Dip your toes into how Miller Voice Method’s Active Breath can deepen access to your spontaneity as an actor, educator, or communicator, when integrated with the Michael Chekhov Technique and Meisner Technique. In addition to a fun, low-stakes workshop, Katie Turner, Executive Director of Meisner and Chekhov Integrated Actor Training (MCIAT) and Kristi Dana, Director of mVm Miller Voice Method Teacher Certification, will share details on their studios’ exciting fall offerings.
Dr. Katie Turner is a graduate of the Meisner & Chekhov Integrated Actor Training Comprehensive Certificate Program. She is a Theatre Generalist, but her passion is working with actors, both as an acting teacher and as a director. Katie is trained in the Meisner and Chekhov techniques, and is also a specialist in Improvisational Acting, Devised Theatre, Script Analysis, Standard Patient Acting, Theatre History, and Dramaturgy.
Katie is also a playwright, director, and producer. In addition to dozens of productions and company affiliations over the years, Katie ran her own theatre company, Turnkey Theatre, from 2020-2022, which specialized in original interactive plays. Her choose-your-own-adventure Gothic Melodrama Iris and the Axe won the "Outside the Box" award at the 2022 San Diego International Fringe Festival. Find Turnkey Theatre's work on YouTube.
Katie has been a Lecturer in Theatre at San Diego State University since 2018, where she teaches Script Analysis, Theatre History, Voice and Movement, Theatre of Diversity, Improvisational Acting, Heritage of Storytelling, Introduction to Theatre, and graduate seminars on various topics. Among other honors, she won the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2020 and 2023.
Kristi Dana is an assistant professor of voice and speech at Southern Methodist University, is the Director of mVm Miller Voice Method’s Teacher Certification Program, and is on faculty with the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA).
She was a visiting assistant professor of voice and speech at SMU (AY 2018-2019), Penn State University (AY 2017-2018) and served as interim head of MFA Acting, Brooklyn College, CUNY (AY 2016 – 2017).
Kristi is an Equity actor and works regularly in small professional theatres in Dallas. Vocal coaching includes Liz Lerman’s Healing Wars and Marie Antoinette at Soho Rep.
Kristi was mentored by Scott Miller and Liam Joynt, hosted in part at the Graduate Acting Program at NYU | Tisch School of the Arts and is an mVm Certified Teacher. She is certified in Knight-Thompson Speechwork and holds a Certificate of Completion from the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). Her point of research, “Vocal Transparency,” investigates the efficacy of the integration of the Miller Voice Method and the Michael Chekhov Technique for actors.
MFA, acting, Brooklyn College, CUNY; MA, theatre education, Emerson College; BA, theatre arts, Penn State University.
Board Member, Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) (2018-2021); Executive Committee, Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA) (2022 - 2025).