Linda Gates is an actress, director, teacher, writer and Professor of Instruction in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University where she is Head of Voice and the author of Voice for Performance and Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice: A Guide for American Actors published by Northwestern University Press. As a professional voice and dialect coach, she has worked both on and off-Broadway, in Chicago, regional theatre, opera and film.

Linda Gates's special focus is coaching and directing Shakespeare and adapting poetic text for performance. She has directed with co-director Kiara Pipino The Tempest, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, and All's Well That Ends Well in which she played the Countess Roussillon at Prague Shakespeare Company and has directed and adapted Lysistrata by Aristophanes, The Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot; The Road Not Taken: The World of Robert Frost; American Voices: Home for the Rothermere Institute of Oxford University , and The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath which she performed at the Oxford Playhouse in the UK. The Thistle and the Rose began as Linda Gates's Master's Thesis for the Gallatin College of Individual Study at New York University. Visit the author's website at [...]

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter I. The Actor's Voice

Chapter II. Relaxation and Body Alignment

Chapter III. Breathing

Chapter IV. Resonance

Chapter V. The Sounds of English

Chapter VI. Special Speech Issues

Chapter VII. Keeping Your Voice Healthy

Chapter VIII. The Electronic Voice

Chapter IX. Occupational Demands on the Actor's Voice

Chapter X. An Approach to Text

Chapter XI. The Singing Voice

Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author