and attended a workshop on "Overtone Singing," taught by Rollin Rachele (who also has authored an excellent book on the subject) in Montreal. Thanks to VASTAVOX, it was also an opportunity to get together with several other VASTA members who attended. Information on bi-tonal voice will be included in the panel Carol will be chairing at ATHE on "Extended Vocal Techniques."

Bonnie Raphael has moved into her very first (very own) home! Telephone number remains the same. New address: 305 Deepwood Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3206. In May, Bonnie also acted and sang (along with VASTA member Christine Morris) in a new production by Archipelago Theatre, Eulogy for a Warrior, written by Nor Hall and Ellen Hemphill, and directed by Ellen Hemphill.

Laura Reed will enter the MA program in English at NC State University in the fall, studying linguistics and doing research for the NC Language and Life Project.

Janet Rodgers dialect coached Tom Stoppard's Arcadia for Theatre Virginia last winter, followed by Oyamo's I am a Man and Bill Cain's Stand Up Tragedy for Theatre VCU. In May she performed in Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for the Blue Ridge Theatre Festival in Harrisonburg, VA. She is looking forward to her next two years as VASTA's president and looks forwards to seeing many of you in San Antonio in August.

Erica Tobolski, University of South Carolina, performed in May for the South Carolina Shakespeare Company in the role of Lady Macbeth. In June she attended an invited conference to discuss the future goals of the Lessac Training and Research Institute. She has recently begun private vocal coaching in the Columbia (SC) area.

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Linda Gates: Served as Dialect Coach for The Man Who Came to Dinner at Steppenwolf Theatre. The production stars John Mahoney and opens in London after the Steppenwolf run. The Northwestern Central School MA in Theatre Voice is graduating two new voice teachersRobert Anglin and Clare Hane.

Elizabeth Carlin Metz, Knox College, produced the American premiere of Primitive Science, an avant garde theatre company which was critically acclaimed during a recent engagement at the Young Vic in London. The company performed their adaptations of Kafka's The Hunger and Borge's The Imperfect Librarian. Liz also directed Macbeth at Knox.

Kathleen Mulligan completes her year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at The University of Illinois in May. In July she and husband David Studwell will be moving to Ashland, OR to begin work in newly created positions as Resident Actor/Teachers at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Dorothy Runk Mennen wrote and directed an Interactive Theatre Drama called One Woman in the Boardroom presented on April 24th for the Don Felker Leadership Conference, which bore the theme "Improving the Non-Profit Boardroom Climate." VASTA colleague Richard Sullivan Lee played the Chairman of the Board.

Karen S. Ryker has recently served as voice/dialect coach for Waiting for the Parade, Orestes and The Boyfriend, as well as directed As You Like It and Under the Gaslight for University of Wisconsin-Madison. Karen continues her on-camera and voice-over work, and has initiated a project with The Hiebing Group, whereby acting students provide inexpensive talent for commercials and industrials, and in return, get demo

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Tyne Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, completed her 50% appointment in the School of Music at UW-Madison in May and is happy to be an official full time freelance coach and actor! She is coaching King John, All's Well that Ends Well and The Taming of the Shrew in the Adams Theatre at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. She will then return to her home in Milwaukee to act and coach for the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, (where she just finished coaching Valley Song), as well as continue a busy voice-over schedule.

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Mary Coy has completed her first year as Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Mississippi. In addition to performing, teaching, and coaching shows, she is collaborating with the Ole Miss Office of Research, School of Education, and Department of English in developing a curriculum introducing elementary school aged children to Shakespeare. She is also serving as Southern Regional Editor for VASTA. You can email her at <coym@olemiss.edu> or write care of the University of Mississippi.

Robert Davis, Louisiana State University, recently received a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to create a summer institute for high school teachers entitled "Discovering Shakespeare's Voice" which is based on techniques developed for the NEH National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare, a project of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. He also directed a Shakespeare piece using some of his MFA students which is presently touring area high schools.

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