Dates: May 28th, May 30th
Location: Actors' Guild Hub at Spotlight, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7RJ
Time: 18.00 - 21.00

We are pleased to welcome renowned voice coach and acting tutor Barbara Houseman who will be taking a series of four workshops focusing on finding and developing your voice, working physically to find greater ease, release, freedom, connection and expression vocally, using text as a spring board for building a character as well as building a character sub-textually... "Barbara's work starts with voice, passes through the physical and results in a character. Her teaching helps total performance." Jude Law The third and fourth of these, Building Character, run over two dates. 28th May This workshop will use text as a spring board for building a character. It will explore thought and emotional rhythms and show you how you can extend to inhabit a character a deeply connected and subtly transforming way. 30th May This workshop will look at ways of building a character sub-textually. It will explore internal character rhythm and motivation, allowing for subtle transformation. Please learn a short piece of text that you can use during these two workshops. 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.