Kathy Slack

Teaches: Voice

Kathy Slack has had an extensive career in both academia and theater/music. She holds a BA in Theater/Speech with a Voice Minor from Ithaca College, and a MA in Communication Studies from the University of Maine/Orono. She continued her classical training with Jutta Rose in NYC (Manhattan School of Music), and then some years later, with Jeannette Lovetri (The Voice Workshop - NYC) She is fully certified (Level III) to teach CCM (technique for Contemporary Commercial Music, non-classical styles: jazz, blues, bluegrass, folk, pop, to name a few). 

Newly retired from teaching for the University of Maine system for over 25 years, she now devotes her time to leading a women's chorale at 317 Main, and teaching a few students in her home, Voice studio.  Her involvement with 317 Main goes back to the school's earliest years when she established the first Voice program.

In her recent past, Kathy trained and honed her vocal, improvisational skills with members of Bobby McFerrin's original, Voicestra, including Bobby himself and jazz singer, Rhiannon. She has advanced skills in leading CircleSongs with all levels of singers, and looks forward to any CircleSinging opportunity because of its power to generate joy and a communal sense of open-heartedness. She will launch a monthly CircleSinging event at 317 Main in the Fall of 2022.

Kathy has been on many stages including musical theater in Baltimore, and playing roles Off and Off-Off Broadway (Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Frankenstein: National Arts Theater; Robert Sterling, Director; Actors At Liberty: Westside Theater; Jo Bellomo, Director). She had a couple of stints in film and TV, the latter as a Nurse in the NBC soap, The Doctors (no longer aired). During the summer of 2014, Kathy wrote a one woman show, The Not So Forgotten Playmate, (dedicated to her late Schizophrenic brother), which she performed at The Barrow Group, Off Broadway. 

Once a member of the acoustic band, Little Debbie and the Snack Cakes and the renowned, Maine, a cappella group, Improvox, she continues to sing in a variety of projects including singing/playing quartz crystal bowls with modern dancers, headed up by Dancer, Kay Mann, and producing an album with the talented, Jazz Guitarist, Neil Lamb. Her latest writing project culminated in publication of a poetry anthology, called Chorale, with a gifted group of Maine poets, founded 7 years ago by former Maine, poet laureate, Martin Steingesser. She is also part of the Voiceover cast for a Soap Opera Podcast, transmitted globally, called Restless Shores, You can hear her as Dr. Bruno, the loquacious, wacky, Brooklyn, N.Y., OB/GYN.