FFF: Gender Affirming Voice Workshop

🎉🏳️‍⚧️🎉 Are you part of the trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive community and want to feel more comfortable in your voice? Attend our gender-affirming voice workshop at the Q Center this Friday, Jan 30th from 3-5PM!

This 2-hour workshop will focus on the practice and application of vocal exercises created to help transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people feel more safe, affirmed, and comfortable in their voices. Participants will learn exercises that they can use to help feminize, masculinize, or androgynize their voices in daily life or public speaking. Whether it’s for community or to learn something new, we hope to see you there!

Zoe Chen (she/her) is a transgender filmmaker, educator, and activist. Zoe attended the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) where she received an MFA in Acting with a Citizen Artist Concentration for her work in A.C.T.’s education programs. As an actress, writer, and director, Zoe creates work that centers Asian-American and transgender narratives. Zoe has 10+ years’ experience as an educator, teaching various subjects to diverse populations. After 5 years of studying Linklater Voice Method pedagogy, Zoe became the first and only transgender person to become a Designated Linklater Teacher. She currently teaches voice at several schools across New York City and teaches private lessons and workshops for transgender actors and teachers both online and in person.

Christine Adaire (she/her/hers) is the former Head of Voice at American Conservatory Theatre. She is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She has worked as an actor, voice/dialect coach, and director in many regional theaters, including the Guthrie Theater, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman Theatre, Lyric Opera (Chicago), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf, and Shakespeare & Company. Christine has taught at DePaul University, National Theatre School of Canada, UMASS–Amherst and Roosevelt University. She has given workshops in: Shanghai, New Zealand, Barcelona, King’s College (London), and Birmingham City University. Her current area of research and writing is gender affirming voice.

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