Gallaher’s formal studies include screenwriting at Columbia College Chicago, and oral interpretation and voice classes at St. Nicholas Theater Company, where she served as a volunteer. She also studied voice with Val Bettin, a voice actor in Shrek, Tarzan and Aladdin, among other films.
She's logged years as a performance poet at numerous venues, and is a seasoned writing workshop leader and lecturer. She has also appeared as a poet and performer on a variety of local television programs.
Cynthia Gallaher can recite in various accents: ~ Midwest ~ Chicago ~ Dublin ~ South Carolina
Odds and ends:
~ Good dancer; quick choreography study.
~ Proficient in some character stage make-up.
~ Former photographic, demo and trade show model in Chicago.
Currently:
~ Freelance writer on theater-related topics such as the real-life inpiration for Grease's Pink Ladies.
~ Volunteer and Twitter mistress for Shapeshifters Theatre, the resident theater company of the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago.
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 Cynthia Gallaher's published plays are: ~ “D.C. Riddle Rally,” Reading Street Readers’ Theater Anthology, Grade 4
~ “Suburban Power!” Reading Street Readers’ Theater Anthology, Grade 5
~ “The Emperor’s New Clothes (adaptation),” Reading Street Readers’ Theater Anthology, Grade 6
(all from Pearson, Scott Foresman)
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