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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


Experience: Professional Voice Coaching

Voice, Text, and Dialect Coaching
The Cleveland Play House, Cleveland, Ohio- LORT B

. A Kiss for Cinderella (Peter Hackett, Director) 1999
. The Imaginary Invalid (Peter Hackett, Director) 1999
. Much Ado About Nothing (Louis Rackoff, Director) 1999
. Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven’s Playful Maziness (Pavel Dubrusky, Director) 1998
. The Grapes of Wrath (Peter Hackett, Director) 1995
. The African Company Presents Richard III (Peter Francis James, Director) 1996
. Lady From the Sea (Jackson Phippin, Director) 1996
. Antigone (Edward Payson Call, Director) 1997
. Dracula (Peter Hackett, Director) 1997

 

Dialect Coach, Cleveland Public Theatre

. One Flea Spare (Randy Rollison, Director) 2001

 

Dialect Coach, Evans Amphitheater, Cain Park

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Oliver! (Fred Sternfeld, Director) 2007

. The Secret Garden (Meryl Friedman, Director) 2005

 

Dialect Coach, Film, Welcome to Collinwood

   
. Section 8 Production, Los Angeles, California, national release October, 2002
Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo
. Produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh 2001

 

Jewish Community Center, Cleveland, Ohio  

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A Shayna Maidel (Fred Sternfeld, Director) 2007

   

Dialect Coach, Dobama Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio

. Closer (Scott Plate, Director) 2001
. The Late Henry Moss (Russ Borski, Director)

 

Dialect Coach, Fine Arts Association Corning Theater, Willoughby, OH

. A Streecar Named Desire (Russ Borski, director) 2004
. Dancing at Lughnasa (Sonia Robbins, director) 2000
. Brigadoon (Janet Shank, director) 1999

 

Dialect Coach, Beck Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland, Ohio

   
. Someone to Watch Over Me (Carol Dunne, Director) 1997
. Dancing at Lughnasa (Sue Ott Rowlands, Director) 1997
. Dialect Coach, The Working Theater, Cleveland, Ohio

 

Private Voice and Dialect Coach/Consultant, 1988 - present


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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