Kristi Dana

Kristi Dana (Vocal Coach) is a voice/dialect coach, actor, teacher, and director. Her professional vocal coaching credits include Marie Antoinette at Soho Rep and Liz Lerman’s tour of Healing Wars. She has coached over 15 productions at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches voice and speech for the MFA and BFA acting programs in the Meadows School of the Arts. Kristi regularly performs as an equity actor in Dallas including at Kitchen Dog Theater and Undermain Theatre. She is the Director of Teacher Certification for mVm Miller Voice Method, a groundbreaking athletic approach to voice work for actors that uses breath to build presence and vocally dynamic performances. She is on faculty with the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), serves on its Executive Committee, and has served on the board for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). Kristi holds an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College, and a BA in Theatre Arts from Penn State University. She is a certified teacher of Miller Voice Method and Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Kristi lives in East Dallas with her cute, and slightly mischievous, Texas heeler, Izzy.