Presenter Profile

Rena Cook is a Professor Emerita currently teaching voice at Oklahoma City University. She is also a TEDx speaker and author of four books on empowering the voice including Voice and the Young Actor, used in drama classes throughout the US & UK. She teaches directing on the University od Houston's Summer MA for Theatre Educators. She has served as voice, text and dialects coach for over 100 productions. She has an MA in Voice Studies from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, an MFA in Directing. Her guilty pleasure is voicing video games and animation. www.myvocalauthority.com