Professionally Speaking

RESUME

Natalie McManus

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Natalie is a Voice, Speech, and Presentation Skills Coach. She is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, a Certified Forensics (public speaking) Coach, and Actor. Natalie has extensive experience teaching presentation/speaking skills at the university and professional level, working individually and in groups with clients of all ages.

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EXPERIENCE

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• Professionally Speaking - Private Voice/Speech Clients/Professional Group Workshops 2001 - present

• Voiceover work for books and training videos 2013 - present

• Reader for Metropolitan Washington Ear Inc., recorded reading for the blind, May 2015 - present

• Landon School, Adjunct, Voice & Speech/Theatre Skills, Bethesda, MD Fall 2014 - 2017

• THR 300 Voice and Speech Fundamentals, George Mason University, VA Spring 2004 - Fall 2011

• THR 301 Voice and Speech for the Performer, George Mason University, VA Spring 2005 - 2012

• Forensic League Coach, Northwest High School, Germantown, MD 2000 - 2007

• Forensic League Tournament Director, Montgomery Co. Public Schools, MD 2002 - 2007

• Shakespeare Workshops for Middle School Level, Puck’s Pals, LLC 2000 - present

• Group Classes, “Freeing the Natural Voice – Using the Linklater Approach” 1999 - present

• Educational Activist –Researched and gave numerous public speeches, Beverly, MA 1996 - 1998

• Speech-Language Pathologist – work in schools, private practice, & rehabilitation centers 1983 - present

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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• Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, 2003 - present

• Owner, President, Professionally Speaking, 2001 - present

• Toastmasters, Tally-Ho Chapter, April 2017 - present

• Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) member, 1998 - present

• Certified, Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, MD (ASHA affiliate member), 1983 - present

• National Forensic League Member, Coach and Adjudicator, 2003 - present

• Board of Directors, Peace Mountain Theatre Company, Potomac, MD, April 2014 - 2018

• Owner, Puck’s Pals, LLC, 2000 - 2017

• Adjunct Professor, George Mason University Theatre Department, Voice and Speech, 2004 - 2012

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TRAINING

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• Numerous Linklater Voice & Movement Workshops with Kristin Linklater, NY 2003 - 2013

• Five Week Voice Designation Workshop with Kristin Linklater, NY, June 2003

• Three Week Linklater Voice Apprenticeship with Andrea Haring in NYC, July 2001

• Shakespeare & Co., Lenox, MA, Jan. Month-Long Intensive Teacher-Trainee, 2000

• Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA, Jan. Month-Long Intensive Workshop 1998

• Louis Colaianni’s Joy of Phonetics Workshop, Jan. 2002

• Numerous (30hrs./2yrs.) Professional Continuing Education Classes/Workshops, 1984 - present

• Shakespeare/Clown Two-Week Intensive Workshop, Shakespeare & Co., July 1998
  (Jane Nichols, Karen Beaumont, Virginia Ness Ray)

• Teachers & Actors Two-Week Intensive Workshop – Putting Shakespeare In The Hands of Adolescents, Shakespeare & Co., July 1999 (Kevin Coleman, Mary Hartman)

• Alexander Technique, Takoma Park, MD (Diana Bradley) 1999

• Authentic Movement/Action Theater Workshop, Boston, MA (S.Hickler/O.Furshpan) 1997

• Teacher-trainee - Linklater Voice Work with Adele Cabot and Andrea Haring, 1998 - 2002

• Linklater Voice Apprenticeship with Paula Langton, Boston Univ., Spring 1998

• Linklater Voice Studio, Boston, MA, Advanced Training, (Antonio Ocampo-Guzman) 1997

• Linklater Voice Studio, Boston, MA, Introductory Training (Christopher Von Baeyer) 1997

• University of Iowa, M.A., Speech Pathology 1983

• Penn State University, B.S., Speech Pathology 1981

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