CAP21 faculty member Jan Prokop is also Interim Director of Montclair State University's Opera Workshop where she teaches voice to music theatre majors. As Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah, she conducts voice clinics and workshops for students and hospital ENT residents. She has taught voice classes, seminars, workshops and master classes at The Actors Studio Program @ The New School, Teachers College-Columbia University and the University of Brasília. From her Manhattan and Salt Lake City studios, Prokop teaches classical and musical theater voice and teams with laryngologists, voice therapists and speech scientists in the rehabilitation of injured voices as well as in research. She is the past president of NATS-NYC, co-author of several articles on voice and recipient of the Van Lawrence Fellowship. Prokop has performed throughout the U.S. and in France, Germany, Brazil and Israel, in opera, oratorio, concert and musical theater. Her roles range from Miss Strict (Zombie Prom) to Johanna (SweeneyTodd) and Musetta (La Bohème) to Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro). A champion of 20th-century music, her credits include Poulenc's Gloria, Berio and Pärt's Magnificats and Orff's Carmina Burana. Currently Prokop performs her one-woman show, I'm Flying: The Mary Martin Story. She received her Doctorate in Music from Indiana University.
