Associate Professor, Theatre Arts Head of Voice and Speech,Department of Theatre Arts California State University Long Beach, CA USA andreaccaban@gmail.com
Master Teacher and Associate Director, Knight-Thompson Speechwork Associate Specialist, UC Irvine Department of Neurology Andrea Caban is Head of Voice & Speech in the Theatre Arts Department at CSU Long Beach. An award winning solo artist, she has performed her original works in Colombia, the UK, South Africa, Costa Rica, Spain and across the US. Current research: Adapting actor voice and speech training for the care of people living with ALS to prolong the ability to speak without assistive devices; Arts Based Research theatrical performance forms such as auto-ethnography, community-based theatre, and investigative theatre, and various projects in the Medical Humanities. She is the dialect expert on HowCast.com demonstrating over 35 accents, a theatrical production coach, and a speaker coach for TED talks.
MFA University of California-Irvine; BA University of South Florida.
Languages: English Specializations: KTS Certified, Private Coaching, Public Speaking, Speech & Dialects
