Biographies

Doug MacArthur is a voice and speech teacher in the Department of Theatre and Dramatic Arts at the University of Lethbridge. He graduated from York University with an MFA in Acting along with a Voice Teaching Diploma. During the spring of 2000 and 2001 he worked as an associate faculty member at Canada’s National Voice Intensive.  Doug has participated in numerous stage productions as a voice coach and as an actor. Recently, he has been applying his specialty in voice and acting to transgender voice training and has presented papers on the value of theatre style voice training in gender transition at several conferences and symposiums. Over the past several years Doug has dedicated a significant amount of time to collecting dialect resource material for student and professional actors, some of which is available on this website.