Prof. Dr. Sujata Maya Huestegge

As a freelance speech coach, she has accompanied artistic speaking in drama/opera/operetta/introductions in numerous productions at municipal multi-genre theaters (Theater Aachen and Mainfranken Theater Würzburg) since 2007. She was able to draw on many years of experience in the healthy development of the artistic and professional speaking voice at the Theaterhaus when she began her work with students on the bachelor's and master's degree programmes in artistic singing (Liedgestaltung und Konzertgesang) as a full-time lecturer in speech design and speaking technique at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (HMTM) in 2016.
She demonstrated her expertise in artistic work with the speaking voice in modern music theater, for example in the world premiere of Nijinsky's Diary (Glanert) with the development of speaking roles for singers, actors and dancers in Aachen.
She provided artistic voice design in the field of operetta and comic opera in Aachen and Würzburg in many productions (e.g. Die Fledermaus, Die Lustige Witwe, Die Csárdásfürstin, Der Zigeunerbaron, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor). She has also been engaged for phonetic adaptation for foreign speakers in other musical theater formats (e.g. Hansel and Gretel, Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Arabella, Faust, Der Steppenwolf, Fidelio, Salome). She also trains light and penetrating speech for artists internationally in the field of open-air performance theater.
She completed her doctorate at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg in the field of basic psychological research on cognitive voice processing in the context of authenticity and on congruence effects of voice and face.
Since 2020, she has been a professor of health sciences at the Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Heidenheim and continued to teach speech technique/speech design/phonetics at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts (HMTM) at the “Institute for Artistic Vocal and Theater Training” until winter 2022.
Since the summer of 2024, she has been working freelance for projects in the field of artistic-healthy speech and for breathing and body work and as a lecturer in the “Music & Health” department at the University of Music Würzburg.