Joanna Battles is a professional actor and director, as well as a voice, speech and dialect coach for theatre and film. Prior to her position at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Battles served as the co-head of the undergraduate program of Theatre at Louisiana State University where she taught voice, speech and acting classes in the MFA and undergraduate acting programs; and was the professional vocal coach on staff at Swine Palace Productions. In addition to her work at LSU, Battles was a faculty member and/or presented workshops at New York University, Playwright's Horizons Theatre School, Brooklyn College, Brown/Trinity Consortium, and Stonesoup Theatre Company. Battles is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework™, and a trained practitioner of Chuck Jones Vocal Technique.
MFA Brown University / Trinity Rep; BFA New York University, Playwright's Horizons Theatre School.
