Dudley Knight

Dudley Knight was an American voicespeechdialect expert and stageTV actor with over fortyyear experience as a speech and dialect teacher and voice director for professional theatre. He conducted workshops and lectures on voice and speech for actors and voice teachers worldwide.

Knight was born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota. He became interested in Shakespeare at age 9, during a class outing to see Laurence Oliviers film version of The Cronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France . He graduated from the Yale School of Drama. He was a cofounder of Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.He retired from the University of California, Irvine, where he taught for twenty years. Knight coached voice, text, and dialects at many theatres, including the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, and American Conservatory Theatre.

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