KTS Webinar #58: Production Coaching 101
June 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Monday, June 16th 10:00am PDT/ 1pm EDT/ 6pm BST
Have you ever been curious about vocal or dialect coaching a production? Do you already coach but wonder how someone else approaches the job? Join experienced coaches Sara Becker, Amani Dorn, and Rosie Ward as they discuss their approaches to production coaching!
Tickets for this webinar are $10. Registration will close 12 hours prior to the event and participants will then receive Zoom link information. All registrants will also receive the recording after the meeting has ended and been processed.
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Sara Becker is the head of Voice and Text at American Players Theatre where she has coached over 40 productions over sixteen seasons. Highlights include: King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline, Exit the King, A View from the Bridge, The Cure at Troy, Travesties and Endgame. She was a FAIR fellow at Oregon Shakespeare Festival under the mentorship of Scott Kaiser, and has worked on 11 productions there, including coaching Hamlet, As You Like It, American Night, Don Quixote, and Throne of Blood. Other coaching highlights include the Henriad history play cycle (Richard II, Henry IV part I and II and Henry V) at the Guthrie Theatre, The Alley Theatre (Twelfth Night, Pygmalion and others), ACT Seattle, Colorado Shakespeare, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, BAM NYC, The Acting Company and The Milwaukee Repertory Theater (Pride and Prejudice, I Am My Own Wife). She is an endowed professor of Shakespeare and Voice at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She previously taught in the MFA program at the University of Houston, and was the Head of the BFA Acting program. She won the Ross Lence award for excellence in teaching at the University of Houston in 2014. Ms. Becker holds a BA from Fordham University and is an MFA graduate of UW-Madison, where she trained extensively under Susan Sweeney.
Amani Dorn is a Dialect coach /actor/singer/dancer/teacher from Austin, Texas, currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. She received an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine and has 18 years of professional experience in performance, teaching, and coaching. She got her start performing in musicals in Austin while an undergrad at the University of Texas and has since performed and coached with and for actors all over the world. While pursuing her MFA, she was introduced to Knight-Thompson Speechwork and Fitzmaurice Voicework, and has since completed certifications in both. She continues her career as a dialect coach and looks forward to the future for this young generation of artists!
Rosie Ward is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Rosie has trained actors in voice and text at international conservatories, as well as U.S. actor training programs. Teaching credits include: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (UK), Sharjah Performing Arts Academy (UAE), Northampton University (UK), University of Houston (US), and Brigham Young University (US). Rosie has voice coached and acted in various productions at Prague Shakespeare Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Alley Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare, AD Players, Main Stage Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre at Boston University, and the University of Houston. She holds an M.A. in Voice Studies from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Houston.
