Faculty

BARRY KUR Voice and Speech
The Pennsylvania State University
116C Arts Bldg
University Park, PA 16802-2900
(814) 863-1453
FAX (814) 865-7140
bxk1@psu.edu

Associate Director of the School of Theatre, Graduate Officer and the director of the University Park Ensemble, the School of Theatre's social issues outreach theatre company. Past-President of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and currently President-elect and the Director of Certification of the Lessac Training and Research Institute. Extensive training with Arthur Lessac and Sue Ann Park. Holds a Lessac Teaching Certificate and Masters degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Voice, speech, dialect and text coach for Penn State’s School of Theatre.

Prior to his Penn State appointment, he was the Voice/Speech Trainer at Ohio University. Has been on the faculty of Lessac Summer Intensive Workshops and the South Carolina Governor’s School of the Arts and Humanities. During the spring of 2001, was an invited guest- teacher of four theatre-training programs in South Africa. Author of the textbook, Stage Dialect Studies. Recipient of Penn State’s George W. Atherton Award for Teaching Excellence.