Engagingly written and elegantly illustrated, So to Speak contains a series of practical exercises for the voice inspired by Bernhardt’s work with actors, singers and writers. The book also leads the reader on a journey to the source of speech: the inner self’s desire to communicate and to be understood.

Actor, director and teacher, Colin Bernhardt has been an inspiring guide in the development of the natural voice for thousands of participants in classes and workshops in Canada and internationally. He has worked with Stratford Festival Shakespeareans, Metropolitan Opera singers, theatre and film artists as well as writers, teachers, and communicators in myriad disciplines. He is a theatre director, co-founder of the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, Nova Scotia as well as Associate Professor of English at Acadia University and a member of the Writing faculty of the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. So To Speak is his first book. Colin Bernhardt lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

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