ABSTRACT: Vocal Traditions is a series in the Voice and Speech Review that highlights historically important voice teachers and schools of thought in the world of vocal pedagogy. In this essay, Miller Voice Method (MVM) offers its overview, history, teaching style and philosophy, goals, and details on certification. The key features of MVM are explored including: active breath, the attention blueprint, athleticism, on-camera applications, and text transfusion. The essay discusses the importance of integration—how the methodology assists actors in bridging the gap between technique and application, and the vital connection between the philosophy of the work and the work itself. The essay also describes unique MVM offerings including a video series highlighting core exercises (found on its website), on-camera techniques for vocal diagnostic and development, personalized action plans, and perspectives that reprioritize the audience’s experience as a vital component to actor training.

ABSTRACT: In this article, the author describes her practice-based research and action research integrating mVm Miller Voice Method ® (mVm) and the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. The article provides a history of the author’s training in each approach, her discoveries teaching the work in a laboratory-style setting, and her process with integration as an actor in multiple performance processes. The article highlights how the author came to discover the aim of her research and describes the integration components that led her to discover this aim, what she terms, Vocal Transparency. Finally, the author shares reflections and discoveries as well as possible next steps in the research, and expresses her desire to offer the skills of Vocal Transparency to acting students.