Cheryl Moore Brinkley, lifelong theatre professional, founded BVocal in 2010 to help clients attain stellar, professional communication Presence by developing their Personal Performance Assets (Voice, Speech and Non-Verbals), the skills everyone needs to speak and connect effectively at work and in life, in-person, on-camera, or onstage. One of relatively few elocution coaches, Cheryl is an expert in adapting theatre performance techniques to help public speakers, leaders, teachers, healers and activists improve audience relationship through confidence of delivery, quality of voice, and clarity of speech, pronunciation & accent.

An experienced educator, Cheryl served from 2001--2023 as adjunct faculty in the theatre department at Macalester College, where she taught full semester courses in Voice & Speech for Stage and Acting, created workshops in Audition Skills and Speaking Shakespeare, and provided Vocal Coaching for theatrical productions. She has also developed courses and taught for the Guthrie, Twin Cities Vocal Arts, Minnesota Conservatory, Acting for Lawyers, Brave New Institute, and Theatre in the Round.

Cheryl is an accomplished professional actor in theatre, TV commercials, live industrials, corporate videos, as a member of the Guthrie Theatre acting company (1993) and the St. Croix Festival Theatre core company (1990-95). She is also a theatrical director, whose Midwest work includes Macalester, Theatre Unbound, St. Croix Festival, Okoboji Summer Theatre, and Lyric Arts. Earlier in her career, she worked in television production, press & public relations, and casting for film & TV.

Cheryl shares -- update 2025:  Pre-Pandemic, while coaching clients in my downtown Minneapolis studio, I received lots of feedback that practicing my embodied exercises of alignment, breath, voicing, and intentional energy connection yielded additional benefits like relaxation, calm focus, positive mood, and a sense of well-being. One savvy client said with a twinkle, “This is really stealth spirit work, isn’t it?” Yes! It always had been, but I’d kept my language mainstream to be able to serve more people. During COVID, I followed my intuition, studying and exploring active Sound Healing, community singing, and spiritual practices. I still offer traditional elocution coaching, but now I’m an elder, outing myself as the whole me, spirit-self included. I freely share the gifts and lessons of a lifetime in the performing arts while also incorporating an abundance of wondrous new learning experience.

Degree: BFA Drama/Speech, Ithaca College
Certifications: TESOL/ESL/EFL, LMRVT
Training: Essential Somatics, Kinesa Somatics, Spring Forest Qigong, Silva Ultra-Mind Method (certificate), Sacred Vibrational Frequencies (Sound Healing)
Member: VASTA, AEA , SHA 
Cheryl's VASTA Profile  (Voice and Speech Trainers Assoc.)
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