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work to voice therapy as well as voice training. She also coached Masterpieces at Emerson College, where she will teach a dialect course to the BFA students in the spring.

Nancy Houfek, American Repertory Theatre and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard U., this fall coached How I Learned to Drive (starring Debra Winger), Nobody Dies on Friday (by Robert Brustein), The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Phaedra (dir. Liz Diamond), and The Merchant of Venice (dir. Andrei Serban). She is preparing for a trip to Moscow in the spring as part of the A.R.T./ Moscow Art Theatre exchange program. She is also putting together the five-day intensive workshop of Fitzmaurice Voicework to be hosted by A.R.T. June 22-26, 1999.

Lynn Kremer, Holy Cross College, wrote the libretto for and directed Rasa, a Chamber Opera, that was performed at the Miller Theatre in NYC as part of the Sonic Boom Festival before completing a run at Holy Cross. Shirish Korde was Kremer's collaborator and the composer for the piece that was inspired by the novel "Jasmine" by Bharati Mukherjee. Soprano, Beth Keusch played the lead role and was supported by the daCapo Chamber Players. Next, Lynn will return to Bali where she will organize the shipping of the new Gamelan (an orchestra of tuned metallophones and gongs), costumes, masks, etc., purchased by Holy Cross College.

Kittie Verdolini's work as speech pathologist for performing voice has recently increased with initiation of clinical work at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, along with continued clinical activity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She also continues her

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Regional News

This column helps VASTA members network. Let everyone know of your special projects, awards, promotions, research plans and results and/or need for information and assistance. Respond when your Regional Editor calls or contact her/him with your news. An asterick (*) designates a request for information.

For the name of your Regional Editor, see the list on page 19 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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  of Vocal Arts, and Temple U. The specialty of voice care involves rapidly advancing technology, new medical and scientific knowledge, and constant advancement in patient care. This is an international meeting designed to fulfill the need for interdisciplinary communication and education. Presenters include scientists, physicians, pathologists, singers, singing teachers, and leading experts in the care of the professional voice. For further information call or write: The Voice Foundation, 1721 Pine St., Philadelphia, PA 19103; 215-735-7999; FAX 215-735-9293.

Donna Snow, Temple University, is directing Translations with the M.F.A. actors from Temple's Theater Department. She will be teaching in the Fitzmaurice Voice Intensive planned for this summer.

Elizabeth van den Berg is celebrating her promotion to assistant professor at Western Maryland College. She has worked as dialect coach on the feature film Enemy of the State. She coached Mad Forest for the Potomac Theatre Project, House of Blue Leaves and Gypsy for Theater on the Hill, and Holiday Memories for the Olney Theater. In the spring she will be coaching Song and Dance for Signature Theater.

Susan Blumert served as voice and text coach, as well as dialect coach for As You Like It at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J.

Barbara Waldinger has been awarded a Ph. D. from CUNY Graduate Center in N.Y.C. Her field is theatre and the topic of her dissertation is "Women in Popular Melodrama Theater in Turn-of-the Century, N.Y.C."

Janita Walsh is teaching speech and voice at H.B. Studios. She recently returned from her second trip to China. She filmed a mini-series for China's Central

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    research and publication activity in voice physiology, learning, and the efficacy of voice therapy.

Mid Atlantic

Barry Kur, Penn State University, attended the Lessac Planning Conference in June and is currently serving as Chair of the new Board of Mentors of the Lessac Institute of Voice and Body Training. The Board of Mentors is the certification granting body of the institute.

Procedures and application for certification will be ready via a new website in the near future. Also this summer, while teaching at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts, he was narrator for the Greenville Symphony's Fourth of July Concert and narrated a Fine Arts Series Recital of Aespop's Fables for French Horn, Piano and Narrator.

Robert Thayer Sataloff, M.D., D.M.A., Chairman of The Voice Foundation, announces the 28th Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, from June 2-6 in Philadelphia at the Sheraton Society Hill. The Symposium is being given in association with Graduate Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, the Academy

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