THE ACTOR'S PRACTICE - HELENA WALSH, RUTH MCGILL & CHRISTINA MCMAHON - THE ART OF THE HUMAN VOICE
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The Actor's Practice
THE ART OF THE HUMAN VOICE
With
Helena Walsh, Ruth McGill
& Christina McMahon
The Actor's Practice
THE ART OF THE HUMAN VOICE
"Slow Down, Do Less, Be More"
The embodied character is the most intimate expression
of the human experience.”
~Helena Walsh
To express from an intimate place on camera, takes enormous craft. This
craft involves, having the skills to integrate imagination, voice and body.
To be alive, alert and expressive on stage, requires an active engagement with
words, thoughts and a precise clarity of intention and attention.
To be versatile, original and playful for voiceover and animation, the actor’s
craft needs to foster a deeply expressive, expansive and embodied voice to
serve the needs of the story.
Tony Doyle
To truly offer an authentic, moving human experience in your storytelling
ACTOR & WRITER requires a nuanced, subtle, flexible and pleasurable connection to your voice.
Dublin Old School (2018)
The voice is the most intimate expression of the self and can convey ten
Michael Inside (2017)
thousand intimacies through a freely expressive, present actor.
The Secret Scripture (2016)
Helena knows how to help because of her 25 years experience training actors for
"Helena is doing film and theatre, assisting as a voice and acting coach on countless productions.
ground breaking work
Plus her training as a human empowerment and resiliency coach has deepened
in the field of her understanding of trauma and anxiety in the body.
actor training"
Helena's actors say that she helps them:
Reinvigorate their career
Transform their relationship with their life and art
Thrive not just survive in the industry
Feel more fulfilled in their life and art
And that’s why we have created
"The Actor's Practice: The Art of the Human Voice"
Because it's not about your age range, it’s about your character range.
Rachel Walshe
What are the characters that you can have in your back pocket that you can play
ACTRESS with?
"The Sleep Experiment "(2020)
"Meriwether" (2020)
"I would recommend
the Actor’s Practice
in a heartbeat."
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The Actor's Practice
THE ART OF THE HUMAN VOICE
"Slow Down, Do Less, Be More"
Helena helps actors to create and be truly articulate, eloquent and flexible
through her decades of training in all aspects of deeply embodied vocal
technique.
Over the past 25 years, she has been applying Roy Hart work, Fitzmaurice
Voicework, Knight Thompson Speechwork and Feldenkreis Method to
countless professional and student productions for stage and screen.
Her teachings are also inspired by her lifelong collaboration in embodied
voicework with Andrea Ainsworth and Kevin Crawford and her colleagues
from the Fitzmaurice Voicework Institute.
Carole Sauer
These tools will teach you
ACTRESS / DANCER
"5 cents & the boys" (2005) clean, clear, crisp speech practice through working on animation scripts
clarity of intention and attention through working on film scripts
embodied accents through working on British, American and Irish
"subtle and powerful. playwrights
it's been such the playful, powerful and pleasurable journey into freeing your unique and
authentic singing voice.
fantastic training"
These skills will encourage you to grow and evolve through every story you
skillfully will come to embody.
Along the way the you will learn:
How to Expand your physical expression for voice over and animation
How to give authentic and expressive performances for film and theatre
How to stretch the actor’s imagination
How to work in a more attuned, complex and vital way with your humanity
How to unlock and open your body and voice
Vincent Brehony Each week we will take a different skill using Fitzmaurice Voicework®
to expand, open and empower the actor’s voice, deepening their experience and
ACTOR / WRITER / range of character and self.
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
" Bright Eyed Using Organic Intelligence®, we will work on the fight / flight / freeze
in the Mornin' " (2019) mechanisms living in the actor’s biology, working towards a more resilient,
"Musings with Merv" (2019) present and grounded experience for the actor in relation to their life and career.
We will explore techniques from Knight Thompson Speechwork
"invigorating & and Roy Hart work to bring greater
inspirational. clarity of intention, attention and precision
to the physicality of the language of storytelling.
It provided me
with a safe
environment to explore"
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The Actor's Practice
THE ART OF THE HUMAN VOICE
"Slow Down, Do Less, Be More"
About Fitzmaurice Voicework®
Fitzmaurice Voicework is a comprehensive, holistic approach to voice training.
Originally developed for actors, it's now used in many fields to help people with a
wide range of needs. Fitzmaurice Voicework is taught at Yale School of Drama,
Harvard University, the University of California-Irvine, and hundreds of other
institutions around the world.
https://www.fitzmauriceinstitute.org/
About Organic Intelligence®
Jason Daly Organic Intelligence (OI) brings a feeling of ease, enjoyment and pleasure to the
present moment and acts as a springboard from which to communicate with
ACTOR confidence and conviction. The work brings a powerful sense of stability and acts
"Playboy of the as an anchor for your experience from which you will find a connected and
Western World" authentic voice. This work helps the speaker turn nervous energy and anxiety
~ "Christy Mahon" into a source of empowerment and grounded self expression.
https://organicintelligence.org/about-organic-intelligence/
"highly recommend for
About Roy Hart Voicework
any actor looking to This is a non-prescriptive approach: using a variety of strategies to discover and
improve their craft" develop their voices. It is an approach to the phenomenon of the voice as being
one of sound, distinct from the more specific and culturally defined uses that
humans make of voice in speech and song. Students are encouraged to delve
deep into their own sound matter and to put aside easy definitions of what a male
or female voice should be.
https://roy-hart-theatre.com/shop/vocal-traditions-the-roy-hart-tradition/
About Knight Thompson Speechwork
Knight-Thompson Speechwork is a highly effective, skills-based approach to
speech and accent training for actors that places emphasis on developing the
speaker’s detailed awareness of—and deep engagement with—the precise
physical actions which make up speech. By combining a rigorous
investigation of those actions with playful, experiential exercises,
Pádraig McGinley
this work moves quickly and effectively past the usual interference
that can make speech work difficult for many students.
ACTOR
Blackwater (2020)
http://ktspeechwork.com/about-the-work/
"scene work
becomes
an arena for
play and discovery."
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The Actor's Practice
THE ART OF THE HUMAN VOICE
"Slow Down, Do Less, Be More"
This 10 week course starts on 07/10/2020 at 6.30pm (GMT+1)
You will receive:
48 hours of voice, body and acting masterclass, 1:1 coaching and scene work and
group work with Helena Walsh
15 hours singing and character voice masterclass with Ruth McGill
12 hours vocal technique class with Christina McMahon using Knight Thompson
Speechwork
Each week all the voice, body and acting masterclasses are recorded along with
guided practices for you to further your self study during the week.
Reflecting and digesting of what came up in class is practiced daily in order for
Cherley Kane you to make it your own.
You will have access to an online library of resources and videos from the classes
ACTRESS / VOICEOVER via an interactive App called “Kajabi”Weekly feedback with Helena on your
ARTIST / SINGER questions and process.
Follow The Dead (2014) Private tutorial with Helena Walsh at the end of the course
Grapes of Wrath (2014)
Here’s how it works:
"if you want to We meet three times a week on Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays via Zoom.
Wednesdays & Fridays from 6.30pm to 9.30pm (GMT+1) with Helena Walsh
develop your craft & There will be six masterclasses with Ruth McGill via Zoom covering character
voice and singing during the course of the ten weeks.
your artistry, I Thursdays from 6.30pm to 8pm (GMT +1) for eight vocal technique classes with
cannot recommend Christina McMahon using Knight Thompson Speechwork
her highly enough" Who will you be working with?
Helena Walsh, International Voice acting & Empowerment coach with over 25
years experience teaching in some of the finest film and theatre training and
universities around the world.
Read more about Helena at https://www.helenawalshvoicecoach.com/
Ruth McGill, one of Ireland's leading singing coaches with over 20 years
experience as well as performing on national TV and theatres across Ireland as a
character actress and singer with the award winning "Evertides"
Johanna O'Brien Read more about Ruth at https://www.macfarlane-chard.ie/ruth-mcgill/
ACTRESS Christina Mc Mahon, comedian, character actress, voiceover artist, writer and
Foundation (2021) speech and accent teacher. Christina has performed on stages, national TV and
Krypton (2018) radio as an actress and comedian throughout Ireland and UK. She has been
mentored by Helena Walsh for the past 4 years in voice. Plus she is
"She shows artists currently training in Knight Thompson Speechwork, a highly
effective, skills-based approach to speech and accent
how to have a life training for actors.
long creative career
The tuition fee is €1,500 for the full 10 weeks
through practical
Email helenawalshcoaching@gmail.com to apply
techniques"
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