The Acting Through Song Toolkit: a 3-part course
Wednesday 22nd January 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (London Time)
Do you work with students who struggle to connect their acting skills with their singing skills? Are your students currently auditioning for professional work, drama schools or entering competitions? Perhaps you are a singing teacher needing to work on performance, but you don’t have a background in acting.
This course is designed for teachers working with singers or singing actors who need to draw the story from their performance. On this three-part course, you’ll gain a practical understanding of how to apply techniques from acting pedagogy, emotion research, and text-based practice that will build your students’ sense of character and storytelling. On this collaborative course, we will explore different perspectives, discuss the theory and add plenty of exercises and top tips to your teaching toolkit.
Session one:
Wednesday January 8th 11am-12:30pm
Building a character: what do we have in the current methodologies for singing actors? We know there are plenty of techniques for building character and story in spoken voice practice, but what do we need to adjust and add for singers?
Session two:
Wednesday 15th January 11am-12:30pm
Voice and emotion: how do we hear emotion as listeners? How do we convey emotion as speakers and singers? I bring my research on vocal qualities of emotion to you in practical terms for singing teachers. We discuss emotional layering and how we might be able to balance emotion and vocal technique.
Session three:
Wednesday 22nd January 11am-12:30pm
A text-based approach to ATS: How can we use operative words, meaningful punctuation, and harvest the poetry from the lyric? We discuss exercises and techniques for working with singers who need to spend more time with the text.
🏷️ Price £100 (UK VAT inclusive)
🎥 Recording automatically sent to all who book (even if you cannot attend live)
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📜 Certificate of attendance available
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) and teaches Musical Theatre students on the MA/MFA course at the Guildford School of Acting (GSA).
Sorry, this is an archived short course...
We have plenty of upcoming short courses coming soon. See details of some of them below or look at the full list of short courses.
Wednesday 4th March 2026
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Wednesday 11th March 2026
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Wednesday 18th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Wednesday 25th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Wednesday 1st April 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Wednesday 8th April 2026
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(London Time)
Learn to Coach RP and SSBE – a Certificate in Accent Coaching
Louisa Morgan
This six-week course is an opportunity to learn about both Received Pronunciation and Standard Southern British English. Rather than a course in learning how to speak RP/SSBE (there are many brilliant available courses for this already), this course is about learning how to coach it.
Thursday 5th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Thursday 12th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
(London Time)
Acting Emotion: Perspectives from the Masters
Louisa Morgan
Stanislavski said, “our artistic emotions are, at first, as shy as wild animals and they hide in the depths of our souls.” Michael Chekhov said, our bodies should be like a “sensitive membrane, a kind of receiver and conveyor of the subtlest images, feelings, emotions and will impulses.” And Meisner said we should be “living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” Join Louisa Morgan in this 2-part course as she explores a range of well-known acting practitioners to investigate what they believed (or believe) about emotion and how they approached it in their work. She'll compare their work to see where they align and where they diverge.
Tuesday 10th March 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
(London Time)
Living truthfully in the present moment: An introduction to the Meisner Technique!
Abigail Sugden
Sanford Meisner believed that acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Rooted in behavioural aspects of acting practice, the Meisner Technique is often associated with encouraging actors to live truthfully in the present moment. Aimed at those working within the field of acting, this 2-hour session with Abigail Sugden will focus on the work of Sanford Meisner, introducing the core principles of his technique and discussing the possible benefits to performers.