“In addition to Standard American Speech, vocal ease, range and flexibility, there are two vitally important skills that students learn from Shane Ann – first, a way of preparing and working on one’s own that will carry an actor throughout their career, and second, learning to analyze a text in depth.”
Nancy Kawalek

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO:

• Develop the actor’s voice so that it is sensitive to and has the ability to meet the demands of language - all types of language from voice-over copy to classical texts. A monotone speech pattern or a voice that is nasal, tight, or unsupported does not allow the actor the flexibility to express the full range of what he or she is feeling
  
  
• To uncover the clear, resonant, and versatile voice, which everyone has, is one of the primary aims of the program
  
  
• Classes are structured so that each technical tool leads to the next step. All of the speech work is connected to the voice work and all of the exercises are applied to texts - poetry and prose.

THE PROGRAM INCLUDES:

• Speech (diction) exercises to learn the correct placement of all of the consonants and vowels in Standard American Speech, to eliminate regionalisms, and to give a clarity to the actor’s speech without sounding phony
  
  
• Voice work to develop a centered, supported voice by working on relaxation, breathing, resonance, stress, volume, and melody
  
  
• A variety of exercises applying the speech and voice work to prose passages and poetry. The poetry work begins with contemporary poems and ends with Restoration and Elizabethan poems and the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

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