Tyne Turner

About Tyne

Tyne Turner is originally from Michigan, where her family ran Will-O-Way Apprentice Theatre from 1942-1985. Turner now lives Richmond, Virginia via Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Coral Gables, Florida. She currently serves as the Education Director for Actors' Playhouse and is a freelance voice and speech coach and professional actor.

Turner is a true "Michigan kid," having received her Equity card from Meadowbrook Theatre in Rochester, Michigan in 1986. She has served on the faculties of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Southern Methodist University and the University of Minnesota B.F.A. Acting program. She also created the Theatre Program at Golda Meir School for the Gifted and Talented, where she served as Chair of Fine Arts.

Turner is a nationally recognized speech and dialect expert and has served many prestigious companies including Utah Shakespeare Festival (Tony 2000), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theatre Centre, and of course, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Awards include a Tony Award for Best Regional Theatre with the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 2000, Teacher of the Year from the Wisconsin Gifted and Talented Association, and Teacher of the year for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Association of Black Student Educators, as well as being a recent Kohls Foundation Finalist.

Turner is a third generation theatre artist and educator and is honored to be a part of the extraordinary faculty at Interlochen, where her mother was a student of violin in 1929.

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