Zane Daudziņa
Biography
PhD Zane Daudzina is an actress, a consultant and trainer in voice and speech with a professional experience almost 25 years.
Since 2000, actress and oratory educator Zane Daudziņa has lectured at the Latvian Academy of Culture, working with budding actors, directors and lately with cultural theory and management studies students. From 2005-2010, Zane gave stage oratory masterclasses to Polish students at drama schools in Cracow, Wroclaw and Warsaw. Her lecture courses include “Stage Oratory and Methodology”, “The Practical Skill of Speaking”, “Public Speaking” and “The Voice in Motion”.
Zane gained her Master’s degree in Philology of Latvian Language and Literature at the University of Latvia, and her Master’s degree in Performing Arts Voice Pedagogy at the Latvian Academy of Culture. She has supplemented her education in the program “University Teacher Pedagogical Perfection/ Innovations in the Higher Education System/ Education Work Management” (University of Latvia), at the course “Using Voice on Stage” (Maastricht Summer University, Amsterdam), “Voice as the Engine of the Body” (Utrecht Summer School, the Netherlands), “Action and Words” (Odin Theatre, Denmark) and others.
Currently, Zane is an actress, a voice consultant at Latvijas Radio (Latvia’s national public service radio broadcasting network) and an associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Her doctoral thesis “An Actor’s Speech in the 21st Century Latvian Theatre” is a study conducted from a cultural-historical perspective regarding the contemporary speech practices of Latvian actors.
Zane has integrated the knowledge she has acquired in practice in the voice and performing arts fields, in customer services, personnel management and communication training, as well as in team building projects, very successfully.
She is an author of four books: “The Diary” “An Actor’s speech in the 21stCentury Latvian Theatre”, “My Year of the War” and “Speak Confidently”.