Echo Sunyata Sibley
Professor of Theatre
Office: Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex 119
Email: esibley@wtamu.edu
Phone: 806-651-2813
Professional Profile
Echo Sunyata Sibley is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at West Texas A & M University and Certified mVm Miller Voice Method Teacher. As an Actor, Singer, Writer and Educator she has presented or performed at various festivals and venues including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Crisis Art Festival, Lilith Culturale Festival, Festival Internazionale di Valle Christi, SETC, Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, and the Jazz & Wine Festival in Cavi Borgo, Italy. She is a founding member of the international, feminist, clown-noir Troupe, Women from Mars, whose show “Silent Reflections” toured Italy and the US.
While in Italy, she taught Acting Techniques for Musical Theatre, Voice & Speech and Acting at Centro Formazione Artistica di Luca Bizzarri in Genova. She was a Recording Artist, Voice & Acting Coach, and the Translator for Orange Home Records in Leivi, Italy for over a decade. She is a member of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association VASTA and has been a member of the Golden Key Honor Society and the National Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda, since 2001.
Teaching and Related Service
At WTAMU, Professor Sibley teaches Acting I, Acting II, Voice & Movement I, Voice & Movement II, Improvisation, Musical Theatre repertoire and Introduction to Theatre.
Research and Creative Activity
Professor Sibley is an active voice practitioner and vocal coach who specializes in varied breathing techniques, including Active Breath (mVm), acting for singers, voice for the stage and techniques for varied singing styles.
In addition, she is a deviser and physical theatre artist whose work focuses on creating new feminist pieces that focus on abstract movement, clowning and object work.
With her theatre company, Women from Mars, she co-authored an article called “Silent Reflections – A Clown Noir Cabaret: Transformation of object and the feminist clown,” which was published in the journal Theatre Symposium, Vol. 32.