Gutekunst, ChristinaChristina Gutekunst has been Head of Voice at East 15 Acting School since 2003. Apart from co-writing Voice into Acting, she contributed a chapter, Organic Voice: Vocal Integration through Actor Training in a book for Routledge, Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond (edited by Christina Kapadocha, 2020).Christina trained as an actor in Germany and Britain, and then gained her Post Graduate diploma and MA in voice studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has taught voice in numerous acting schools, has worked on voice-overs as actor and director and co-ran two theatre companies. She has also coached on productions for TV and theatre..

Gillett, John
John Gillett trained in one of the first Stanislavski-based schools in London, the Actors Workshop. He has worked as an actor for thirty-four years, and as an acting teacher and director for over twenty-five of those. As a director and teacher, Gillett has worked for the Actors Centre, East 15, Mountview, Rose Bruford College, Italia Conti, and Arts Educational.

The first book to fully integrate acting skills with voice technique.

The first book to fully integrate acting skills with voice technique.

AcknowledgementsForewordList of illustrationsIntroductionPART ONE LAYING THE FOUNDATIONSIntroductionChapter 1 The organic acting approach and the voiceChapter 2 The organic acting approach and the brainPART TWO THE ESSENTIAL VOCAL SIX - AND INTEGRATING ACTING INTO VOICEIntroductionChapter 3 Alignment - backbone of the actionChapter 4 Breath - the great creative connectorChapter 5 Centred onset of sound - the vocal identity of the actorChapter 6 Pitch range - the music of meaningChapter 7 Resonance - vibrating the experienceChapter 8 Articulation - shaping thought and actionPART THREE INTEGRATING VOICE INTO THE ORGANIC ACTING PROCESSIntroductionChapter 9 Interval - receiving and respondingChapter 10 Awareness, ease and focusChapter 11 The action - given circumstances, interaction and objectivesChapter 12 Seeing, sensing and feelingChapter 13 Character voiceChapter 14 The actor in the spacePART FOUR INTEGRATING VOICE IN REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE - PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHERIntroductionChapter 15 Meeting the play and the characterChapter 16 From impulse to actionChapter 17 From action to formConclusionSelected bibliographyAbout the authorsIndexPermissions

How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one?Christina Gutekunst and John Gillett unite their depth of experience in voice training and acting to create an integrated and comprehensive approach informed by Stanislavski and his successors - the acting approach widely taught to actors in drama schools throughout the world. The authors create a step-by-step guide to explore how voice can:respond to our thoughts, senses, feelings, imagination and willfully express language in content and formcommunicate imaginary circumstances and human experiencetransform to adapt to different rolesconnect to a variety of audiences and spacesFeaturing over fifty illustrations by German artist Dany Heck, Voice into Acting is an essential manual for the actor seeking full vocal identity in characterization, and for the voice teacher open to new techniques, or an alternative approach, to harmonize with the actor's process.