Christina Gutekunst has been Head of Voice at East 15 Acting School since 2003. Apart from co-writing Voice into Acting, she contributed a chapter, Organic Voice: Vocal Integration through Actor Training in a book for Routledge, Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond (edited by Christina Kapadocha, 2020).

Christina trained as an actor in Germany and Britain, and then gained her Post Graduate diploma and MA in voice studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has taught voice in numerous acting schools, has worked on voice-overs as actor and director and co-ran two theatre companies. She has also coached on productions for TV and theatre.
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What Practitioners Said about the First Edition
Introduction
Part I: Laying the Foundations
1. The Organic Acting Approach and the Voice
2. The Organic Acting Approach and the Brain
Part II: The Essential Vocal Six - And Integrating Acting into Voice
3. Alignment: Backbone of the Action
4. Breath: The Great Creative Connector
5. Centred Onset of Sound: The Vocal Identity of the Actor
6. Pitch Range: The Music of Meaning
7. Resonance: Vibrating the Experience
8. Articulation: Shaping Thought and Action
Part III: Integrating Voice into the Organic Acting Process
9. Interval: Receiving and Responding
10. Awareness, Ease and Focus
11: The Action: Given Circumstances, Interaction and Objectives
12. Vocal Embodiment of Actions
13. Seeing, Sensing and Feeling
14. Character and Voice
15. The Actor in the Space
Part IV: Integrating Voice in Rehearsal and Performance: Putting It All Together
16. Meeting the Play and the Character
17. From Impulse to Action
18. From Action to Form
Conclusion
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index