About me
Deb trained at the Arts Educational Schools, Tring and London, before working professionally in West End, repertory theatre and radio.
She went on to gain a music degree and then worked for twenty years as a singing coach at the Brit School and London School of Musical Theatre. During the same period she developed vocal health workshops for school teachers, aerobics instructors and performers.
She subsequently studied on the MA in Voice Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where she then worked as a Lecturer in Voice for ten years. She is currently on the BA Acting Voice Team at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority and a designated Linklater Voice teacher.
Deb is an experienced voice, singing and dialect coach. In her private practice, she tailors sessions to be flexible to the individual requirements and developmental needs of each client.
Deb is a voice and dialect coach in both theatre and film. Most recent credits include Festen at the Royal Opera House, Northanger Abbey and Yellowman at the Orange Tree Theatre London, Henry V at the Donmar Warehouse, Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief at the Other Palace London, Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre London, and Kraven the Hunter for Sony Pictures which utilised her singing and verbatim coaching skills.
She is also sought after as a workshop practitioner, delivering bespoke voice, singing and voice-into-text workshops both in the U.K. and abroad.
Clients include Donmar Warehouse, The Chekhov Collective, Kristin Linklater Voice Centre Orkney, Royal Ballet School Teacher Training, Lithuanian Academy of Music And Theatre (LMTA), Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb, Accademia D’Arte Drammatica, Rome. Upcoming workshops include a week-long course in Shakespeare’s Language in Rome and then on to the European Forum for a five-day voice and singing workshop in Alpbach.
She is currently the external examiner for the MFA Professional Voice Studies programme at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
