| LC control no. | n 91055993 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Linklater, Kristin |
| Associated country | Scotland |
| Birth date | 1936-04-22 |
| Death date | 2020-06-05 |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Orkney (Scotland) |
| Affiliation | Columbia University Emerson College |
| Profession or occupation | Vocal coaches Dialogue coaches Acting teachers Actresses Theatrical producers and directors College teachers |
| Found in | Her Freeing Shakespeare's voice, 1991: CIP t.p. (Kristin Linklater) LC data base, 6-5-91 (hdg.: Linklater, Kristin) Freeing the natural voice, 2006: title page (by Kristin Linklater) back cover (Kristin Linklater is one of the best-known teachers of voice production for actors in the world of actor traning; from 1997 to 2005 she has been Professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University in New York) Wikipedia, May 2, 2016 (Kristin Linklater; Kristin Linklater (born 22 April 1936) is a Scottish vocal coach, dialect coach, acting teacher, actor, theatre director, and author; she is currently Head of Acting in the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University; brought up in the Orkney Isles, Scotland, Linklater trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; during the 1960s, she relocated to the United States and worked with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada; Linklater was a founding member in 1973 of Shakespeare & Company, which was for many years in residence on the former estate of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Massachusetts; her writings on voice include Freeing the natural voice (1976) and Freeing Shakespeare's voice (1992); she is of part Swedish descent, through her father, Scottish novelist Eric Linklater; Linklater has trained many well-known actors, including Patrick Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Alfre Woodard, Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Murray, Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Bernadette Peters; Linklater was a teacher and head of the Acting program at Emerson College from 1990-1996) Wikipedia, June 9, 2020 (Kristin Linklater; born April 22, 1936, Edinburgh, Scotland, died June 5, 2020, Housegarth, Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland) |
| Associated language | eng |
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