Teresa Spencer is a Baltimore-Washington area actor, writer, and voice and dialect coach. Her new book Too Like the Lightning: Prose Poems to My Almost Loves is a collection of love poems to street harassers, catcallers, followers home, pervs online, and other sundry unsavory types, available wherever books are sold. Teresa will be on tour reading from the collection in summer and fall 2024, check the Upcoming page for events and information.
Teresa is a company member with the DC dance-music-theatre ensemble Taffety Punk Theatre Company, publisher of Too Like the Lightning and where she most recently appeared on stage as Banquo and Macduff in the Riot Grrrls’ Macbeth. She is also a resident artist with Cincinnati-based multimedia arts company Walterhoope, which recently released The Velveteen Rabbit, a complete audio play and puppetry experience for children at home, adapted by Teresa from the original story by Margery Williams. Teresa’s ensemble performance and devising work has been nominated for three Helen Hayes Awards.
Teresa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Towson University and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University. She is a Certified Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork® and of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, a Society of American Fight Directors Advanced Actor Combatant, and a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher.