Kristin Linklater
Kristin Linklater | |
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Born | |
Died | 5 June 2020 Housegarth, Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland | (aged 84)
Alma mater | London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |
Occupation(s) | Actress, director, author, vocal coach, acting teacher |
Children | Hamish Linklater |
Parent(s) | Eric Linklater Marjorie MacIntyre |
Relatives | Magnus Linklater (brother) Andro Linklater (brother) |
Website | www |
Kristin Linklater (22 April 1936 – 5 June 2020) was a Scottish vocal coach, acting teacher, actor, theatre director, and author. She retired from the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University where she was professor emerita. She taught residential courses in Orkney.
Biography
Born in
Educated at
She was of partial Swedish descent, through her father, Scottish novelist Eric Linklater.[6]
Linklater trained many well-known actors, including Sir
In 2013, Linklater established the Linklater Voice Centre in Quoyloo, Orkney, Scotland, to train and coach students in voice technique. That year she was made an honorary fellow of the University of the Highlands and Islands.[8]
Her son by James Lincoln Cormeny[9] is actor Hamish Linklater, who starred in the hit Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass. Her father was novelist Eric Linklater, and her mother was social activist, Marjorie MacIntyre.[10] Her brothers Magnus and Andro Linklater are writers. She had a sister, Alison, who is a painter.[8]
On 5 June 2020, Linklater died of a heart attack at the age of 84.[3]
Bibliography
- Linklater, Kristin (June 1976). Freeing the Natural Voice. Drama Publishers. ISBN 0-89676-071-5.
- Linklater, Kristin (November 2006). Revised and Expanded Edition, Freeing the Natural Voice. Drama Publishers, an imprint of Quite Specific Media Group, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-89676-250-3.
- Linklater, Kristin (April 1992). Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text. Theatre Communications Group. ISBN 1-55936-031-3.
- Linklater, Kristin (2019). Revised and Expanded Edition, Meisterwerk Stimme, Entfaltung und Pflege eines natürlichen Instruments (5th ed.). Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, München. ISBN 978-3-497-02902-0.
References
- Project MUSE 418757.
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- ^ a b c d Genzlinger, Neil (16 June 2020). "Kristin Linklater, Who Made Actors Their Vocal Best, Dies at 84". The New York Times.
- ^ "KristinLinklater.com–Backstory"[non-primary source needed]
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- ^ Keay, J. & Keay, J. (1994) Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. London. HarperCollins.
- ^ Linklater profile, Columbia University faculty page; accessed 13 May 2014.
- ^ a b Mills, Joan (24 June 2020). "Kristin Linklater obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "James Lincoln Cormeny Obituary (2014) New York Times". Legacy.com.
- ^ Eric Linklater profile, undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography; accessed 13 May 2014.
Further reading
- Kristin Linklater at the Internet Broadway Database
- "Kristin Linklater: Acting, A Verbal Art", Columbia News Video Brief, 7 February 2000. URL accessed 4 January 2006
External links
- Kristin Linklater.com – official website
- "Erotikes", Columbia Magazine, Fall 2003
- "Balancing Acts: Anne Bogart and Kristin Linklater Debate the Current Trends in American Actor-Training"