Rena Cook

Assistant Professor School of Drama – Voice and Diction; Performance Area Coordinator

MA 2000 Central School of Speech and Drama – London
MFA 1991 University of Oklahoma
MA 1982 University of Tulsa
BA 1972 University of Arizona

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renacook@ou.edu

Rena Cook is assistant professor of voice, speech, and dialects. While at OU she has served as dialect coach for such productions as The Three Sisters, Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Real Thing, Cosi, and London Cuckolds. Rena holds an MA in voice from the Central School of Speech and Drama and an M. F. A.  in Directing from the University of Oklahoma.  Before returning to OU, Rena taught at the University of Kansas and Oklahoma State University and was the vocal coach for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.  Rena has been a member of VASTA for 12 years.  She has served as ATHE Conference Planner for VASTA and is Co-Associate Editor with David Carey in the area of Heighten Text and Scansion for the Voice and Speech Review.  She has presented workshops through out the US and the UK. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Voice and Speech Review, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Theatre Journal.

Read the "The Voice Coaches" from the October 2006 article in Dramatics.