Cynthia Barrett has served as Head of Voice and Speech for the professional actor training program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and the department of Dance and Theatre at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She's also been a visiting faculty member specializing in voice at Emory University, University of California-Davis, University of Illinois, Kennesaw State, Gainesville State, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. She has taught workshops in accent modification, vocal production, and Fitzmaurice Voicework all over the United States.
Private clients in voice production and accent modification include: Center for Disease Control, Pillowtex, Georgia Tech College of Computing, Bank of America, Stress Resources, Triad Yoga Institute, Oracle Inc., Cardiomems, High Museum of Art, BellSouth, AT&T, City of Atlanta, Dekalb County, Amli Properties, Emory Health Care, The Workout Kid, 790TheZone, Dekalb Medical, Speak Easy Spanish.
Cynthia is the dialect coach forThe Vampire Diaries and the feature film Papa. She has served as voice/text/dialect coach for the Alliance Theatre Company, Horizon Theatre Company, Actor's Express, Synchronicity Performance Group, Theatre Emory, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Metro Theatre Company, Illinois Repertory Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare and hundreds of individual actors auditioning for and performing in plays, movies and television shows. As an actor she has performed internationally in over 100 plays and currently can be seen as Judge Freeland on Drop Dead Diva as well as roles on Homeland, Tyler Perry's House of Payne and lots of commercials and industrials. She is also a narrator of several audiobooks.
She is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, holds an MFA in Acting with special studies in Voice from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a member of Actor's Equity Association and the Voice and Speech Trainer's Association (VASTA).
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