If you are considering Drama school or preparing for any kind of audition, I can help you make the best impact you can.  Not only have I been through the audition process many times myself, but my years of teaching experience have helped many people prepare for judged performances.  Having worked as a professional actor for over 10 years, I can offer you a better understanding of the audition process and techniques for a more effective performance on the day.

The entertainment industry is an extremely competitive one, with thousands of performers competing for a small number of jobs.  In such a crowded market, professional training is a must and individual coaching can give you that added edge to succeed at audition.

For full details go to www.qn-actingcoach.com.

If you are a member of an amateur dramatics society, I can offer you one-to-one personal attention to improving your confidence and giving the best performance you can.  If you are concerned about a particular performance we can work on that, or I can help you to develop your confidence and skills more generally.

In all cases we will work on finding and freeing your voice, delivering text to the best effect, improving breathing and using your body to best support your performance, moving freely and with confidence.

For many people anticipation of performing can bring a series of quite debilitating symptoms which can seriously undermine the quality of the performance and even scupper it entirely in severe cases.  I pay particular attention to stagefright in my work with would-be performers.  The symptoms, which can be most unpleasant  - shortness of breath, disturbed digestive processes, dry mouth, sweating, muscle tension and panicky thoughts - are all excacerbated by our faulty use of the body - contracting the breathing mechanism, pulling the head back and the back of the neck closed, upsetting the balance and relationship of the spine and the limbs.  I can help you become aware of these unhelpful patterns of use and correct them.  We may not abolish the fright entirely - for most performers this would be counter-productive - but we will have it under conscious control.

Please see more general information on voice and movement work here.