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Katerina Moraitis is Head of Voice at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Australia’s premier drama school, and was previously Course Leader of the internationally renowned MA Voice Studies course at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London as well as Head of the International Centre for Voice, a professional international forum established to serve the development of teachers of voice and speech around the globe. Katerina is currently one of the world's leading voice and speech professionals, and has been responsible for training many actors and voice practitioners now working in Europe, Australia and the USA. Graduates of her training are currently working at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Guildhall School of the Arts and the University of California (San Diego), for example.
Inspired and impassioned by the power of voice and language, Katerina advocates a training at NIDA that uses the body and the voice to reveal self-awareness. It is an approach that integrates voice, speech and movement to deepen communication, human behaviour and creativity. Katerina works with actors, voice professionals and the community to connect voice and language with the imagination for more expressive and engaging communication.
Research into holistic voice practice as a means to self actualization has lead to international invitations to workshops, as well as conference invitations, and she has made a significant contribution to the Lessac book entitled Collective Writings on the Lessac Voice and Body Work: A Festschrift., ed. M. Munro, S. Turner, A. Munro and K. Campbell Florida: Llumina Press.
Her article ‘Unlocking the Voice inside Rochester Young Offenders: The Impact of Lessac Voice Training within a Socially Excluded Community’ is a knowledge transfer project that expounds the implications of voice training on the behaviour of young offenders in a socially excluded environment. The project developed out of a particular interest in the human need to be heard and the roles and responsibilities that theatre play in wider social, political and historical contexts.
She is also an elected board member of the Lessac Research and Training Institute Inc, and an associate editor of The International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), an online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts.
Katerina instills a belief that voice and speech have transformative and creative values that allow actors to express freely.
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