Credentials
Voice Coach & Consultant
I am a Voice Consultant, who has worked for 25 yrs in the industry, and work internationally to enable creative solutions for all aspects of performance, and presentation, to deliver impactful and chasrismatic communication across different speaking platforms.
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Drama School Coaching
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Private Coaching for individuals
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Training and workshops
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International Master Classes
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Acting Coaching on set
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Corporate Training
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Webinar and Conference Training
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Presence and Impact Coaching
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A one-stop-shop for all things Voice.
Examples of previous work:
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Shakespeare’s Globe includes:
Bartholomew Fair, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ralegh: The Treason Trial, Emilia (Globe /West End).
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Voice coaching for the RSC for twelve years includes:
Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Mouse and His Child, Twelfth Night, The Drunks, Women Beware Women, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear and Hamlet.
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Other voice coaching includes:
Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (Chichester Festival Theatre, Spiegeltent); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios); Mother Courage (Manchester Royal Exchange); Night School (Pinter at the Pinter); Flowers for Mrs Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre); Tartuffe (Haymarket Theatre); Othello, Twelfth Night, Macbeth (Liverpool Everyman); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, West Side Story, The Tempest (Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ontario); Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic) and Caledonia (National Theatre of Scotland).
Tess has also worked with the Moscow Arts Theatre School, El Institut del Teatre (Barcelona) and La Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (Valencia).
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Voice coaching for television includes:
Outlander.
Oraganisations worked with:
I have had the pleasure of working with some amazing organisations, including:












Acting Coach
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Twenty-five years of Actor Coaching and Training
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Bespoke one-on-one training for actors and performers
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Theatre Coaching Acting, Voice and Speech
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Dialog Coaching on set to support the actor from text to screen
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Working alongside agents, casting directors, producers, directors actors, to enable first class performances
I trained and coached at International Institutions for 27yrs and in all the major London Drama Schools including RADA, LAMDA, Central, Mountview, E15, Rose Bruford and LIPA, and worked as a Professor of Voice and Speech on the MFA Programme at Penn State University. I have also given Master Classes at Moscow Arts Theatre School in Russia, El Institut del Teatre in Barcelona La Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Valencia.
My Education and Certifications
Designate Linklater Voice Teacher
International Linklater Voice Centre
Postgraduate Certificate: Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in Performance
The University of Manchester
MA in Theatre Practice: Voice
The University of Manchester
Post Graduate Diploma in Voice Studies
The Central School of Speech & Drama
Diploma in Acting
The Webber Douglas Academy of Drama
Accredited
2017
Distinction
2013
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Distinction
2007
Distinction
1993
Distinction
1988