LINDA GATES is a Shakespearean vocal coach, actress, and director who has worked with both British and American directors on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in regional theaters, as well as at the Prague Shakespeare Company, where she teaches, directs, and acts. Former students include Meryl Streep, Lily Rabe, Alan Paul (associate director of the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.), Irish actor James Nesbitt, and English actor James Purefoy. She has taught voice and text for Shakespeare at NYU Tisch SOA, Yale School of Drama, Circle in the Square, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and the BADA’s Midsummer in Oxford program. She is Head of Voice in the acting program in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University.
