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Charmian Gradwell
MA Distinction (Voice Studies) FNEA, LRAM (Speech and Drama) A graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and of the Central School of Speech and Drama, Charmian also holds a diploma in Sports Psychology (Newcastle College), a certificate in Life Coaching, and is a kayak and canoe, and RYA dinghy instructor. She is also a tennis line judge and a MIRMT masseuse. From March 2008 she became resident voice coach for the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia. Prior to that she was with the Voice Department for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her freelance work includes creating and delivering programmes in voice and presentation skills in industry. She has worked with law firms, politicians and different departments of the Civil Service. Charmian spent eight months with Space 2000 Theatre Company, the only professional theatre-based company in Nigeria. She has coached, lectured and led masterclassses and workshops in Sri Lanka, USA Universities, Canada, Spain and Ireland. As an actor, Charmian worked for over 23 years extensively, in London’s West End at the Garrick, Haymarket, Wyndhams etc. and on tour in repertory in many theatres in the UK. She played at venues from the Amphitheatre at Epidaurus and other open-air stages such as the grounds of a Viennese chateau and the ruins of Ludlow Castle, to small theatres such as The King’s Head, Islington to Chichester’s famous ‘tent’ before the Minerva was built. She toured Germany with the National Theatre’s funded show “Orwell’s England”, playing in a beer keller in Munich one night and the huge theatre at the Academy of Arts in Berlin the next. She has played parts in every type of show from pantomime and musicals to Shaw, Coward and Shakespeare, and has frequently used some of her large range of musical instruments in the productions. Her TV series include “Howard’s Way“, “Wilderness Edge” and “Return of Shelley”, and she presented three series of “The Adventure Game” for the BBC and “Let’s Pretend” for ITV. She also appeared in the “Play for Today” series and lately in BBC’s “Challenge”, competing with a novice partner in the famous Yukon River Quest. Charmian became an examiner for the New Era, then a director in 1995. |
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