Katalin Vecsey
Senior Lecturer in Theater
Vocal Director for Theater Productions
Associations
Theater
Schaeffer Theatre, Room 303
About
Katalin Vecsey is a Senior Lecturer in Theater and Vocal Director for Theatrical Productions at Bates College, Maine, U.S.A. She received her doctorate from the Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest, Hungary. In addition to Bates, she has taught at Bárczi Gusztáv College and at drama conservatory programs in Budapest. She is experienced in teaching advanced and introductory voice and speech courses, text analysis, stage dialects and voice-over techniques. She has also served as a vocal director for academic and professional theater productions both in the United States and in her native Hungary. Dr. Vecsey is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and the Hungarian Centre of the International Theatre Institute (ITI).
Expertise
Current Courses
Fall Semester 2025
Holocaust on Stage
This seminar studies the award-winning Polish play Our Class, by Tadeusz Słobodzianek, which is based on the 2001 book Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross. This controversial book explores the July 1941 massacre of Polish Jews by their non-Jewish n…
Introduction to Voice and Speech
They examine the nature and working of the human voice. Students explore ways to develop the voice's potential for expressive communication with exercises and the analysis of breathing, vocal relaxation, pitch, resonance, articulation, audibility, dialect, and text performance. Recommended backgroun…