Jeffrey Parker

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Jeffrey Parker

Professor of Theatre

Theatre and Dance

Biography

Professional actor, director, and dialect coach. Director of Voice and Text for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. MFA in Acting, Certified Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork & Fitzmaurice Voicework. Co-author, Experiencing Speech.​​​​

Research Interests

    Voice Studies, Accents/Dialects, Shakespeare, Acting Pedagogy, Musical Theatre, Improvisation.

Teaching Interests

    "The breath is the pneuma, the soul swelling or
    breaking, and any exclusive art of breathing is likely to be a secretly mystical art." - Roland Barthes

    "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - Carl Jung

    "In the fertile land of imagination, the difference between the artist and the craftsman is this: The craftsman knows where everything is in this imaginary land. The artist, too, knows where everything is, but still manages to get lost there." - Richard Brestoff

Education

MFA in Drama - Acting

University of California, Irvine

BA in Theatre

University of California, Los Angeles

Personal Website

https://parkervoice.com

Published Works

    Caban, A., Foh, J., Parker, B. J. (2026). EXPERIENCING SPEECH: A SKILLS-BASED PANLINGUAL APPROACH TO ACTOR TRAINING -- 2nd Edition. Routledge, Parker, B. J., Caban, A., Foh, J. (2021). EXPERIENCING SPEECH: A SKILLS-BASED, PANLINGUAL APPROACH TO ACTOR TRAINING - A Beginner's Guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Routledge, es.ktspeechwork.org