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Tanera Marshall
Theatre

Associate Professor

Courses Taught

  • THTR 162: Voice I – The Actor’s Voice
  • THTR 361: Voice IV – Styles
  • THTR 362: Voice V – Dialects
  • THTR 461: Voice VI – Lab

Education

Master of Fine Arts, DePaul University
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College

About

Tanera Marshall is a Voice and Accent specialist in theatre, TV, and film. Select film credits include The Testament of Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried and others), The Brutalist (cast, including Adrian Brody whose performance won the 2025 Oscar for Best Male Performance), Train Dreams (Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones)Hunger Games: Ballad (Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth), Asteroid City (Jason Schwartzman), Widows (Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Daniel Kaluuya), Queen & Slim (Daniel Kaluuya), and The Immigrant and Public Enemies (Marion Cotillard). Select TV: “The Morning Show” (s.4: Marion Cotillard), “Chicago Fire” (12 seasons), “The Bear,” (3 seasons, Ebon Moss-Bachrach), “61st Street,” “Station Eleven,” “Fargo”.   Theatre credits: Broadway tours of Hamilton, Billy Elliot, and Dirty Dancing, and several productions at Steppenwolf, the Goodman Theatre, Congo Square TheatreTimeLine, and Court Theatre. Upcoming: Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2027).

Tanera has collected and archived accents from the Caribbean, Alaska, and First Nations/Native American/Alaska Native tribes and communities for The International Dialects of English Archive where she is a Senior Editor-at-Large.  Her most recent contributions included recordings from Louisiana, Chicago, Arizona. She was a teaching artist in Chicago Public Schools for 10 years.

BA (Oberlin College), MFA (Depaul Theatre School), Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, VASTA Member, Senior Editor-at-Large (International Dialects of English Archive), and a UIC University Scholars Award recipient. IMDb