 Leah Elyce Roy royle@wfu.edu (336) 758-4334 Scales Fine Arts Center 207B |
Leah Elyce Roy Teaching Professor Performance Leah has been teaching at WFU since 2002. As a member of the performance faculty she specializes in acting, voice & movement. She also serves as vocal and dialect coach for many productions at WFU. She has toured nationally with the Montana Repertory Theatre, and internationally with Shenendoah Shakespeare. She has also worked at the Madison Repertory Theatre in Wisconsin. Locally she has appeared with Blue Moon Theatre, at the Cherry Orchard Theatre, and in several staged readings at WFU and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Leah also provides voice-over talent for 88.5 WFDD and is a student and teacher of West African drumming and dance.In 2003, Leah started the ClassAct: Wake Forest interdisciplinary page-to-stage dramatic literature program. She was a member of the original Class Act troupe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has brought the program to Wake Forest, refunctioning the program as a vibrant undergraduate course that reaches into classrooms across the Reynolda campus. Leah’s research interests include West African drum and dance performance, history of etiquette, Asian stage discipline, and voice and body integration. Courses taught: First Year Seminars (FYS 100): Individual Graduate Study: Degrees: |
