Being in Voice (Voice Accents Acting)

Flloyd Kennedy

she/her

Dr Flloyd Kennedy, Liverpool-based, Australian-born actor, singer-songwriter, performance poet, director and voice/speech/accent coach, currently writing, performing and producing the podcast comedy fiction
series "Am I Old Yet?". She took part in the British folk revival in the 60s, performed street theatre, cabaret and fringe theatre in Scotland throughout the 1980s and 90s, returned to Australia where she undertook research into the performing voice (specifically Shakespeare) for her doctorate. She has performed, directed, and taught voice and acting skills at colleges and universities in the UK, US and Australia. Through her private studio Being in Voice Flloyd provides coaching for student and professional actors, private individuals and community and corporate groups and she is artistic director of Thunder’s Mouth Theatre (theatre of poetry, passion and philosophy). She taught voice at ALRA North, Manchester School of Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, MGA Academy of Performing Arts, Edinburgh, E15 Acting School in Southend, and supervised MA/MAV SIP dissertations for RCSSD. Flloyd is an Associate Artist with ISAAC (International School for Acting And Clown), and a Certified Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechworks.

Being in Voice

Being in Voice

Thunder's Mouth Theatre

BA (Music & Philosophy); BA Hons (Drama); PhD (Theatre)

Knight Thompson Speechwork Certified Teacher

1:1 Coaching

Acting

Corporate Coaching/Trainings

Directing

Group Coaching/Workshops

Presence

Public Speaking

Shakespeare

Speech & Dialects

VASTA
British Actors Equity
Associate - ISAAC (International School for Acting And Creativity)

Being in Voice: Private Practice since 1985
ALRA North, 2017-2020
Manchester School of Theatre, 2017-18
Royal Welsh School of Music & Drama 2018
E15 Acting School 2015-16
QUT (BA Fine Arts) Acting 2015 and 2016
Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR) (client)
Film & TV International Studio, Brisbane, 2013-15
Conferences: VASTA 2003, 2009, 2012; ASDA 2006, 2008; 2012; CIBMAS 2008; ATHE 2012
Conferences presented:
VASTA 2012, 2009
ATHE 2012
SIBMAS 2008
Performing the World 2008
ADSA 2008
ADSA 2006
antiTHESIS 2005

Guest Lecturer and part time LecturerTutor
University of Otago, Dunedin
Queensland University of Technology
University of Queensland
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Arizona State University
Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Qld
Coatbridge College, (and) Langside College, Glasgow Scotland (voice lecturer)
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow (verse speaking)
La Salle University, Singapore (guest teacher- Shakespeare performance)

Workshop Leader (a selection)
Qld Narrating Service, 4RPH Radio, Shakespeare Globe New Zealand NSSP, Studio5, Brooklyn NY; Playback Theatre, Brisbane; Qld Narrating Service; Gympie Gold Rush Festival; All Hallows School; Grafton Arts Festival; Society of Speech & Drama Teachers of Qld; Festival of Australasian Student Theatre; Corinda State High School; Access Arts; Southbank TAFE; Brown's Mart Community Arts Centre (Darwin Fringe Festival); Edinburgh Youth Theatre; Cumbernauld Youth Theatre; Mascot Youth Theatre (Bellshill); Drama Worker for Port Glasgow Association of Tenants Groups; Columbia (USA) Festival Homecoming Project - community voice and movement workshops

“Shakespeare and the Actor’s Voice: Close Reading of the Live Performance” Australian Studies. Ed. Elizabeth Schafer. Vol 6 (2014).
“The Challenge of Theorizing the Voice in Performance” Modern Drama: Listening Rooms: A Special Issue on Voice and Performance. Guest Ed. Allan C Pero. Vol 52, No 4, Winter 2009.
“Breath, Voice, Word: Exploring the Trinomy of the Performing Voice” The Voice and Speech Review: Essays on Voice and Speech, VASTA, 2009.
“The Voice as Historiography” Capturing the Essence of Live Performance: The Challenge of Intangible Heritage. SIBMAS Conference proceedings 2008.
“Meta-Performativity: Being in Shakespeare’s Voice” After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies: http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/2510
“Voice as Event/s” antiTHESIS University of Melbourne July 2005
(runner up AEE Pearse Essay Competition).
Shish Mahal Cookbook (Alloway Publishing, 1983)

Late Career

Private Coaching

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