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Jeannette
Nelson

Areas of Expertise
  • Accent
  • Voice

Jeannette has worked extensively as a voice coach in theatre, film and TV.  At the National Theatre from 1992 to 2001, returning in 2007 as Head of Voice until 2023; at Shakespeare’s Globe for 1997,1998,1999 and 2001 seasons; at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2001 to 2005; at Sydney Theatre Company for a year in 2006. Other voice and dialect coaching in London and the UK includes work with the Royal Court, Young Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Soho Place, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shared Experience, Out of Joint, Complicite , Sheffield Theatres, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse, Bath Theatre Royal, English Touring Theatre, Oxford Stage Company, The Bridge Theatre and the West End.

Jeannette’s books, The Voice Exercise Book and Keeping it Active, are published by the National Theatre and Nick Hern Books. Centre Stage, is published by Penguin Random House.

IMDB links:-

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Credits

  • Kingdom Of Heaven
  • The Merchant Of Venice
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Billy Elliot (Prep)
  • Wild West
  • Chico
  • Cor Blimey
  • Honest
  • BBC credits include:-
  • The Hollow Crown 2
  • Love in a Cold Climate
  • All The King’s Men
  • Nature Boy
  • David Copperfield
  • Great Expectations
  • The Scold’s Bridle
  • The Year of the Pig
  • Woof
  • Longford
  • Mine All Mine
  • Other credits include:-
  • Lenny Blue
  • The Sins
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Tough Love
  • The Secret Life of Michael Fry
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Brinks Matt
  • Sharpe
  • Lovejoy
  • National Theatre credits include:-
  • The Father and the Assasin
  • Othello
  • Dancing at Lughnasa
  • Paradise
  • The Corn is Green
  • Our Generation
  • The Normal Heart
  • For the Royal Shakespeare Company
  • Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Fair Maid of the West
  • Loves Labours Lost
  • Measure for Measure
  • Twelfth Night
  • For Bath Theatre Royal
  • Ralph Fiennes season: As You Like It & Grace Pervades (including Haymarket transfer)
  • For The Bridge Theatre including
  • Bach & Sons
  • John Gabriel Borkman
  • Julius Caesar
  • Richard II
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Other coaching
  • Leopaldstadt, Wyndhams 
  • Good with David Tennant, Harold Pinter
  • Lyonesse with Kristen Scott Thomas, Harold Pinter
  • Medea with Sophie Okonedo, Soho Place
  • Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma, Liverpool, Edinburgh, London & Washington DC
  • Voice & Text coach to Jake Gyllenhaal for Othello, Broadway
  • Voice & Text coach to Sam Heughan for Macbeth, Royal Shakespeare Company
  • For Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
  • Robin Hood 
  • The Tempest

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