Robin Carr
Associate Professor (Voice/Acting)
B.A., Michigan State University
M.F.A., The University of Connecticut
E-mail: Robin.Carr@usm.edu
Robin Carr is an Associate Professor of Voice and Acting in the Department of Theatre and Dance at USM. Since she has been at Southern Miss, Robin has directed Songs for a New World, Voice of the Prairie, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, And the World Goes Round and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Ms. Carr also directed Coyote on a Fence for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) and has served on the regional selection committee for KC/ACTF. Ms. Carr has been the dialect coach for various USM productions such as Waiting for the Parade, Candida, The Country Wife and The University of New Orleans’ production of Our Country’s Good. Robin has taught at the University of Connecticut, Old Dominion University, and at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
A member of Actor’s Equity, Robin has performed such roles as Fefu in Fefu and Her Friends, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, and the Fool in King Lear. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Connecticut and a Shakespeare Acting Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Robin is a Certified Lessac Trainer.
Ms. Carr is vice president of the Voice and Speech Committee for the Southeastern Theatre Festival and is a member of the International Centre for Voice (ICV), The Lessac Training and Research Institute and Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). She is also the co-director of Midsummer Musical Theatre Experience, a musical theatre youth camp held on the campus of USM. Robin is the 2008 USM recipient of the Innovation Award for Creative Activities
Department of Theatre and Dance
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