"Use your words."

  Rachel Hirshorn-Johnston, MFA is an Associate Professor of Voice and Speech at the School of Theatre & Dance at Texas Tech University. She is certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and an active member of Actors’ Equity (AEA), the Voice & Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), and the Pan-American Vocology Association (PAVA). Rachel coaches regionally in professional theatre and with private clients (corporate, government) on dialect acquisition, modification, and presentation skills. As an actor and coach her work has been praised (New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, among others) throughout the US and Europe in professional regional theatre. Her research examines the intersection of performance methods with atypical population subsets, largely within STEAM collaborations. Her on-going explorations in applied performance, including Submit 10 Baltimore (examining audience building and interactive storytelling in under-supported urban areas) and Remember This (examining audience stigma towards dementia-related diseases) are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Randall Rapstine is  proud to currently be a lecturer at Western Washington University in beautiful Bellingham, WA. He has taught Acting, Audition & Performance, and Public Speaking at Wayland Baptist University. He also taught playwriting at Lamar University. Randall taught Acting, Stage Management, Theatre Appreciation, Introduction to Acting, and Introduction to Cinema at Texas Tech University. His interests include actor training, directing, dramaturgy, devised theatre, site-specific theatre, theatre for social change, and Shakespeare. He has been an adjudicator for the State of Texas University Interscholastic League One-Act Play competitions and for the Dallas Summer Musical High School Theatre Awards. Rapstine also trained at the Tennessee Williams Institute at The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, the Kennedy Center, and is a Fellow of The Critics Institute at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.

Seth Warren-Crow is a sound designer and composer for theatre, dance, performance art, and digital media. He received a MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in California. Seth’s sound design combines field recordings, samples from film and other media, and voice to create intricate and uncanny soundscapes. Seth frequently collaborates with performance artist Heather Warren-Crow as warren-crow+warren-crow. Some of their notable performances include The Prague Quadrenniel of Performance and Design 2015/2019, The Porsgrunn International Theater Festival (Norway), Diapason gallery in New York, the Soundwalk Festival in Long Beach, and an artist residencey at The Museum of Performance + Design in San Francisco. Seth is Associate Professor of Sound Design for the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He was the Musical Director for the Department of Dance at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee from 2009-2013.

Tulane University Associate Professor, Amy Chaffee graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and USD's The Old Globe Theatre. Amy is a Lead Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and a professional playwright, director, producer, stand up comic, singer, actor and dialect coach in theatre, film, and TV. Recent voice coaching credits include the Netflix series, "Boots" for Marvel, she coached both "Deadpool and Wolverine," and "Avengers:Doomsday."   

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Dr. Sarah Johnson, the Head of the Dramaturgy MFA program and an Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy at Indiana University Bloomington, holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from CU Boulder and an MFA in Dramaturgy from The University of Iowa. Her research focuses on intercultural theatre, new play development and dramaturgical methodologies. Her writing has been featured in Asian Theatre Journal and Theatre Topics. She was a casebook writer for Broadway's Allegiance. In regional theatre, she has provided dramaturgical support for productions with Outpost Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Athena Arts Project, Dirtyfish Theater and several playwriting clients.

Paul Peterson is a San Diego-based Sound Designer, Live Sound Engineer, and Podcast Editor. He is a Lecturer for Sound Design and Technology at San Diego State University’s School of Theatre, Television, and Film. Prior to joining SDSU, Paul was the Sound Director at The Old Globe in San Diego for 23 years and was a Sound Technician and Electrician there for 6 years prior to that. As a Sound Designer, Paul’s work has been heard at The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CenterStage, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), The Wilma Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, San Diego Musical Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, San Diego State University, the University of San Diego, UCLA, and many others. Other Podcasts include Cocktails With The Canon, and Gather Round, both produced by The Old Globe. He received his BA in Drama with an Emphasis in Technical Design from SDSU. Paul is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA). He is also an Artist in Residence at Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego