In Conversation With… Besfort Williams
Tuesday 7th July 2026, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (London Time)
As part of the Musical Theatre Research Alliance and Voice Study Centre, Strand 1: Vocal Health and Sustainability in Musical Theatre launches with a unique interview series: “In Conversation With.”
Three leading practitioners from across the musical theatre industry will each take part in an individual online interview, responding to the same core questions around vocal health, sustainability, and current professional practice. By exploring shared themes through multiple professional lenses, the series aims to capture a rich range of perspectives, experiences, and approaches, generating valuable qualitative data that can help shape future research, training, and industry practice.
Designed to be inclusive and collaborative, the sessions will also be open to observers, with opportunities for audience-submitted questions in a final discussion segment. Each conversation will run approximately 30–45 minutes, with questions shared in advance while allowing space for wider dialogue and emerging topics.
Free and open to all, this second of three live online discussions features Besfort Williams, Singing Teacher and Clinical Voice Rehabilitation Coach, whose work spans performer training, vocal rehabilitation, and professional musical theatre practice.
With nearly two decades’ experience working with singers, actors, and dancers, Besfort brings a valuable clinical and pedagogical perspective to this wider conversation around vocal health and sustainability in musical theatre. He is the Singing Voice Rehabilitation Coach at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, teaches at ArtsEd and the Royal College of Music, and has consulted for Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, The Young Vic, and the RSC.
This conversation will explore vocal health and sustainability in musical theatre through the lens of Besfort’s professional experience working across performance training and voice rehabilitation.
Essential viewing for performers, teachers, students, and anyone interested in the future of healthy and sustainable musical theatre practice.
This series is part of the Musical Theatre Research Alliance (MTRA).
Events are free to attend publicly. MTRA members also have opportunities to participate in aspects of the research process and future research conversations.
Besfort Williams
Besfort Williams has been teaching singing for almost 20 years. He is a Somatic Voicework ™ Faculty Member, and is a Franklin Method Movement Educator.