Andrea Haring, vocal coach, educator, and Executive Director of The Linklater Center for Voice and Language, and Scott Illingworth, director, educator, and faculty member at NYU Grad Acting, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this fall for development workshops exploring embodied imagery in voice and text and Physical Actioning technique.
Andrea Haring is the Executive Director of The Linklater Center for Voice and Language in NYC. Recent Broadway plays and other projects she’s coached are: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott), American Buffalo (Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss), Walking With Ghosts (Gabriel Byrne), Fosse/Verdon (Sam Rockwell), Wolf Hall (RSC), Disgraced, Fool for Love (Sam Rockwell), Private Lives (Kim Cattrall). Off-Broadway includes: Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Liza Colon-Zayas, Patrice Johnson), In the Blood (Russell G Jones, Signature Theater), Sell/Buy/Date (Sarah Jones, MTC), Lips Together, Teeth Apart (America Ferrera, Second Stage), John Gabriel Borkman (Alan Rickman, BAM).
She is currently on faculty at The New School University MFA and BFA Acting program and Fordham University. Andrea has previously taught at Columbia University MFA Program, and Yale School of Drama. A member of the LAByrinth Theater Company, Andrea has given voice and text workshops for theater companies and acting programs in Germany, London, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Mexico, Italy, and Iceland. In her corporate work, she’s taught voice and public speaking for leadership workshops to The Obama Foundation Scholars, The World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellows, The Social Impact Fellowship Program, Columbia Business School Senior Executive Program, Senior Non-Profit Leaders Program, and to professionals of all disciplines who want freer, more expressive voices.
Scott is the Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a freelance director. He is the author of Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning (Routledge); a founder of SOCIETY, a New York City theatre company; and a Fulbright grant recipient. Scott has taught at universities and schools across the U.S. and internationally.
Directing credits span off-Broadway, regional, and international work including new play collaborations with Lucas Hnath, Mona Mansour, Christina Anderson, Ken Urban, Stefanie Zadravec, and Keith Reddin, among others. Scott’s work has been seen in New York, across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia.
Recent projects include The Verbatim Salon, a monthly fundraising event where actors perform verbatim stories taken from interviews with people interacting with the US immigration system; and The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine, a performance built entirely from audio diaries and interviews with young Ukrainians in 2022.
Scott is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (GCFT).
