Christine Hamel
Assistant Professor (Voice and Speech)
BA, Williams College; MFA, Boston University. Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. Additional study at Boston Conservatory (Graduate Performance Certificate, Voice), Trinity College, London (Performer's Certificate in Speech & Drama), Shakespeare & Company (Training Intensive). Certified Reiki practitioner. Joy of Phonetics/Dialects with Nina Pleasants and Louis Colaianni. Ecstatic Voice/Lamentation with Marya Lowry, Primitive Voice with Paula Langton, Roy Hart Voice with Richard Armstrong. Extensive study in Classical Voice. Voice and Dialect Coaching outside of BU includes: New Repertory Theatre (Frozen, Christmas Carol, Orson's Shadow), Stoneham Theatre (Mousetrap, Guys on Ice, The Grapes of Wrath, Young Lady from Rwanda, And Then There Were None), Vineyard Playhouse (Danny & The Deep Blue Sea, Coming Up for Air), Gloucester Stage (Wind in the Willows), Boston Playwrights' Theatre (Red Lion, King of the Jews), Regis College (Cabaret, A Midsummer Night's Dream), Worcester Stage College (Crimes of the Heart), Boston College (Marisol), Cambridge Ringe and Latin School (Medea), Hillel House (Olympics Über Alles), and Orchard Gardens Charter School. Performance experience: Actors' Shakespeare Project, New Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Stoneham Theatre, Theatre Cooperative, TheatreZone, Devanaughn Theatre, Boston Theatre Marathon, and the Boston Director's Lab. Teaching experience: Emerson College, Longy School of Music, Walnut Hill School, New England Conservatory, StageSource, and the BU Summer Theatre Institute. Christine is a Company Member of the Village Theatre Project, is on the Board of Directors of Theatre Espresso (Theatre-in-Education company), and is an artistic associate with the Gypsy Mamas. Member: Voice and Speech Trainers Association and Actors' Equity Association.