Associate Teacher (2012)
Assistant Professor
Yale School of Drama
P.O. Box 208325
New Haven, CT 06520-8325
&
New York, NY
cynthia.santos-decure@yale.edu
http://cynthiadecure.com/
Cynthia is a bilingual actor and dialect coach with more than 20 years of professional experience.
Certified as an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and as a teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork, Cynthia was the dialect coach for El Huracán at Yale Repertory Theatre last fall. She has also coached productions at Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis, Phoenix Theatre, Long Beach Shakespeare Company, and REDCAT, and was the on-set dialect coach for the Netflix series, Orange is the New Black. She also specializes in coaching accents of Spanish in both Spanish and English.
Cynthia is on the steering committee of the Latinx Theatre Commons and on the board of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, where she is Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild: her theatre credits include productions at South Coast Repertory, Long Beach Shakespeare, Knightsbridge Theater, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, and Groupo de Teatro Sinergia/Nosotros. Her film and television work encompasses featured roles in projects such as The Mambo Kings, Tomas’ Calavera, Kiss and Kill, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, All My Children, Days of Our Lives, and General Hospital.
She is also a playwright. Her play, Miss Quince, was produced in conjunction with the John Lion New Play Festival in Los Angeles, and received staged readings at Cara Mia Theater in Dallas and Urban Theater Company in Chicago.
She has previously on faculty at California State University, Stanislaus, UC Santa Barbara, University of Southern California, and California Institute of the Arts. Cynthia is co-editor of the book, Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre (Smith and Kraus, 2019).
MFA: California State University, Los Angeles BA: University of Southern California
Languages: Spanish, English
Specializations: Acting, Diversity/Inclusion, KTS Certified, Speech & Dialects
Título:
El entrenamiento del actor autentico con su voz y su cultura: integrando Fitzmaurice (voz) y Knight-Thompson (dicción y dialectos).
Cynthia (Ella/Ellas) Actriz y coach de voz y acentos. Es Profesora Asistente Adjunta de Arte Dramático en la Universidad de Yale. Certificada en Knight-Thompson Speechwork® y Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Coach de dialectos para producciones como Orange is the New Black (Netflix) y The Affair (Showtime). Sus áreas de investigación incluyen la autenticidad lingüística en los acentos latinos y la puesta en escena de la identidad latina. Coordinadora de Diversidad de la Asociación de Entrenadores de Voz y Habla (VASTA). Actualmente co-edita su próximo libro, Latinx Actor Training, junto con Micha Espinosa.