Name: MASTER CLASS directed by Shauna Kanter
Uploaded: 2024-01-17T20:25:24.970Z
Duration: 2 min 37 s
Description: Master Class by Terrence McNally Directed by Shauna Kanter for the Festival of the Voice

Master Class by Terrence McNally 
Directed by Shauna Kanter
for the Festival of the Voice

Acting

Shauna is  a professional acting and singing teacher and the artistic director of Voice Theatre. She has directed over 45 main stage productions from Paris, France to Detroit, Michigan to New York City and beyond. 

Shauna has taught voice and acting in many universities in the UK and US. She has served on the faulty of NYU School for the Arts, The Stella Adler Studio and The T. Schreiber Studio. In the UK she has served on the faculty of the Mountview Theatre Conservatory, The Bristol Old Vic theatre School and  Queen Margaret College in Edinburgh.

Shauna has been a mentor to immigrant performing artists for the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has led hundreds of workshops and individual classes where singers and actors have shed non-productive habits and built healthy expressive bodies and voices. She has taught actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company to jazz artists to Broadway singers and actors. 

She is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon and SUNY College at Purchase where she earned a BFA in acting. Post grad work was at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, UK. She is published by Drama Books, "Voice and Speech Warm-up",  University of Nebraska, "Pushing Through",  Arts Navigator-London, "Taking Legacy to Germany" and featured in Cune Press, "Stage Warriors". 

Her students experience huge improvements and change in how they use their voices and bodies. Her students become the masters of specific exercises that unlock tension blocks in their bodies and voices. Students develop strength, expressiveness and confidence and as a result have a technique that will solve challenges in rehearsal and performance. 

She teaches students of all ages to "own" their own instruments as constantly developing artists whether it is acting or speaking or singing. She works out of her own studio in the East Village in NYC, or in her home in Upsate, NY and online. She teaches many different styles. 

Here are a few of the schools she has taught voice and acting: The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, T. Schreiber Studio and the New Actor's Workshop. In England at: The Mountview Theatre Conservatory, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Queen Margaret College and Middlesex University – all members of the Professional Theatre Training Programme of Great Britain. I have been a guest artist at Bowdoin College, Williams College and Harden-Simmons College. 

Looking forward to meeting you and helping you become a better artist!

MASTER CLASS directed by Shauna Kanter

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Theater Acting

Singing

Vocal Training

Film and TV Acting

Audition Prep

Method Acting

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Edinburgh Festival

People's  Choice Award - Best Director - Women's Minyan

Mentor

Grant to Combat Racism in England, Germany, Poland and France

Professional theatre training program in directing.

Post Graduate Directors Certificate

Four year conservatory training program in acting

BFA in acting

Off-Broadway: Birds on a Wire, (written/directed) Rattlestick Theatre, Retzach, 59E59 Theatre, Pushing Through, (written/directed), LA MAMA, Gaza Monologues, United Nations.

International; Pushing Though, Arches Theatre, Glasgow, Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh, Legacy, (written/directed), Bristol Old Vic, Bristol, UK, Klecks Theatre, Hanover, Germany, Olympia Theatre, Bordeaux, France, Cockpit Theatre, London. Warriors of Fate, (written/directed), Tel Aviv & Ramallah, Palestine. The Most Dangerous Time in Life, Expo 2000, Germany, Brecht on Brecht, Ashtar Theatre, Palestine, Family Cycles, Espace de la Grace, Paris. London; Sweet Love Remembered, Globe, Loveplay, Battersea Arts Centre, You Can’t Take it With You, Simmonds Theatre, After the Fall, Orpheus Descending, Mountview Theatre. Confusions, Vodka Pancakes and Opium, Bristol Old Vic. 

Voice Theatre; Woodstock; The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, End Days, Our Country’s Good, Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Season’s Greetings, Lovers, All My Sons, Blithe Spirit, ART and Summer and Smoke 

US regional: The Homecoming Project, (written/directed), Columbia Festival of the Arts, Women’s Minyan, JET Theatre-Critics Choice Award Best Director, Measure For Measure, Abilene Shakespeare Festival, Lovers & Master Class Festival of the Voice, Goiter on Rye, (written/directed), Louisiana Tech. 

Teaching; Stella Adler’s, NYU, T. Schreiber Studio. The UK; Mountview Theatre Academy, Middlesex University, The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Guest directed; Williams College, Bowdoin College, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh.

Teacher -- Director -- Artistic Director

English

You will explore how to connect and open up to your emotional life, trust your instincts and gain confidence in performance. You will explore how to work with your nerves so they serve you and not strangle your talent, in other words your nervousness can work for you instead of against you. 

Having coached actors for many years, and directed over 45 main stage productions technique and performance are my specialities. With detailed exercises you'll bring your individuality and passion to any script. You'll work on letting go of non-productive habits that impede your creative process and  increase your vocal and physical expressiveness. You'll experience how to open up your creativity to inform any role. With new exercises you will gain insights to increase your ACTOR TOOLBOX so you are equipped to face any rehearsals and performances. 

I teach many styles of acting and have been teaching acting for over 30 years. I am the Artistic Director of Voice Theatre and have directed over 45 productions on 4 continents. Check out some of the videos.

In America I have taught acting at; New York University, Stella Adler Studio, Williams College, Bowdoin College the T. Schreiber Studio and in the UK at; The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School,  Middlesex University and in London's West End at the Drill Hall Studio.

Shauna was patient and aimed to help establish more formative singing and breathing techniques for me. I've noticed a considerable difference between my singing prior to her lessons, and now after 5 lessons. I feel like I can sing through my diaphragm and am walking away with a belt of breathing, stretching, range-building, throat relaxing methods that are all entirely applicable to singing. Thank you so much Shauna!

I've been taking classes with Shauna for a few months. She is such an encouraging, warm and patient teacher!
She's been helping me to discover my weaknesses and to build and strengthen them.


I was not able to sing.  At all.  Shauna patiently taught me the basics and helped me work through my roadblocks.  Now I am able to sing on pitch and we are working on songs!  I cannot recommend her more highly.

I've been really enjoying my beginner lessons with Shauna, which I started as I wanted to improve my vocal projection and spoken confidence. I'd never had any voice or singing lessons before but Shauna has been guiding me through the basics with patience and warmth, and building my skills and confidence. She is very effective in our online classes and gives me good tips and ways to practice  to develop muscle memory. I've always felt comfortable working with her and already learned a lot so far.

Shauna is an excellent teacher! She is super patient and kind. 
Working with her has been great and I am always looking forward to my next lesson!
Highly recommend her!

Working with Shauna has been a true joy. She is kind, knowledgeable and  she truly cares about her students. I feel lucky to have found her to help me recconect with my voice. I'd wholeheartedly reccomend Shauna

I loved my sessions with Shauna!  She's very professional, friendly, and honest.  Since taking lessons with her, my voice has strengthened and sounds clearer, more confident, and better than ever.  I really recommend to anyone looking for a singing or voice training instructor!

I am just beginning,  but I have learned so much thus far. Shauna is competent, knowledgeable, professional, and patient. I would recommend her to anyone who is trying to learn more about the craft of acting and the ins and outs of show business.

SO helpful! I just had my first lesson, and now have a much better understanding of what I've *been doing with a particular monologue, versus what I *could be doing. I have way more peace than anxiety now. Shauna's voice is also so soothing.

Shauna is wonderful and I can't say enough good things about her. She is the kind of teacher that is encouraging and patient. Who takes the time to help you discover your weaknesses so you can build and strengthen them. I can feel the difference her teaching has made for me each time I perform. I've learned being an actor isn't about being pretty or safe. It's about being open and free to let the material take you to places you could only imagine. Shauna teaches you to unlock those parts of yourself and explore the possibilities.

Excellent, professional instruction.  She has helped me make significant progress.

Shauna is an excellent, super knowledgeable instructor. I immediately felt relaxed and comfortable in my lesson.

I've never acted before, and Shauna was warm, welcoming, and instantly made me feel comfortable. She creates a space that is open and relaxing. I am really looking forward to our work together.

I love her manner and kind spirit. I look forward to each week. She is showing me how to slow down and FEEL myself. I am one that feels others more often. She is fantastic in reading people and knowing what they need in particular to reach their goal.

Shauna has been great! Patient with beginners, and even in the short time I have been working with her, I've noticed the improvements.

Shauna K.

MASTER CLASS directed by Shauna Kanter

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MASTER CLASS directed by Shauna Kanter

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