Faculty/Staff

• Communications Arts, Xavier Leadership Center

Biography:

Mr. Rocco Dal Vera, M.F.A

Rocco Dal Vera is a professional actor and Professor of Theatre at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. He is the co-author of “Voice: Onstage and Off,” the best selling textbook in the field, and “Acting in Musical Theatre: a comprehensive course,” newly-released from Routledge Publishers, UK. His credits include work as a voice coach on numerous stage productions, and as a voice-over talent on more than 500 commercials, television shows, and movies, including “L.A. Law” “Hill Street Blues,” “THIRTYsomething,” "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and "The Gods Must Be Crazy." In addition to working with actors, he has worked extensively as a coach and trainer in corporate environments, training professionals in such areas as persuasive speaking, presentation skills, and leadership presence.  He is an internationally-recognized teacher and researcher in the area of voice and emotion, being one of a handful of certified trainers in Alba Emoting technique, and his book “The Voice in Violence” (ed.) is a standard text in the field.