Audition Prep with Shauna K.

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!