 98 p. 16
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New England Eric Armstrong, will be returning to Brandeis University next year (at least!). He worked with "Shakespeare in the Ruins" in Winnipeg, Manitoba this April on their production of Much Ado About Nothing. Eric has been busy developing the <vasta.org> site and the technical information for the new VASTA bibliography. Eric hopes to revamp his "v+s" (voice plus speech) page for the World Wide Web in May; check it out at: <www.brandeis.edu/speech/>. Kate DeVore is continuing as VASTA Conference Planner for the second year, this time with Kate Ufema and Sandy Shotwell. She has recently served as voice/dialect coach for Porcelain with the SpeakEasy Stage Company, and as dialect consultant for Molly Sweeney with the Nora Theatre Company. LastNovember Kate, in conjunction with her colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, presented a talk entitled "Research to Reality: Use of Empirical Evidence in Voice Therapy" at the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) annual convention. Nancy Houfek has coached five shows for the American Repertory Theatre's 1997-98 season: The Bacchae dir. by Francois Rochaix, The Taming of the Shrew dir. by Andre Serban, In the Jungle of Cities dir. by Robert Woodruff, Nobody Dies on Friday (a new play by Robert Brustein), and The Imaginary Invalid dir. by Andre Belgrader. She has also coached the Institute student productions. Currently, Nancy is preparing to teach in the Fitzmaurice Workshop in New York City in June. Gillian Lane-Plescia, coached Blithe Spirit at Long Wharf and Nomathemba (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo) at the Huntington Theatre Company. She did a "signing" at the |
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Ginny
Kopf, author of THE DIALECT HANDBOOK, was invited to teach a master
class and give tutorials at the Actor's Studio in New York in April. She
presented her method of developing natural-sounding dialects by "becoming"
a character from a specific region, exploring their culture, attitudes,
body language, and figuring out why they talk the way they talk. Ginny was
graciously hosted by fellow VASTA member Linda Carroll and William Riley,
who teach in the MFA program at the Actor's Studio. Ginny also did a book
signing and presentation at The Drama Book Shop, along with VASTA member
Gillian Lane-Plescia (see her notice).
Elisa Lloyd, Emory University, played the title role in Candida at Actor's Express in Atlanta in April (a photo from the production appeared in the April issue of American Theatre). She also coached text/ Nigerian accents for The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka at Theater Emory, and coached text/voice for Medea at the Alliance, directed by Kenny Leon and featuring Phylicia Rashad. This summer finds her back at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival for her fourth season, coaching Henry IV , part 1, The Miser, and Measure for Measure. Carol Pendergrast, East Carolina University, is pleased to report that vocal coaching of shows is now sufficiently appreciated and recognized at ECU for the administration to have granted her a reduced teaching load for next year (9 units instead of 12). This academic year she did the voice, speech, dialect and text coaching for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Landscape of the Body, and A View From the Bridge (thanks for your valuable lists of dialect sources, Ginny Kopf!). Carol is continuing research into the mysteries of "hoomi" (bi-tonal vocal production) (Continues on p. 17) |
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Book Shop in connection with her dialect tapes, to which there is now a
new addition, viz: "Accents of the American South Vol. 1." Gillian
will be teaching for the National Theatre Institute of the O'Neill Center
in their London Summer Program.
Marya Lowry, Brandeis U, will return to the Roy Hart International Centre in France in June/July to continue work as vocal director for an outdoor production of The Bacchae which is set to open in France in late July. Julie Nelson, U. Mass, Amherst, will perform in Private Lives, by Steven Deitz at Shakespeare & Company in western Mass.
Southeast Marcia Mary Cook, attended the Colaianni & Anderson workshop in phonetics in June, and at pre-press time was also planning to attend the International Theatre Festival at Avignon, France. Other summer plans include a stay at her family's cottage in the Canadian 1000 Islands with her six children and eight grandchildren! |
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