Gwendolyn Schwinke is Resident Vocal Coach at PlayMakers Repertory Company and teaches in the MFA program at PlayMakers/UNC-Chapel Hill. She is also a Company Member at Shakespeare & Co., where she frequently works as voice/text/dialect coach and serves on the Training Faculty.
She has worked as a voice, text, dialect and/or Feldenkrais coach with Prague Shakespeare Company, Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, and in the US: Atlantic Stage, Oxford Shakespeare Festival, Frank Theatre, Cheap Theatre, and in multiple university productions. Gwendolyn is also a playwright, devisor, director, actor, and a proud member of Actors Equity.
Gwendolyn is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and Linklater Teacher Trainer, as well as a Certified Teacher of Colaianni Speech and Accent work. She has taught voice, movement and/or acting for numerous institutions including Coastal Carolina University, CAP-21, Binghamton University, University of Northern Iowa, Macalester College, Illinois Wesleyan University, and The Linklater Centre for Voice and Language. She is a Certified Feldenkrais Movement Teacher and has taught Feldenkrais in professional theatres, universities, fitness centers, senior centers and continuing education programs in the US and Czech Republic.
Gwendolyn's professional acting credits include work with PlayMakers Rep, Oxford Shakespeare Festival, Carlyle Brown & Company, Frank Theatre, Minnesota Shakespeare Project, The Playwrights' Center, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and Atlantic Stage.
Her work as a playwright has been produced or developed by Red Eye Collaboration, The Seattle Repertory Company, The Jungle Theatre and off-Broadways’ Cherry Lane Theatre among many others. Her original devised work has been produced by art galleries and theatres including Walker Art Center, Intermedia Arts Minnesota, The Jungle Theatre, The Playwrights Center and Shakespeare & Company.