Gin Hammond, a distinguished dialect and vocal coach, will make a virtual visit in DRA 135 The Expressive Voice on Nov. 18. Taught by Associate Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, Hammond is scheduled to appear 12:40-1:50 p.m. in the class.

Outside of the students in the class, space is limited for this event. Please email Professor Kemp, mlkemp@ucdavis.edu, for consideration.   

Hammond, a Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre MFA graduate, is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework™. For her work she has received grants from Allied Arts, The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Artist Trust, 4 Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been a dialect and vocal coach for 60+ shows for Seattle’s A Contemporary Theater (ACT), 5th Avenue Theater, Seattle Rep, Book-It, Taproot, Seattle Children’s Theater, Village Theater, as well as for films, and has produced over 100 voice-over reels for actors. She was the director and dialect coach for the video game, Post-Human W.A.R. and has begun working in the fields of motion capture and volumetric video.  As a voice performer, Hammond has been heard on commercials, audiobooks, radio plays, and a variety of video games including BattleTech, DotA 2, State of Decay 1 & 2, Aion, and Halo 3 ODST. She was last seen by Seattle audiences in the 28-character solo performance, “Returning the Bones,” which received multiple award nominations.