ABOUT

Katie Cunningham is an Assistant Professor and Head of Acting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a longtime member of the resident acting company at Clarence Brown Theatre (CBT/LORT), where she also serves as resident voice, text, and dialect coach.

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Selected acting credits include numerous leading ladies from Helen Hubbard in Murder on the Orient Express to Rosemary in Outside Mullingar and Elvira in Blithe Spirit (Clarence Brown Theatre); Lady Macbeth, Maria, and Emilia among others at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival; leading roles at Asolo Rep (dir. Frank Galati, among others); and work with several NYC companies including TACT/The Actors Company Theatre. Film/TV: Homicide Hunter, Lashes.

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Recent coaching credits span PlayMakers Repertory Company, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Rep, and Southwest Shakespeare Company, among many. She maintains a freelance coaching practice serving theatre, film/TV, academia, and corporate clients.

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Katie holds an M.F.A. from FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from UNC Chapel Hill. She is a Certified Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork and a PAVA Recognized Vocologist. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Voice, The Voice and Speech Review, The Conversation, and The Huffington Post, and on ABC Radio Australia. She is a member of AEA (since 2010), VASTA, and PAVA.