Edda
Sharpe

Areas of Expertise
- Dialect
- Voice
Edda Sharpe is a specialist voice and dialect coach.
Edda feels privileged to have had the opportunity through her career to work on with a huge variety of theatre companies and productions, regionally and internationally, from the RSC and West End to the smallest of touring companies. She also works extensively as a voice, body language and communication coach for the public and private sectors.
She has a deep love of accents, voices, character and people, and her career has given her the opportunity to develop the skills and understanding to bridge the needs of the actor, the director, the text and the production.
She was Head of Voice and Dialect at the Shaw Festival Theatre in Canada for 20 years, working on over 100 productions there. She was Head of Voice at e15 Acting School from 1997 – 2001 and was the principal dialect teacher on the MA Voice Studies course at Central School of Speech and Drama for eight years. Edda has also provided teaching and masterclasses for Lamda, e15, Guildford, Arts Educational, Mountview, LIPA, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Edda’s ground-breaking first book, ‘How To Do Accents’ (co-written with Jan Haydn Rowles) was published by Oberon Press in Oct 2007 and is a National Theatre best seller.
Edda is also an accredited Master NLP Practitioner.
IMDB link:-
https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1469289/?ref_=instant_nm_1&q=edda%20sharpe
Featured Credits
- Beowulf
- Last Tango 3
- Camp X
- Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
- The Gorrillaz
- Patients Of A Saint
- Far From the Madding Crowd
- The Door
- September
- A Little Trip To Heaven
- The Other Boleyn Girl- CFT
- And Then There Were None- UK Tour
- Murder on the Orient Express- UK Tour
- RootsAlmeida
- The WitchesRoyal National Theatre
- The Shape of ThingsPark Theatre
- A Midsummer Night's DreamShakespeare's Globe
- BaghdaddyThe Royal Court Theatre
- SarahThe Coronet Theatre
- My Fair Lady - Colisseum/ENO
- Beauty Queen of Leenane- The Lyric/Chichester
- OleannaTheatre Royal Bath
- Witness For The Prosecution - County Hall
- Love, Love, LoveLyric Hammersmith Theatre
- A Doll's House- Lyric Hammersmith
- Gaslight - Bill Kenwright Ltd
- When The Crows VisitKiln Theatre
- Mother Of HimPark Theatre
- Hedda TesmanChichester Festrival Theatre
- A Doll's House - Lyric Hammersmith
- Hobson's Choice - Manchester Exchange
- Approaching EmptyKiln Theatre
- Witness For The Prosecution - London County Hall
- Does My Bomb Look Big In This?Tamasha Theatre
- SwitzerlandTheatre Royal Bath
- Bing Bunny Live - UK Tour
- Love From a Stranger - Royal & Derngate
- Lions And TigersShakespeare's Globe
- The GraduateWest Yorkshire Playhouse
- Anita and Me - Birmingham Rep
- African GothicTwo Sheds Theatre
- Around the World in 80 DaysSt James's Theatre
- East Is EastThe Trafalgar Studios
- Gaslight - Royal & Derngate
- My Children! My Africa!Two Sheds Theatre
- The 39 StepsThe Criterion Theatre
- Dangerous LadyTheatre Royal Stratford East
- King LearBath Theatre Royal
- Rough CrossingsHeadlong Theatre Company
- The Pajama GameShaftesbury Theatre
- Cooking With Elvis
- Art
- My Fair Lady
- Two
- Royal Shakespeare Company:-
- The Red Shoes
- Love Labours Lost
- The English
- The Rover
- Volpone
- Wendy and Peter Pan
- What Country Friend is This?
- The Homecoming
- I'll Be The Devil