Beth McGee

    Beth McGee received her vocal training from internationally known voice specialist Arthur Lessac and his master teachers, and trained in the Linklater voice technique at Shakespeare & Company (Lennox, Massachusetts) and with Kristin Linklater. She has studied Shakespearean text, voice, movement, and acting at Shakespeare & Company and with London’s Royal National Theatre Studio. She has also studied Fitzmaurice voice technique with Catherine Fitzmaurice and the “International Phonetic Alphabet Pillows Technique” with Linklater Master Teacher Louis Colaianni. 
    In 2007 she earned a Roy Hart Theatre Voice Certificate for participating in over three hundred hours of workshops and more than thirty hours of individual voice training at the Roy Hart International Arts Centre in Maléragues, France, where she has also taught workshops with Roy Hart Theatre Master Teachers Ivan Midderigh and Marie-Paule Marthe. She has conducted international voice workshops with the Theater Union of Russia in Moscow, and with Mexico City’s Center for Voice, CEUVOZ, in Mexico. In 2009 and 2010 she conducted vocal workshops at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. for the KCACTF Irene Ryan finalists. In 2011 she was the Head Voice Coach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, where she coached Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, a bi-lingual production of The Inspector General, and was the dialect designer for The Little Prince.
    Beth was president of the Voice and Speech Trainer’s Association (VASTA) 2008-2010, during which time she presided over VASTA’s national conference in New York City with featured presenters Catherine Fitzmaurice, Arthur Lessac, Kristin Linklater, and Patsy Rodenburg, and VASTA’s third International Conference, presented in conjunction with CEUVOZ, in Mexico City.