Singing with Ellen L.

Ellen is a proud "voice nerd" who loves everything about working with both speaking and singing voices. She has a unique combination of professional experiences: - as a clinical voice therapist in NYC, helping everyone from classroom teachers to C-level executives to college professors to Broadway performers produce their healthiest and therefore best-sounding vocal qualities in speech, singing, or both - as classroom teacher and educational theatre program designer and director - as a Production Vocal Coach on Broadway plays and musicals This combination of professional experiences allows Ellen to make the shyest young singer, the busy executive or professor, and the active professional performer equally comfortable and feeling as if they are being maximally productive in their sessions while still enjoying them. Ellen worked with the original Broadway cast of Matilda the Musical as one of two assistant Production Vocal Coaches for both speech and singing, was the sole Production Vocal Coach for the multi-Tony nominated Broadway play Hand to God, where her job largely involved facilitating safe screaming (!), and has worked 1-on-1 with performers from the Broadway casts of The Crucible, Mean Girls, Wicked, Book of Mormon, School of Rock, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, and many others. Ellen founded the training company Musical Theatre College Auditions, for whom she still coaches, and is a nationally-recognized expert in the singing aspect of musical theatre college auditions. Ellen has an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology with a clinical specialization in voice therapy and voice care and a Certificate of Clinical Competency (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She has 15 years of clinical voice therapy experience working alongside laryngologists (vocal fold specialist ENTs). Ellen is also a certified secondary classroom teacher (grades 7-12) and has happily spent 30 years as a musical theatre vocal coach at every level from pre-K shows to actual Broadway productions and education theatre director. Ellen is a highly experienced, expert teacher of all levels of speakers and singers - no one is too new or too advanced!