Marth Munro

Marth Munro holds a PhD (General Linguistics and Literary Theory) in the field of ‘Voice for Theatre’. Marth’s qualifications include Certification as a Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and as a Lessac Kinesensics Master Teacher. She is a qualified Sound Therapist, an Emotional Body Apprentice and a qualified Hatha Yoga Teacher.  She is further qualified and registered as a Life Coach. She is a Registered Master Somatic Movement Educator (ISMETA). She has extensive training and experience in performance related neuroscience and emotion.

Marth specialises in bodymind in behaviour and performance. She is a Professor Extraordinaire in the School of the Arts: Drama, University of Pretoria, contributing to post-graduate research supervision in Embodied Performance and has supervised a number of Masters and Doctoral students to completion of their studies across her speciality areas.  She actively contributes to somatic / embodied team research projects and praxis with the overarching aim of searching for an inclusive aesthesis and decolonial praxis.

She has published extensively in the field of Embodied Performance Pedagogy (including areas of Acting, Voice, Movement, and related fields). 

Examples of publications are:

• “Training strategies towards performing emotions on film: an integrated approach.” Lelia Bester & Marth Munro. South African Theatre Journal 2023: 1 – 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2023.2283428
• “Exercising agency through embodied research and the making of screendances.” Kristina Johnstone, Tarryn-Tanille Prinsloo & Marth Munro. Image and Text Number 37, 2023: 1-22. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2023/n37a11.
• “Navigating dissonance: Bodymind and character congruency in acting.” Emil Haarhof, Marth Munro & Marié-Heleen Coetzee. Book chapter in Jenni Lourens (ed). 2022. Embodiment and the Arts: View from South Africa. Pretoria: PULP. Pp. 233 – 254.
• “Multilingual Theatre Voice Training in South Africa: Our Translingual Attempt Employing Lessac Kinesensics.” Marth Munro & Karina Lemmer. 2019. The Voice and Speech Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2018.1537221.
• “Principles for Embodied Learning Approaches.” Marth Munro. 2018. South African Theatre Journal. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2017.1404435.

She serves on:

• the Editorial Advisory Board of The Voice and Speech Review (VASTA)
• the Master Teacher Team of the LTRI
• as Director of Research, LTRI
• ISMETA Leadership council

She is a member of ISMETA, the LTRI, L/BIMS, VASTA and the International Coaches Register.

Marth commits to continuously contributing to human flourishment for all. With a childlike curiosity, she plays with purpose and joy.