Tanera Marshall

SENIOR EDITOR-AT-LARGE

Contributions to IDEA:
Alberta 1 | Alberta 2 | Alaska 1 | Alaska 2 | Alaska 3 | Alaska 4 | Arizona 6 | Arizona 7 | Bulgaria 3 | California 7 | California 8 | California 9 | England 68 | Illinois 23 | Illinois 24 | Illinois 25 | Illinois 26 | Illinois 28 | Illinois 29 | Illinois 30 | Illinois 31 | Jamaica 2 | Louisiana 10 | Louisiana 11 | Louisiana 12 | Michigan 14 | New Mexico 2 | New Mexico 3 | New Mexico 4 | Trinidad 1 | Trinidad 2 | Trinidad 3 | Virginia 7 | Virginia 8 | Virginia 9 |

Bio: Tanera Marshall is a voice and accent specialist in theatre, TV, and film, and an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Theatre and Music. Her current and upcoming productions include The Brutalist, Train Dreams, Oh.What.Fun., Ann Lee, The Morning Show (season four), The Bear, and Chicago Fire. Recent credits include Hunger Games (2024), Asteroid City, Widows, Queen & Slim, Dungeons & Dragons, Fargo (season four), Station Eleven, Army of the Dead, Public Enemies, The Immigrant, and the Divergent series. Stage credits include Broadway tours of Hamilton, Billy Elliot, and Dirty Dancing, as well as productions at Steppenwolf, Court, and Timeline theatres in Chicago.  

For IDEA, Tanera has collected and archived accents from the Caribbean, the American Midwest, Virginia, Alaska, and First Nations/Native American/Alaska Native tribes and communities. Her most recent contributions included recordings from Louisiana, Chicago, and Arizona. She was a teaching artist in Chicago public schools for 10 years.

She has a BA (Oberlin College) and an MFA in acting (Depaul Theatre School), and is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, VASTA member, and a recipient of UIC’s prestigious University Scholars Award.

Contact: tanera@uic.edu; http://theatreandmusic.aa.uic.edu