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VOICE 2
Your voice is more than a means of communication.
It is the audible expression of your inner life.
Every experience you have lived—your upbringing, relationships, fears, triumphs, culture, physiology, and imagination—has shaped the way you speak. The actor's voice cannot be separated from the actor. As your voice develops, so does your artistry.
At Maggie Flanigan Studio, Voice II continues the Linklater progression by expanding the actor's expressive range while strengthening the connection between voice, thought, emotion, and behavior.
The goal is not simply a stronger voice. It is a more truthful one.
Expanding the Instrument
Building upon the foundation established in Voice I, students continue releasing habitual vocal limitations while developing greater power, flexibility, resonance, and freedom.
As the demands become increasingly expansive, actors learn how to generate greater vocal energy through efficient breath support rather than muscular effort, allowing the voice to become stronger without strain.
Students explore:
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Expanding breath capacity
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Developing vocal power with ease
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Accessing upper resonators
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Increasing vocal range and flexibility
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Building efficient vocal support
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Strengthening articulation and clarity
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Developing sustainable vocal technique for performance
The objective is not volume. It is expressive freedom.
Language in Service of Behavior
An exceptional actor does more than speak dialogue. They transform language into living behavior.
Voice II helps actors deepen their ability to lift words from the page and make them their own, allowing the playwright's language to emerge organically through truthful impulse rather than vocal performance.
As vocal freedom increases, actors discover greater nuance, specificity, and emotional precision within the text. The words no longer feel recited. They become lived.
Voice, Art, and Identity
The voice is our most intimate instrument of expression. Anything that happens to you shapes your voice. And anything that transforms your voice inevitably transforms your art.
This relationship lies at the heart of the Linklater philosophy. Rather than imposing an artificial vocal technique, students learn to remove the obstacles that prevent authentic expression, allowing the natural voice to emerge with greater honesty, complexity, and range.
Your voice.
Your art.
Your humanity.
They are inseparable.
Preparing for Professional Work
Voice II also explores how vocal technique serves the practical realities of a professional career.
Students investigate how to safely produce demanding vocal work—including heightened emotional expression, sustained projection, and shouting or screaming—without sacrificing vocal health.
Actors also continue refining their personal warm-up, learning how vocal preparation supports not only the voice itself but the actor's physical, emotional, and imaginative readiness before rehearsal or performance.
Developing the Complete Actor
Voice cannot be developed in isolation from the rest of the actor's instrument.
At Maggie Flanigan Studio, the Linklater progression works alongside Acting, Movement, and the broader conservatory curriculum to cultivate actors whose physical, emotional, and vocal lives function as one integrated instrument.
As the voice becomes freer, the actor becomes freer. As the actor becomes freer, the work becomes more truthful.
Voice II is a twelve-week course consisting of twenty-four classes.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Voice I.
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
“As an actor, the core of what you have to rely on is your sense of truth and humanity. Not only did Maggie allow me to discover & embrace mine, she also taught me that As an actor, the core of what you have to rely on is your sense of truth and humanity …”
Claire Ganshert
“When I started training at the studio my voice was not in good shape. By Level 2 of Voice class I was able to incorporate useful skills that allowed my voice to be free, clear and released. Any actor that wants a powerful and expansive voice should take this class.”
José David Toro
“It was not until Voice 2 that I learned how my voice connected to my body and how to speak with all of myself. This class took my work to a deeper and more personal place. Voice 2 will give you the tools to continue your journey in exploring your voice.”
Ashley Versher
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VOICE 2
Your voice is more than a means of communication.
MIDORI NAKAMURA
As an actor, Midori has worked in film, TV, on Broadway and Off-Broadway. Midori was made a Designated Linklater Teacher in 2019. In addition to the Maggie Flanigan Studio, she teaches voice for the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, The Linklater Center in New York, and NYU Tisch at The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute.
Midori also coaches private clients in both acting and voice.
ACTING STUDIO NEW YORK NY
The Maggie Flanigan Studio is the leading acting studio in New York City where professional actors train for long careers. The acting programs at the drama school are based on the Meisner Technique and the work of Sanford Meisner. The two year acting program includes acting classes, movement classes, voice and speech for actors, commercial acting classes, on camera classes, cold reading, monologue, playwriting, script analysis and the Meisner Summer Intensive.
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