Brighton Voice Acting
Voice classes
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Voice Over Coaching
1-1 classes in-person or online (global)
For beginners & working voice artists
To improve. To practice new genres. To have dedicated sessions tailored specifically for you, with an experienced Voice Actor, Director & Coach
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General American
1-1 classes in-person or online
For Actors
To achieve a naturally placed GenAm accent rather than ‘putting on a voice’ with a Brit who works as an American
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Public Speaking Coaching
Private, in-person classes
For anyone who speaks in public
To speak confidently and clearly, creating a genuine connection with your clients and customers. And anyone else!
What we work on
On the mic
Demos
Preparation; set-up; choosing a take, editing
Different types of voice over (commercial, corporate, narration, animation, video games, loop groups/ADR)
How to prepare; requirements; style; choices; standing out; what not to do; when, why and how to use the body to support the voice
Mock voice over sessions
What impresses me as a voice director
Etiquette & behaviour
Who’s who (engineer/ director/ performance director/ ad agency/ client) and what they do
GenAm4Actors - American Accent coaching (scroll down!)
1hr.
Online or in-person. £55/ £70
Public Speaking
Being truthful
This is when all the conscious and unconscious elements work together and the number one reason why people will listen to you
Technical
Projection; enunciation; rhythms; pace; pitch; tone; pause
The Face & Body
From walking in, to walking out. Standing; sitting; how, when and why to use gestures; balance; breathing; eye-line
The Words
Saying what you mean and feeling what you say.
Why words matter. Word choices; order; structure, status, intention and subtext.
Personal Presentation
Why and how what you wear matters
Colours and proportions
Personal grooming
Creating a recognisable personal brand
POA.
Acting classes for everyone
Check-out Brighton Acting for more!
“100% Reccomended”
“Wit and warmth”
“Life Changing”
Book a 20 min zoom intro.
This is not a class, it’s an opportunity for us both to decide whether we would like to work together.
Informal & relaxed.
(Oh and it’s free)
Around 250 million people speak with an American accent.
Around 60 million with a British accent.
You do the math.
GENAM4ACTORS
GENERAL AMERICAN FOR ACTORS.
What we work on
NATURAL SOUND
Creating a natural American accent rather than ‘putting on’ a voice.
We want this placed naturally in your OWN mouth. One size doesn’t fit all.
FEELING LED
We don’t ignore the text (or the context!) we use it to help us create a more authentic sound. Being true to the text and being true to the accent are not separate things.
DON’T THINK, SPEAK
We want to get to a place where the accent is native ie: we don’t think about it, we just do it, naturally. This is particularly important for in-vision tv and film work.
DRILLS
Specific exercises, sentences, individual words and long-form text broken down and repeated in an old-fashioned call and response format (it’s an oldie but a goodie!)
Like a language
We treat these sessions as if we are learning a new language, not just an accent. This ensures we also examine WHY Americans speak this way & helps us when faced with new words and phrases
Naturally placed
Many vocal coaches adapt mouth & tongue movements to create the sound. We aim to place the sound much more naturally, which once mastered, means the acting is your only focus
Rhythm & sound
American musicality, intonation, stress and emphasis, breathing, reduced sounds, linking and connected speech, glides and diphthongs, T-flapping, rhoticity
iN CONVERSATION
Graduating onto full dialogue - both improvised and script led - to observe the stumbling blocks and make corrections when different words are paired next to each other
out In the world
Going out in your accent!
A different kind of Public speaking coach.
Google any public speaking coach, and you will get a website fluent in corporate gobbledegook
(sorry, I know this is your world, but that’s half the problem!)
With a professional actor and voice actor, you get someone who simply focusses on telling the truth.
No gimmicks. No tricks. Just honest expression.
Acting is about being truthful.
And so is public speaking.
You want your audience to listen to you. And people listen to other people when they recognise they are being truthful. They can’t help it! We are drawn to compelling performances because everything points to it being real.
The whole body works with the breath and voice and the words and the environment to create feelings — in yourself and in your audience. It is fluid. It is relaxed. It is real.
It is not a choreography. It is not a ‘do-this-and-it-will-read-like-that’. It is not manufactured. It comes from the most human place: you.
Have I lost you yet? Some of you will be thinking, wanky actor, what does she know. Well… what will you be doing tonight after dinner? You’ll be putting on the telly, watching a box set or movie; you’ll be scrolling content creators who you’ll listen to and buy things from. You’ll be watching truthful performances and you won’t even think about it, because you’re not meant to notice. You’re meant to believe them. And the very best ones, you do believe. Because it’s real.
Real passion. Real confidence. Real engagement. Real connection to the words. Real body language. Real smile (real tears!). Real meaning.
This is why it is so very obvious when our politicians are lying to us (even those we know have had public speaking classes!): because they are lying.
And this is why it’s so annoying when we come across one who we don’t see eye to eye with, but who we can’t help being charmed by. We know, at a gut level, they are being real. They believe what they are saying, so we believe what they are saying.
“But I still don’t like what they have to say!” Sure. I get that. And not everyone will like what you have to say either. You can’t please everyone. This isn’t a magical way of getting everyone to agree with you! It isn’t brainwashing 101 (although that sounds like a great money-maker…).
This is a way to express yourself in the most genuine way possible so people listen.
Who are these classes for?
Anyone who wants to communicate better.
In 1-1 meetings; in group dynamics; in-front of small and large audiences (live and televised) in both prepared and unprepared scenarios.
Anyone who is selling a product, service, or idea and has to talk privately or publicly as part of that process.
In public speaking, your goal isn’t to control how people receive what you are saying. That might work some of the time, but it is not the way that trust is grown. And it is trust that brings returning customers, clients, followers, voters etc etc.
Your goal is to give people the opportunity to choose to listen to you willingly. And this is done by the words coming out of your mouth, matching the gestures your body is making.
Our sessions focus on creating a genuine connection, that is in-the-moment-real. We work towards getting you confident in what you are saying and how you are saying it, so that the ‘public speaking’ bit, (the theatricality of the situation) becomes second nature. Which leaves you relaxed, in control and with an incredible amount of freedom to be yourself from a position of absolute personal mastery.
Your Coach
Hi. I’m Alicia. I am a working Actress, Voice Over Artist and Voice Director. I have a cv which spans Stage (West End to large-scale commercial shows to small intimate productions); Screen (BBC/ ITV/ Apple TV/ Amazon Prime/ feature films); Voice Over (extensive across all genres) and Directing (including several highly respected video games, plus award-winning AAA cult favourites). Head to the homepage for more info!
I’m an OG Brightonian. I was born in Brighton and after a few early years in Spain attending the International St. Georges School, my family and I returned to the UK.
I went to Brighton College from 8-18 and also trained at K-Bis Theatre School on most evenings and weekends in drama, singing and dance. I worked professionally through the adjacent child-agency at K-Bis.
Because of these two (very, very different) institutions I ended up being a healthy combination of: high achiever with strong social and interpersonal skills who undertook professional creative training from a primary school age. In short, I’m very disciplined, I aim to do my best and I’m really good with people.
I was brought up in a home environment led by two entrepreneurs, where our personal space was our professional space. This gave me really solid commercial experience, and also prepared me for the instability that would follow working in a creative industry (arguably, the hardest in the world).
I have exceptionally strong critical thinking skills, high EQ, and a real-world business background which have not only served me extremely well in understanding fictional people and circumstances, but also in understanding my very real students in our very real world, too.
To my (public school) alma mater’s absolute horror, I shunned both elite and redbrick options for higher education, and instead chose the newly ex-poly, Middlesex University at Trent Park. There I received a 2:1 on their world-renowned Performing Arts degree course.
I still believe strongly in what I believed then: always go with your gut.
“The very best use of your time is to get to know yourself at the deepest level possible”