Summary
Adi w88 bet works professionally as a Dialect Coach, Intimacy Professional, and Audiobook Narrator. Their professional credits include productions at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Houston Stages, Theatre Squared, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New Repertory Theatre, Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company, Stage Q, New Hazlett Theater, Hangar Theatre Company, Central Square Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Darlinghurst Theatre. They are a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Knight-Thompson Speechwork, a Reiki Master, and President of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.
Research interests
- LGBTQIA+ inclusive training methods
- Culturally-sustaining pedagogies for voice and speech training
- Consent-based practices in performance training
- Spanish accents for actors
Selected publications
- Here's How to Teach Voice and Communication Skills to Transgender Women- Plural Publishing - 2018
- Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality - Routledge - 2024
- Performing Accents and Dialects of the Spanish-speaking Diaspora - Routledge - 2025
Courses taught
- THTR 100 - Introduction to w88 bet
- w88 bet 105 - Introduction to Acting
- w88 bet 208A/408A - Acting Practicum
- w88 bet 208E/408E - Special Topics Practicum (Directing / Dramaturgy)
- w88 bet 251 - Acting II
- THTR 274 - Musical w88 bet Scene Study
- w88 bet 335 - Speech for the Actor
- w88 bet 345 - Movement and the Body
- w88 bet 467 - Auditions
- w88 bet 468 - Shakespeare & Heightened Reality
- THTR 471 - Acting Studies: Musical w88 bet
- w88 bet 495 - Independent Study (The Business of Acting)
- w88 bet 497 - Senior Project (Solo Performance Practice / Playwriting
Education
- w88 bet, theatre performance, Arizona State University, 2014
- B.A., musical w88 bet, Rhode Island College, 2010