Cynthia DeCure

Cynthia S DeCure

she/her

Cynthia is a bilingual actor and dialect coach with more than 20 years of professional experience specializing in coaching accents of Spanish (in both Spanish and English).

Certified as an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and as a teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork, Cynthia was the dialect coach for El Huracán at Yale Repertory Theatre last fall. She has also coached productions at Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis, Phoenix Theatre, Long Beach Shakespeare Company, and REDCAT, and was the on-set dialect coach for the Netflix series, Orange is the New Black.

Cynthia is on the steering committee of the Latinx Theatre Commons and on the board of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, where she is Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild: her theatre credits include productions at South Coast Repertory, Long Beach Shakespeare, Knightsbridge Theater, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, and Groupo de Teatro Sinergia/Nosotros. Her film and television work encompasses featured roles in projects such as The Mambo Kings, Tomas’ Calavera, Kiss and Kill, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, All My Children, Days of Our Lives, and General Hospital.

She is also a playwright. Her play, Miss Quince, was produced in conjunction with the John Lion New Play Festival in Los Angeles, and received staged readings at Cara Mia Theater in Dallas and Urban Theater Company in Chicago.

She has previously on faculty at California State University, Stanislaus, UC Santa Barbara, University of Southern California, and California Institute of the Arts. Cynthia is co-editor of the book, Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre (Smith and Kraus, 2019).
Co-editor (along with Micha Espinosa), Latinx Actor Training (published by Routledge).
Website: cynthiadecure.com
LatinxActorTraining.com

Yale University - David Geffen School of Drama

Associate Professor

Private

(Dialect Coach, freelance theatre and on-set)

MFA California State University, Los Angeles; BA University of Southern California

Certified Teacher Knight Thompson Speechwork, Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voiceowkr®

1:1 Coaching

Acting

Cultural Identity

Equity/Diversity/Inclusion

Group Coaching/Workshops

Pedagogy

Shakespeare

Speech & Dialects

Other (Please list in your bio)

Actors Equity, SAG/AFTRA,
ATHE, Latinx Theatre Commons, Dramatists Guild

TV:Orange is the New Black (Netflix), The Affair (Showtime),
Walker: Independence- (coached Gabriela Quezada 7 episodes)
THEATRE:
Mojada: a Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Rep)
Queen of Basel (TheatreWorks Hartford)
Laughs in Spanish (Denver Center)
Cymbeline (NY Classical)
Today is My Birthday (Yale Rep)
Quixote Nuevo ( Roundhouse, Denver Center, South Coast Rep)
Measure for Measure (Yale Drama)
Alice (Yale Drama)
El Huracan (Yale Rep),
I Come from Arizona (Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis)
In The Heights (Phoenix Theater, AZ, Chance Theater, CA);
Shelter (Center for New Performance/CalArts,
The Long Road Today (South Coast Repertory) ,
Electricidad, (CSUN),
Pad Untitled by Ruth Markovsky The Importance of Being Earnest, In the Red and Brown Water at UCSB,
Broken Eggs, Anna in the Tropics, and Marisol at USC.

Co-editor LATINX ACTOR TRAINING (published by Routledge in 2023). (also authored 3 Chapters in the book.)

"La Voz de Shakespeare: Empowering Latinx Communities to embody Shakespeare's Text (chapter)
in SHAKESPEARE AND LATINIDAD by Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta

Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre (Smith and Kraus, 2019). (co-editor with Micha Espinosa).

Established

Academia

Theatrical Coaching

Film/TV Coaching

Private Coaching

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