Having trained as a voice coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama and a director at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Barbara has worked in the theatre for thirty-five years. After eleven years dividing her time between directing and voice teaching, she spent six years in the world renowned Voice Department at the Royal Shakespeare Company, working alongside Cicely Berry and Andrew Wade and then became Associate Director at the Young Vic, London, working alongside Tim Supple.
For the last seventeen years she has worked freelance coaching voice, text and acting and working as an Associate Director. Productions she has worked on as voice and text coach include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud and on tour; Jamie Lloyd’s Macbeth with James McAvoy; Richard III with Martin Freeman; Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar and Henry IV; Joe Wright’s Trelawney of the Wells; Josie Rourke’s Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston; Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Janet McTeer, Dominic West and Michelle Dockery and the Kenneth Branagh Season at the Garrick Theatre.
She has been resident voice and text coach at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park since 2009 and was Season Associate Director there in 2012, 2014 and 2016. She was also Associate Director on Romeo and Juliet at the Naples Festival in 2010. Private clients include Daniel Radcliffe, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Lenny Henry, Dynamo, Scarlett Strallen and Jessie Buckley.
