Keely Eastley

  • Lecturer in Theater Arts
Email
keely@mit.edu
Office
W97-259
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Keely Eastley is a Designated Linklater Teacher (DLT) certified to teach the premier voice methodology used in actor training programs worldwide. She has been on the faculty of Yale School of Drama, NYU, Syracuse University, Emerson College, Circle-in-the-Square, Classic Stage Co., Trinity Rep, and Shakespeare & Company, where she is a senior faculty member. Internationally, she was head of Voice and Movement at Toi Whakaari – New Zealand Drama School. While in Aotearoa (New Zealand), she also worked with the students at Takitimu, the school for traditional Maori performing arts.

Eastley apprenticed with Master Teacher Kristin Linklater and became a Designated Linklater Teacher (DLT) in 1987. As a voice and text coach, she has coached shows at Yale Rep, The New York Public Theater, and Shakespeare & Company. Eastley also works within the greater MIT community and has done workshops for the Sloan School of Business as well as with Ph.D. candidates in the Linguistics and Philosophy Department, the Graduate Women’s Group, and individual MIT professors.

Eastley is a consultant with the Cornell Voice Advisory, a global elite team of voice and performance consultants. Her clients have included Biogen Idec, YPO’s Global Networking Summit-Montreal, and Chubb. She was a presenter for LASPAU, affiliated with Harvard University, conducting leadership workshops with international students from Mexico, Peru, and Brazil until the program’s end in 2023. Eastley is also one of the senior Linklater teachers sanctioned to work with teacher trainees as part of their designation process and is on the board of the Kristin Linklater Voice Foundation.