Date: June 28th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 14.00 - 17.00

Renowned voice coach and acting tutor Barbara Houseman leads a workshop on developing the range and depth of your voice.

There are two parts to developing vocal range and expression.

The first is about developing your vocal instrument in terms of range and resonance. The second is about developing a flexibility of thought and feeling in a speech or scene, since it is the movement of thought and feeling which move the voice.

The workshop will explore both elements and help you to identify what you specifically need to work on.

Please bring a speech to work on. You don't need to learn it. It can be a new piece you haven't worked on or an old piece you want to refresh. 

"Barbara's work starts with voice, passes through the physical and results in a character. Her teaching helps total performance." Jude Law

Barbara Houseman has worked in theatre for over thirty years both as a voice, text and acting coach and a director.

After dividing her time between directing and voice work, she spent six years in the world renowned Voice Department at the Royal Shakespeare Company, working alongside Cicely Berry and Andrew Wade and then became Associate Director at the Young Vic, in London, working alongside Tim Supple. She now works freelance coaching voice, text and acting and working as an associate director.

Among other clients she coaches Daniel Radcliffe and Jude Law, when they are preparing projects for stage and screen.

In 2010 she was Associate Director for Romeo and Juliet at the Naples Festival and in 2012 Associate Director for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Ragtime at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. From 2009 ongoing she has been Voice and Text Coach at Regent's Park. She has recently worked on Macbeth at Trafalgar Transformed, Trelawney of the Wells and the all female Julius Caesar at the Donmar and Full Monty and Macbeth at Sheffield Crucible.

She is the author of Finding Your Voice and Targeting Text [and Subtext] both published by Nick Hern Books.

Barbara trained as a voice teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama and as a director at the Bristol Old Vic Theate School.