Christina Gutekunst
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 2084 187335
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Location
HH3.1 EAST15 LOUGHTON HATFIELDS, Loughton Campus
Profile
Biography
Christina Gutekunst has been teaching and coaching for nearly 20 years in Germany and the UK. She trained in acting and voice at schools in Stuttgart, Bremen and Berlin in Germany and also in London, and gained an MA Distinction in voice studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She taught voice in various drama schools and has been Head of Voice at East 15 since 2003. Christina has coached for both theatre such as ‘Night Breath’ by Brian Oliver and ‘Sleeping Dogs’ by Philip Osment; and TV productions such as ‘Ant and Dec’ and ‘The Bill’. She has worked as a voice over artist as well as directed voice overs at Les Frogs and for Foreign Versions and accent coaching for ‘Woyzeck’ at The Old Vic. She was a founder member of Beyond Words Theatre Company and Re: Actors Theatre Group. Her book, ‘Voice into Acting’, integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach, which she co-wrote with John Gillett, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. She is currently working on its second edition.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Voice for Theatre Arts (EA006)
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Voice I (EA115)
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Skills I (EA190)
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Voice II (EA215)
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Voice II (EA223)
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Skills II (EA290)
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Voice, Movement, Music and Singing (EA316)
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Voice, Movement, Music and Singing (EA326)
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Skills III (EA390)
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Voice (EA404)
Publications
Books (1)
Gillett, J. and Gutekunst, C., (2014). Voice into Acting Integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. 1408183560. 9781408183564
