Additional Information Teaching Areas: Acting, Voice for the Actor
Tenured faculty
Date of Hire: August 2003
Biography
Wendy Saver teaches studio courses in beginning and advanced vocal production, singing actor, and advanced acting (text analysis and movement technique focusing on heightened text integrated with movement. At BSU Wendy has served as vocal/text/dialect coach for over 40 productions; directed Suzan-Lori Parks’
In the Blood, Caridad Svich’s
Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues and
The Way of Water (as part of an international reading scheme),
Macbeth with colleague Drew Vidal, and the upcoming
Still Life with Iris; and acted alongside students and faculty in
Angels in America,
The Laramie Project: Revisited,
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,
Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Going to St. Ives. In addition to her courses at BSU, she has taught acting and voice at the University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Marymount Manhattan College, the University of Washington, and American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA).
Her area of expertise includes a fusion of extended vocal technique and in-depth text analysis with Eastern based movement training. Wendy has presented workshops introducing these techniques in South Africa and in the states. In addition to working with students at Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria, Wendy co-directed a field studies program to the Gauteng Province for Theatre and Dance majors. Recently she returned to South Africa to direct an adapted production of
Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues for the University of Pretoria’s student submission for the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
As a member of the p3/east studio, she regularly trains with mentors Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson. As part of a Creative Arts grant, she is currently in the process of developing a devised piece with them that focuses on Kinematics and Navigation. Her articles "Researching the Potential of Merging Suzuki's Method of Actor Training with Western Vocal Pedagogy: an Interview with Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson" and “The Disconnect Between Actor and Text” can be found in the Voice and Speech Teachers Association (VASTA) journals entitled,
Shakespeare Around the Globe and
The Moving Voice.
As an actress/singer, Wendy has worked professionally on stages across the country. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program and is a member of Actor's Equity Association (AEA).