Claudia Anderson
Head of Voice and Speech
MFA University of South Carolina, M.A. Bowling Green State University, B.M. Miami University
cander11@depaul.edu

Claudia trained with Kristin Linklater and became a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher in 1991. A singer/actor, she studies with New-York-based voice teacher Richard Armstrong,who teaches in the tradition of the Roy Hart Theatre. Her additional training includes work with Patsy Rodenburg, Cicely Berry and Frankie Armstrong. Research/creative interests include singing and playing Irish/Scots music and cabaret and working on writing across the curriculum. Claudia is a founding member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and continues to be active in the organization, having served on the board, as conference planner and presenter. She has professional voice and dialect coaching credits with Next, Court, Lookingglass, Raven, and TimeLine Theatres in Chicago; in Los Angeles she worked with A Noise Within, Rubicon Theatre and The Mark Taper Forum. Her book on IPA and dialects, Bringing Speech To Life, written with Louis Colaianni, is published by Joy Press. She has taught voice and speech, acting and singing since 1974, for Edgewood City Schools in Ohio, Wright State University, Southern Methodist University and California Institute of the Arts, as well as intensives for ACT in San Francisco, The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles and Shakespeare & Co. in Massachusetts.