Susan Main is an actress and a voice and movement coach based in New York City. She is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, certified by world-renowned voice teacher Kristin Linklater. Susan works actively as a private vocal coach in New York City and abroad, regularly conducting voice workshops and classes in New York City, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Susan's students include politicians, corporate executives, Broadway, film and television actors. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Stromboli Project, a summer theatre institute on the Aeolian island of Stromboli, Italy. Her recent credits include serving as vocal coach for the Off-Broadway production of Hedda Gabler, directed by John Gould Rubin and coaching the art dance piece, A Quarreling Pair, for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 25th Anniversary Season, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has taught voice and/or movement on the faculties of the Actor's Studio MFA program at Pace University, Accademia Silvio D'Amico in Rome, Italy, Zurich University of the Arts, the Linklater Center for Voice & Language, New York University, New Actor's Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, Boston Conservatory, and the Larry Singer Studios. She has worked as a voice coach for theatre companies in Italy and Portugal, and recently completed voice coaching a feature film starring Caitlin FitzGerald (It's Complicated, Newlyweds, Damsels in Distress). In 2005, she co-produced and served as script supervisor on the documentary Giving Voice - Kristin Linklater, 15 Actors and 7 Tales from Ovid, filmed in Stromboli, Italy. Susan attended the 2009 Santorini Voice Symposium and published an essay on the Santorini experience in the acclaimed Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, University of Manitoba, Canada. Upcoming coaching projects include vocal coaching Three Sisters directed by John Gould Rubin and Peer Gynt, in association with the Old Vic New Voices. As an actress she has appeared in film and theatres including Joe's Pub, LaMama, the Culture Project and Blue Heron Arts Center. She holds an MFA in Theatre Education specializing in voice and movement from Boston University. Susan is the Resident Voice Coach of The Private Theatre.