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CHERYL MOORE BRINKLEY -- TESOL/ESL/EFL, LMRVT, (and MOM) received her BFA in Drama/Speech from Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (Summa cum Laude '75), and furthered her training with June Helmers (SUNY, Purchase), Rosemarie Tichler (NY Public Theatre) and Jane Brody. Since 1974, she has worked as a professional actor in theatre, TV commercials, print, live industrials and corporate videos. Major Midwest acting credits include the 1993 Guthrie acting company and the '90-'95 St. Croix Festival Theatre core company. Cheryl is also a theatrical director and has experience in casting and commercial production. In the Twin Cities, Cheryl has taught at the Guthrie, Plaza-3, Twin Cities Vocal Arts, MN Conservatory, Acting for Lawyers, Akerlind Steele, Brave New Institute, and Theatre in the Round. In 1990, drawing upon her theatre training and experience, she developed her own method of teaching spoken voice skills, Brinkley Vocal Power, and expanded to include providing voice and performance instruction to the business community, becoming B. VOCAL in 1999. Cheryl serves as adjunct faculty at Macalester College, teaching acting and spoken voice since 2001.
Member: VASTA, AEA, AFTRA, SAG

B. VOCAL is based primarily in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area of Minnesota.

B. VOCAL, LLC is a registered vendor of Hennepin County and the State of Minnesota.

Please take a moment to view the VASTA (Voice And Speech Trainers Assoc.) Principles page:

http://www.vasta.org/Organization/mission.html

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PRESS: 

NEW!  September, 2011.  Cheryl is featured in an article in MORE Magazine online (click to #15)
 http://www.more.com/anti-fame-reinventions 

March, 2011 MN Women's Press:  Voices -- My Favorite Instrument, by Cheryl Moore Brinkley:
http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=124&SubSectionID=739&ArticleID=3802


In May, 2010, B. VOCAL was voted Favorite Speech Communications Coach by the MN Women's Press What Women Want annual survey.

http://www.womenspress.com/


Creativity 101, July, 2009: http://www.examiner.com/x-15002-Minneapolis-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m7d27-Creativity-101--Where-to-go-in-MinneapolisSt-Paul-to-find-your-creative-spark

MPLS St. Paul Magazine, 12/06 http://www.mspmag.com/features/features/38252.asp?action=print

Women's Press, 10/08:
 http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=3210

ShopMama, 3/09:
 http://www.shopmama.com/hot_moms_20.cfm

"Cheryl's success comes from her enormous capacity for caring. She has a way of making people want to learn, want to grow to their own potential."  --Risa Brainin, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara

"Cheryl was very knowledgeable, organized, disciplined and straightforward. I gained total freedom to express myself more, to channel my energy and not hold back. I looked forward to every class." --Karen Sorbo,Celebrity Auctioneer, Former Mrs. Minnesota

"Cheryl is so thorough and gives so much info., advice and feedback. She has walked in our footsteps. Her honesty, sincerity and empathetic personality give us confidence." --Diedre Druk, Educator

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