Dr Tara McAllister-Viel
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1702 328424
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Location
EAST15 SOUTHEND GB.3.64 GATEWAY BUILDING, Southend Campus
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Academic support hours
research-based PhD supervision
Profile
Biography
Dr. Tara McAllister-Viel is Head of Voice and Speech at East 15’s Southend campus. She is also a researcher in Voice Studies and PhD supervisor for East 15’s newly established PhD programme. Her research areas include intercultural approaches to voice pedagogy, Korean p’ansori, and Anglo-American approaches to training actor’s voices. Her monograph, Training Actors’ Voices: Towards an Intercultural/Interdisciplinary Approach was recently published by Routledge (2019) as part of the Routledge Voice Studies Series. Additional recent publications include: book chapters in Intercultural Acting and Actor Training, Routledge (2019); Theatrical Speech-Acts, Routledge (2020); and Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond, Routledge (2020). Previously she led voice programmes for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2005-2012) and the Korean National University of Arts, School of Drama (2000-2002, 2004). She has been Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Voice and Speech review (2011-2017) and currently sits on the Board of the Korean Association for Voice of Performing Arts. She is a long-time member of the British Voice Association, Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association and Association for Asian Performance.
Research and professional activities
Conferences and presentations
Decolonizing voice pedagogy in UK acting conservatoires
Invited presentation, Theatre and Performance Research Association Performer Training Working Group, Theatre and Performance Research Association [TaPRA], Colchester, United Kingdom, 14/9/2022
Voices and Cultural Knowledge: building towards culturally responsive curriculum in acccent/dialect training
Invited presentation, Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference 2021, Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference Aug 2021, online, online, 8/8/2021
Key Note Speaker
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Breath use in Singing and Speaking, The Korean Association for Voice of Performing Arts 2nd symposium, Korea, Republic of, 4/2015
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Voice for Actors (EA006)
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Voice I (EA135)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Drama and Performance (Practice as Research)
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 8/1/2025
Degree subject: Drama and Performance (Practice as Research)
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/6/2024
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Young Hwang, H., McAllister-Viel, T., Mills, L. and Reed, S., (2023). Editorial. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 14 (2), 81-85
McAllister-Viel, T., (2015). The Role of Breath in Training Actors' Voices: contemporary approaches in US and UK acting conservatoires. The Korean Association for Voice in Performing Arts Journal. 2 (April 2015)
McAllister-Viel, T., (2009). Voicing Culture: Training Korean Actors' Voices through the Namdaemun Market Projects. Modern Drama. 52 (4), 426-448
McAllister-Viel, T., (2009). (Re)considering the Role of Breath in Training Actors' Voices: Insights from Dahnjeon Breathing and the Phenomena of Breath. Theatre Topics. 19 (2), 165-180
McAllister-Viel, T., (2007). Speaking with an international voice?. Contemporary Theatre Review. 17 (1), 97-106
McAllister-Viel, T., (2007). Peer Reviewed Article Casting Perceptions: The Performance of Gender as a Career Strategy. Voice and Speech Review. 5 (1), 216-223
McAllister-Viel, T., (2001). Peer-reviewed Article A Cross-Cultural Examination of Breath and Sound Production in Pansori. Voice and Speech Review. 2 (1), 297-311
Book chapters (8)
McAllister-Viel, T. and Brown, S., (2024). Training Actors' Voices and Decolonising Curriculum: Shifting Epistemologies. In: Critical Acting Pedagogies: Intersectional Approaches. Editors: Peck, L. and Stamatiou, E., . Routledge. 72- 87. 9781032494081
McAllister-Viel, T., (2023). 'Embodied Voice' and 'Voicing Body'. In: Encounters with the work of Phillip Zarrilli. Editors: Jamieson, D., Clarke, A. and O'Reilly, K., . Routledge
McAllister-Viel, T., (2021). 'Embodied Voice' and Inclusivity: Ableism and Theatre Voice Training. In: Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training: Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity. Editors: Whitfield, P., . Routledge. 188- 200. 9780367646806
McAllister-Viel, T., (2020). (Re)considering the role of touch in "re-educating" actors' body/voice. In: Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond. Editors: Kapadocha, C., . Routledge. 115- 129. 9781138360600
McAllister-Viel, T., (2019). The Role of 'Presence' in Training Actors' Voices. In: Intercultural Acting and Actor Training. Editors: Kapur, A., Sasitharan, T. and Zarrilli, P., . Routledge. 129- 146
McAllister-Viel, T., (2019). Transmitting voice pedagogy: Interweaving Korean p’ansori and contemporary modes of Anglo-American voice training.. In: Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language. Editors: Fisher-Lichte, E., Jost, T. and Jain, SI., . Routledge. 167- 167
McAllister-Viel, T., (2015). Training Actors' Voices: Towards an Intercultural/Interdisciplinary approach. In: Voice Studies Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience. Editors: Thomaidis, K. and Macpherson, B., . Routledge. 1- 218. 1138809357. 9781138809352
McAllister-Viel, T., (2009). Dahnjeon Breathing. In: Breath in Action. Editors: Boston, J. and Cook, R., . Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 978-1-84310-942-6
Reports and Papers (1)
McAllister-Viel, T., (2011). Selected Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts
Other (2)
McAllister-Viel, T., (2024).Land(mark) Voices: Voice and Identity through Spoken Word Poetry (audio installation),Being Human Festival
McAllister-Viel, T., (2022).Book Review Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice and the Voice. Voice and Speech Review. 17(2),Taylor and Francis Group
Grants and funding
2025
Land(mark) Voices
AHRC Being Human A Festival of the Humanities
2022
Voice and Identity through Spoken Word Poetry
UOE Participatory Research Fund
Contact
tamcal@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1702 328424
Location:
EAST15 SOUTHEND GB.3.64 GATEWAY BUILDING, Southend Campus
Academic support hours:
research-based PhD supervision
