Cynthia Santos DeCure

Cynthia Santos DeCure

(she/her/ella)

Voice & Text Director, Quixote Nuevo

A bilingual actor, voice and dialect designer/coach, certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and Knight-Thompson Speechwork. Voice/dialect credits: Off-Broadway: Cymbeline (NY Classical); Regional: Wish You Were Here, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, El Huracán, Today Is My Birthday (Yale Rep); La Broa’ (Trinity Rep); The Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage/Baltimore Center Stage); Quixote Nuevo, Laughs in Spanish (Denver Center); Quixote Nuevo (Roundhouse, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Portland Stage); Hamlet Reading Room Series (Folger Shakespeare); Scenes with Cranes (REDCAT/CalArts), In The Heights (Marriott Theater, Phoenix Theatre, Chance Theater); I Come from Arizona (Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis). TV: Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), The Affair (Showtime). A member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity. She is the co-champion for the LTC’s Actor Training Laboratorio 2026. Publications include chapter, “La Voz de Shakespeare,” in Shakespeare and Latinidad by Boffone/Della Gatta; and co-editor of the award-winning Scenes for Latinx Actors (Smith and Kraus) and Latinx Actor Training (Routledge). BA: University of Southern California; MFA: CSULA. She is an Associate Professor of Acting at Yale University’s David Geffen School of Drama. cynthiadecure.com