Linda Gates is Professor of Instruction and the Head of Voice in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University in Chicago and Evanston, IL. She trained in acting, voice and speech at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving her B.A. in Acting from San Francisco State University where she worked with Jules Irving and Herbert Blau, Artistic Directors of The Actors Workshop of San Francisco which she joined as a company member after graduation. She received an M.A. from NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She has taught voice and speech at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in England, Circle in the Square Theater School, The British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford program and The Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hamburg, Germany. She was also a guest director and visiting professor at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has worked as a voice and dialect coach both on and off-Broadway, in Chicago, regional theatre, opera and in film. Linda is also Associate Artist at the Prague Shakespeare Festival where she directs, acts and teaches during the summer at the Prague Summer Shakespeare Intensive.