Cynthia Santos DeCure

Cynthia Santos DeCure is an Associate Professor Adjunct of Acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She is a bilingual actor and dialect coach with more than 25 years of professional experience. A native Spanish-speaker raised in Puerto Rico, her work and research centers on culturally inclusive pedagogies in actor training, voice and speech, including Latina/o/x/e identity, linguistic identity, and all accents of Spanish around the globe. She is co-editor of Latinx Actor Training (Routledge), which was featured in American Theatre Magazine, and Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre (Smith and Kraus); her chapter “La Voz de Shakespeare” is published in Shakespeare and Latinidad by Boffone/Della Gatta (Edinburgh University Press). She has presented at conferences and taught in Barcelona, Puerto Rico, London, Montreal, Shanghai and across the U.S.

She is certified as an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and as a teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Her professional credits include serving as the vocal and dialect coach at Yale Rep for the world-premiere of El Huracán, as well as Yale Rep’s Today Is Your Birthday, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles and Wish You Were Here. Some of her regional coaching credits include work at Denver Center, NY Classical, Trinity Rep, Hartford Stage, Baltimore Stage, Folger Shakespeare, Round House Theatre, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Portland Stage, Theatre Works Hartford, Marriott Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis, Phoenix Theatre, Chance Theater, Long Beach Shakespeare Company, and REDCAT, among others. She served as on-set dialect coach for the Netflix series Orange is the New Black.

A member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild/AFTRA, some of her acting credits include productions at New Haven’s Elm Shakespeare, South Coast Repertory, Long Beach Shakespeare, Knightsbridge Theater, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, and Groupo de Teatro Sinergia/Nosotros. Some film and television credits include The Mambo Kings, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, All My Children, The Bold and The Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, and General Hospital.

She is a past Yale Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project (2021–22). She serves as co-chair of the EDI Symposium in the School of Drama and is a member of the Women’s Faculty Forum.

Michael Glerup, Ph.D. is the program director of the Project on Religion & Society in Africa a program in the Council of African Studies at Yale University’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. A Fellow of Morse College.

Dr. Glerup serves as the general co-editor of the seventeen-volume Ancient Christian Text Series and of Ancient Christianity: The Development of its Institutions and Practices by Angelo di Berardino. He is the co-editor of Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Ezekiel and Daniel and volume editor of Early Christian Commentaries on Pauline Literature and Early Christian Commentaries on Genesis: Severian of Gabala and Bede. He has contributed chapters to multi-author books in theology, spirituality, and biblical interpretation.

He is the board chair of Sophos Africa, an NGO dedicated to fostering a resilient and flourishing society in Ethiopia, and a board member of The Sanneh Institute in Ghana.

He has extensive teaching experience in Africa and has also organized and directed regional and pan-African conferences across Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt.