Lou Anne Wright Lou Anne Wright
Professor
Voice - Speech - Dialects - Acting - Theatre History


B.A. California State University @ Northridge
M.F.A. National Theatre Conservatory
Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework
LAWright@uwyo.edu
  LOU ANNE WRIGHT is an actor, dialect coach, professor, and writer; she holds an MFA in Voice, Speech and Dialects from the National Theatre Conservatory. Lou Anne has served as voice/dialect coach for such companies as the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Playmakers Repertory, Sierra Repertory Company, the Shadow Theatre, The Fox Theatre, and the West Coast Ensemble. Lou Anne was most recently seen on television as Judy Shepard in HBO's THE LARAMIE PROJECT and she received excellent reviews for the role of Boo in THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO at the Aurora Fox Theatre in Denver. As a playwright, she authored the play KABUKI MEDEA which won the Jefferson Award for Best Production in Chicago and the Bay Area Critics Award for Best Production in San Francisco. It was also produced at the Kennedy Center. She is co-author of PLAYWRITING: FROM FORMULA TO FORM published by Harcourt Brace and is currently working on SETTING THE STAGE, a new Introduction to Theatre book for Wadsworth Publishing. Her screenwriting credits include the film adaptation of Eudora Welty's THE HITCH-HIKERS, which featured Patty Duke and Richard Hatch (and for which she was nominated for the Directors Guild of America's Lillian Gish award). Lou Anne teaches acting, voice, speech and dialects & theatre history at the University of Wyoming.
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