Alison Hodge is a director, actor-trainer, author and lecturer, and the Artistic Director of ’The Quick and the Dead’, an international performance ensemble. In this wide-ranging interview she describes the fundamental principles of her work in actor training, and the myriad benefits that work on the breath or the spine can bring to the performer.

Alan Brodie, agent for the Noël Coward Estate, and Geoffrey Johnson, a personal friend of Coward's, discuss the life and work of one of Britain's most renowned entertainers.

As a highly experienced voice and text coach, Barbara understands the difference between intellectually and experientially connecting with the language of a piece. She explores the voice as an instrument like any other, explains the physical movement of breath and sound through the body, and how there is no one-size-fits all approach to voice work.

Newly appointed as the Artistic Director of Little Angel Theatre, we interviewed Samantha during her time as the Director of Projects - the theatre's creative learning department - at the Almeida. She is a firm believer in the educative power of theatre across all subjects and describes how it can empower students and enhance learning.

Head of Text, Voice and Artist Development at the RSC, Lyn Darnley has worked with a wide array of performers over the years.

She discusses the twofold nature of a voice coach's role in exploring how both physical preparation and exercise, and deep, considered exploration of text can enrich an actor's performance.