I trained as an actress at Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama (1985-1988) and worked for over 10 years as an actress before training on the MA Voice Studies Course at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (2002-2003).
I have taught on the undergraduate and postgraduate programs at many drama schools including:
LAMDA, EAST 15, Guildhall School of Acting, MMU School of Theatre, Birmingham School of Acting, LIPA, University of Minnesota, The Poor School and I ran many workshops and master classes at The Actors Centre North.
2021 Belief Change Practitioner, Academy of High Achievers French-Burgess
2010 Voice Acting in Computer Games with Mark Estdale
2009 RSC Voice Teachers Workshop, RSC Stratford
2009 Common Voice Problems, Anne-Marie Speed (R.A.M)
2007 Voice Over Workshop, Actors Centre North
2006 Reflexive Breathing Workshop, International Centre for Voice ICV) with Catherine Fitzmaurice
2004 Vocal Profile Analysis Scheme with Christina Shewell
2003 The Body Speaks 2-day Workshop with Lorna Marshall
2003 Cicelly Berry on Speaking Shakespeare
2003 Shakespeare Master Class with Patsy Rodenburg, National Theatre
2003 Creative Articulation 2 day Workshop at ICV with Annie Morrison
2002 Voice Workshop at ICV with Barbara Houseman
2001 Acting for Radio at City Lit.
Training & Teaching
Courses & Workshops
Theatre
The New Vic Theatre: A Leap in the Dark, Tom, Dick & Harry (and Alexander Palace), Marvellous (and @sohoplace), Hoard Revisited, Two, 39 Steps, Wind in the Willows, Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Dracula, The Borrowers, 101 Dalmatians, I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire, The Memory of Water, Dangerous Corner, Don Giovanni, Cider with Rosie, Laurel and Hardy
The Stephen Joseph Theatre: Laughton, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Pirates of Penzance, Moonlight & Magnolia’s
The Duke’s Theatre: Quicksand, Of Mice & Men
York Theatre Royal: The Guinea Pig Club, The End of Desire, To Kill A Mockingbird
The Belgrade Theatre: We Love You City
Oldham Coliseum: Two, Heaven Spot, The Sunshine Boys, Women on the Verge of HRT
Keswick Theatre-by-the-Lake: The Bogus Woman
Theatre Clwyd: Somewhere In England
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre: MacBeth
Ice & Fire Theatre Company: Crocodile Seeking Refuge
New Generation Arts Festival: Good Person of Setzuan
Black Toffee Theatre: Hidden
Mouthpiece Productions: The Bridge
Graeae Theatre Company: Whiter than Snow
TV & Film
There's Something About Miriam (Sky One, Brighter Pictures)
Rockets Island (CBBC)
Foyle's War (ITV)
Corporate
AstraZeneca, A&P Mandala LTD, D2 Network Associates, Haughton Design, Slough Borough Council, Foxton's Estate Agents, John Lewis
Accents and Dialects Coached
UK & Irish Accents
We Love You City (Coventry), Bright 'n' Bold Design (Stoke Potteries), Hobson's Choice (Salford), Our Country's Good (Dublin, Devon, Glasgow, Eastend Jewish), Shoreditch Madonna (South London), Harvest (Driffield, East Yorkshire), Memory of Water (Whitby), Women on the Verge of HRT (Belfast), Playboy of the Western World (County Mayo), Cider with Rosie (Gloucestershire), Maggie May (Liverpool), Dangerous Corner (1930's RP) 101 Dalmatians (Dog accents!)
American Accents
To Kill A Mockingbird (Alabama), Sunshine Boys (NY Jewish), Boston Marriage (1890's Standard American), Moonlight & Magnolia's (1930's California), The Treatment (New York), American Clock (Chicago, Brooklyn Jewish, Iowa, Boston, General American, Irish American, New York), Of Mice and Men ('Okie', Deep South), The House of Blue Leaves (Queens, New York), Laurel & Hardy (On-screen & off-screen voices for Laurel & Hardy, Georgia, California, Texan, Brooklyn, Louisianna also Russian, Australian, Glaswegian, Wigan, Italian, French)
European & Other Accents
After Mrs Rochester (Jamaican), Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Xhosa, Afrikaans), The Bogus Women (Iranian, Iraqi, Belfast, Jamaican, Polish, Congolese, Gambia, London), Pentecost (Bulgarian, Mozambique, Ukrainian, Kuwaiti, Kurdish, Azeri, Polish, Sri Lankan), Crocodile Seeking Refuge (Iranian, Italian, Iraqi, Sudanese, Columbian, Congolese), Don Giovanni (Hungarian, Dublin)
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