WALTON WILSON

is Head of Voice and Speech and Associate Chair of the Acting Department at the Yale School of Drama. He was trained and designated as a voice teacher by Master Teacher Kristin Linklater and trained and certified as an associate teacher by Master Teacher Catherine Fitzmaurice. He has also studied voice with Richard Armstrong, Meredith Monk, Patsy Rodenburg, Jean-Rene Toussaint, and members of the Roy Hart Theatre. He has served as voice and dialect coach for productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theatre, including the world premieres of Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika, Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project, Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty, and Martha Clarke’s Endangered Species. At Yale Rep, he has served as vocal coach for the world premieres of Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff’s adaptation of Notes from Underground, Jose Rivera’s Boleros for the Disenchanted, David Adjmi’s The Evildoers, David Rabe’s The Black Monk, and Len Jenkins’ adaptation of The Birds, as well as on productions of The Unmentionables, The Cherry Orchard, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Betty's Summer Vacation, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, and Richard III. He has held faculty appointments at The Experimental Theatre Wing (NYU), Emerson College, Fordham University, and Southern Methodist University, and has been an artist-in-residence at The National Theatre Institute, American Repertory Theatre, Swine Palace Theatre, Fundacao Gulbenkian (Lisbon) and TITAN Teaterskole (Oslo). He has also led workshops for community activists in New York and for prison inmates in Massachusetts and New Mexico. He is a long-time member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. His professional acting credits include productions Off-Broadway and in regional theatres and Shakespeare festivals across the country.