THEATER 424AAdvanced Voice and Text
Theater · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Development of voice for stage, including exercises for relaxation, breathing, bodily alignment, diaphragmatic breathing, head and chest resonance, and warm-up. Application of vocal techniques on contemporary and classical texts, including U.S. dialects and scansion of verse in Shakespeare.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
THEATER 424A
- THEATER 424BVowels and Voice Placement
- THEATER 424CVoice in Action
- THEATER 424DArticulation, Pitch, and Vocal Choices
- THEATER 424EVocal Strength and Flexibility
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 9 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.