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dialect coach For Dracula at the Cleveland Playhouse and coached Twelfth Night at Case Western. This spring she will be serving as a Visiting Professor at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institution at Indiana U. She is currently Associate Professor of Voice at Case Western Reserve University.

Elizabeth Carlin Metz, Knox College, opened The Mill on the Floss in Chicago to universal critical acclaim. The production also marks the professional debut of VITALIST THEATRE, a new company of which Liz is artistic director. The production also enjoyed the collaborative efforts of ATME colleague, Dawn Arnold of Roosevelt Universitya collaboration initiated at last summer's combined conference. Liz also attained full faculty status at Knox and will serve as co-ordinator for Knox's Ford Center for the Fine Arts.

Susan Murray Miller, U. of Illinois, taught an Irish dialect workshop for the Centre Theatre Training and Development Center, Chicago in December. In addition she coached Italian and Russian for Circle Theatre's production of Grand Hotel, and was guest coach for Top Girls at DePaul University.

Chuck Richie was recently appointed Assistant Professor after having served a three and a half year temporary appointment at Kent State. During 1997 he served as voice/dialect coach for The Little Shop of Horrors and Seacape at KSU, and for A Christmas Carol at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival. He has also served as a voice consultant for Children of Eden at the Halle Theatre. Last summer he had the opportunity to observe the outdoor vocal demands on opera singers at the Santa Fe Opera and has performed in Death Defying Acts at the Dobama Theatre in Cleveland.

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Tyne Turner, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, directed The Mozart Project at UW this fall and did quite a bit of voice-over work. She will be coaching Valley Song and performing in a staged reading of Jitta's Atonement by Siegfried Trebitsch for the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Tyne will return to the Utah Shakespearean Festival in May to coach Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well, and King John.

West Central

* Paul Meier, U. of Kansas, has been involved as dialect coach for several theatre productions: Old Wicked Songs, Ripen Our Darkness, Die Fledermaus, Regina; dialect consultant on three feature films: To Live On (the new Aung Lee), Elmer Gantry (the remake starring Billy Baldwin), and Arlington Road (starring Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack). He has been an active member of the VASTA group exploring ways to use technology to collect, store, and transmit voice files in digital format. In October he was in residence at the U. of Nebraska at Lincoln, observing the work of fellow VASTA member, Shirley Carr Mason. He is currently directing The Seagull at the U. of Kansas where he is head of the Voice, Speech and Dialect for the Theatre and Film Department. Santa brought him a didjeridoo (the Australian aboriginal instrument that involves circular breathing and harmonic overtones!). Any other players out there? Email <pmeier@eagle.cc.ukans.edu>

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Mary Coy, U of Mississippi, is joining the ranks of the VASTA Newsletter regional editors, serving the Southern region. Welcome Mary!

Robert Davis took a sabbatical from Louisiana State U. during Fall semester of '97 to work with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA and to write various grants. Robert was promoted with tenure last spring and received the Phi Kappa Phi Teaching Award in the Creative and Performing Arts.

Western

Nancy Bandiera recently attended a conference on voice-overs in San Francisco. She started a small company, YOUR SPEAKING VOICE, and became a training consultant for Motorola. On the college level, Nancy is busy teaching acting, voice and speech, public speaking, and English as a second language. She has also been busy taking courses and writing performance works in the Ph.D. Performance Studies Program at the U. of Texas at Austin.

Fran Bennett continues as Head of Acting at Cal Arts, and recently played the Duke (Vincentio) in Measure For Measure with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare. Fran played Mrs. Quinn in the low budget feature film The Sky Is Falling, and was guest star on Parallels, an ABC Movie of the Week.

Anne-Charlotte Harvey will have the pleasure of working with Randy Reinholz, who will be directing Love's Labour's Lost in Spring 1998. It will be the second time that her department has involved two faculty members in the teaching of an advanced voice and speech class in conjunction with a specific Shakespearean production. The department will focus on bridging the gap between the "classroom" and the "stage." A series of exercises has

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