Lisa
Porter
Lisa Anne Porter is a designated Linklater voice instructor, an acting, voice, dialect and text professor and a professional actress and director. In addition to teaching at UC Davis, Lisa teaches in the MFA program at the American Conservatory Theatre and the BFA and MFA programs at the Academy of Art University. She was an associate professor in the BFA program at Syracuse University for six years.
Ms. Porter has also taught master classes in voice, dialect and text in the ACT Summer Training Congress and the Studio program, at San Francisco State University, Shakespeare & Company, The Tepper Center in NYC, Naropa University, California Shakespeare Festival, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She has coached voice and dialect in over thirty productions. She has performed with numerous repertory companies and Shakespeare festivals throughout the country including the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare/Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Festival/LA, Marin Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, Syracuse Stage, Sacramento Theatre Company, GeVa Theatre Company, the Magic Theatre, Interact Theatre Company, the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and Boston Theatreworks.
Ms. Porter has a B.A. in Theatre and American Studies from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theatre.
|