Since 1965 she has trained over 200 teachers in her methods they teach in a majority of the actor-training programs in the U.S., and in Australia, England, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Spain and Russia.
Kristin has published several articles on voice and has lectured and given workshops in the U.S., the UK, Europe, Russia, Taiwan and China. Freeing the Natural Voice has been translated into German, Russian, Italian, Korean, Spanish and Polish, with Finnish, French and Mandarin translations pending. With Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice (pub: 1992 TCG) her books have sold over 200,000 copies and are leading textbooks in the field.
She has written two books: Freeing the Natural Voice (first published in 1976 by Drama Publishers), and revised, expanded and re-published in 2006 as Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language. She has created and performed solo pieces, played in experimental theatre productions (Clytemnestra’s Tears and Ovid’s Metamorphoses) and appeared as Euripides’ Hecuba at the Culture Project NY in 2005. In the fall of ’97 she moved back to New York City as Professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University.Īs an actor, Kristin Linklater has played many of Shakespeare’s women (Lady Macbeth, Maria, Queen Margaret, Emilia, the Nurse, Titania) and a few of his men (notably King Lear). While based in Boston she created and co-directed with Carol Gilligan the Company of Women, an all-female Shakespeare company which ran workshops for women and girls and created all-women productions of Henry V and King Lear. In 1990 she moved to Boston to teach at Emerson College. Kristin left New York with her two-year old son Hamish for the Berkshires where she lived, teaching and acting with Shakespeare & Company for the next twelve years. In 1978 she was a co-founder with Tina Packer of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. From 1964 to 1978 she worked as vocal coach at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, the Lincoln Center Repertory Company, the Open Theater, the Negro Ensemble Company, the Manhattan Project and on Broadway. She was Master Teacher of Voice in the New York University Graduate Theatre Program (now the Tisch School of the Arts) from 1965 to 1978. In 1963 she moved to the United States opening her private studio in New York City. She said: “I want to hear the person, not the voice.” Kristin began her teacher-training with Iris Warren when she was 21 and subsequently taught at LAMDA for six years.
Warren had developed her own unique approach to training actors’ voices: from inside out rather than outside in. “Kristin grew up in Orkney and trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where the legendary Iris Warren was her voice teacher. My hopes and plans are to grow this fund with other DLTs a begin to make a sustainable and affordable training process.įrom the Kristin Linklater Voice Center Website With this in mind, I am setting aside a portion of donations from all warm ups and classes to set up a scholarship fund for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Linklater Teacher Trainees to complete the designation process. In the wake of Kristin's passing the Linklater Community has been gathering together over Zoom to make plans. This does not reflect our communities nor the people gathering together. While there are Linklater teachers across the world, in the US the overwhelming majority of Designated Linklater Teachers are white, myself included. Each Linklater teacher has their own lens through which they teach, we may all teach the exercises and hold Kristin's work, but it shifts and adapts through each one of us. I want to help expand the community of Designated Linklater Teachers to make sure that as more people have access to this work they also have access to the right teacher for them. A Fund for BIPOC Linklater Teacher Trainees
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