coaching
“Christine’s role on John Proctor is the Villain went so far beyond Voice and Dialect Coach. She was truly my co-captain. She brought such patience, craft, and rigor to her work with our young ensemble helping to shape every performance. She’s a true master of her craft.”
overview
Christine has worked extensively as a voice, text, and dialect director, most recently on the area premiere of Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain at the Huntington Theatre Company. She’s proudly collaborated with some of the most exciting female directors in the business: Anna D. Shapiro, Margot Bordelon, Jenny Koons, Melia Bensussen, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, M. Bevin O’Gara, Rebecca Bradshaw, and Dawn M. Simmons, among others.
Her approach to voice coaching always centers artistry, care, cultural humility, an intentionality toward the stories we tell with our bodies and voices, and a toolkit to tell those stories in the most sustainable way possible.
Click here for an example of a recent professional dialect/accent packet.
selected productions
by Kimberly Belflower
directed by Margot Bordelon
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
2024
role: voice and dialect coach
photo credit: T. Charles Erickson
by Melinda Lopez with Maurice Emmanuel Parent
directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Lyric Stage Company, Boston, MA 2022
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston, MA 2023
Geva Theatre, Rochester, NY 2023
role: production voice coach
photo credit: Mark S. Howard
by Charles Dickens
adapted and directed by Troy Siebels
Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts
Worcester, MA
2009-2022
role: production dialect coach
photo credit: Hanover Theatre
by Madeleine George
directed by Jenny Koons
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
2021
role: voice coach
photo credit: T. Charles Erikson
by Jen Silverman
directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
2021
role: voice and text coach
photo credit: T. Charles Erikson
by Lauren Gunderson
directed by Bryn Boice
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
2021
role: dialect coach
Photo: Nile Scott Studios
by Howard Barker
directed by Richard Romagnoli
PTP/NYC: Atlantic Stage 2
New York, NY
2018
role: dialect coach
photo credit: Stan Barouh
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Cheryl Faraone
PTP/NYC: Atlantic Stage 2
New York, NY
2018
role: text coach
photo credit: Stan Barouh
by William Shakespeare
in a new translation by Migdalia Cruz
directed by Dawn Meredith Simmons
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Brookline, MA
2018
role: voice and text coach
photo credit: ASP
by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
directed by Sean Daniels
associate directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, MA
2018
role: dialect coach
photo credit: Meghan Moore
based on the Miramax Motion Picture
by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth
directed by Nancy E. Carroll
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
2018
role: dialect coach
photo credit: Nile Scott Studios
by Frank McCourt
directed by Dawn M. Simmons
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
2018
role: dialect coach
by Christopher M. Walsh
directed by Weylin Symes
Greater Boston Stage Company
Stoneham, MA
2018
role: dialect coach
by Lauren Gunderson
directed by Sean Daniels
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
2017
role: dialect coach
photo: Meghan Moore
by Ayad Akhtar
directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
2017
role: dialect coach
photo credit: T. Charles Erikson
by William Gibson
directed by Judy Braha
New Repertory Theatre
Watertown, MA
2017
role: dialect and text coach
photo credit: Andrew Brilliant
by Tony Kushner
directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
2017
role: dialect and text coach
photo credit: A. R. Sinclair
by Steven Drukman
directed by Alexander Greenfield
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
2016
role: dialect coach
photo: Meghan Moore
by Danai Gurira
directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
2016
role: dialect and text director
photo credit: A. R. Sinclair Photography
by Carla Ching
directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Lyric Stage Company
Boston, MA
2016
role: dialect coach
Regional Premiere
by Larry David
directed by Anna D. Shapiro
Cort Theatre
New York, NY
2015
role: pre-rehearsal voice coach to actor Jake Cannavale
photo credit: Jonathan Becker
by Susan Zeder
directed by Kristin Johnson & Wendy Lement
Wheelock Family Theatre
Boston, MA
2015
role: dialect coach
photo credit: Gary Ng
by Shelagh Delaney
directed by Jim Petosa
Boston Center for American Performance
Boston, MA
2015
role: dialect coach
by Clifford Odets
directed by Melia Bensussen
Huntington Theatre Company
Boston, MA
2014
role: dialect coach
photo credit: T. Charles Erikson
by Ronald Harwood
directed by Charles Towers
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
2014
role: dialect coach
by William Shakespeare
directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Actors’ Shakespeare Project, MA
2014
role: voice and text coach
photo credit: Stratton McCrady
by John Kolvenbach
directed by Kyle Fabel
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
2012
role: dialect coach
photo credit: Meghan Moore
by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Shawn LaCount
Company One
Boston, MA
2012
role: dialect coach
photo credit: Liza Voll
adapted by Matthew Spangler
based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini
directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue
New Repertory Theatre, MA
2012
role: dialect coach
photo: Paul Tate dePoo III