Vocal Training

For the last 22 years, she has worked freelance as a Voice, Text and Acting Coach and Associate Director and Director, including, in 2019, directing three one-woman shows: From Prejudice to Pride, Cruise To Hell and Bethlehem. Among other private clients, she coaches Daniel Radcliffe, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Jessie Buckley on various projects.

In 2009 she joined Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre as Voice and Text Coach and in 2014 became Season Associate Director – Voice & Text. She has worked on numerous shows in the West End including End Game, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Duchess of Malfi, Design for Living and Playboy of the Western World at the Old Vic; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Ferryman at the Gielgud; Macbeth, Richard III and Dr Faustus for the Jamie Lloyd Company; the All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy, St Joan, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Coriolanus, Trelawney of the Wells at the Donmar.

Barbara is the author of Finding Your Voice and Tackling Text [and Subtext] both published by Nick Hern Books and of two digital Masterclasses: Developing Your Voice and Bringing the Text to Life. Barbara has also trained as a Healing Shiatsu Practitioner, Master NLP Practitioner and Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling Coach, and Calling in “the one”, and these have all influenced her work, as has her 35 years practising Mindfulness. She now teaches Mindfulness and Compassion alongside her voice, acting and directing work.