Name: Gin Hammond, MFA

Address:
Bellevue, WA
98004
U.S.A.

Phone:  (646) 283-8033

Email Address: gin@ginhammond.com

Current Affiliation: Freehold Theatre School, and various Seattle theatres.

Position and Title: Voice and Acting Instructor, Dialect Coach

Training: Voice and speech training with Bonnie Raphael, Nancy Houfek, and Catherine Fitzmaurice while studying at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre School (MFA).  Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework (2006). Speech Methods Dialect Workshop at the College of William and Mary involving intensive dialect study lead by Dudley Knight, Louis Colliani, and Gillian Lane-Plescia (2006).


Selected Work Experience: Theatres include: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Book-It Theatre, Taproot Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre and more.  Fitzmaurice Voicework Workshops include a week-long intensive with the apprentices at the Actors Theatre of Louisville (2008), assisting Catherine Fitzmaurice in introducing Fitzmaurice Voicework to teachers from the Central School and members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in London (2006), and working with the Menagerie Theatre in Cambridge U.K., demonstrating to local professionals and company members the usefulness of Fitzmaurice Voicework in multi-character solo performance (2005). Other workshops include Macha Monkey's  The Fights of Spring  Stage Combat Workshop on the University of Washington Campus (2007), teaching healthy and appropriate use of voice during stage combat, and monologue coaching for the U.S. Army team in Heidelberg, Germany (2005). Voice-Over Workshops are on-going.

Areas of Specialization: Public Speaking, Voice and Speech, Dialects, Pronunciation Improvement (aka Accent Reduction), Acting, Voice-Over.

Professional Organizations: VASTA, AEA, AFTRA, The Eastside Arts Coalition

Statement of Philosophy: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." (A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson)