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DEPARTMENT OF THEATER AND DANCE

 
 
Shanna Beth McGee
Associate Professor
Department of Theater and Dance


Office: Clark Hall 406
Phone: 216-368-2860
E-mail: shanna.mcgee@case.edu


About Prof. McGee

Professor McGee has been coaching voice and acting at Case since 1988. She received her vocal training from internationally known voice specialist Arthur Lessac and his master teachers, and trained in the Linklater voice
technique at Shakespeare & Company. She has studied Shakespearean text, voice, movement, and acting with London's Royal National Theatre Studio and at Shakespeare & Company. She has also studied Fitzmaurice voice technique with Catherine Fitzmaurice and Roy Hart voice technique with Judy Wilson of the Roy Hart Theatre.

McGee is a member of Actors' Equity Association and performs in Cleveland area productions. She also serves as a dialect coach for Cleveland area theaters. In 2001, McGee dialect coached for the movie, "Welcome to Collinwood," produced by George Clooney and Stephen Soderbergh. Tenacious web surfers might be able to find of copy of "Love is Teasing," a vinyl recording of folk songs McGee made in 1981 and released on the Folkway's Record label; it is now housed in the Smithsonian Museum permanent collection. Professor McGee is a recipient of a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship, is a Case Ethics Fellow, and was a Visiting Fellow at Indiana University's Poynter Center for the study of educational ethics.

McGee's Shwocase


About Prof. McGee
Professor Shanna Beth McGee has been coaching voice and acting at Case since 1988. She received her vocal training from internationally known voice specialist Arthur Lessac & his master teachers, and trained in the Linklater voice ... Continue
 
Professional Training

Roy Hart Voice Technique

Catherine Fitzmaurice Voicework

Linklater Voice Technique (Shakespearean Text Analysis)

Lessac Voice & Movement Technique

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body-Mind Centering™ Movement Technique

Royal National Theatre Summer Acting Programme

Royal National Theatre Alumni Acting Programme

Second City Cleveland

Meisner Acting Technique, Victor D’Altorio, Cleveland, Ohio

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