Nancy Benjamin

Voice, Text, Shakespeare

Nancy Benjamin has been an associate voice, text and dialect coach for the Stratford Festival of Canada since 2000. She was co-head of voice and dialects for the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, 2009-2017, and a resident voice/text/dialects director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1993-1999. Nancy has taught master classes and workshops and coached productions for Access Acting Academy in LA, Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artists Programme, the National Art Centre in Ottawa, Berkeley Repertory Theatre (California), California Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) Nancy’s directing credits include school tour productions for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, new work for Campo Santo Theatre in San Francisco, MFA productions for A.C.T. in San Francisco, and online “radio” production for Access Acting Academy. Currently, Nancy is developing a radio production of Macbeth.