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Welcome to the Kristin Linklater Voice Foundation (KLVF), the central home of the international community of Designated Linklater Teachers and supporters.

We are a membership association established in 2026 to uphold the legacy of the late Kristin Linklater. Led through the shared values of Community, Integrity and Respect, our purpose is to ensure the ongoing quality of Linklater Voice™ work.

Kristin’s vision was that everyone, whatever their means or background, would realize their potential by freeing their natural voice. 

Drawing on the progression of exercises she inherited from her teacher Iris Warren, Kristin developed and refined a methodology through 60 years of active experiential research that has become one of the world's most recognized voice pedagogies in actor training.

We are now over 300 teachers trained by Kristin, known as Designated Linklater Voice teachers (DLTs). We span the globe across 28 countries and collectively continue to train countless actors, performers, speakers and business professionals.

Patrice Johnson Chevannes

Kristin Linklater saved my voice. Because of her gentle care, I have a career today. Her voice work expanded me and gave me such confidence that I booked my first gig at Shakespeare in the Park, NY.

A few years after I had major surgery on my head and neck. I became incapacitated for two years and my vocal abilities were severely challenged.  

Kristin Linklater gently nudged my voice back into fighting shape. When I wasn’t working with her, I worked with excellent Linklater teachers and colleagues.

I would not be the respected working actor I am today if not for Kristin Linklater.

Hamish Linklater

My Mum’s work is the bomb - just do it already!

Brian Cox

When I was 16, a director invited me to attend what he described as ‘a voice class’. He said the class would be taken by, as he described her, this genius young voice teacher, Kristin Linklater.

So I attended her class not knowing what to expect . . . and it changed my life. . . forever.

Kristin Linklater taught some of the industry’s greats:

Sigourney Weaver - Actor, Golden Globe and Academy Awards

Bill Murray - Actor, Golden Globe, Emmy, BAFTA and Academy Awards

Brian Cox - Actor, Order of the British Empire and 4 Honorary Doctorates

Mikhail Baryshnikov - Dancer, choreographer, actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe nomination

Patrice Johnson Chevannes - Award-winning filmmaker, actress, writer, director and executive producer

Linklater Voice is…

A progression of exercises designed to free and strengthen the expressive capabilities of the human voice by connecting sound with our primary thought/feeling impulses.

A precise, practical, and deeply transformative practice that restores the human voice to its natural, genetically unique capacity for power, nuance, and emotional truth.

A globally recognized voice training methodology.

Constantly being refined through experiential research across the world.

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Kristin Linklater Voice Foundation supports 300 Designated Linklater Voice Teachers in 28 countries.

Designated Linklater Voice Teachers work in more than 125 universities, conservatories, theatre companies, arts organizations, and independent studios around the world:

    • Academy of Art University

    • Academy of Theatre Arts

    • American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA)

    • Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

    • Arden School of Theatre

    • BADA (British American Drama Academy)

    • Berklee College of Music

    • Binghamton University (SUNY)

    • Boston College

    • Boston University

    • California Baptist University (CBU)

    • Canadian College of Performing Arts

    • Carnegie Mellon University

    • Centro Universitario de Teatro (UNAM)

    • Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi

    • Community College of Baltimore County

    • Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts

    • Drexel University

    • Emerson College

    • Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral (ENAT)

    • Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Castilla y León

    • Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI

    • ESADE Business School

    • Folkwang Universität der Künste

    • Hochschule für Musik München

    • Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

    • Hamburger Konservatorium

    • Hartt School, University of Hartford

    • IESE Business School

    • Institut del Teatre de Barcelona

    • Institute of the Arts Barcelona

    • Konkuk University

    • Kookmin University

    • Lehigh University

    • Lehman College

    • Lee Strasberg Institute

    • LIU Brooklyn / Long Island University

    • LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)

    • Lithuania Academy of Music and Theatre

    • Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST)

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    • Molloy University / CAP21

    • New York Film Academy (NYFA)

    • New York University (NYU)

    • Northeastern University

    • Oxford School of Drama

    • Principia College

    • Purdue University Fort Wayne

    • Queens University (if referring to Queensland University this would merge with University of Queensland)

    • RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)

    • Rose Bruford College

    • Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

    • Schule des Theaters Wien

    • Sejong University

    • Seattle University

    • Smith College

    • Southern Oregon University

    • TAI Centro Universitario de Enseñanzas Artísticas

    • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

    • Universidad Panamericana

    • University of Arizona

    • University of Arkansas

    • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

    • University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

    • University of Hartford

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    • University of Iowa

    • University of Jyväskylä

    • University of Maryland, College Park

    • University of Melbourne

    • University of Nebraska–Lincoln

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    • University of North Carolina School of the Arts

    • University of Queensland

    • University of Southern California (USC)

    • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

    • Viterbo University

    • Wilfrid Laurier University

    • York University

    • Zurich University of the Arts

    • Universität Mozarteum Salzburg

    • Armito Teatro

    • CBC

    • CEUVOZ

    • El Sindicato SMA

    • Intrecci Artistici

    • L'Artes

    • La Casa di Ciascuna

    • La Jolla Playhouse

    • Laboratorio di Arti Sceniche

    • Lottounico Center

    • Lucada Mélange

    • National Theatre of Korea

    • Oregon Shakespeare Festival

    • PlayMakers Repertory Company

    • Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble

    • Resonance Studio Theatre

    • Seoul Arts Foundation

    • Shakespeare & Company

    • Stratford Festival

    • Teatro Azione

    • Teatro di Roma

    • The Barrow Group

    • The New Group

    • The Old Globe

    • The Singer's Theatre

    • The Walt Disney Company

    • WDR

    • A Daring Voice

    • A Voz Academia

    • Authentic Voice

    • Cornell Voice

    • Debra Hale Studio

    • Dynamic Voice

    • Emanuela Trovato

    • Free Your Voice

    • KALA

    • LAvoiceJOY

    • La Palabra en Movimiento

    • Lisa Porter Coaching

    • Louis Colaianni Voice and Speech Studio

    • Mary Irwin Voice

    • Moveo Voice

    • Professionally Speaking

    • SteinStimmeBlau

    • The Linklater Center

    • Vibrant Speaking

    • Vocal Profile

    • Vocal Yoga

    • Voice Evolution

    • Voice Genius

    • Voice In Progress Studio

    • Voice: Realized

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