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Jessica Hansen is the voice of NPR's funding credits, and serves as in-house voice coach at NPR headquarters.
Ms Hansen began acting at age 5, and was a cast member of a TV series on resisting peer pressure at 12. She has performed on stages across the country and in dozens of commercials and industrial training films.
Ms Hansen has performed Guest Star roles on NBC’s Parks & Recreation and HBO’s Veep, working with Amy Poehler and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, respectively.
Ms Hansen has taught acting to children and adults of all ages from Shakespeare to musical theater to microphone and audition techniques. She has taught middle and high school students throughout the Washington metropolitan area, and teaches Styles of Acting at American University. She coaches voice, dialects, and movement for NPR, individuals and professional theater companies.
Ms Hansen co-founded and currently serves as Artistic Director Emeritus of Lean & Hungry Theater, which creates audio adaptations of Shakespeare and other classics to support teachers and students in the classroom, and to make quality theatre accessible to everyone. Lean & Hungry’s shows are currently heard on public radio stations in 8 states and the District of Columbia, with an estimated audience of 42,000 listeners for each show.
Ms Hansen earned her MFA in Acting from Brandeis University, and has studied Alexander, Linklater, LeCoq, Stanislawski, Michael Checkhov, Meisner, Roy Hart, Suzuki, Viewpoints, and many other voice, acting, and movement techniques.
Ms Hansen has served on the Mills College Alumnae Steering Committee, the Brandeis University Alumni Board's Washington, DC chapter Arts Committee, and the National Society of Arts and Letters. Ms Hansen has been a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2005.
Ms Hansen began acting at age 5, and was a cast member of a TV series on resisting peer pressure at 12. She has performed on stages across the country and in dozens of commercials and industrial training films.
Ms Hansen has performed Guest Star roles on NBC’s Parks & Recreation and HBO’s Veep, working with Amy Poehler and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, respectively.
Ms Hansen has taught acting to children and adults of all ages from Shakespeare to musical theater to microphone and audition techniques. She has taught middle and high school students throughout the Washington metropolitan area, and teaches Styles of Acting at American University. She coaches voice, dialects, and movement for NPR, individuals and professional theater companies.
Ms Hansen co-founded and currently serves as Artistic Director Emeritus of Lean & Hungry Theater, which creates audio adaptations of Shakespeare and other classics to support teachers and students in the classroom, and to make quality theatre accessible to everyone. Lean & Hungry’s shows are currently heard on public radio stations in 8 states and the District of Columbia, with an estimated audience of 42,000 listeners for each show.
Ms Hansen earned her MFA in Acting from Brandeis University, and has studied Alexander, Linklater, LeCoq, Stanislawski, Michael Checkhov, Meisner, Roy Hart, Suzuki, Viewpoints, and many other voice, acting, and movement techniques.
Ms Hansen has served on the Mills College Alumnae Steering Committee, the Brandeis University Alumni Board's Washington, DC chapter Arts Committee, and the National Society of Arts and Letters. Ms Hansen has been a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2005.