Barbara Houseman

Barbara was Voice and Text Coach at the Royal Shakespeare Company for six years, Voice and Text Coach at Regent’s Park from 2009, and Season Associate Director from 2014 to 2022. She is the author of Finding Your Voice and Tackling Text [and Subtext], both published by Nick Hern Books.

For the Donmar: The Human Body; Macbeth; St Joan; Shakespeare Trilogy; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Coriolanus; Trelawny of the Wells and Anna Christie (as Personal Coach for the lead).

Voice and Text Coach credits include: Life of Pi (Wyndhams); Hamlet; The Government Inspector (Young Vic); The Ferryman (Gielgud); The Duchess of Malfi; The Playboy of the Western World; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Endgame (The Old Vic); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Gielgud/UK tour); Kenneth Branagh Season (Garrick Theatre); Dr Faustus (Duke of York’s); Richard III; Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios) and All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Associate Director credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Naples Festival); The Comedy of Errors and More Grimm Tales (Young Vic).

Personal Coach for lead actor includes: Cage Aux Folles (Regent’s Park) Obsession (Barbican); Henry V (Noel Coward Theatre); Hamlet (Wyndham’s); Old Times (Broadway); The Lifetime of A Fact; How to Succeed in Business (Broadway); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Noel Coward Theatre/Broadway) and Equus (Gielgud/Broadway).