Dialect Coach Chris Lang

Chris Lang PHONE: 970-214-3753 [email protected] Professional Theatre Current Position(s) Founding Managing Director, San Pedro Rep – Los Angeles, CA Associate Casting Director, San Pedro Rep – Los Angeles, CA Head of Voice and Speech, The Acting Matrix Conservatory – Los Angeles, CA Professional Voice Coaching American Repertory Theatre The Onion Cellar (Dec 2006) Dir. Marcus Stern Vocal Coach In collaboration with Cabaret-Punk Musical Group The Dresden Dolls World Premiere Wings of Desire (Nov 2006) Dir. Ola Mafaalani Vocal Coach Adapted by Gideon Lester, Ko van den Bosch, and Ola Mafaalani In partnership with Toneelgroep Amsterdam American Premiere Island of Slaves (May 2006) Dir. Robert Woodruff Vocal Coach Translated and adapted by Gideon Lester Orpheus X (April 2006) Dir. Robert Woodruff Vocal Coach Adapted and Written by Rinde Eckert World Premiere Romeo and Juliet (Feb 2006) Dir. Gadi Roll Asst. Vocal Coach Edited by Ryan McKittrick No Exit (Jan 2006) Dir. Jerry Mouwad Asst. Vocal Coach Edited by Mark Poklemba In association with Imago Theatre Private vocal coach for Diana Schneider (Feb 2006 – March 2007) The Good Shepherd – Universal Pictures, 2006 Underdog – Have No Fear Productions, 2007 Theatrum Elysium Melancholy Play (May 2012) Dir. Skye Noel Vocal Coach Cymbeline (August 2012) Dir. Aaron Ganz Vocal Coach The Vanek Trilogy (Nov 2012) Dir. Martin Jago Vocal Coach In Collaboration with The Wende Museum and The Czech Consul General and Cultural Affairs The Underpants (March 2013) Dir. Aaron Ganz Vocal Coach San Pedro Rep Hamlet (FA 2013) Dir. Martin Jago Vocal Coach Alik (FA 2013) Dir. Aaron Ganz Vocal Coach Wouldn’t it be Lovely? (SP 2014) Dir. Aaron Ganz Vocal and Dialects Coach The Lady of Shalott (SU 2014) Dir. Aaron Ganz Vocal and Dialects Coach Summer Stock Coaching Snowy Range Theatre and Dance Festival The Underpants (June 2009) Dir. John O’Hagan Vocal Coach The Last Five Years (July 2009) Dir. Leigh Selting Vocal Coach

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Training Programs Coaching Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma Phoenician Women (Feb 2007) Dir. Karin Coonrod Vocal Coach The Front Page (Oct 2006) Dir. Holly Derr Vocal Coach Zoya’s Apartment (Sept 2006) Dir. Scott Zigler Vocal Coach Pants on Fire (May 2006) Dir. KJ Sanchez Asst. Vocal Coach Arabian Nights (April 2006) Dir. Marcus Stern Vocal Coach Melancholy (Feb 2006) Dir. Scott Zigler Vocal Coach Zoya’s Apartment (Feb 2006) Dir. Sasha Marin Vocal Coach This is How it goes (Nov 2005) Dir. Sam Weisman Vocal Coach

Moscow Art Theatre School – Moscow, Russia Phoenician Women (SP 2007) Dir. Karin Coonrod Vocal Coach

Radcliff Institute – Cambridge, Ma The Libation Bearers (Mar 2006) Dir. Lee Breuer Vocal coach (Spoken in choral pieces using Ancient Greek Language)

Harvard University – Cambridge, Ma Playboy of the Western World (April 2006) Vocal Coach No Sex Please, We’re British (Dec 2005) Dialect Consultant Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief (Dec 2005) Dialect Consultant SLAVS! (Oct 2005) Vocal Coach University of Wyoming – Laramie, Wy The Crucible (Sept 2009) Dir. John O’Hagan Vocal Coach Hamlet (April 2010) Dir. Leigh Selting Vocal Coach

Teaching The Acting Matrix Conservatory – Los Angeles, CA As Head of Voice and Speech I have created a curriculum for our student actors Beginning Voice  This course is the student’s first introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework Speech and IPA  This course introduces students to a Non-Regional American Dialect, articulator activation, and teaches them to use the International Phonetic Alphabet as a tool for speech and dialect acquisition Intermediate Voice  This course continues to build on the basics of Fitzmaurice Voicework learned in Beginning Voice, though in this course the basics of Restructuring are introduced Dialects  The student will now use IPA and the knowledge gained in Speech and IPA to gain familiarity with various Dialects of spoken English and teaching them the tools needed to be able to learn and use ANY dialect effectively Advanced Voice  This course enables the student to put all the pieces together – from Destructuring, to Restructuring, to Speech and Dialects, and finally adding the elements of pitch and passagio work, placement, and volume Shakespeare and Text  Utilizing both movement and voice exercises the student gains a working knowledge and ability with Shakespeare including issues of scansion, rhythm, speech, and text analysis. Voice and Movement  This course is taught in collaboration with the movement faculty and aims to create a cohesive, instinctual instrument in the actor’s body utilizing both voice and movement to solve acting problems Chris Lang Harvard University – American Repertory Theatre/Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, Cambridge, MA Shakespeare Text  Course Instructor Primary Shakespeare class for 1st Year Graduate Actors at the Moscow Art Theatre School, Moscow, Russia Vocal Production  Course Instructor Primary Voice class for 1st Year Graduate Actors at the Moscow Art Theatre School, Moscow, Russia Speech and Dialects  Course Instructor Institute Voice Lab for 1st Year Graduate Actors Acting  Teaching Fellow E10 – Beginning Acting  Teaching Fellow S13 – Acting – Comedy  Teaching Fellow D17 – Beginning Acting  Teaching Fellow E10 – Beginning Acting  Teaching Asst. M.F.A. Mask Workshop  Teaching Fellow D10 – Beginning Acting Vocal Production  Teaching Fellow D28 Vocal Prod. for Stage  Teaching Asst. D28 Vocal Prod. for Stage Lectures/Workshops Taught “Generative Imaging Text Analysis” – (A five part workshop taught to students at The Acting Matrix Conservatory and members of the Fall 2013 cast of Hamlet covering a unique and comprehensive way to break down and make Shakespeare more easily accessible and actable for newcomers. Covering scansion and text analysis as in addition to vocal challenges). Los Angeles, CA (Oct 2013) “Introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework” – (An ongoing workshop series given to first level students at the Mother of Invention Acting Studio in Hollywood. This workshop covers the basics of awareness and breath and introduces students to the basic principles of Fitzmaurice Voicework.) Hollywood, CA (Aug 2012-Present) “Think it… Speak it!” – (A four-part workshop taught to Company Members at Theatrum Elysium focusing on a method of translating text and a thought process into speech patterns that are most effective for actors.) Los Angeles, CA (Aug 2012) “The Scream” – (A three-part workshop for company members at Theatrum Elysium focusing on how to safely execute extreme vocal acts such as screaming, war yells, combat sounds, death rattles, and many more) Los Angeles, CA (July 2012) “The Warm Up: An Actors Best Friend! – (A one part workshop series for young actors designed to give them the foundations of how to build their own warm up and insert it into their acting process as an integral step.) Laramie, Wheatland, Dubois, Casper, Cody and Jackson, WY (Jan 2011) “Do you Grok Shakespeare?” – (To “grok”, as coined by author Robert A. Heinlein, is to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity. A two part workshop for students at the University of Wyoming focusing on a visually based, all inclusive text analysis centered on a layered approach to text analysis – rhetorical, grammatical, scansion, sound clusters, etc.) Laramie, WY (Feb 2010) “The Pillars of the Verse” – (a two-part workshop for upper level acting students at the University of Wyoming, linking a kinesthetic awareness of physical rhythms to scansion in a study of Shakespeare’s Hamlet) Laramie, WY (Feb 2010) Chris Lang “The Five Floodgates: Taking your Voice to the Next Level” – (a one part workshop given for the participants at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Region VII, utilizing facial massage to increase vocal ability through articulator activation) Laramie, WY (Feb 2008) “Resonance: The Source of All Life” – (a one part workshop given for the participants at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Region VII hosted by the University of Wyoming, featuring massage, passive joint manipulation and stretching to actualize the actor’s own vocal awareness) Laramie, WY (Feb 2008) “X-Treme Voice: Head Resonance and the Scream” – (a one part workshop for the advanced acting students at the University of Wyoming) Laramie, WY (Sept 2007) “Acting as Communication” - (a one part workshop for the beginning acting students at the University of Wyoming) Laramie, WY (Sept 2007) “Vocal Variety and the Versatile Actor” – (a one part workshop for the intermediate acting students at the University of Wyoming) Laramie, WY (Sept 2007) “X-Treme Voice” – (a two-part workshop for the 2nd year graduate actors at the ART Institute in extreme vocal techniques) Cambridge, MA (Feb 2007) “How Dialect Shapes the Role” – (lecture demonstration for the Harvard Theatre Program’s major donors) Cambridge, MA (April 22, 2006) “Dialect in Action” – (workshop in Irish Dialects for the Harvard-Radcliff Dramatic Club) Cambridge, MA (March 2006) “Finding the Breath” – (a 4 session workshop for the Harvard-Radcliff Dramatic Club) Cambridge, MA (October 2005) Acting Regional American Repertory Theatre – Cambridge, MA Wings of Desire Dying Man (u/s) Dir. Ola Mafaalani San Pedro Rep – San Pedro, CA The Lady of Shalott Mordred Dir. Aaron Ganz Wouldn’t it be Lovely? Henry Higgins Dir. Aaron Ganz Hamlet Claudius/Ghost Dir. Martin Jago Theatrum Elysium – Los Angeles, CA Cymbeline Iachimo Dir. Aaron Ganz The Vanek Trilogy Foreman Dir. Martin Jago The Underpants Theo Dir. Aaron Ganz Off Square Theatre Company – Jackson Hole, WY The Price Victor Dir. John Hanlon Almost, Maine Jimmy/Phil/ Dir. Caryn Flanigan Randy/Lendall Film Black Hole Wyoming Gus (Lead) Happy Apathy Productions 2011 An Embarassing Oversight at the Breakers Motel (Still Miles Away) Night Clerk Happy Apathy Productions 2011 The Last Night Ivan (Lead) Student Film Training Program University of Wyoming – Laramie, WY Love’s Labors Lost Armado Dir. Leigh Selting All My Sons George Dir. Wolf Sherill Chris Lang Balm In Gilead Frank Dir. Leigh Selting Henry’s Wives (original work) Henry VIII Dir. Rebecca Hiliker Rainy Day People (original work) Biochemist Dir. William Missouri Downs The Diary of Anne Frank Nazi Dir. Rebecca Hiliker Guys and Dolls Angie the Ox Dir. Leigh Selting Noon Cecil Dir. Tom Campbell Good Morning Athens!(original work) Camera 1 Dir. William Missouri Downs Directing As You Like it (July 2008) Merely Players Acting Co. Laramie, WY The Taming of the Shrew (July 2009) Merely Players Acting Co. Laramie, WY Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Oct 2010) Albany County Theatre Co. Laramie, WY Producing The Adventures of Wingman Web Series Happy Apathy Prod. 2012 Black Hole, Wyoming Feature Film Happy Apathy Prod. 2011 An Embarassing Oversight at the Breakers Motel (Still Miles Away) Music Video Happy Apathy Prod. 2010 Two Guys Talkin’ with Chris and Cramer Podcast Radio Show Happy Apathy Prod. 2009 Voice Over The Comic Book Killer: The Lindsey and Plum Detective Series, Book 1 – Audio Book (Available on Audible, iTunes, and Amazon) – Wildside Press, LLC Jean Lorrah Collected – Audio Book (Available on Audible, iTunes, and Amazon) – Wildside Press, LLC 1290 KOWB – AM/95.1 KCGY – FM (Nov 2008 – May 2009) Staff Voice Over Artist Mates (Web Series – YouTube/Facebook) Narrator Dir. Ian Rowe Radio Two Guys Talkin’ with Chris and Cramer 1290 KOWB – AM Podcast Radio Show Midday News Anchor (Nov 2008 – May 2009) 1290 KOWB – AM Producer – Sports Line Live (Nov 2008 – May 2009)1290 KOWB – AM/95.1 KCGY – FM Film Black Hole, Wyoming Happy Apathy Productions 2010/2011 Producer, Writer, Director An Embarassing Oversight at the Breakers Motel (Still Miles Away) – Music Video for the Southern Rock Group The Floating Men Administration Theatrum Elysium – Los Angeles, CA Managing Director (March 2012 – Present) Responsible for all personnel management, hiring of design and production teams, and responsible for acting as casting director. Also responsible for managing the year long production schedule, scheduling of all rooms and facilities in coordination with property manager. Additional duties include management of all development and fundraising activities, program ad sales, and technical inventory. Kismet Rug Gallery – Jackson Hole, WY Sales Manager/Office Manager (June 2011 – Feb 2012) Gallery Owner: Jeff Nishaburi Responsible for sales, client consultations, marketing, customer service, and day to day running of the gallery operations. Also responsible for creation of a 100 page catalogue for marketing purposes, in addition to the creation of an e-commerce site for the gallery and all relevant operations. Managed inventory, and worked with ownership to decide on new pieces to purchase for sale.. Laramie GM Auto Center – Laramie, WY Sales Consultant (Aug 2008 – Nov 2008) Sales Manager: Dave Schick Responsible for serving customers at the dealership, assessing customer service needs, maintaining the car lot, and keeping up to date on product knowledge. American Repertory Theatre – Cambridge, MA Receptionist (Feb 2006 – June 2007) FOH Manager: Tracy Keene Responsible for Answering phones, receiving mail, handling customer service needs, maintaining security of the building, closing the facility after business hours, etc. Chris Lang Group Workcamps Foundation Summer Staff Program Manager (May 2004-August 2004) Supervisor: Steve Kyle Camp Locations: Colgate, OK; Muncie, IN; Mt Vernon, WA and Monument Valley, UT. Responsible for management of program staff and budget. Worked in collaboration with the camp MC to provide high quality programming for camp participants on daily basis. Monitored progress at work sites in collaboration with the crew and materials managers. Delivered material to works sites as needed. Worked with the community camp co-sponsor to provide community outreach, camp interaction and exploration of local culture. Group Workcamps Division of Group Publishing, Inc. Summer Staff Program Manager (May 2003-August 2003) Supervisor: Doc Newcomb Camp Locations: Monroe, LA; Lexington, NC; Summerville, TN; and Cookville, TN Education M.F.A in Voice and Speech Pedagogy – Harvard University - The American Repertory Theatre/M.X.A.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training B.F.A. in Theatre and Dance, minor in Dance – U. of Wyoming Training Acting: Roman Kozak, Scott Zigler, Robert Woodruff, Nancy Houfek, Jeremy Geidt, Leigh Selting, Lou Anne Wright, Wolf Sherrill Voice: Nancy Houfek, Jeff Morrison, Lou Anne Wright Dialects: Nancy Houfek, Lou Anne Wright Speech: Nancy Houfek, Vivian Majkowski, Lou Anne Wright Shakespeare/Text: David Hammond, Nancy Houfek Singing: (Tenor) Patrick Newell, Pamela Murray, Karen Lauer Movement Training Movement: Andre Droznin, Andre Shukin – Plastiques/Acrobatics Tommy Thompson – Alexander Technique Marsha Fay Knight – Bartenieff Movement Fundamentals, Period Courtesies Anna Paula Holfing – Laban Movement Fundamentals Jeremy Geidt – Masking: Half-Mask work Trey Burvant – Yoga (Ashtanga) Combat: Bob Walsh (SAFD) – Unarmed (SAFD Certified April 7, 2006) Leigh Selting (SAFD)– Unarmed, Rapier and Dagger, Smallsword, Quarterstaff Dance: Ballet: Marsha Fay Knight, General McArthur Hambrick, Anna Paula Holfing Modern: Mel Claridge, Anna Paula Holfing, Margaret Wilson, Jazz: General McArthur Hambrick, Fred C. Mann III, Mel Claridge, Afro Brazilian: Samba, Frevo, Meringue, Capoeira – Anna Paula Holfing Viewpoints: SITI Company – Workshop Series: American Repertory Theatre Suzuki: SITI Company – Workshop Series: American Repertory Theatre References Aaron Ganz – Artistic Director: San Pedro Rep, Los Angeles (646) 526-5454, [email protected] Caryn Flanigan – Former Artistic Director: Off Square Theatre Company, Jackson, WY (307) 699-2110, [email protected] Leigh Selting – Chair of Dept. of Theatre and Dance: University of Wyoming (307) 766-3287, [email protected] John O’Hagan – Professor of Acting: Principia College (618) 374-5422, [email protected] Peter Parolin – Chair of English Department – University of Wyoming (307) 742-3215, [email protected] Chris Lang Patrick Newell – Professor of Musical Theatre – University of Wyoming (307) 766-3076, [email protected] David Hammond – Professor of Acting and Directing at Guilford College (336) 316-2477, [email protected] Robert Woodruff – Freelance Director, (Former AD of American Repertory Theatre) [email protected] Kevin Cramer – Screenwriter, Executive Producer: Happy Apathy Productions (412) 389-0584, [email protected]

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