Tyne Turner

About Tyne

Tyne is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting at Coastal Carolina University, Edwards College of Fine Arts and Humanities in Conway, SC where she commutes weekly from Richmond, VA. She also serves remotely as the Educational Advancement Director for Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables, FL, and freelances as a Voice, Speech, and Dialect Coach across the country.

Despite living and working in so many different places, at heart she is a Michigan kid. Born and raised in the Detroit Metropolitan area, her family founded and managed Will-O-Way Apprentice Theatre from 1942-1985. She attended Roesper School in Bloomfield Hills and received her Actors' Equity Association card in 1986 from Meadowbrook Theatre in Rochester. Her mother attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen in 1933 for violin and played at the World's Fair in Chicago with this orchestra on her 16th birthday. She has a strong connection to this very special place.

Turner has previously served on the faculties of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Minnesota B.F.A. Acting program. She also created the Theatre Program at Golda Meir School for the Gifted and Talented, where she served as Chair of Fine Arts, and the First Stage Theatre Academy, the largest children's theatre program of its kind in the country.

She is a nationally recognized speech and dialect expert and has served many prestigious companies including Utah Shakespeare Festival (Tony 2000), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theatre Centre, and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, but nothing excites her more than the artistry and commitment of the young artists we meet each year among the stately pines.

Teaching and learning is a collaborative, student-centered activity. By honoring one's students with constructivist, malleable delivery of proven craft information, innovation is inescapable and proficiency, or even mastery become not only possible, but likely.