A grab-bag of my interests: contemporary theatre, creativity, plus life and learning online
These posts focus on my particular area of expertise as a trainer of performers: voice and text. I maintain my practice in the field and am an active voice over artist. This commentary comes at the topic from all angles.
I’m not all that keen on the name of this handy little iPhone app: ‘Hollywood Helper – Broadway Buddy’ – yuk! ‘Lines Coach’ is plain, but it might well have served for an application that helps you to learn lines without your script, and which also understands how most actors work with pencil and [...]
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Earlier this year I wrote in praise of (Much) Older Women Artists, and did a little podcast just after the Tony Awards in June.
This post adds to my ongoing hommages of women who inspire.
Yesterday afternoon I saw Robyn Nevin’s performance in The Year of Magical Thinking, directed by Cate Blanchett for Queensland Theatre Company. Her [...]
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One of my day jobs concerns itself with reading; among other things, I’m a voice actor. I love words, the sound and power of the human voice, and like most people, I love telling stories. From a DVD training video to a commercial, I consider every voice-over job I get as a story-telling challenge.
My former [...]
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When the first generation iPod came out in 2001, I immediately saw its potential as a tool for learning in Higher Ed, and especially in my field, theatre. I was one of the first, via a loaner from AUC (Apple University Consortium in Australia) to take it for a test drive and report on [...]
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I’ve been collecting snippets of my life for years. I guess I am a confirmed diarist at heart, although the collection process is random and not nearly as organised as it might be. I’ve had a camera since I was 11 years old – a Box Brownie as I recall – and have been collecting [...]
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An interesting blog post on OurBrisbane.com today – it’s a performing arts blog run by Brisbane playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson – caught my attention. It had me reaching for the keyboard; it was about one of my favourite topics, something I’ve been dealing with for years – voice training, specifically dialect and accent work for performance. [...]
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