Christina Koch
Since qualifying as a Linklater voice teacher in 2012, Chris has developed an extensive practice with business clients as a voice and performance coach with a focus on qualitatively rich, spontaneous interpersonal communication that accurately carries thought-feeling impulses. She continues to teach and coach actors, delivering workshops for Sport for Jove, Women in Theatre and Screen, and individual actors. Based in Geelong, Chris will complete a Masters of Dramaturgy at VCA in 2021, and was recently dramaturg and language coach for a performed reading of Theresa Borg’s Jump! Chris was part of the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble from 2001-2015 as a core ensemble member, facilitator, teacher, committee member and director, performing in As You Like It, Coriolanus, Pericles, The Madness of King Lear, Metamorphoses, and Half-hour Hamlet, and directing Schiller’s Mary Stuart. Originally a movement and physical theatre performer, she performed with Frank Productions (OzFrank) from 1993-1997, in Zen Zen Zo’s 1996 Unleashed, and collaborations with choreographer Lisa O’Neill. Other theatre credits include an internship on Tolstoy’s The Power of Darkness at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, language coach and Assistant Director on Bell Shakespeare/QTC The Alchemist, directing readings of 12 Angry Men and A Man for All Seasons for Qld Law Week, and performances forGrin and Tonic, Queensland Theatre Company, Livewire, and Fractal Theatre. She is a former member of Ausdance and a proud member of MEAA.