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1. To read more about Linklater Voice Method and the development of her work, see Linklater (Citation2018). Information on the Orkney Kristin Linklater Voice Centre can be found at www.linklatervoice.com. In New York, see the Linklater Center for Voice is run at www.thelinklatercenter.com. The European contact is linklater.eu
2. There are additional photos of Kristin Linklater in this article. (See Figures S1-S9, online supplementary materials.)
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Andrea Haring
Andrea Haring is the Executive Director for The Linklater Center for Voice and Language and coordinator for Linklater teacher training. On faculty: New School University MFA Acting Program, Fordham University. Select vocal coaching: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Fosse/Verdon (Sam Rockwell), In the Blood (Russell G Jones), Hello Dolly! (Bernadette Peters), Fool for Love (Sam Rockwell), Disgraced (Brdwy), Wolf Hall (Brdwy), Lips Together, Teeth Apart (America Ferrera), John Gabriel Borkman (Alan Rickman), and Sell/Buy/Date (Sarah Jones). Corporate coaching includes: The World Economic Forum, The Obama Scholars Foundation, Columbia Business School’s Executive Program, and Non-Profit Leaders Program. Member of LAByrinth Theater.
Claudia Anderson
Claudia Anderson is a voice and speech specialist and Professor Emerita with The Theatre School, DePaul University, with 45 years of full-time teaching. She became a Designated Linklater Teacher in 1991. An original member of VASTA, serving as Board member, secretary, and conference director, she considers VASTA and the Linklater Community to be her professional homes. Currently based in Chicago, she is a singer of traditional and contemporary folk songs, songwriter, and musician. She is constantly learning and expanding, following in the footsteps of Kristin, Frankie Armstrong, and the inspiring singers, teachers, and colleagues who have shaped her life.
Fran Bennett
Fran Bennett was made a VASTA Lifetime Distinguished Member in 2009. Trained by Kristin Linklater in her first voice teacher training program, Fran taught voice at Shakespeare & Company and was an Associate with Company of Women created by Kristin and Carol Gilligan. A voice coach for the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis from 1966–1978, Fran acted there and worked with such directors as Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. Under Rockefeller and Ford Foundation grants, Fran studied movement with Litz Pisk at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has led workshops throughout the US, including the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Mississippi, and Carnegie-Mellon, as well as at LAMDA. Fran taught voice at Cal Arts from 1978–2014 and was Head of Acting from 1996–2003. She was made Faculty Emeritus in 2016. She currently teaches voice in her studio and is still acting in theatre, film, and television in Los Angeles.