Associate Teacher (2006)

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
USA
617-407-4094

karen.kopryanski@gmail.com

Karen Kopryanski is the head of voice and speech in the Department of Theatre at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught and led workshops in Canada, Italy, Russia, Austria, and Singapore, and has coached more than 75 productions in the US, including It’s A Wonderful Life, The 39 Steps, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, River Ditty, and Crimes of the Heart (all for Virginia Repertory Theatre), Milk Like Sugar (Huntington Theatre), Cabaret and La Dispute (American Repertory Theatre), Henry VIII, Macbeth, Medea, Merry Wives of Windsor, Coriolanus, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Duchess of Malfi (all for Actor's Shakespeare Project in Boston) and The Sugar Syndrome (Williamstown Theatre Festival). In Virginia, she has been seen onstage at the American Shakespeare Center (Anne Page Hates Fun) and in the Cadence/Theatre VCU joint production of The Wolves. As an actor, Karen studied at The Shakespeare Theatre's Classical Summer Conservatory where she played Celia in As You LIke It, toured with the internationally acclaimed Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theatre, and has trained with SITI Company, Patsy Rodenburg, MICHA, and the Old Trout Puppet Workshop. She has been the Reviews Editor for The Voice and Speech Review since 2021, and is an active member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. In 2022, Karen was appointed to a three-year term as a United States Fulbright Specialist. Her co-edited volume, Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text, is scheduled for publication by Routledge in early summer 2023.

MFA (Voice) American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre; BA State University of New York - Oswego.

Languages: English