Lorinne Vozoff

Lorinne Vozoff (born Lorinne Dills) is an American actress, director, playwright, and acting teacher. She is the founder of Theatre Group Studio and the author of Changing Circumstances: An Acting Manual. Her work spans film, television, and stage. She has also been active in actor training and arts education for decades.

Vozoff was born in Quincy, Illinois, to Margaret Mae (née Durbin) and Kenneth Eugene Dills.^[1] She graduated from St. Teresa High School in 1950.^[2] She studied at the University of Illinois^[3] and later at UCLA.^[4]

Vozoff has worked extensively as an actor, director, playwright, and teacher.^[5] She founded the Theatre Group Studio in Los Angeles in 1999^[6] and authored the acting manual Changing Circumstances. Her stage credits include lead roles in Medea, Fefu and Her Friends, The Man of Destiny, The Jewish Wife, The Glass Menagerie, Private Lives, The Lion in Winter, Blithe Spirit,^[7] Escape from Happiness, and A Delicate Balance.

As a playwright, she wrote Speak to Me and What’s Mine, both of which were staged at Theatre for the New City in New York’s East Village.^[8] She has also written two novels, Enigma and Hidden Object.

Her film appearances include Shining Through, Impulse, Heart and Souls,^[9] and Irreconcilable Differences. On television, she has guest-starred in numerous series including Six Feet Under, Star Trek: Voyager, Party of Five, NYPD Blue, ER, L.A. Law, The Mentalist, American Horror Story, and Major Crimes.

Vozoff’s teaching credits include the Actors and Directors Lab, La Verne College, New Mexico State University, Padua Hills Writers Festival, and UCLA Extension. She has also served as a guest artist at Birmingham-Southern College on three occasions.

• Changing Circumstances: An Acting Manual
• Enigma
• Hidden Object

• Lorinne Vozoff at IMDb
• Theatre Group Studio official site