Masterclass: The Performer’s Voice

As an actor or performer, your voice is one of the most important channels through which your thoughts, ideas, emotions and stories reach the audience.  
 
Led by RSC voice specialist Cathleen McCarron, this fun and practical workshop will give you a foundation in voice work by leading you through a series of simple but effective physical exercises for body, breath, resonance and muscularity of speech, all of which will help not only with the fundamentals of clarity and audibility, but also enable you to develop range, depth and variety so that in the moment of performance your voice will freely respond to your creative and imaginative impulses. 
 
Bring a bottle of water, wear comfortable clothes for movement, and be prepared to work on the floor and without shoes!
 
When: 10th August 2019, 10am-4pm
How much: £45
 
Suitable for ages 18+
 

About the course leader
 
Cathleen McCarron is a voice, text and dialect specialist.  She is currently full-time Senior Voice and Text Practitioner with the Royal Shakespeare Company and prior to this was an in-house voice coach at London's National Theatre. 
 
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Cathleen studied politics at Edinburgh University before training in acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and for ten years worked extensively as an actress, across theatre, film, television and radio. Her lifelong interest in voice and storytelling eventually led Cathleen to the renowned MA Voice Studies course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, from which she graduated with Distinction in 2010. 
 
Since then, she has coached voice, text and dialect in numerous drama schools and theatres across the UK and in Europe and has a particular passion for enabling and empowering actors to work with their own voices and accents. Cathleen is also a regular narrator of audiobooks and has received a number of national and international awards and nominations for her work in this field.
 
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Venue
Shoebox Theatre
Health Hydro
Milton Road
Swindon
SN1 5JA