Since going into quarantine in March, my work - like so much of life - has moved online.
In March and April, my Fitzmaurice Voicework colleague Tuuli Nilsson invited me to teach two online practical lectures on articulation for the second-year acting students at the University of the Arts Helsinki. It was delightful to introduce some Knight-Thompson Speechwork to those students and to get them curious about what they can do with their muscles of articulation to shape sound.
In April, Dr. Masi Asare included me in the second episode of her new podcast, Voicing Across Distance. Each week, she shares a reading on voice, engages in conversation with a voice scholar, and invites a voice coach to share an exercise. I was honored to be asked to share an exercise. You can listen to Episode Two here, and I highly recommend subscribing and listening to all of the episodes.
This past weekend I was invited to remotely attend the Shanghai Theatre Academy’s Forum of Theatre, Film & TV, part of Shanghai University League’s Forum for International Young Scholars. I had the honor of listening to Catherine Fitzmaurice and other theater practitioners and scholars give remarks on the current state of theatre, film, and TV and on how we move forward from here. Much gratitude to Catherine for the invitation.
Finally, I taught the Knight-Thompson Speechwork workshop Experiencing Speech online with KTS Master Teacher Andrea Caban at the end of May. This was the 26th offering of this workshop and only the second time it’s been taught online. We had a wonderful group of participants calling in from all over the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Italy, Czechia, and England. It was truly an enriching experience, and I had a blast teaching with Andrea for the first time!
Here’s a photo from the Shanghai Theatre Academy Forum:
