£: Pay what you can or pay it forward
About the Workshop:
Jeannette’s voice workshop is designed for actors who are mid-career and it will help you to establish or deepen your personal voice practice. She will take you through exercises that connect you to your breath, explore your resonance, open up your vocal range and support your clear speech. The workshop will also leave you with a structure for your pre-performance voice warm up.
Please bring with you a piece (or two) of text that you can use in the workshop.
After the workshop please join us for Snacks ‘n’ Chats ! We're holding tea for all workshop attendees - a chance to get to know your fellow creatives, skill swap and, most importantly, eat biscuits.
About Jeannette Nelson:
Jeannette has worked extensively as a voice coach in theatre, film and TV. At the National Theatre from 1992 to 2001, returning in 2007 as Head of Voice until 2023; at Shakespeare’s Globe for 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2001 seasons; at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2001 to 2005; at Sydney Theatre Company for a year in 2006. Other voice and dialect coaching in London and the UK includes work with the Royal Court, Young Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Shared Experience, Out of Joint, Complicite, Sheffield Theatres, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse, English Touring Theatre, Oxford Stage Company, The Bridge Theatre and the West End. Her film and TV work include: The Merchant of Venice (with Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons & Joseph Fiennes) and The Hollow Crown (full star cast including, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sophie Okondedo, Tom Sturridge, Keeley Hawes, Sally Hawkins), Jeannette’s books, The Voice Exercise Book and Keeping it Active are published by the National Theatre and Nick Hern Books. Her latest book, Centre Stage, is published by Penguin Random House.
You can read more about Jeannette by visiting her website.
Copies of The Voice Exercise Book will be available to buy at SCRUM Studios. Or you can order it here, on Nick Hern Books’ website, along with Keeping It Active (found here).
Pay What You Can or Pay It Forward:
Offering affordable training is at the heart of SCRUM's charitable objectives. Though classes with our practitioners cost a significant amount for practitioners and staffing costs, we offer places at a pay-what-you-can rate. For some, this might mean paying 1p. For others, paying more means you’re covering our facilitators fee and staffing costs, making it possible for us to host future PWYC workshops seasons. We give a suggested figure of £15 for those who can. Or a £30 pay it forward donation.
Attendees must be 18+
£: Pay what you can or pay it forward