Associate Teacher (2002)

Associate Professor
State University of New York-Brockport
Theatre Department
SUNY
Rochester, NY
also Buffalo and Syracuse
USA
585-395-5261

rchilds@brockport.edu

Ruth has been at the SUNY Brockport Department of Theatre and Music Studies since 2001. Her teaching specialties include public speaking, acting, voice and speech, improv, and the politics of theatre. Ruth has directed and acted in multiple productions at Brockport and beyond. She is a public speaking, voice and dialect coach as well as a voiceover actor. Ruth served as regional chair of the National Playwriting Program for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and has been a respondent and reader for national and regional playwriting awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Gold Medallion. Ruth is a proud member of AEA.

MFA University of Minnesota, BA Grinnell College.

Languages: English, German

Specializations: Acting, Private Coaching, Public Speaking, Speech & Dialects, Voiceover