Vocal Presence: A Conscious Journey through the Linklater Voice Technique

This workshop will guide participants through the basics of Kristin Linklater’s method of Freeing the Natural Voice, which allows speakers to use detailed imaginative skill and physical awareness to release physical and psychological tensions that limit vocal expression and inhibit the voice. The vocal skills gained from the practice of Linklater’s tools enable speakers to marry the imagination, the breath and the body, and to develop an instrument that is vocally responsive to impulse and environment. Open to any level performer. Please bring about 10 lines of text with which to play.

Instructor: Leigh Smiley
LEIGH SMILEY is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. Leigh has voice/dialect/text coached and consulted a number of theaters across the country. She has taught at Emerson College, NYU Experimental Theatre Wing, Fordham Lincoln Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts and Linklater Studio.

Leigh Smiley’s The Cassandra Project can be seen as part of the Inaugural Capital Fringe Festival at the Historic 6th & I and I on 7/23 at 6 pm, 7/26 at 10 pm, 7/27 at 7:30 pm, 7/29 at 10:15 pm or 7/30 at 2:30 pm

Workshop Capacity: 15