Gayle Murphy

Gayle Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Theatre and Film Department at the University of British Columbia where she teaches voice/speech and text in the BFA Acting program. She received an M.F.A. in Performance from York University and prior to specializing in voice/speech, she worked as a professional actor. She has taught at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre’s Acting School, Studio 58 and Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. For twenty-five years, Ms. Murphy has specialized in voice/speech for the actor. She has led workshops in Bangkok for the Phatravradi Theatre, in Winnipeg for the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers, in Montreal for the Quebec Federation of Drama Professional Actors’ Workshops and in Toronto for Tarragon Theatre’s Maggie Bassett Studio. In Vancouver, she coaches professional actors for stage, television and film.

For the past eighteen years, she has been on the faculty of Canada’s National Voice Intensive, a workshop that is attended by Canadian, American and international actors, voice/speech and acting teachers, and advanced theatre students. The Voice Intensive faculty collaborate to refine methodologies and to define new directions in voice, movement, and the acting of Shakespearean text.

Her current artistic research includes the investigation of the physical discipline of Authentic Movement to voice/speech and the speaking of text.