Linklater, Kristin
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Name (Latin)
Linklater, Kristin
Date of birth
1936-04-22
Date of death
2020-06-05
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Producers and directors
Acting teachers
Actresses
College teachers
Dialogue coaches
Theatrical producers and directors
Vocal coaches
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Freeing the natural voice, 2006:title page (by Kristin Linklater) back cover (Kristin Linklater is one of the best-known teachers of voice production for actors in the world of actor traning; from 1997 to 2005 she has been Professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University in New York)
- Wikipedia, June 9, 2020(Kristin Linklater; born April 22, 1936, Edinburgh, Scotland, died June 5, 2020, Housegarth, Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland)
- Wikipedia, May 2, 2016(Kristin Linklater; Kristin Linklater (born 22 April 1936) is a Scottish vocal coach, dialect coach, acting teacher, actor, theatre director, and author; she is currently Head of Acting in the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University; brought up in the Orkney Isles, Scotland, Linklater trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; during the 1960s, she relocated to the United States and worked with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada; Linklater was a founding member in 1973 of Shakespeare & Company, which was for many years in residence on the former estate of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts; her writings on voice include Freeing the natural voice (1976) and Freeing Shakespeare's voice (1992); she is of part Swedish descent, through her father, Scottish novelist Eric Linklater; Linklater has trained many well-known actors, including Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Alfre Woodard, Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Murray, Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Bernadette Peters; Linklater was a teacher and head of the Acting program at Emerson College from 1990-1996)
- Her Freeing Shakespeare's voice, 1991:CIP t.p. (Kristin Linklater)
- LC data base, 6-5-91(hdg.: Linklater, Kristin)