Rachel Hirshorn-Johnston, MFA is an Associate Professor of Voice and Speech at Texas Tech University, a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and an active member of Actors’ Equity (AEA), the Voice & Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), and the Pan-American Vocology Association (PAVA).

Rachel coaches regionally in professional theatre and with private clients (corporate, government) on dialect acquisition, modification, and presentation skills. As an actor and coach her work has been praised (New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, among others) throughout the US and Europe in professional regional theatre. Her research examines the intersection of performance methods with atypical population subsets, largely within STEAM collaborations, and using both qualifiable and quantifiable data collection.​