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CURRENT/RECENT PROJECTS

ACTING

  • Katie will return to Clarence Brown Theatre stage for the first time since 2023 as Heidi in What the Constitution Means to Me (March-April 2027)

  • Katie voices a principal role in the animated short The Ineffable Hum, winner of the inaugural Vimeo Short Film Grant

  • Katie returned to the acting company at Utah Shakespeare Festival for the 2024 season, playing Henrietta Leavitt in SILENT SKY

COACHING

  • Katie returned to Great River Shakespeare Festival as Voice & Text Director for Pericles and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Summer 2026)

  • Katie returned to Clarence Brown Theatre as Voice, Text, and Dialect Director for Cabaret and You Can't Take it With You (Spring 2026)

  • Katie returned to Clarence Brown Theatre as Voice and Text Director for The Play That Goes Wrong (Spring 2025)

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PRESS

  • Presentation: "Collaborative Voice Training Between Actors and SLPs: A Simulation-Based Interprofessional Model," American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, October 2026 (co-author Srihimaja Nandamudi)

  • Presentation: "Clinical Simulation Outcomes for Actor-Centered
    Voice Intervention Across Two Cohorts," Pan-American Vocology Association Symposium, October 2025 (co-author Srihimaja Nandamudi)

  • Presentation: "Seeing Sound: An Acoustic Approach to Voice for Actors," Voice Study Centre UK, November 2025 (co-author Srihimaja Nandamudi)

  • Katie appeared on WIVK radio's "What Makes You Special" to discuss her work as a dialect coach

  • Peer-reviewed journal article: "A Preliminary Report of Developing Performer-Centered Vocal Injury Rehabilitation: An Interprofessional Collaborative Practice for Graduate Students in Speech-Language Pathology and Acting," co-authored with Srihimaja Nandamudi, Journal of Voice, September 2024

  • Presentation: "Clinical Simulation in Professional Voice Labs," Pan-American Vocology Association Symposium, October 2024 (co-author Sri Nandamudi)

  • Katie won the 2024 Dorothy Mennen Research Development Grant from VASTA

  • Katie was interviewed by Huffington Post for a recent article exploring "fundie baby voice"

©2025 by Kathryn Cunningham

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