Linda Gates

Linda Gates is the Head of Voice and Professor of Instruction in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University. She trained in acting, voice and speech at Carnegie Mellon University and in New York she studied with Uta Hagen. After receiving her B.A. in Acting from San Francisco State University, she was asked to join the legendary The San Francisco Actors Workshop where she worked with Artistic Directors Jules Irving and Herbert Blau, performing in The Balcony, Gallileo, The Taming of the Shrew and The Glass Menegerie.  She received an M.A. from New York University and taught voice and speech at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University, SOA,  Yale School of Drama, Central School of Speech and Drama in England, Circle in the Square Theatre 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 of As You Like It and Old Times and visiting professor of Voice and Speech at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Linda Gates has conducted vocal workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company, VASTA, ATHE, and for the Pan European Voice Conferences in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. In l999 she helped establish a joint M.A. in Theatre Voice between Northwestern University Department of Theatre and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. Her book Voice for Performance is currently in it’s 3rd edition and published by Rowman & Littlefield and her book Speaking in Shakespeare’s Voice is published by Northwestern University Press.

This past summer Linda Gates and her acting partner Marion Sybil LInes performed her play The Thistle and the Rose  adapted from the letters, poems and court documents of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, Queen of England at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe August 11-16.  It is available on Amazon, Lulu and other online outlets.