Dianna Cortez is an Interdisciplinary Artist and Voice Coach based in NYC. She is a classically trained Actor & Singer (Equity Eligible), Audiobook Narrator (ACX, Fiverr, Upwork), Voice, Speech & Dialect Coach, as well as Director, Puppeteer, Butoh & Experimental Composer, and Arthouse filmmaker. As an educator, she primarily teaches acting through voice, speech, dialects, and interdisciplinary artworks for theatre, film, and public speaking. Dianna has coached actors on and off-Broadway, as well as in Liverpool. At The New Group Theatre, she worked with Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Marisa Tomei, and Vincent D’Onofrio; also on Broadway with Sam Rockwell; and with Kim Cattrall in Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman, in Liverpool. She teaches at LIU Brooklyn/The New Group, Circle in the Square Theatre School, Syracuse University/Tepper, Molloy/Cap 21, The Linklater Center, and in her private studio. From 2006 to 2010, she served as the Artistic Director of City Attic Theatre (C.A.T.), and is currently the Co-Artistic Director of Lucada Mélange-her arts collective that is the home of her interdisciplinary artwork. She has a B.A. from C.M.U. in Opera and Acting (10+ years of Opera lessons in NYC), M.F.A in Acting from S.M.U., 10+ years of movement & Anatomy training with Merry Conway, 5+ years of Butoh with Yokko, trained in Audiobook Narration, is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and certified Louis Colaianni Speechwork & Phonetic Pillows practitioner. She is currently developing “Les Berceaux & The Lighthouse: No. 2 Forest Junctions,” which is the 2nd movement in a 5-movement experimental opera she is devising with Lucada Melange.