Emily Scott Banks

Emily is excited to be a founding member of VOX, and looks forward to this new partnership. Since returning to North Texas a few years ago, Emily has played major roles at many area theatres. Most recently, she was honored to play Dr. Emma Brookner  in The Normal Heart at Uptown Players. For WaterTower Theatre, she originated the role of Sarah  in A Country Life, for which she was nominated for both Rabin and Column Awards, and played Lotty  in Enchanted April. Other roles include The Angel  in Angels In America –Perestroika for Risk Theatre Group; Paulina  in A Winter’s Tale and Audrey  in As You Like It for Shakespeare Dallas, the latter for which she was also nominated for a Column Award. She has played major roles at Stage West, Circle Theatre, Dallas Children’s Theatre, State Theatre of Austin, and Houston Theatre Festival. She received her B.F.A. in Acting from The University of Texas at Austin’s acting conservatory, and continued her professional training with the professional actor training program at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, where Emily is now a Teacher Trainee.

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Mary Lang Fournier

Mary Lang Fournier is a graduate of Texas State University, BFA acting. She has been seen locally as Queen Elizabeth  in Shakespeare Dallas’ Richard III, Twyla  in Bootstraps' Sunny and Eddy, Alexa  in Theatre Arlington's As Bees in Honey Drown. She was a company member of Esther's Folies in Austin for 5 years. Some of her favorite roles include: Mercutio  in Romeo and Juliet, all of the women in Jeffry!, Kate  in Dancing at Lughnasa, and Edmund  in King Lear. She is a proud member of ProjectX and has done numerous productions there.

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David Goodwin

David has been working in Dallas theater for nearly a decade, receiving DFW Critics' Forum Awards for his work as an actor (Road at Kitchen Dog Theater), playwright (Barbette with Bill Lengfelder and Last One Nighter on the Death Trail with Christina Vela) and puppeteer (Gorey Stories and Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes , both with Our Endeavors Theater Collective.) David is an Artistic Associate with Kitchen Dog Theater and a teaching artist with Junior Players. The youth educational play he co-authored with Christina Vela, Around the World with Blackbrows the Pirate is now in it's third blockbuster year, performing at cafetoriums across the DFW Metroplex.

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Valerie Hauss-Smith

A native of France, Valerie was a founding member of La Chimere Theatre Company  in Alsace where she performed original plays both in French and German. She is delighted to now be a part of VOX. She obtained her BFA at the University Of Strasbourg and came to the United States where she studied voice and the English classics. Valerie has performed on stages in Europe, the North East, and Texas; her American credits include Beline  in The Hypochondriac, Carlotta  in Cherry Orchard, Beatrice  in Much Ado About Nothing, Kristine Linde  in A Doll’s House, Eliante  in The Misanthrope, Olivia  in Twelfth Night, Rosaline  in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dromio Of Syracuse  in Comedy Of Errors and Andrea the Anchorwoman  in Mark Medoff’s world premier of Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle. She is now the Director of Education & Training for Shakespeare Dallas where she develops educational programs for students from elementary to college level.

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Anastasia Munoz

Anastasia has just moved back to her hometown of Dallas after receiving her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Alabama. Her Dallas credits include Feste in Theatre Fusion’s Twelfth Night and Hanna in Kitchen Dog’s New Works Festival Skin in Flames. She is thrilled to work with VOX and Shakespeare Dallas on such a powerful and pertinent piece.

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Matt Tomlanovich

Originally from Michigan, Matt has lived, worked and studied in LA, New York and London and now Dallas. He has a BGS from Oakland University, An MFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts and a Masters of Arts in Vocal Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He has trained with Catherine Fitzmaurice, Cicely Berry, Dudley Knight, Edna Sharpe, Frankie Armstrong, and Gillyanne Kayes among others. He has taught voice and acting at SMU, Cal-Arts, The Actor Training Program at the University of Utah, University of North Texas, Quad C, University of Texas Dallas, and in London at the East 15 Acting School and Central School of Speech and Drama. As a voice, text and dialect-coach Matt has worked in London, New York and here in Dallas. Matt runs a voice and articulation consulting company for individuals and businesses called Speaking For Success working privately and in giving workshops with people who use there voice to make a living. As an actor and director Matt has worked Off, and Off Off-Broadway, in LA, Europe and numerous regional theatres.

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Keith Kubal

Keith is excited to be making his debut appearance with VOX. Keith was most recently honored to appear as Capt. Philip Lombard in Ten Little Indians at ICT MainStage. Other roles include Ray Dolenz in Proposals at the Rotunda Theatre Series, Tom Bryce in The Unvarnished Truth at ICT MainStage, and Camillo in The Winter’s Tale for Bucket Productions. Keith holds a BFA in Theater from Adelphi University, New York, and is a graduate of the British/American Drama Academy at Oxford, England. In addition to his numerous stage credits, Keith has worked in film, video, and done voice work, produced, directed, and sings. Keith is also involved in theater behind the scenes by serving on the Boards of the Beardsley Living Theater, ICT and The Column Awards Advisory Board.

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