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I spent twenty years speaking for a living: as a prosecutor, as counsel to a Fortune 50 company, as the ACLU's voice on air. The preparation was never the problem. The moment was.

Then I walked into an acting studio with mats where the chairs should have been, and began the training that changed what I understood about voice. I became an award-winning actor. Now I teach a whole-body path to voice and presence to women who carry consequential rooms.

Mannette Antill in her courtroom years, an archival photograph
the courtroom years, from my albums
The prosecutor

From legislative aide to trying cases. I learned early what rooms do when the stakes rise, and what a voice has to carry when a verdict depends on it.

Mannette Antill in her Fortune 50 corporate lawyer years
the counsel years
Fortune 50 counsel

In-house counsel for Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 companies, then a law practice of my own, built for women. Two decades of advice delivered into rooms that did not always cooperate.

Mannette Antill with Walter Mondale during the ACLU years
the ACLU years, with Walter Mondale
The ACLU's voice on air

Media spokesperson for a national civil rights organization. Live questions, cameras, no script, and communities counting on the answer.

Mannette Antill, actor headshot
the stage years
The actor

Award-winning work on stage and screen, and beneath it the voice and speech training taught in the world's most respected acting conservatories, including the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow. I trained, and never stopped.

Mannette Antill in a floral dress
the advocacy years
The advocate

Legal guidance for survivors at domestic violence shelters. When two of my children were identified as neurodivergent, I co-founded nonprofit schools and programs for inclusive education, and joined a traveling puppet troupe that used storytelling to foster empathy and respect.

Mannette Antill in her multicolor scarf
me, guiding
The teacher

{{ weeksCap }} weeks at a time, I teach women to develop what I had to find for myself. Mother of five, grandmother of twelve, I bring all of it into the room.

The approach

My approach draws on decades of study in the great voice traditions: Fitzmaurice, Lessac, Alexander, and Nadine George, curated into a method entirely my own. It is a whole-body path to voice and presence, not a list of delivery techniques to remember.

{{ approachLead }} You breathe, sound, move and practice with other people, and you learn to notice what happens in your breath, body and attention when communication starts to matter. Session by session, more ways to breathe, sound, listen and respond become available to you.

None of it is about becoming an actor. The same capacities carry a negotiation, an interview, a boardroom challenge, a eulogy, a hard conversation at home. Wherever your life asks you to be heard, the work is the same, and more of you arrives.

“There is no right way. What we're looking for is your way. Come as you are.”
Lungs drawn as branches and leaves Figure growing from a leaf bowl held in a hand Brain in bloom: one half anatomy, one half in flower Heart formed by a hand and a rose stem Singing figure as a tree with colorful leaves Profile speaking in colored arcs Globe with a rainbow rose
The path has seven keys, in my own artwork: C.O.N.N.E.C.T.
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“For twenty years, I walked your path.”
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C.O.N.N.E.C.T.
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