Umble Master Class: “Learning to use your voice well,” Dr. Allan Rudy-Froese

Umble Master Class: “Learning to Use Your Voice Well” with Dr. Allan Rudy-Froese
Date and Time: Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 at 7 p.m.
Location: Umble Center (Live stream)
Tickets: Free and open to the public

Dr. Allan Rudy-Froese, a seminary professor of preaching and a certified voice coach , will lead the Umble Master Class at Goshen College and present a public keynote address, “Learning to Use Your Voice Well,” on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Umble Center. In this interactive presentation, he will share highlights of his voice coach training at Linklater Centre in Scotland. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Allan Rudy-Froese

Rudy-Froese, an associate professor at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, has been studying voice (for actors, storytellers and speakers of all kinds) for 20 years. In the summer of 2023, after two years of intense training, he graduated as a Designated Linklater Teacher.

Rudy-Froese studied under Kristin Linklater, the renowned vocal coach who helped actors like Patrick Stewart and Sigourney Weaver “free their inner voices,” as a New York Times obituary put it.

Rudy-Froese completed his Ph.D. in homiletics (the art and theology of preaching) at the Toronto School of Theology in 2012.  His areas of teaching at AMBS include preaching, storytelling, voice and performance theory. He is also an adjunct professor at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario.

He weaves voice work into his seminary teaching and into his frequent workshops for preachers, worship leaders and storytellers.

During his two days on campus Feb. 6-7, Rudy-Froese will also lead voice workshops for communication and theater classes and for Goshen College faculty and staff.

Previous Umble Master Class presenters have included Daniel Charles, David Dye, Carl McIntyre, Anna Deavere Smith, Laura Smith and Renee Vincent.

The Roy H. Umble Master Class brings nationally known practitioners and experts in communication and theater to the Goshen College campus annually for events and activities that enrich and inspire students, faculty, the broader campus, and local and church communities. Roy Umble (1913-1996) was a longtime professor in speech and theater at the college.