Letting the Text Live: Reading Aloud with Expression!
Thursday 21st May 2026, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)
A session for speakers of text!
This 2-hour interactive session is designed to help you make more deliberate, expressive choices in your speaking of the written word. It will involve plenty of practical exploration and will cover tips and techniques for working with the voice to lift the text off the page. Work with me to refine nuance, precision, and expressive range. We’ll explore a variety of text samples to cover a wide range of real-world situations, so you can get a feel for the different styles and approaches. If you want your spoken text to sound purposeful, engaging, and unmistakably yours, this session will invite you to play with some tools to do just that.
Who is it for?
Whether you’re speaking live, recording for broadcast, or working closely with text under pressure, this session offers tools that are adaptable across styles, genres, and formats. You could be a podcaster, an audiobook narrator, a lecturer, a teacher, a barrister, or even a poet wanting to bring your own work off the page. If you work with text and you want to find more ways to bring it alive, then this session is for you.
What you’ll take away:
- How to build vocal colour and variety into your speech
- How to use your voice to really engage your listeners
- How to bring clear articulation into your speaking without overworking
- How to make confident decisions about emphasis and pace
How to mark up your text to make reading aloud easier and more expressive
Louisa Morgan
Louisa Morgan is a lecturer, voice teacher and researcher, with a special focus on spoken and sung emotion. Louisa lectures with Voice Study Centre (spoken voice lead). Previously, Louisa taught technical singing for the MA/MFA Musical Theatre students at the Guilford School of Acting (GSA) and Italia Conti, and she was also a spoken and singing voice coach for the Acting students at the Cygnet Training Theatre.
Attend this course for as little as £22 as part of the Voice Professional Training CPD Award Scheme.
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