Voice Coach: Jan Haydn Rowles. Voice/Accent Specialist

Film Credits Include
HUMMINGBIRD
RED LIGHTS ADR
ONE DAY
MOTHER's MILK
MR NOBODY
BRICK LANE
BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN
WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?

Television and Radio Credits Include
Mrs Briggs
Game of Thrones Season 2 (HBO)
Parade's End (HBO)
Treasure Island (Benbow Films)
The Morgana Show (Running Bare Pictures)
Moby Dick (Gate Television Productions Ltd)
Rather You Than Me (BBC)
ShinyShiny (BBC)
Doc Martin (Buffalo Pictures)
The Brief (Granada)
Faking It (Channel 4)

Theatre Credits Include
An Ideal Husband
Corrie
RSC (Over 15 productions) including,
Breakfast with Mugabe
Merry Wives of Windsor
The Crucible
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's Globe (Over 20 productions) including,
Comedy of Errors
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Almeida,
Awake and Sing
Mrs Klein
Donmar Warehouse
Absurdia
Betrayal
The Royal Court
The Pain and the Itch
My Child
Over There
The Miracle
Alaska
Along with productions at
Lyric Hammersmith
Soho Theatre
Manchester Royal Exchange
Birmingham Rep
Salisbury Playhouse
West Yorkshire Playhouse
New Wolsey
Unicorn Theatre

Jan Haydn Rowles

Areas of Expertise: Voice, Accent

Jan has worked as a voice and dialect coach for 20 years. She trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and as a voice coach at Central School of Speech and Drama. During her early career she worked in most of London's leading Drama Schools. Jan now works extensively in Theatre, TV, Film and Radio.

Her work as a dialect coach has been seen and heard at The Almeida, Donmar Warehouse, The Royal Court, The Minerva Chocolate Factory, The Young Vic, Shared Experience, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Salisbury Playhouse and The New Wolsey and in numerous west end theatre's including the Wyndhams and The Apollo. She has a long standing relationship with the RSC where she has coached over 20 productions. She is currently Head of Voice at Shakespeare's Globe (since 2007) where she has been the voice and dialect coach on over 30 productions and preparing the actors for the demands of the Globe Stage.

Jan works with, highly experienced actors wishing to extend their skills; newly trained actors needing to develop their skills; young actors under the age of 16; actors/performers preparing for castings and meetings for the american pilot season; entry into drama schools; casting and audition preparation; Jan coaches accents and dialects, voice, presentation skills, public speaking and acting/performance technique.

Jan's ground breaking book 'How To Do accents' co-written with Edda Sharpe was first published in 2007 (oberon Books) and the second edition in 2010.

A really practical (and fun) guide to accent training: How to Do Accents (pdf)
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