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Stanton Davis, speech and dialect coach 2010

Stanton Davis is a Voices of the Millennium Visiting Professor, 11 July 2010

Before coming to NIU, Stanton served as speech and dialect coach for the graduate and undergraduate actors as well as teaching speech and acting at Temple University's Theatre Department. Before that, he was at SUNY New Paltz where he taught voice, acting, Shakespeare, dramatic literature, and stage combat.

Stanton has worked professionally as an actor (stage, film and TV commercials), fight choreographer, stagehand, director, stunt man, voice coach , dialect coach and education director at theatres throughout the country. Stanton is a member of the Independent Fight Director’s Guild, and is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voice Work.

Professional credits include: The Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC) Peoples Light and Theatre, The Wilma, The Lantern, and Intrepid Theatres (in Philadelphia), Delaware Theatre Company, City Theatre of Wilmington and First State Children’s Theatre (In Delaware), The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Lab Arizona, Court Yard Players Touring Company, Arizona Jewish Theatre, AKA Theatre, Tucson Actors Studio, Candlelight Theatre Company (NYC), New Paltz Summer Rep, York Little Theatre, and the Arizona, Tucson, South West, Baltimore, Wisconsin, Park City and Utah Shakespeare Festivals.

Stanton received his MFA in Acting from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program, and his BFA from the University of Utah Actor Training Program.

Acting Head of B.F.A. Performance
Specialist in voice and speech

Education: M.F.A., University of Delaware

 

"The pupil must read the words of the piece again and again till each finest shadow of meaning has been mastered. He must next recite them with perfect simplicity and self-abandonment. The accent of truth apparent in the voice when speaking naturally is the basis of expression in singing. Light and shade, accent, sentiment, all become eloquent and persuasive. The imitation of instinctive impulse must, therefore, be the object of this special preparation."

-Manuel Garcia, Hints on Singing