Work with me
Learn to make a real impact with what you say and how you say it.
Release the full potential of your speaking voice.
Discover the power of being a persuasive, playful user of words.
Tailored to your personal needs
Online and in person text and voice work, Shakespeare and acting coaching
Online and in person business coaching - presentation, leadership and communication skills
Prepare for a big occasion - deliver wedding speeches, funeral readings without nerves
Coaching for Theatre
Work with Royal Shakespeare Company Associate Artist, Alison Bomber
Working with Shakespeare’s language is a lifelong journey… there are always new discoveries to explore, whatever your level of experience.
- Deepen the connections between body, voice and imagination
- Bring Shakespeare’s words to life, exploring all the hidden help he offers through the language, and uncovering the visceral excitement of speaking classical text
- Audition preparation: build your confidence and your sight-reading skills, or get help preparing for a specific audition or role
- Explore the visceral energy and muscularity of words
- Breathwork, resonance, articulation
Coaching for Business
Good voice use is a powerful weapon in the business world:
- Learn how to be firm and forceful with your voice without being aggressive
- Develop your presentation skills and build confidence
- Control body language, breath and posture for a calm, authoritative presence
- Unlock the whole voice to become a persuasive, dynamic speaker
- Flex your communication styles
Discover the art of persuasion:
- Learn to use words well and confidently to become more articulate
- Discover the tricks and treasures of rhetoric, wordplay that can win people over
Presentation, Leadership, and Communication Skills
One-to-one consultations and coaching
Group workshops
Conference breakout and team building sessions
Coaching for yourself
Become a more confident voice user:
- Find out how to release your full, natural voice
- Prepare for a specific event (Wedding speeches/readings, Presentations)
- Learn how to sound assertive without being aggressive
- Build your confidence as a speaker; explore and play with poetry, prose and speeches to discover the joy and power of great language, and become more articulate
- Discover the calming power of relaxed, deep breathwork to support the voice
- Open up the whole voice through singing
We will shape the work to suit your needs.
Shakespeare for fun
You may think that sounds impossible, but when you approach it the right way speaking Shakespeare can be both fun and really exciting.
Come to one of my online workshops to experience Shakespeare’s language in a whole new way… find out how speaking these words out loud can make your pulse race, your blood boil and your brain fizz!
Get in touch to arrange a workshop for your group.
Workshops available to suit all ages.
Double meanings I enjoyInspiration
the moment an idea strikes and the act of drawing breath to speak
Resonance
the extra layers of meaning within a word and the sound qualities of a voice
Text and Voice Work
“Alison has poetry in her very being, and she is able to convey to others an awareness of the rhythms and textures in classical text, particularly Shakespeare, and how this opens out the layers of meaning within, and excites the listener.”
Cicely Berry CBE, Director of Voice, RSC
I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for nearly ten years, five of those as Senior Text and Voice Coach, and I continue to work with them on a freelance basis. Productions there include Michael Boyd's Histories cycle, for which I am a joint recipient of the Olivier Award for Best Company Performance 2009.
I am honoured to be an Associate Artist of the RSC in recognition of my contribution to the company.
As a freelancer, I continue to work with the RSC, and with theatre companies worldwide - including King Charles III for the Almeida and London's West End, Hamlet at the Barbican with Benedict Cumberbatch, and (with Michael Boyd again) Tamburlaine for TFANA in New York in 2014, and on its recent re-creation at the RSC in 2018 - as well as with a diverse range of companies and individuals.
I worked with TFANA again on Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, and Julius Caesar as well as delivering workshops on working with Shakespeare as part of TFANA's Actors and Directors Project. I was also the Text and Voice Coach for the Grzegorz Bral School of Acting, and worked with Bral's company Teatr Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat Theatre) in Poland. More recently I have worked at Shakespeare's Globe on productions including The Merry Wives of Windsor and Women Beware Women.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
Hear more about my work, my passion for words - and particularly for Shakespeare’s language - by following these video links. In discussion with Andy Kesson on Sound, Body and Imagination 2020
Talking about why the words matter. Romeo and Juliet OSU 2016