Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman (DLT 1998) is an actor, director, and theatre teacher originally from Bogotá, Colombia, and an Associate Professor of Theatre at Northeastern University in Boston. Antonio trained as an actor with the Teatro Libre de Bogotá. After further studies in voice and physical theater in England, he spent three years as an actor and an artist-manager at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.
In 1998, Antonio completed his training with Kristin Linklater. He adapted this popular practice into Spanish and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the largest university in Latin America, published his La Liberación de la Voz Natural: el Método Linklater in 2010, with re-printings in 2013 and 2015. He serves as a consultant for the Center for Voice Studies (CEUVOZ) in Mexico City, where he runs a Linklater Voice Teacher-training Program. He is a proud member of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and currently serves on its Board of Directors.
As an actor, Antonio has worked with Teatro Libre in Bogotá, the Desmond Jones Company in London, and, in the United States, Shakespeare & Company, Phoenix Theatre, Provincetown Theatre, Actors Shakespeare Project, and the Nora Theatre, among others.
Antonio earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing in 2003 from York University in Toronto, Ontario, training under the guidance of David Rotenberg. He concurrently furthered his training in voice and speech under David Smukler, receiving a Graduate Diploma in Voice. He has directed plays by such diverse authors as Federico García Lorca, Sophocles, Anton Chekhov, Charles Mee, Terrence McNally, Yasmina Reza, David Valdés Greenwood, Tennessee Williams, Shakespeare, Michel Tremblay, Horton Foote, Ariel Dorfman, Sarah Kane, Jean-Claude von Itallie, John Herbert, Euripides, Leo Cabranes-Grant, William Luce and Alan Ayckbourn for New Repertory Theatre, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, Dixon Place, Teatro Libre, Tallahassee Little Theatre, The Theatre Offensive, Stages Theatre Company, The Pato Farsante Company, and The British Council. He has also worked with solo performers Jeff McMahon and Carlos Manuel and served as voice and text coach for Actors’ Shakespeare Project and the Asolo Repertory Theatre.
Since 2013, Antonio has directed several productions for Boston Midsummer Opera, collaborating closely with Music Director Susan Davenny Wyner.
Several of Antonio’s articles and essays about his experiences as a bilingual theatre artist have been published in, among others, American Theatre Magazine, the Voice & Speech Review, the Stanford Shakespeare Encyclopedia, Paso de Gato (Mexico) Back Stage East, Dramatics Magazine and the online journal Borrowers and Lenders. He is featured in The Politics of American Actor Training and Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives in Race & Performance, collections published by Routledge.
Antonio has been on the faculty at Arizona State University, Florida State University, Emerson College and Boston College. He has taught workshops and master classes at Walnut Hill, Shakespeare & Company, The Linklater Studio, The Andrea Southwick Studio, The New Theatre Conservatory, FSU/Asolo Theatre Conservatory, the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, the Concord Players, Working Classroom and the Hampshire Shakespeare Company. Internationally, he has taught in Austria, Hong Kong, Mexico, Catalunya, Ireland, Canada, Greece, Sweden, Panama and Colombia.
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