Lynn Watson

Lynn Watson (she/her) is a voice, speech, and dialect specialist and has coached Oscar, Tony, and Emmy winning actors. She is a Lifetime Distinguished Member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and Director of Research Studies at the Fitzmaurice Voice Institute.

Lynn has extensive experience at leading U.S. regional theatres including Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, South Coast Repertory, A.C.T. San Francisco, and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Productions at Arena Stage in Washington, DC include an adaptation by Kenneth Cavander of the Greek play cycle Agamemnon and His Daughters, and Zora Neale Hurston’s Polk County. Other Arena productions include the Ranjit Bolt translation of The Misanthrope by Moliere. Of The Misanthrope the Washington Post said: "beautifully spoken, the production boasts the thoroughgoing professionalism, the confident spirit, of the level of classics one used to encounter frequently…in places like the Stratford Festival in Ontario." Lynn coached critically acclaimed productions of A Streetcar Named Desire at A.C.T. and David Hare's Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum.

Professional memberships include Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. Her acting credits include Off Broadway at the American Place Theatre and regional theatres in the U.S. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland (Baltimore County) and has presented internationally in workshops and on her research. She and her co-investigators received VASTA’s “Dudley Knight Award for Outstanding Vocal Scholarship” from the Voice and Speech Review for an fMRI study of Fitzmaurice Voicework that she led.