Voice, Accent & Dialect Coaching

I am a professional actor, voice, speech, accent and dialect coach and a licensed Clinical Therapist with Masters degrees in Voice Studies, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and on the Postgraduate Musical Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music. 

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I trained as a voice coach at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and I have worked for some to the UK’s leading theatre schools including the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and the Birmingham School of Acting. I was Head of Voice at LIPA for several years. I have also worked as an Assistant Professor in the United States at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where I taught on the MFA Acting program and coached numerous productions at the Clarence Brown Theatre. My additional coaching credits include six seasons at the Shaw Festival Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, Peaky Blinders (BBC), Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (ARC Entertainment), Les Misérables (London’s West End).

 

My coaching philosophy is inclusive and I welcome anyone looking to develop their voice in the context of an evidence based approach that empowers the performer and prioritizes mental health and wellbeing. This is not therapy, rather a therapeutic, skills based approach to performance training and coaching that seeks to supports creativity, build confidence and harness the development of skills designed to empower the artist to perform what they want, when they want to, no tricks, no need to wear your lucky socks, just powerful skills training that works and puts the performer in control.