Actress turns stage skills into speech career

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Actress turns stage skills into speech career
Tired of the hectic pace of life in New York, Gretchen McGinty came home and found a way to help people.
By April Denée
Special Correspondent
Posted: Sunday, Mar. 13, 2011

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/03/13/2128421/actress-turns-stage-skills-into.html

Native Charlottean and professional actress Gretchen McGinty, 36, spent four years at UNC School of the Arts, eight years in New York City and three years at UNC Greensboro to prepare for her latest role - as a real-life speech-language pathologist.

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But much of her graduate research focused on transgender issues, which relates closely to her theater background.

"If you have a background in theater and you know all about how to build a character and how to make that character believable, that's what you're doing with a transgender client. It's like I was made for it," said McGinty, whose work with transgender clients deals with all aspects of communication because men and women sound, move and relate to others in very different ways.