Creative Development
Dale Cox is a creative practitioner, researcher, and voice specialist whose work explores the relationship between voice, expression, and human experience. Dale’s research-informed practice focuses on how people make meaning through sound, embodiment, and creative process.
Voice and Expression
Dale supports artists, students, and practitioners in developing their expressive voice, creative identity, and research‑driven practice. Her work integrates reflective methodologies, ethical awareness, and a deep commitment to helping individuals articulate their ideas with clarity and confidence. With more than twenty years’ experience working with performers, alongside a Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD and ongoing professional development, she brings deep expertise, strong qualifications, and genuine trustworthiness.
Artistic Research
Alongside her longstanding coaching practice, Dale engages in research that examines creative processes and the role of voice in artistic and cultural contexts. With a PhD from USQ, a background in performance, and a deep interest in ethnographic inquiry, she collaborates with institutions, performers, and interdisciplinary practitioners on projects that bridge practice, inquiry, and creative development. She is also interested in performing arts pedagogy, and how through examining assumptions behind pedagogical practices, performing art curriculums can best support contemporary performance practices.
A published author, Dale is passionate about research that reaches its intended audience. Her book, Exposing the Chasms in Voice Pedagogy was published by Routledge in 2024. Passionate about collaboration, she co-authored the chapter on Western Musical Theatre Voice Pedagogy in the Oxford Handbook of Voice Pedagogy (Spring 2026) and is co-editing a collection on accessibility: Voices of Belonging (Routledge, 2027). She is the co-editor of the international peer reviewed journal Australian Voice.
Impact
“Exposing the Chasms in Voice Pedagogy covers topics that have wide-ranging implications for those in the profession. In particular, it should be required reading for all voice teachers working within academia. Cox pulls back the curtain on institutional biases that prevent degree programs from preparing students for the realities of the industry. Programs unwilling to address these biases and adjust as cultural tastes and opportunities shift risk contributing to their own extinction.”
Brian Manternach, Classical Singer Magazine, December 2025
https://www.csmusic.net/content/articles/the-singers-library-vocal-traditions-and-exposing-the-chasms-in-voice-pedagogy/
Associate Professor (Clinical). Department of Theatre
University of Utah
The work provides a model for the future of qualitative research in voice pedagogy. The book examines the big picture, challenges the status quo, and dares us to change. Cox expertly navigates the cognitive dissonances in our higher education systems, and brings relevant questions to the forefront of pedagogical discourse.
Elizabeth Benson
Professor of Musical Theatre
Auburn University
“This should be required reading for anyone teaching or considering teaching musical theatre and contemporary singing.”
Deonte Warren, Assistant Professor of Practice,
School of Theatre, Dance and Film,
Texas State University
Creative Practice
Dale has been a performer for many years, across singing, acting, and musical theatre. Performance experience includes solo performances at large venues (Sydney Entertainment Centre – 10,000 seats, Canberra Convention Centre – 2500) as well as smaller band gigs, piano bars, jazz clubs, and cabaret productions. She has led choirs, community singing groups, and produced, written, and directed small-scale (90 – 400 seat) theatrical event productions. She is a sometime songwriter, occasional composer and published author. She is also the co-editor for the Australian Voice academic journal, with extensive leadership experience in both musical theatre and singing organizations.