Vicki Shaghoian

Vicki Shaghoian began teaching in Juilliard’s Dance and Drama Divisions in 2021 and 2022, respectively.

Prior to her time at Juilliard, she served as Music and Vocal Director at the Yale Repertory Theatre on American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Black Monk, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Serious Money, and Dance of the Holy Ghosts—A Play on Memory. She was the understudy vocal coach for Metamorphoses on Broadway and received critical acclaim as the Breath and Physicality Coach for The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter at Marin Theatre Company. She also worked on the world premieres of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home and Have You Seen Us? at Long Wharf Theatre. Her affiliations as Music Director include The Public Theater, Joe’s Pub, The Drama League, New York Musical Theater Festival, All Stages, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center-NTI, WP Theatre (Women’s Project), and The Foundry Theatre.

Her stage career has spanned from the San Francisco Opera to the Montreux Jazz Festival. Performance credits include Windsor Follies, 365 Plays/365 Days: Week 51, The Cherry Orchard, Song of Pegasus, Jenůfa, Der Rosenkavalier, Das Lied von der Erde, L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Seven Deadly Sins, Un Racconto Fiorentino, Candide, Once Five Years Pass, The Marriage of Figaro, La Cenerentola, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni, Hansel and Gretel, Giulio Cesare, Falstaff, Carmen, La Périchole, Albert Herring, Sir John in Love, Alice in Wonderland, Carousel, The King and I, Meet Me in St. Louis, Bye Bye Birdie, A Little Night Music, and The Wild Party. She has also debuted over a dozen libretti with Donald Pippin.

Vicki served as Program Director for SFNATS and has worked with The Instant Shakespeare Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, Medicine Show Theatre, Miscreant Theatre Collective, The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, The Old Globe, The Actors’ Center, Theater Resources Unlimited, GCP, Working Classroom, American Singer Seminar, BMI, Pop Up Theater, The Playwrights Realm, The Foundry Theatre, and Second Generation Theatre Company. She has participated in West Coast American Composers/Writers' Workshops, BMI Musical Theatre Writers' Workshops, and the NOA Conference's "Crossover Singing.”

As a recipient of the Rotary International Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award, she studied at the Royal College of Music and the Alexander Institute in London. She joined the acting faculty at Yale School of Drama in 2000 as an Assistant Professor of Acting, where she received the George Pierce Baker Award for Excellence and helped to pilot the Ted Shen Curriculum at Yale University. After her tenure at Yale, she served as the interim Singing Teacher for the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). She is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists, Actors' Equity Association, The National Alliance of Acting Teachers, and The Actors’ Center.